BERLIN (AA) – Germany’s Justice Minister Marco Buschmann on Friday acknowledged the country’s failures to address problems of racism and discrimination. “We have not been able to protect our fellow citizens from the murderous hate and madness that has grown in our society,” he said in a statement, marking the second anniversary of the ra...
A video showing police officers breaking up a fight between two teenagers, one Black, one white, at a New Jersey mall has sparked outrage over police response. New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy said Wednesday the appearance of the officers’ “racially disparate treatment” is deeply disturbing. One video of the incident reviewed by CNN shows the [&hel...
The hearing of the Rohingya genocide case at the International Court of Justice or ICJ is set to begin Monday in the Hague. Members of the persecuted Muslim minority have growing concerns over allowing Burma’s ruling military junta to participate in court proceedings. They believe it would be tantamount to supporting decades of killings and [...
After seeing an anti-Muslim tweet by New Jersey state Sen. Ed Durr, Selaedin Maksut set out to explain Islam to the Republican lawmaker. Maksut, who heads the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ New Jersey chapter, didn’t expect anything would come of the meeting with Durr late last year. But surprisingly, Durr became an ally helping garner...
A Columbus, Ohio Imam who was found dead in a vehicle last December died from multiple gunshot wounds including one to the head, autopsy results show. They note that Mohamed Adam was shot in the left side of his head, his left chest/neck, left side near his abdomen, left leg and his right hand. Adam […]
Unknown vandals painted a swastika Wednesday on one of the doors of a mosque in Germany, according to a Muslim group. Turgut Ulker from Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs said similar attacks on mosques in Dortmund were carried out last month. These have increased recently and are worrisome to the Muslim community. Ulker demanded auth...
A Confederate monument that will be the centerpiece of James H. Berry Park in Bentonville, Arkansas, has drawn criticism from a Muslim civil rights group. The city’s planning commission on Feb. 1 unanimously approved the park’s development. The Council on American-Islamic Relations, the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organiz...
An urban transformation of Bo-Kaap in Cape Town, South Africa is negatively affecting the architectural and cultural texture of the historic Malay Muslim neighborhood. Bo-Kaap is one of Cape Town’s main tourist sites with its history, architecture, and colorful cobblestone streets The district was built in the 18th century to be rented out to...
Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of downtown Minneapolis Saturday demanding justice in the fatal police shooting of a young Black man. Amir Locke was shot and killed by police who were executing a “no-knock” search warrant on an apartment last week. This allows law enforcement to enter private property without first alerting occupant...
Hundreds of people protested Saturday in Istanbul as human rights organizations gathered outside the Greek consulate. They carried signs and banners, and chanted slogans. Representatives of human rights groups criticized Greece’s refugee policy. Kenan Alpay, Deputy Chairman of the humanitarian group Ozgur-Der, said they gathered to protest th...
