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...
Former Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke, who killed 17-year-old Laquan McDonald in 2014 with 16 shots, was released from prison Thursday. Van Dyke served little more than three years of a nearly seven-year prison sentence for killing the Black teenager. Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s office confirmed the release to CNN Thursday. Van Dyke’...
More than 80 Muslim organizations, including civil and human rights groups, mosques and charities, have sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice. They are calling for an investigation into whether an anti-Muslim group violated federal laws by spying on several Muslim organizations in the U.S. Those organizations include the Council on A...
Amnesty International on Tuesday called for holding Israel accountable for committing “apartheid” against Palestinians in the occupied territories. At a news conference, Amnesty released the findings of a comprehensive report about Israeli apartheid practices in the region. It documents massive seizures of Palestinian land and property, unlawf...
Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis asked the FBI Sunday to assess security at her courthouse. The request came in response to comments by former President Donald Trump against prosecutors investigating his business dealings and conduct after the 2020 election. Trump is at the center of at least two criminal investigations. He...
A U.S. District Court judge Monday rejected a plea deal allowing a white man convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery to serve a large part of his sentence in federal prison. Judge Lisa Godbey Wood’s decision rejecting Travis McMichael’s plea agreement with federal prosecutors came after emotional statements by Arbery’s parents and two aunts. They...
Two separate attacks in southwestern provinces of Lot-et-Garonne, Toulouse target Muslims. ANKARA (AA) – Islamophobic attacks continue across France with two separate incidents reported last week. A Muslim butcher and grocery store that sells halal products in the southwestern province of Lot-et-Garonne was targeted on Sunday night. Setting th...
Security camera footage at Al-Noor Islamic Community Center in the Canadian city of Waterloo showed a woman on December 28 picking up some snow and drawing crosses on every window she was able to reach. After doing this twice, her messages became hate-fueled attacks on Muslims written with an oily substance that mosque officials have […...
