LONDON (AA) – Six-year-old Palestinian-American Wadea al-Fayoume was stabbed 26 times at his home in Illinois, US, by his landlord, who was screaming anti-Muslim slurs as he brutally attacked the little boy. Just moments before, the assailant, 71-year-old Joseph M. Czuba, told the boy’s mother, Hanaan Shahin, who was also stabbed and criticall...
New York, United States – AFP An imam who was shot on Wednesday outside a mosque near New York has died, a US official told AFP. Police in the city of Newark, New Jersey, did not give a motive for the incident. “Hassan Sharif was a Transportation Security Officer at Newark Liberty International Airport since […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – Since the start of Israel’s war on Gaza, Palestine supporters across the globe have been facing repercussions, ranging from harassment and threats to being fired from their jobs. Prominent cases of sackings include journalist Zahraa Al-Akhrass, who was fired from Canadian television news outlet Global News for social media post...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Stuart Seldowitz, a former Obama administration adviser, who was captured on video making threats and Islamophobic comments against a Muslim food vendor in New York City, has been arrested and faces hate crimes charges, local media reported. Seldowitz, 64, faces charges including aggravated harassment and several counts o...
HOUSTON, US (AA) – A civil rights group on Tuesday released audio from X Spaces (formerly Twitter Spaces) that appeared to show pro-Israel activists planning to target Michigan US Rep. Rashida Tlaib. Tlaib, the first woman of Palestinian descent in the US Congress and one of its first Muslim women, was scheduled to visit Arizona [&hellip...
WASHINGTON (AA) – US President Joe Biden has “ignored our people” during the ongoing Gaza crisis and “we’re going to ignore him” in next year’s presidential election, the head of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has said. “We told him directly, in our personal capacities, that if you do not call for an immediate […]...
HOUSTON, United States (AA) – US Muslim groups have expressed outrage over President Joe Biden’s dismissal of the Palestinian death toll in Israel’s relentless attacks on the Gaza Strip. “To hear the president, with all the proof that exists, deny solid numbers of the death toll is dehumanizing to us as Palestinian Americans,” said Ayah [&hell...
WASHINGTON (AA) – A group of 12 Muslim Americans, including a longtime New Jersey mayor, sued the Justice Department on Monday in an attempt to end its use of a secretive FBI watchlist that they describe as a “de facto Muslim registry.” The suit, filed in US District Court in Massachusetts, says that by placing […]
