WASHINGTON (AA) – An Illinois woman has been charged following an alleged altercation at a restaurant involving a man wearing a sweatshirt with “Palestine” written on it, authorities said Monday. Alexandra Szustakiewicz of Darien, Illinois, was charged with two felony counts of a hate crime and one count of misdemeanor disord...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Official statistics on anti-Muslim hate crimes in the UK fail to reflect the true scale of the problem, as many incidents go unreported due to lack of trust in authorities, says a British academic. Peter Hopkins, a professor of social geography at Newcastle University, says that anti-Muslim hate crimes in the UK […...
The Maryland office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has called on the FBI to launch a hate crime investigation into an apparently bias-motivated incident targeting a small business in Baltimore. Earlier this month, two packages containing fake pagers and a sweatshirt emblazoned with the logo of the Israeli military were mai...
LONDON (AA) – The Bosnian Mosque in the Swedish city of Norrkoping has been attacked in a “targeted hate crime” in which windows were broken and neo-Nazi slogans written on the walls. “With great shame and deep sadness, we condemn the disgusting attack on the construction of our mosque in Norrkoping, where windows were broken, […]...
The Senate has passed a resolution recognizing the murder of six-year-old Wadee Alfayoumi as a hate crime due to his Muslim and Palestinian identity. Wadee was stabbed to death on October 14 at his home in Plainfield, Illinois. His mother Hanaan Shahin was also attacked but survived. During the attack, the suspect, Joseph Czuba, who […...
A Florida man has been sentenced to three years in federal prison for a hate-fueled attack on a Muslim postal carrier. Forty-seven year old Kenneth Pinkney of Fort Lauderdale was convicted on charges related to an assault on Oct. 24, 2023. Pinkney harassed and assaulted the postal carrier while she was on her delivery route. […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – An investigation was launched Thursday into “a hate crime” by a driver who broadcast Islamophobic content from a digital screen on top of a moving vehicle in Toronto, according to police. The video contained anti-Islamic statements after displaying footage of Muslims praying. The Hate Crimes Unit started an investigation ...
A man accused of a stabbing attack in Austin, Texas, will not be charged with a hate crime despite allegations of using racial slurs. Bert James Baker was accused of stabbing a Palestinian-American following a “free Palestine” rally, but a grand jury did not find evidence of a hate crime. Baker was instead indicted on […]
Twenty-four-year-old Jacob Beacher has been arrested for a hate crime at Rutgers University’s Center for Islamic Life. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey announced that he allegedly broke in and destroyed property, including sacred items during Eid celebrations. He also stole a Palestinian flag and a donation box. The in...
BERLIN (AA) – The number of Islamophobic crimes in Germany more than doubled over the last year, media reports have said. In 2023, some 1,464 crimes nationwide were classified as Islamophobic, compared to 610 anti-Muslim hate crimes in the previous year, German Press Agency reported, citing a government reply to an inquiry by Christian D...
