LONDON (AA) – Over 1,000 people have been arrested and nearly 600 charged in connection with the far-right riots that erupted across the UK following a stabbing incident in Southport on July 29. The UK has seen a surge in charges as authorities respond to the violent riots, which were fueled by false online claims […]
LONDON (AA) – London Mayor Sadiq Khan has reaffirmed the city’s commitment to standing united in the fight against racism, Islamophobia, and antisemitism, announcing enhanced support for security training at mosques across the UK capital. This initiative comes in response to recent nationwide violence and disorder that have left many mem...
ANKARA (AA) – Australian opposition leader Peter Dutton’s call to block fleeing Gazans from entering the country has triggered backlash from the government and civil society organizations. Calling for a stop to migration from the besieged Palestinian coast enclave, Dutton had said the arrival of people from a war zone to Australia ...
London, United Kingdom — AFP A UK minister has slammed American tech billionaire Elon Musk for his “unacceptable” comments on social media about far-right riots gripping England and Northern Ireland. The owner of X drew criticism for writing on the site that a British “civil war” was inevitable. He sparked further...
ANKARA (AA) – Three suspects have been arrested in Belfast following acts of racist and Islamophobic violence that took over Northern Ireland’s capital city, the police said. “A car was hijacked by a group of masked men” on Tuesday evening, according to a statement, and was “deliberately driven at the front of a business … [&hellip...
Washington, United States — AFP A Virginia school board has voted to restore the names of Civil War Southern generals to two schools, four years after they were removed following a wave of protests for racial justice. The move by the Shenandoah County school board, in a five to one vote, bucks a nationwide trend […]
WASHINGTON (AA) – A Palestinian-American professor who was injured while being held to the ground by police officers during his arrest at a student-led Free Palestine Movement campus protest says action against him was racially motivated. “There were three faculty that were detained, and violently a little bit, and three of us were...
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...
Social media platform X has suspended the account of the Harvard Islamic Studies program. The company is claiming that the account was involved in spam and manipulation, which prompted the February 22 suspension. But program executive director Harry Bastermajian has expressed concern that the move was potentially influenced by Islamophobia or...
IZMIR, Türkiye (AA) – A mosque in Stockholm has been the target of Islamophobic attacks for over a year, with the latest incident occurring on Wednesday when Muslim faithful read graffiti on the mosque wall with a Swastika sign and a message threatening violence. The Stockholm Mosque in the capital’s Sodermalm district has been subjected...
