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Can the Muslim American family survive Trump?

Can the Muslim American family survive Trump

The day after the presidential election, my 14-year-old son left a message in the shower. With his little brother’s foam alphabet letters, he spelled out, “Haters gonna hate us.” It was the “us” that transformed the popular catchphrase into something troubling. I knew that the rhetoric of this election cycle had affected my children, but […]

FBI: Hate Crimes Against Minorities Increased in 2015

FBI: Hate Crimes Against Minorities Increased in 2015

Hate crimes against minorities rose 7 percent in the United States last year, the FBI reported Monday, with incidents targeting Muslims jumping 67 percent. Hate crimes escalated to 5,850 from 5,479 last year, according to the bureau’s latest data. By contrast, hate crimes against Muslims jumped to 257 from 154 in 2014. Bias-motivated offenses against […]

FBI: Hate crimes against Muslims in US surge 67 percent

FBI: Hate crimes against Muslims in US surge 67 percent

Hate crimes against Muslims in the United States shot up 67 percent in 2015 to their highest levels since the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks, according to new FBI statistics. Overall, 57 percent of the 5,850 reported incidents were motivated by race or ethnicity, while 20 percent of hate crimes were related to […]

Muslim woman set on fire was not target of hate crime, New York police say

Officials say three other victims were approached in a similar manner and in the same proximity as the Saturday attack on a Scottish woman. Police do not believe the man who set a Muslim woman dressed in traditional religious attire on fire in New York was motivated by anti-Muslim bias, they said on Wednesday, after […]

‘Hate crime’ denounced as New York imam and assistant are shot dead

Protests have erupted in the neighbourhood, denouncing a ‘hate crime’, with some accusing Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump of stoking Islamophobia.

A Muslim imam and his assistant were gunned down and killed while walking home from afternoon prayers on Saturday, according to reports from New York. The pair were shot in the head at close range in the borough of Queens by a lone attacker who fled the scene. The slain cleric, 55, was reportedly originally […]

Man Throws Rotten Pork Meat At Mosque In Hate Crime

A man has been filmed on CCTV dumping a bag of rotten pork outside a mosque. Detectives from Islington, London, are investigating the religiously aggravated hate crime and have issued footage of the man they wish to identify. CCTV from the Finsbury Park Mosque shows the suspect approaching the gated entrance in the early hours […]

Two Muslim boys viciously beaten outside Brooklyn mosque

Two teenage Muslim boys were viciously beaten outside a Brooklyn mosque early Sunday morning after Taraweeh prayers.The incident allegedly happened around 1:18am at the Muslim Community Center of Brooklyn in Sunset Park. According to Mohamed Bahe, the director of the mosque, the assailants repeatedly called the Muslim boys ‘terrorists’. Police initially said they had no […]