US hate crimes are surging after Trump’s win. The same thing happened after Obama’s election.
The Southern Poverty Law Center has recorded more than 400 incidents of harassment and hate in the first six days since Donald Trump won the US presidential election. The civil rights group, based in Montgomery, Alabama, has set up a forum on its website for people to report incidents. It’s also been collating media reports […]
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
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
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 […]
White Privilege wages jihad: Kansas “militia members” aren’t considered “terrorists” because they’re not Muslim
The three white men planned to unleash a killing spree and to bomb a house of worship — what should we call them? Chauncey DeVega On Friday, the Federal Bureau of Investigation announced that they had arrested three white men, Curtis Allen, Gavin Wright and Patrick Stein, who as part of a militia group called […]
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
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 […]
Dangerous Demagogue Pat Robertson Calls On Americans To Commit Violence Against Muslims
Loony tunes evangelical pastor Pat Robertson is still proselytizing from a dungeon somewhere in America, warning against the evil Muslim people that the bible tells us we must get rid of or else they will overwhelm us entirely. Robertson uses a fun metaphor of the human body handling a small foreign invader like germs or […]
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 […]