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Neo-Nazi Neil Erikson Confused the Quran With the Bible

U.S. Puts $5 Million Bounty On Pakistani Taliban Leader

Neil Erikson, a far-right, anti-Islam activist and self-proclaimed neo-Nazi in Australia, picked up a copy of the Quran as he prepared to give sworn evidence under religious oath in court on Monday. Related: Bible Miraculously Didn’t Burn When an Evangelical Church Was Firebombed by Militants, Congregants Claim The court staff then pointed out his mistake, […]

What We Discovered During a Year of Documenting Hate

The days after Election Day last year seemed to bring with them a rise in hate crimes and bias incidents. Reports filled social media and appeared in local news. There were the letters calling for the genocide of Muslims that were sent to Islamic centers from California to Ohio. And the swastikas that were scrawled […]

Europe’s Far-Right Wants Its Own Muslim Ban

Jesus Was Not White. Here Is Why That Matters

Europe’s most extreme right leaders gathered in Prague on Sunday to discuss their aspirations for implementing a Muslim ban resembling President Donald Trump’s hardline immigration policy. “We must have the courage to have travel bans as President Trump has done in the United States,” Geert Wilders, a far-right Dutch politician who sports a mop of […]

Trump retweets anti-Muslim videos

Trump retweets anti-Muslim videos

President Donald Trump on Wednesday retweeted three anti-Muslim videos posted by the deputy head of a British far-right group who has been convicted of a hate crime. One of them purports to show a Muslim beating up a Dutch boy on crutches. Another is described as showing an Islamist mob pushing a teenager of a […]

The Empire Files: The Most Dangerous Year for Muslims in America

Abby Martin interviews Dr. Deepa Kumar, professor of media studies at Rutgers University and author of Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, about the roots of this alarming situation. From confronting right-wing arguments, to examining the reality behind Donald Trump’s proposed ban on Muslims, to how Islamophobia is a reinforcement and basis for the structures […]

Anti-Muslim group confronted by protesters in Quebec

Anti-Muslim group confronted by protesters in Quebec

Anti-immigration and anti-Muslim groups clashed with counter-protesters in Ottawa, Saturday, along the Quebec border where thousands of asylum seekers have crossed into the country since January. On Ottawa’s Parliament Hill, the seat of the federal government, a few dozen members of a far-right alliance called the Canadian Coalition of Concerned Citizens (CCCC) protested opposition to […]

Transcripts detail plot to bomb Somali refugees in Kansas

Prosecutors: Men accused of conspiring to bomb a mosque, apartment complex housing Somali refugees in Kansas also discussed killing the white landlord   WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Three men accused of conspiring to bomb a Kansas mosque and an apartment complex housing Somali refugees also allegedly discussed killing the refugees’ white landlord because he rented […]

Despite Disavowals, Leading Tech Companies Help Extremist Sites Monetize Hate

Because of its “extreme hostility toward Muslims,” the website Jihadwatch.org is considered an active hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League. The views of the site’s director, Robert Spencer, on Islam led the British Home Office to ban him from entering the country in 2013. But its designation as a […]

Quran Swimming in Pork Lard Sent to California Mosque

Quran Swimming in Pork Lard Sent to California Mosque

Police in California are investigating a hate-related incident after a Sacramento Muslim group was sent a defiled copy of the Quran, immersed in a container of pork fat. Members of the Sacramento Valley Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) received a suspicious package on June 28. Wary of opening the package, they contacted the police.

Far-Right Group Plans to Patrol Mediterranean to Turn Back Migrants

Far-Right Group Plans to Patrol Mediterranean to Turn Back Migrants

A pan-European far-right group with a history of violent direct action has charted a 422-ton ship and says it plans to confront people-smugglers and turn back migrants it finds in the waters off Libya. Humanitarian organizations say the planned intervention is a “PR provocation” by the Defend Europe group, which is part of the continent-wide, […]