A MAGA Gang Plots to Murder Muslims in Islamberg After Fox Fans Fear Flames
The alleged attack was the second one busted targeting Muslim families who left New York City to live quiet lives upstate. Remember the three Trump supporters who were convicted in 2018 of plotting a terrorist attack to kill Muslims in their home state of Kansas? You’re up on most of America if you do. Same for the […]
US militia members plead guilty to pipe bomb attack on mosque
In August 2017, the pair say, they threw a pipe bomb into the Dar al-Farooq Islamic Center in Illinois. Hoping to scare Muslims into leaving the United States, members of an Illinoisan militia group rented a truck and drove more than 805km to bomb a Minnesota mosque, two men admitted on Thursday. Michael McWhorter and Joe Morris said that […]
Faith communities must take action against anti-Muslim hate
The graffiti that was spray-painted last week on the sidewalk in front of the home of a Muslim family in Homer Glen (“Man charged with spray-painting anti-Muslim graffiti in Homer Glen,”Sept. 20) was a cowardly act that should be condemned by all faith communities in the Chicago area. It’s noteworthy that the graffiti included crosses and a […]
The narrative that links “radicals” and Islam is familiar to us – the false dichotomy
the false dichotomy an american precedent for the radical outsider BY CAROLINE RIBET , ILLUSTRATED BY RÉMY POISSON n October 31, 2017, a person drove a pickup truck onto a bike path in downtown New York City, killing eight people and injuring 11. The driver had come from Uzbekistan in 2010 and was a legal permanent resident of […]
Car Hits Muslims Leaving London Mosque in ‘islamophobic Attack’
A car drove into a crowd of Muslims leaving a mosque in London, England, while the vehicle’s occupants allegedly made “Islamophobic” comments. The incident left several people injured. According to the Metropolitan Police, three men and a woman, all in their twenties, were sitting in the vehicle in the mosque’s private car park “behaving anti-socially, […]
Car Hits Muslims Leaving London Mosque in ‘islamophobic Attack’
A car drove into a crowd of Muslims leaving a mosque in London, England, while the vehicle’s occupants allegedly made “Islamophobic” comments. The incident left several people injured. According to the Metropolitan Police, three men and a woman, all in their twenties, were sitting in the vehicle in the mosque’s private car park “behaving anti-socially, […]
Man suspected of planning mosque shooting gets 5 years in prison
Bolatete, Jacksonville man, sentenced for unlawful possession of gun silencer JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A 70-year-old man suspected of planning to carry out a mass shooting at a Jacksonville mosque was sentenced Monday to prison for an unrelated charge. The defense asked for probation and a sentence of time served, saying Bernandino Bolatete’s health deteriorated significantly since his arrest […]
Readers React: Islam remains misunderstood 17 years after 9/11
Since the 2016 election, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, there has been an increase in hate groups in the U.S. due to the actions of the current president. White supremacist and neo-Nazi groups have been emboldened and there has been an uptick in divisiveness, bigotry and Islamophobia. Both Jews and Muslims face increased prejudice […]
Nazi fan wins Republican primary in Missouri
Steve West, an anti-semitic conspiracy theorist who said Hitler did nothing wrong, defeated three other GOP candidates in the party’s primary election for Missouri’s 15th district. He now faces Democratic incumbent Jon Carpenter in November. He won with 49.5 percent of the vote; the second-place finisher had 24.4 percent. “Looking back in history, unfortunately, Hitler […]
Texan says U.S. Muslims lately subject to more attacks, hate crimes than ever
A Texas member of a Muslim congregation said after a man was convicted of setting its mosque on fire that the United States isn’t what it used to be. “Muslims in America have been subjected to more insults, attacks and hate crimes in the last two or three years than ever before, specifically more than after […]