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In Sri Lanka, hate speech and impunity fuel anti-Muslim violence

In Sri Lanka, hate speech and impunity fuel anti-Muslim violence

A day before anti-Muslim mobs swept through a peaceful hill town in central Sri Lanka, the leader of a Sinhala nationalist group took a stroll through the town’s centre. “We have been distributing leaflets and have now reached Digana,” Amith Weerasinghe said into the camera of his phone. “But the problem is we haven’t come […]

Why Far-Right Extremism in America is Rising

Ted Nugent Says the Parkland Survivors 'Have No Soul'

The murder in College Park, Maryland of Richard Collins III, an African-American student who had recently been commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army and was days away from his graduation from Bowie State University, underscores the violence of America’s far-right wing.…

James Jackson charged with murdering Timothy Caughman

James Jackson charged with murdering Timothy Caughman

A white supremacist who stabbed a 66-year-old black man to death with a sword in New York has been charged with second-degree murder as a hate crime. James Harris Jackson, who killed Timothy Caughman on Monday, was charged on Thursday after he told police that he had hated black men for at least 10 years.…

FBI joins investigation into Sikh man’s shooting

FBI joins investigation into Sikh man’s shooting

The FBI is helping police in the US city of Seattle hunt for the attacker who shot a Sikh man and told him to “go back to your own country”, authorities said. The victim, a US national of Indian origin, was identified by India’s foreign minister as Deep Rai. He told police that a gunman […]

Violent crime up across the country in first half of 2015: FBI

Violent crime up across the country in first half of 2015: FBI

Violent crime rose across the country in the first six months of 2015 compared to the same period in 2014, according to preliminary data released Tuesday by the FBI. The statistics are sure to fuel speculation over the connection between policing reforms and crime rates, specifically the “Ferguson effect” theory of chilled police. But public […]

The Trump Effect: Muslim Man Beaten, Hospitalized in Philadelphia For Speaking Arabic

In a supposedly post-racial America, a Muslim immigrant found himself in an emergency room this weekend after being brutally beaten for speaking Arab on a Philadelphia street. Amine Aouam, who moved to the United States from Morocco seven years ago, says the attack “was obviously a hate crime.” Another instance of the “Trump Effect”? Speaking […]

Keith Ellison, Muslim lawmaker, says N.C. murders are anti-Islam hate crime

The first Muslim elected to Congress told a White House conference on violent extremism Wednesday that prosecuting the murders of three young Muslims in North Carolina as a hate crime would help to counter terrorists’ recruiting efforts in America. Rep. Keith Ellison, Minnesota Democrat, dismissed comments by police in Chapel Hill that the three victims […]