Town Manager Fired for Anti-Muslim Comments to Get $30K
Tom Kawczynski, a town manager in Maine who was fired for posting anti-Muslim comments, will receive $30,000 to avoid a lawsuit, local outlets reported. The decision was made behind closed doors in an hour-long, private meeting between Kawczynski, the town lawyer and four members of the local government, the Bangor Daily News reported. Kawczynski came […]
UK man ‘obsessed’ with Muslims hit group with van: court
A British man “obsessed” with Muslims deliberately drove into a group outside a mosque in an act of terrorism intended to kill as many as possible, a court heard Monday. Darren Osborne is accused of murdering 51-year-old Makram Ali and trying to kill others in the Finsbury Park area of north London on June 19 […]
A year later: The mosque massacre & rising Islamophobia
By Tarek Younis, Newton International Postdoctoral Fellow, UCL Division of Psychiatry, UCL. Political dignitaries attend the funeral for three of the six victims of the Quebec City mosque shooting in Montreal in February 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paul Chiasson On Jan. 29, 2017, a man entered a Québec mosque during evening prayer and opened fire on […]
Precision Strikes Kill 150 IS Terrorists in Syria, Coalition Says
The U.S.-led counter-Islamic State coalition says precision strikes killed about 150 IS terrorists Saturday in eastern Syria. A statement from the coalition said the strikes took out an IS headquarters and command-and-control center near as-Shafah, Syria, in the Middle Euphrates River Valley. “Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on the ground, who continue to be engaged in […]
Facebook admits it took too long to recognize social media’s harmful effects on democracy
Facebook has been taking a long hard look at how it’s affecting democracy and the social media giant doesn’t like everything it sees in the mirror. On Monday, the company admitted it took too long to recognize how its site was being abused to spread misinformation or sow division during the 2016 U.S. presidential election. […]
Israel gets flak over human rights record in Geneva
Geneva, Switzerland – UN member states have criticised Israel during a heated Human Rights Council (HRC) session for failing to abide by human rights laws and UN resolutions, with some calling it an “apartheid state”. The criticism came as Israel was undergoing in this Swiss city on Tuesday its third Universal Periodic Review (UPR), a […]
Amena Khan quits L’Oreal campaign after Israel backlash
Just days into her role, a British Muslim model has quit a major beauty brand’s campaign after right-wing media outlets published her tweets from 2014, in which she criticised Israel’s war in Gaza. Amena Khan, who runs the Pearl Daisy fashion blog, became L’Oreal’s only hijab-wearing model to front its haircare campaign, less than a […]