Muslim Cab Driver Attacked In Alleged Hate Crime
A man has been charged with a hate crime after holding a gun to the head of a Muslim cab driver in upstate New York, state police confirmed Monday. Andrew M. Plachecki was allegedly drunk when hailing the cab in the early hours of Sunday morning before he threatened the driver and called him a […]
White Woman Puts Bacon On Mosque’s Door Handles In Hate Crime
Davis, California, Police are offering a $1,000 reward for the arrest and conviction of a woman who shattered the windows of a mosque Sunday and placed strips bacon on its exterior door handles. The investigation is being treated as a hate crime as Muslims are prohibited from eating pork products. Surveillance video from the mosque, […]
Europe’s Nationalist Leaders Present Vision for ‘a Free Europe’
European nationalist leaders met in Germany Saturday in a show of strength at the start of a year of big election tests, celebrating Donald Trump’s inauguration as the U.S. president and declaring themselves a realistic alternative to the continent’s governments. The Koblenz Congress brought together French presidential hopeful Marine Le Pen of the National Front […]
Franklin Graham To Continue Family’s Inauguration Tradition
There will be a familiar family name on the inauguration stage in Washington, D.C., as Donald Trump is sworn in as the 45th president on Friday afternoon. Following in the footsteps of his father Billy, who offered prayers at four presidential inaugurations, Rev. Franklin Graham will read a passage from the Bible at the invitation […]
How Hatred of Islam is Corrupting the American Soul
By Khaled Abou El Fadl ABC Religion and Ethics Updated Jan 19, 2017 (First posted Jan 18, 2017) Khaled Abou El Fadl is the Omar and Azmeralda Alfi Distinguished Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law. He is the author of Reasoning with God: Reclaiming Shari’ah in the Modern Age. A bill requiring the […]
‘Islamophobia to blame’ for Cape Town mosque attacks
Authorities in South Africa say Islamophobia fuelled two separate attacks on mosques in Cape Town, where Muslim centres of worship were broken into and defiled with pig blood and a pig’s snout. The Western Cape provincial government said Monday’s attack, in which the blood was found smeared over the walls of a mosque in Kalk […]
Trump Inauguration Speaker Says He Won By ‘Hand Of God’
The Rev. Franklin Graham, the evangelical leader selected to grace the crowds at President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration with a few religious words, attributed Trump’s election victory in November to the “hand of God” –and not Russian President Vladimir Putin. Graham is one of six religious leaders who have been selected to pray and read Bible […]
‘Nobody wants your evil cult in this town’: Virginia resident opposes mosque construction.
January 3, 2017 12:12 PM EST – During a public meeting on Nov. 17, 2015, a resident of Spotsylvania County, Va., objected to plans for the Islamic Center of Fredericksburg to build a new mosque. (Courtesy: The Free Lance-Star)
Putin: No Link Between Islam, Terror
Throughout his campaign, President-elect Donald Trump often directly associated terrorism with Muslims around the world by saying “radical Islamic terrorism,” a phrase he criticized President Barack Obama for failing to use and denying any link between the religion and terrorist attacks. However, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s thinking appears to fall well in line with Obama’s […]
Hate Crimes Against Muslims On The Rise
A homeless man who accused a Muslim woman of being a “terrorist” before throwing hot coffee on her was arrested Sunday. Police said the man who verbally and physically attacked the 21-year-old woman inside of a New York City Dunkin Donuts was charged with assault as a hate crime. Witnesses said 34-year-old Nathan Gray came […]