2 sentenced for plotting to attack Upstate NY Muslim community
Twitter Conspiracy Theorist Charged With a Felony in Lynch Threat Against Muslim Candidate
Federal prosecutors in North Carolina have filed criminal charges over an anonymous Twitter post threatening to lynch a Muslim attorney vying for a seat in the Virginia Senate, marking a rare law enforcement action targeting hate speech on social media. Joseph Cecil Vandevere, of Buncombe County, North Carolina, was indicted June 20 on a single […]
New Zealander Philip Arps faces 14 years in prison after pleading guilty to sharing Christchurch mosque shooting video online
Arps pleaded guilty to two counts of distributing the mosque video and will continue to remain in prison till he is sentenced on June 14. Philip Arps, a businessman from Christchurch, New Zealand, on Friday pleaded guilty to sharing a live stream video which was recorded by the white supremacist gunman who opened fire inside […]
Prince William tells New Zealand mosque survivors extremism must be defeated
Quebec mosque shooter’s parents: don’t call him a terrorist
The family of the man who killed six people at a Quebec City mosque in 2017 has written to Prime Minister Trudeau, asking he stop referring to Alexandre Bissonnette as a terrorist. Andrew Brennan reports.
Man charged after stabbing in Knoxville mosque
The mosque says the crime was not targeted at the mosque or Muslims.Author: WBIR StaffPublished: 12:57 PM EDT April 10, 2019Updated: 12:57 PM EDT April 10, 2019 A Knoxville man is charged with attempted first degree murder after he stabbed another man in a Knoxville mosque. According to court records, Daniel Jay Porter was in an argument inside […]
Muslims and Jews Face a Common Threat From White Supremacists. We Must Fight It Together.
THE TWO OF us have been having the exact same conversation for the past decade. About anti-Semitism and Islamophobia. One of us a Muslim, the other a Jew, we have conducted it in public and in private, on Twitter and on TV. We’ve agreed; we’ve argued; we’ve even wandered off topic to trade tips on how to get […]
New Zealand Massacre Dredges Up Worries at a Traumatized New York Mosque
Mohammed Amanullah didn’t have to look up the number for the 106th Precinct in Queens. Looking out the window of his home on Glenmore Avenue, he realized he didn’t even need to call: A patrol car was already stationed outside Al Furqan Jame Masjid, an Ozone Park mosque. It was March 15, and news had […]
Alleged New Zealand mosque gunman linked to far-right group backed by Steve King
Austrian authorities announced Wednesday that they had discovered a financial link between the alleged New Zealand mosque shooter and a white nationalist group frequently championed by members of the U.S. far right, including Rep. Steve King (R-IA). Prosecutors in the south of the country said the Identitarian Movement, a white nationalist group that first originated […]
UN Rights Chief: Send Alleged Crimes Against Rohingya to ICC
The highest-ranking United Nations human rights official has called for alleged crimes committed against Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslim minority population to be assigned to the International Criminal Court for prosecution. U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Raad al-Hussein referred allegations of atrocities to the ICC at a Friday news conference in Geneva. “There are strong […]