Hate Crimes Are Up — But the Government Isn’t Keeping Good Track of Them
In 2015, the authorities in California documented 837 hate-crime incidents, charting a surge in offenses motivated by religious intolerance toward Muslims and Jews, while crimes against Latinos grew by 35 percent. Last week, shortly after Donald J. Trump was elected the country’s next president, the Southern Poverty Law Center put up a form on its […]
Hate Crimes Surge After Trump Victory
Extremism watchers and civil rights groups have welcomed an appeal from Donald Trump for a halt to a surge in harassment and hate crimes, but are urging the president-elect to do more. In an interview with CBS television network’s 60 Minutes program that aired Sunday, Trump was asked about reports of threats and racial slurs […]
FBI: Hate Crimes Against Minorities Increased in 2015
Hate crimes against minorities rose 7 percent in the United States last year, the FBI reported Monday, with incidents targeting Muslims jumping 67 percent. Hate crimes escalated to 5,850 from 5,479 last year, according to the bureau’s latest data. By contrast, hate crimes against Muslims jumped to 257 from 154 in 2014. Bias-motivated offenses against […]
FBI: Hate crimes against Muslims in US surge 67 percent
Hate crimes against Muslims in the United States shot up 67 percent in 2015 to their highest levels since the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks, according to new FBI statistics. Overall, 57 percent of the 5,850 reported incidents were motivated by race or ethnicity, while 20 percent of hate crimes were related to […]
Florida Synagogue Faces Hate Crimes On Rosh Hashanah
A synagogue in Florida was vandalized on the eve of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year holiday, according to media reports. Amid the two-day holiday – which celebrates the creation of the world in the Jewish religion – vandals spray painted Sunday “Free Palestine” across signs and areas of the Chabad of Parkland synagogue in […]
NYC Supports Muslims With Ad Campaign
Reacting to a sharp increase in attacks against the Muslim community across the United States, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio unveiled Monday a social media campaign and outreach program to support Muslim residents of the country’s most populous city. The plan was announced by the city’s Community Affairs Unit, Office of Immigrant affairs […]
Muslim woman set on fire was not target of hate crime, New York police say
Officials say three other victims were approached in a similar manner and in the same proximity as the Saturday attack on a Scottish woman. Police do not believe the man who set a Muslim woman dressed in traditional religious attire on fire in New York was motivated by anti-Muslim bias, they said on Wednesday, after […]
Newsweek’s Foreign Service: Islamophobia On the Rise
On Saturday, Imam Maulama Akonjee and his assistant Thara Uddin were shot and killed as they walked through Queens, New York after prayers. Oscar Morel, 35, has been charged over the killings, although police have not announced a motive for the attack. But whether or not the incident is formally classified as a “hate crime,” […]
Lebanese Man Shot Dead by U.S. Racist Neighbor
The Lebanese Jabara Christian family has been terrorized by their Tulsa neighbor for years now. Stanley Vernon Majors, 61, killed last Friday his Lebanese next-door neighbor on the front porch of Jabara family’s home, weeks after being released from prison for running over the victim’s mother, U.S. media reported. The shooter had a longtime fixation […]
Man charged with shooting dead US Imam and friend
A New York man has been charged with the double murder of a Imam and his friend, in a brutal daylight slaying that has shocked Muslim communities across the US. Police said late on Monday that Oscar Morel, 35, was charged with two counts of second-degree murder over the deaths of Imam Maulama Akonjee, 55, […]