Paris attack heightens European tensions with Muslims
The terrorist attack on the satirical weekly in Paris threatens to create deeper animosities between Europes growing Muslim minority and a native population that is increasingly embracing anti-Islam and anti-immigration movements. The radicals are.
Fear, Inc. 2.0: As Anti-Muslim Incidents Continue, Report Exposes Funders.
As a federal inquiry begins in the killing of three Muslim students in North Carolina and an Islamic center in Houston, Texas, was intentionally set on fire Friday, we look at a new report that exposes the people who fund and stoke anti-Muslim.
Garland, TX - City: 2 Gunmen Killed Outside Muhammad.
Garland, TX - Two armed men who opened fire on a security officer outside of a provocative contest for cartoon depictions of the Prophet Muhammad have been killed, authorities in the Dallas suburb of Garland said Sunday night. The New York-based American Freedom Defense Initiative had been hosting a contest at the center that would award $10000 for the best cartoon depicting the Prophet Muhammad.. So leave the prophet and go after the lion (Extremism).
Headlines for March 25, 2013 | Democracy Now!
The New York Times reports the airlift of arms and equipment to the rebels, largely overseen by Turkey, has massively increased since early 2012 to include more than 160 flights in Jordanian, Saudi and Qatari planes... Anti-Muslim violence continued to spread in Burma over the weekend after days of clashes left dozens of people dead. President. Two teenagers have been arrested in Brunswick, Georgia, following the shooting death of a 13-month-old baby.
More Trouble At The Top Of German Anti-Islam Organization PEGIDA
The PEGIDA organization said on its Facebook page Wednesday that spokeswoman Kathrin Oertel has resigned after receiving threats, while board member Thomas Tallacker has stepped down for work reasons. Organizer. Two weeks ago, the organization.
Recent Highlights in Political Violence | Combating.
June 4, 2014 (GERMANY): German prosecutors brought terrorism charges against two Lebanese brothers and a German man who are accused of being involved with the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant. According to the New York. According to the New York Times, ���the assault, in which at least two gunmen opened fire on a guard post at the airport perimeter, caused no casualties and ended with the gunmen fleeing into a nearby slum. By contrast, at least 36��.
How Mondays hostage crisis in Sydney spawned a social-media movement.
Mondays hostage crisis in Sydney, Australia may be over, but the circumstances surrounding the incident���in which three people, including the gunman, died and four others were injured following a 16-hour standoff���remain murky. Little is known about.
French police link terrorist cell to foreign financing
CBS News, quoting unidentified sources, reported Tuesday that Said Kouachi, one of two gunmen who attacked Charlie Hebdo, returned from Yemen in 2011 with $20,000 from the terrorist group Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula , to finance the operation. In.
Disenchanted by civilian life, vets volunteer to fight ISIS.
A small number of Americans ��� many of them former members of the military ��� have volunteered in recent months to take up arms against the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria, even as the U.S. government has hesitated to put combat. Originally published March 11, 2015 at 8:36 pm Updated March 12, 2015 at 2:39 pm. After being contacted by The New York Times, the peshmerga released a statement saying it would no longer accept foreign volunteers.
2 Killed in Texas After Firing on Anti-Islam Groups Event
Two gunmen were killed after they opened fire Sunday evening outside an event hosted by an anti-Islam group in Garland, Tex., featuring cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, local officials said. According to the authorities, the two assailants shot a.
The GOPs Islamophobia Problem
That was last time. This time, the most naked bigot in the emerging Republican field is Mike Huckabee. Earlier this week, Huckabee said that ���Everything he [Obama] does is against what Christians stand for, and hes against the Jews in Israel. The one.
Fury as Texas fireman responds to Houston Islamic center blaze with the tweet.
Twitter users have directed their fury at a Texas man who allegedly said on social media that a Houston Islamic center should burn down. Dustin Herron allegedly wrote online about a fire that took place at Quba Islamic Institute last week, liberal.
Copenhagen Free Speech Meeting Leaves One Dead.
. shots were fired. Niels Ivar Larsen, one of the speakers at the event, told TV2 that at least two people���. DENMARK ��� One person is reportedly dead and others are injured after a shooting at a meeting on free speech where a controversial Danish cartoonist was speaking. Danish media.. Professional Islamapology - It Only Took The New York Times 4 Paragraphs To Find Copenhagens Anti-Muslim Sentiment More Important Than Attacks By Islamist Extremists.
Activist plans contest for drawings of Muhammad in Texas
A New York-based anti-Islam activist is stirring up trouble in Texas. Weeks after French gunmen killed 12 people at a newspaper office in retaliation for cartoon illustrations of Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, blogger Pamela Geller is offering a $10.
American Declared Blogger Non Grata in Britain for Anti.
The American activists had been invited to take part in a march through London on Saturday, passing a mosque and ending in Woolwich, where a British soldier was hacked to death last month by two converts to Islam. The planned march was organized by the virulently anti-Islam English Defense League, which rallied in Woolwich after the killing, and sent a contingent of activists to New York in 2010 for a protest in Lower Manhattan led by Ms. Geller and Mr. Spencer��.
Hate in the aftermath of Chapel Hill ��� Mondoweiss
Eleven years removed from 9/11, there was a seemingly unexplainable rash of attacks against mosques, including arson, vandalism and even shots being fired at different Islamic centers throughout the U.S. Much of this. Last month, a Muslim event in Garland, TX was surrounded with swarms of anti-Muslim protestors ��� some of them carrying weapons.. He eventually returned to New York City, and slashed a cabbies throat after asking if the driver was Muslim.
ISIS Video Purports To Show Killing Of Ethiopian Christians.
I believe this is just another case of the IS group killing Christians in the name of Islam. Our fellow citizens have just been killed on a faith-based violence that is totally unacceptable. This is outrageous, Mulugeta said.
Australia a puzzling hotbed of Islamic State recruiting
Numan Haider, an 18-year-old Muslim Australian of Afghan origin, stabbed two Melbourne police officers and was shot dead in September, a week after his passport had been canceled. He had caught authorities attention months earlier over what police .
German Anti-Islam Movement Suffers Blow With Loss of Central Figure
Pegida organizers and allied groups have also faced overt threats. Dresden police banned Mondays rally following death threats against Mr. Bachmann. On Wednesday, two arson attacks targeted railway tracks near Leipzigs central station, hours before.
Muslim Leaders to Hold Stand with the Prophet Rally in Texas
The Saturday event, which seeks to combat ���Islamophobes in America��� who have turned the Islamic Prophet Muhammad ���into an object of hate,��� according to organizers, comes just a week after radicalized Islamists in France killed 17 people.. Also scheduled to attend the forum is controversial New York-based Imam Siraj Wahhaj, who was an ���unindicted co-conspirator��� in the 1993 World Trade Center bombings trial.. Or the anti-Islam film, Innocence of Muslims?
Mounting Violence against Muslims in America | Global.
Last month, a ���Texas Muslim Capitol Day��� event (the declared purpose of which was to ���engage American Muslims in the political process���) was attacked and disrupted by anti-Muslim thugs... ���The rash of horrific attacks in the name of Islam,��� read a front-page article in the New York Times on January 9, ���is spurring an anguished debate among Muslims here in the heart of the Islamic world about why their religion appears cited so often as a cause for violence and��.
Headlines for April 19, 2013 | Democracy Now!
One suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings is dead, and at the time of our broadcast, a massive manhunt is underway for the second after a chaotic scene erupted overnight that left one police officer dead, another. 2 People Subjected to Violent, Anti-Muslim Attacks. Meanwhile, a Bangladeshi man told the New York Post he was brutally beaten just hours after Mondays bombings by a group of men who called him an F-ing Arab at a restaurant in the Bronx.
Headlines for March 17, 2015 | Democracy Now!
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: I think that whoever moves to establish a Palestinian state or intends to withdraw from territory is simply yielding territory for radical Islamic terrorist attacks against Israel. This is. The left-wing parties do it, bury their heads in the sand, time and again.. The United Arab Emirates, another close U.S. ally, has barred a New York University professor from the country after he criticized the monarchys exploitation of migrant laborers.
Americas Islamophobia Problem
The warning on the fliers: Muslims in America be ready to face death if ISIS did not surrender within the following three days, as if Muslim Americans command and control the actions of the terrorist group.. Another man was arrested for making a.
Special News Quiz | Farewell, 2014 - NYTimes.com
Pakistani Professor at University of Karachi Is Killed in Shooting.. After 50 days of fighting that took some 2,200 lives, leveled large areas of the Gaza Strip and paralyzed Israels south for the summer, Israeli and Palestinian leaders reached an open-ended cease-fire agreement in late August that. 23, the United States and five Arab allies launched a wide-ranging air campaign against the Islamic State and at least one other extremist group in Syria for the first time.
Bride Of Benghazi: GOP Opens New Scandal Circus Over Mortgage Settlements
During a hearing that lasted roughly two hours, Republicans repeatedly suggested that the Department of Justice was illegally funneling money to activist groups using sham transactions embedded in legal settlements with two big banks. The event was.
Boko Haram Recruited Little Girls as Suicide Bombers
���Its something quite new, and its disturbing, using these young, young girls wearing hijabs,��� a top police official in Nigerias capital, Abuja, anonymously told The New York Times. Some witnesses to the attack suggest that the girl may not have.
Houston Islamic center thought to be set ablaze on purpose in possible hate.
The center has a place to pray, holds community events, offers Arabic classes and also runs a Sunday School. The Quba. The Muslim center had been scheduled to host a talk by a former Guantanamo Bay guard who converted to Islam after the experience.
2 Killed in Texas After Firing on Anti-Muslim Groups Event
2 Killed in Texas After Firing on Anti-Muslim Groups Event. I do not agree with what you. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/04/us/gunmen-killed-after-firing-on-anti-islamist-groups-event.html?_r=0. Posted by Am��lia Rivera��.
Houston Chronicles Dylan Baddour: #JeSuisCoulibaly
���A New York-based anti-Islam activist,��� Baddour writes, ���is stirring up trouble in Texas. Weeks after French gunmen killed 12 people at a newspaper office in retaliation for cartoon illustrations of Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, blogger Pamela Geller is offering a $10,000 prize for artists to submit their own... Statement [2] compares the experience of two different groups, group M and group K, at the same time.. It doesnt matter if its a shooting war or lawfare!
Second Annual Student Editorial Contest - New York Times.
Be advised that NYTimes.com has a digital subscription system in which readers have free access to 10 free articles each month, but after that you will be asked to become a digital subscriber. However, all. They really enjoyed playing devils advocate and getting each other fired up. Then the most... American Muslims are scorned and feared because of the rise of supposed Islamic terrorist groups, which has inspired islamophobia to become prevalent in America.
Hillary Clintons email-gate linked to description of State Department.
Some of those documents may have been emails that went through the now-infamous private email server Clinton kept at her Chappaqua, New York home. If they still exist, they could shed light on Clintons actions following the deadly Benghazi raid by .