islamophobia
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‘We’re Gonna Kill All of You’: Woman Gets Fired After Threatening 3 Somali Women in ND
Another day, another bigot off the streets. A North Dakota woman was quickly terminated from her job after a video of her racist rant went viral across social media. Amber Hensley was videotaped verbally threatening three Somali women on Tuesday in a Fargo, N.D., Walmart parking lot, telling the women, “We’re gonna kill all of…
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‘KKK Hate Muslims, We Will Kill You’: Police Investigating Hateful Messages Left at Home of Muslim Family in NY
A Muslim family living in Nassau County, part of New York’s Long Island, discovered hateful, threatening messages in their mailbox on two separate occasions, leading police to launch a hate crime investigation. According to ABC7NY, the message read, “KKK Hate Muslims, we will kill you, Jesus loves you,” along with the image of a swastika…
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‘White People of America Are Going to Kill You’: Man Calls Ga. Mosque Threatening ‘Mass Slaughter’
The Georgia chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations is warning mosques across the state and the nation to be on high alert since a local mosque started to be targeted with several racially charged phone threats a few weeks ago. In a Facebook post yesterday, the organization detailed calls from an unidentified man using…
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Apparently, Senate Republicans Don’t Believe White Men Are Terrorists
Hours after a white male opened fire on members of Congress, Senate Republicans hosted a hearing on violent extremism. Aside from a perfunctory mention of James T. Hodgkinson’s violent extremist act that very morning, GOP members of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs called on a number of Islamophobic “experts” to sidestep…
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Un-American Terrorists Are Planning a Major Event for This Weekend
The man who applauded the actions of the 9/11 hijackers has teamed up with white supremacist organizations across the country to hold rallies in at least 26 American cities this weekend. The Southern Poverty Law Center—the country’s leading watcher of hate groups—reports that the hate group ACT for America and terrorist sympathizer Billy Roper have…
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Muslim Groups Unite, Raise More Than $500,000 for Families of the 3 Portland, Ore., Heroes
Two Muslim nonprofit organizations have come together and raised more than $500,000 in about four days for the families of the Portland, Ore., heroes who were violently attacked while defending two young women from a raging white supremacist yelling anti-Muslim insults. Last Friday, the two girls were verbally attacked by Jeremy Joseph Christian while riding…
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Federal Judge Dismisses ‘Clock Boy’ Ahmed Mohamed’s Lawsuit Against Irving, Texas, School District
It seems that Ahmed Mohamed—the young Muslim teen who was arrested at his school over a homemade clock mistaken for a bomb—will not be getting any justice in his case. A federal judge has tossed out a lawsuit that was filed against the Irving, Texas, Independent School District and the city of Irving. As the…
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‘Donald Trump Will Stop You’: Video Shows Man Harassing Muslim Family on Texas Beach
Another day, another idiot comes out to play. This time, a man is facing the music—or, rather, criminal charges—after going on what authorities say was an obscenity-laced, anti-Muslim tirade at a family trying to enjoy themselves on a Texas beach. South Padre Island police arrested 35-year-old Alexander Jennes Downing of Connecticut after responding to reports…