Threats and hate speech against Muslim Australians have surged in the wake of the Bondi beach attack, with one mosque receiving dozens of offensive phone calls and reports of people being targeted in the street. As Australia's Jewish community deals with trauma from the attack that killed 15 people at a Hanukah event, religious leaders say societal and political divisions has led to other groups being targeted by hatred.
To survive a school shooting is traumatic enough, but to then face a nationwide racist smear campaign that falsely accuses you of being the murderer is even worse. That was the fate of Mustapha Kharbouch, a queer Palestinian student at Brown University. While mourning his fellow students, Kharbouch found himself confronting false accusations. Across social media, attempts by the university to protect his privacy were painted as proof of guilt.
Some members have even floated raising the threshold for censure - a rebuke that is supposed to carry significant weight but has been watered down by its growing use in recent years. Fine's effort would almost certainly fail because expulsion requires a two-thirds vote in the House. If all Republicans vote to expel Omar, roughly 85 Democrats would need to join them.
In response to the horrific antisemitic terror attack in Sydney, Australia, Paladino wrote on Sunday that the world is experiencing a global jihad and argued that governments should begin expelling Muslims or imposing severe sanctions on them within Western countries. She also called for the development of a legal framework for denaturalization, warning of another Sept. 11-style attack.
The definition will be non-statutory, meaning it is not set in law or legally binding, but will provide a form of words public bodies can adopt. It provides guidance to the government and other bodies on what constitutes unacceptable treatment of Muslims, aiming to help them better understand and quantify prejudice and hate crimes against this group. The draft definition is: "Anti-Muslim hostility is engaging in or encouraging criminal acts, including acts of violence, vandalism of property, and harassment and intimidation whether physical, verbal, written or electronically communicated, which is directed at Muslims or those perceived to be Muslims because of their religion, ethnicity or appearance."
There are no Sharia courts in Texas only voluntary Muslim mediation panels operating under the same framework used by Jewish beth din courts and Christian arbitration services. Yet in a letter sent to district attorneys and sheriffs demanding an investigation, Abbott wrote that The Constitution's religious protections provide no authority for religious courts to skirt state and federal laws simply by donning robes and pronouncing positions inconsistent with western civilization, implying that Muslims were secretly building an alternative legal system.
Laura Loomer spends nearly twenty hours a day online. She posts endlessly, accusing a range of figures in government and elsewhere of misdeeds and disloyalty. She is the ultimate influencer. She has the ear of Donald Trump. It is not uncommon for her screeds to result in firings or policy changes. She is so ubiquitous in Washington that her name has become its own verb. To be "Loomered" is to be, in some way or another, destroyed.
A leading Muslim civil rights group in the US applauded Monday as the Trump administration's agreement to release British pro-Palestinian commentator Sami Hamdi acknowledged that he is not "a danger to the community or to national security," after he was held in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention for more than two weeks. Hamdi's family and the California chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which has been representing the journalist, expressed relief
Zohran Mamdani's election was not as surprising as his primary win in June, and since then, Republicans have had time to adjust to the idea of a young, charismatic idol espousing a new and exciting message for the Democratic Party. On Tuesday and Wednesday, though, instead of responding with new policy ideas to excite their own base, they mostly responded by returning to old territory: bald, ugly Islamophobia.
There were 7,164 such offences recorded by forces across the two nations excluding the Metropolitan Police in the year to March, up three per cent from 6,973 in the previous 12 months. Ministers said anti-Muslim hatred was up by 19 per cent, noting a spike in offences after the Southport murders of two girls last summer and the riots which followed across several English towns and cities.
The newborn daughter of a British MP was the target of utterly depraved and sexist online abuse hours after her birth, her father has told the Guardian. The independent MP Adnan Hussain, who won his Blackburn seat in 2024 running on a pro-Gaza stance, said he and his newborn were subject to vile abuse after he posted a pixelated picture of her on X.
The Ukrainian national was 37. He was convicted at the Old Bailey in October 2013 of murdering Muslim man Mohammed Saleem, 82, in April of that year. Saleem was a pillar of the local community who was on his way home from evening prayers at the mosque when Lapshyn stabbed him three times in the back and stamped on his head.
In an address to the UN general assembly, Trump said: I look at London, where you have a terrible mayor, terrible, terrible mayor, and it's been changed, it's been so changed. Now they want to go to sharia law. But you are in a different country, you can't do that. The development will cause further discomfort in No 10 after Trump was last week honoured with an unprecedented second state visit to the UK.
In a rare admission on Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel is facing isolation on the world stage after nearly two years of its genocide in Gaza - but didn't acknowledge his own government's role in the situation. At the "Fifty States - One Israel" economic conference hosted by Israel's Finance Ministry, Netanyahu blamed foreign countries and Muslims for Israel's isolation.
Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, 42, most commonly known as Tommy Robinson, is a British far-right activist who organised the Unite the Kingdom march in London on 13 September. After losing his job as an engineering apprentice for assaulting a police officer, Robinson moved into activism in 2009 by founding the English Defence League (EDL), an Islamophobic organisation forged in the football terraces in Luton before spreading nationally.
