Tag: hate crime
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Khawaja Sira community members attacked by mob in Karachi; No action taken yet
The first-ever elected transgender member of the Karachi Municipal Council and transgender rights activist Shahzadi Rai took to X (former Twitter) and described an incidence of violence against her community members. Shahzadi wrote, “A mob attack occurred at Johar Mor. These individuals first beat members of my community, then threatened to kill us openly. Please…
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Three Palestinian students studying in US shot for wearing keffiyah
Three Palestinian students were shot for wearing their country’s traditional keffiyeh scarves in Vermont, USA. The three boys – identified as Hisham Awartani, Kinnan Abdel Hamid and Tahseen Ahmed – were in Burlington for Thanksgiving holidays when they were targeted and injured, leaving one critically wounded. The victims, aged 20, were students of Harvard University,…
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Pakistani-American doctor stabbed to death in front of 17 people
52-year-old Pakistani American paediatrician Dr. Talat Khan was stabbed to death in a park in her apartment complex on Saturday afternoon, in front of 17 people. The suspected murderer is 24-year-old Miles Joseph Fridrich, and is a white male.One of the witnesses, Mathew Amador explained what he saw when he got to the scene of…
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Landlord stabs Palestinian- American child to death, injures mother in hate crime
Joseph Czuba, a 71-year-old man has stabbed a six-year-old Palestinian-American boy to death while also injuring his 32-year-old mother in Plainfield, Illinois USA in what local police have confirmed is a hate crime. The Palestinian-American family was reportedly attacked by the man after he got influenced watching and reading about the conflict in the Middle…
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‘Anti-Muslim hate speech increases in India around elections’: Hindutva Watch
A recent report on Hindutva Watch by Raqib Hameed Naik, Aarushi Srivastava and Abhyudaya Tayagi titled ‘2023 Half-Yearly Report: Anti-Muslim Hate Speech Events in India’ reveals that there have been 255 documented incidents of hate speech in gatherings targeting Muslims in the first half of 2023. The watchdog used the definition of hate speech by…
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Muslim boy beaten to death in India
A 22-year-old young Muslim named Rahul Khan was beaten to death by his friends over the alleged stealing of a mobile in the Indian state of Haryana at Palwal district on Tuesday, December 14. His family claimed that the video of an incident shows the act of hate crime. Police have arrested all three friends…