Business owners in Northern Ireland are devastated by floods, as Storm Ciaran is set to bring more heavy rains. Senior members of the Labour Party want Sir Keir Starmer to call for a ceasefire in Gaza. Police in Paris shoot a woman wearing a hijab over threatening behavior, leaving her in critical condition. It’s the […]
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates—Iranian climber Elnaz Rekabi returned to Tehran early Wednesday after competing in South Korea without wearing a headscarf, an act widely seen as support for anti-regime demonstrators amid weeks of protests over the Islamic Republic’s mandatory hijab. After landing, Rekabi gave a careful, emotionless interview to Iran’s hard-line state television, saying that […]
New York City must pay a total of $180,000 to three Muslim women who were forced to take off their head and face coverings for police mug shots. According to a Daily News report, the three separate lawsuits that were settled on Monday, Feb. 26, awarded $60,000 to each of the three women for being […]
President Donald Trump on Monday condemned the fatal stabbing of two good Samaritans trying to help a pair of young women targeted by an anti-Muslim tirade on a Portland, Oregon, light rail train. “The violent attacks in Portland on Friday are unacceptable,” Trump said on Twitter. “The victims were standing up to hate and intolerance. […]
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP)—Two people died Friday and another was hurt in a stabbing on a Portland light-rail train after a man yelled racial slurs at two young women who appeared to be Muslim, one of whom was wearing a hijab, police said. Officers arrested a man Friday afternoon who ran from the train, The Oregonian/OregonLive […]
