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Islamophobia

Activists from right-wing Hindu organization Bajrang Dal burn an effigy of Islamic terrorism during a protest against the Tuesday killing of Kanhaiya Lal, a Hindu man in a suspected religious attack in western Udaipur city of Rajasthan state, in Ahmedabad

‘India is a tinderbox’: Religious tensions come to a boiling point after brutal murder of Hindu tailor

Violence

“Religious polarization has been rising in India under [Narendra] Modi, who is seen as a Hindu nationalist leader,” journalist Sushmita Pathak told The World’s Marco Werman. 

Four caskets are covered with the Canadian flag of red and white as mourners look on.

For the first time, Canada applies terrorism charges to acts of Islamophobia

Extremism
A woman holds on to a child's hand and she places flowers at a memorial

After killing of Muslim family in Canada, this advocate calls for a collective plan to fight Islamophobia

Violence
French President Emmanuel Macron stands at a podium with French flag behind him.

French Muslims worry ‘separatism law’ may create more division

Sacred Nation
A closeup photo of Rep. Ilhan Omar.

‘Outraged’ Yemeni American deli owners boycott New York Post over Ilhan Omar cover

Politics
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San Diego school district and parents reach settlement over Muslim civil rights program

What’s the right way to address bullying of Muslim students in American schools? A drawn-out legal struggle in San Diego that asked that question has finally ended.

Commander Jeff Schoep of the National Socialist Movement, one of the largest white nationalist type groups in the country, speaks during a rally at the state capital in Little Rock, Arkansas,

White nationalism, born in the USA, is now a global terror threat

As more people embrace a xenophobic and anti-immigrant worldview, it is fueling hostility and violence toward those deemed “outsiders” — whether because of their religion, skin color or national origin.

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Anti-immigrant protesters chant ‘Resistance!’ in German city after killing

Conflict

Police in the eastern state of Saxony have brought in reinforcements from across Germany after clashes at two days of protests that followed the arrest of a Syrian and an Iraqi over Sunday’s fatal stabbing of the man, named only as “Daniel H.”

Imam Mohamed Magid stands in front of the All Dulles Area Muslim Society (ADAMS) mosque in Sterling, Virginia, U.S. on May 19, 2016. In a statement after the murder of 17-year-old Nabra Hassanen, Magid said, “We are devastated and heartbroken as our commu

The murder of a Virginia teen has ‘shaken up the entire American Muslim community’

Religion

Nabra Hassanen, a 17-year-old Muslim high school student from northern Virginia, was murdered this week after late-night prayers at a mosque. The crime has rattled American Muslims.

Imam Khalid Latif

This NYPD chaplain is young, male and Muslim. He’s been told ‘those things don’t go together so well right now.’

Jobs

Khalid Latif, an imam for the New York Police Department, on life in and out of uniform.

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