1 | Said by Whom (including affiliations) | Said What? | Response? | Where (City, State) | Link | Additional Notes | |
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2 | 9/8/2015 | A 17 year old in Chicago, IL (name not released) | According to the Sikh Coalition, Inderjit Singh Mukker, an American citizen and father of two, was on his way to a grocery store when a driver began taunting him. He finally pulled over to the side of the road to let him pass, but the driver instead pulled up in front of his car, reached into the car and repeatedly punched Mukker in the face. Mukker lost consciousness, lost blood and suffered a fractured cheekbone. The assailant also yelled racial slurs, including, "Terrorist, go back to your country, Bin Laden!" Mukker was then rushed to a nearby hospital where he had to be sewn up with six stitches. | The 17-year-old, whose name was not released, had pleaded guilty in December last year to hitting Inderjit Singh Mukker, 53, of Darien, Illinois in a traffic altercation on September 8, just days before the 9/11 anniversary. DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert Berlin announced on Wednesday that the Willowbrook teen has been sentenced to two years of probation by the juvenile court. Besides probation, he was also ordered to perform 200 hours of community service, part of which must be serving the Sikh community, pay over USD 4,800 in restitution and undergo counselling as deemed necessary by the Probation Department. | Chicago, IL | http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/sikh-attacked-in-chicago_us_55f1a8aae4b093be51bdddb3 | http://indianexpress.com/article/world/world-news/us-17-year-old-gets-2-years-probation-for-attacking-sikh-american/ |
3 | 11/19/2015 | Ben Carson | Speaking about refugees: "If there's a rabid dog running around in your neighborhood, you're probably not going to assume something good about that dog," Carson said during a campaign stop in Alabama. "And you're probably going to put your children out of the way. That doesn't mean that you hate all dogs.". “To bring them here under these circumstances is a suspension of intellect.” | Alabama | http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/19/politics/ben-carson-rabid-dogs-refugees/ | ||
4 | 11/17/2015 | Donald Trump | During an interview with Yahoo News, Trump was asked whether his push for increased surveillance of American Muslims could include warrantless searches. He suggested he would consider a series of drastic measures. “We’re going to have to do things that we never did before. And some people are going to be upset about it, but I think that now everybody is feeling that security is going to rule,” Trump said. “And certain things will be done that we never thought would happen in this country in terms of information and learning about the enemy. And so we’re going to have to do certain things that were frankly unthinkable a year ago.” Yahoo News asked Trump whether this level of tracking might require registering Muslims in a database or giving them a form of special identification that noted their religion. He wouldn’t rule it out. “We’re going to have to — we’re going to have to look at a lot of things very closely,” Trump said when presented with the idea. “We’re going to have to look at the mosques. We’re going to have to look very, very carefully.” | NYC | http://news.yahoo.com/donald-trump-has-big-plans-1303117537878070.html | ||
5 | 11/18/2015 | Roanoke’s Democratic mayor, David Bowers | In a statement Wednesday, Roanoke’s Democratic mayor, David Bowers said he was requesting that all government and non-government organizations in the city of 99,000 suspend any assistance to Syrian refugees “until these serious hostilities and atrocities end.” As justification, he compared the situation to World War II. “President Franklin D. Roosevelt felt compelled to sequester Japanese foreign nationals after the bombing of Pearl Harbor,” he said, “and it appears that the threat of harm to America from ISIS now is just as real and serious as that from our enemies then.” | http://www.roanoke.com/david-bowers-statement-on-syrian-refugees/pdf_54895fc2-dcfa-50a9-9e40-4c382ed7ab4e.html | |||
6 | 11/15/2015 | Marco Rubio | Clinton was asked during Saturday's Democratic debate whether she agreed with Rubio's assessment that the deadly Paris attacks were carried out by radical Islamists. Clinton replied that America isn't at war with a religion's extremist element, but that "We are at war with violent extremism. We are at war with people who use their religion for purposes of power and oppression." "I don’t understand it," Rubio said when played a clip of Clinton's statement Sunday on ABC's "This Week." "That would be like saying we weren’t at war with Nazis because we were afraid to offend some Germans who may have been members of the Nazi party but weren’t violent themselves." Rubio said that all Muslims are not extremists, but added, "We are at war with radical Islam. With an interpretation of Islam by a significant number of people around the world that they believe now justifies them killing people who don’t agree with their ideology." | ABC's This Week | http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/marco-rubio-hillary-clinton-radical-islam-deny/2015/11/15/id/702232/ | ||
7 | 11/6/2015 | K.C.Tard, 34 year old man in Los Angeles | Sikh Metrobus driver Balwinder Jit Singh was attacked in November 2015. Tard had boarded the Metro bus in south Los Angeles when he began shouting that the bearded, turbaned driver, Balwinder Jit Singh, was a terrorist and a suicide bomber who had hijacked the vehicle, prosecutors said.The pummeling left driver Balwinder Jit Singh with a black eye, a bruised jaw, and a swollen face. He continues to experience pain and blurred vision. | Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office has filed a hate crime charge against the man accused of attacking Singh (March 2, 2016). The Sikh Coalition and other groups called for a hate crime investigation of Singh's attacker. KC Tard Jr., 34, could face up to six years in jail if convicted of the Nov. 6 attack. | Los Angeles metrobus | http://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/alleged-attacker-sikh-american-bus-driver-charged-hate-crime-n530641 | |
8 | 11/16/2015 | Donald Trump | “You’re going to have to watch and study the mosques, because a lot of talk is going on at the mosques,” Trump said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” less than a month after telling Fox Business that “absolutely” shut down U.S. mosques to defeat Islamic State militants.
“From what I heard in the old days, meaning a while ago, we had great surveillance going on in and around mosques in New York City, and I understand our mayor totally cut that out, he totally cut it out,” Trump added, apparently referring to New York’s controversial racial and religious profiling investigation — which was discontinued after it resulted in zero arrests or leads. | MSNBC's Morning Joe | http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/i-will-bomb-your-fcking-location-muslims-face-violent-threats-as-trump-urges-ban-on-mosques/ | ||
9 | 11/15/2015 | News anchors JOHN VAUSE and ISHA SESAY | JOHN VAUSE (ANCHOR): Yasser, If your camp is the French camp, why is it that no one within the Muslim community there in France knew what these guys were up to? Because it seems to me that this was a pretty big plan. Surely someone beyond the seven guys who have been killed over the last 48 hours would have to have known something, and that was probably within the Muslim community, but yet no one said anything.
LOUATI: Sir, the Muslim community has nothing to do with these guys. Nothing. We cannot justify ourselves for the actions of someone who just claims to be Muslim. Our secret services knew about these guys, and again, just like the January attacks, it turned out they were all on a black list somewhere, somehow on a desk. So right now we can't take responsibility for anything. Right now, what these terrorists -- VAUSE: Why not? [...] VAUSE: What is the responsibility within the Muslim community to identify what is happening within their own ranks when it comes to people who are obviously training and preparing to carry out mass murder. [...] ISHA SESAY (ANCHOR): But Yasser, let's talk about the bigger issue. The fact that France does have a large number of Muslims that have gone over to join ISIS and be part of their ranks. Why is that? Why is that? You may say that there's no responsibility for these attacks that took place on Friday, but there is that outstanding issue that we need to deal with. Help us understand that. LOUATI: Okay, France is home to the biggest Muslim minority in Europe. At the same time, it has the greatest number of laws specifically targetting the Muslim community. And at the same time, France has exported more foreign terrorist fighters than any other European country. So there is indeed an issue. But that issue is related to foreign policy and failed domestic policies. When it comes to the Muslim community itself, everybody knows that radicalization does not take place in mosques. It takes place either on the internet and in the streets, away from organized communities. [...] SESAY: Given the fact that the finger of blame is pointed at the Muslim community, rightly or wrongly, does that not shift you into a situation where leaders of the Muslim community and the leaders should step up and take a greater role in looking at the young people and the road that they're going down? You have to accept that responsibility to prevent the bigger backlash that comes your way when these things happen. [...] VAUSE: You know, I've yet to hear the condemnation from the Muslim community on this, but we might see. SESAY: You know, again, the point he's making is, it's not our fault. But the fact of the matter is that when these things happen the finger of blame is pointed at the Muslim community, so you have to be preemptive. It's coming from the community. VAUSE: The word "responsibility" comes to mind. SESAY: Yeah, it just comes to mind. You can't shirk that. | CNN International's CNN Newsroom | http://mediamatters.org/video/2015/11/16/cnn-international-anchors-press-french-muslim-t/206878 | ||
10 | 11/15/2015 | Jeb Bush | Re refugees: "I think we need to do thorough screening and take in a limited number," Bush said on CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday. "There are a lot of Christians in Syria that have no place now. They'll be either executed or imprisoned, either by Assad or by ISIS. We should focus our efforts as it relates to the refugees for the Christians that are being slaughtered." | CNN's State of the Union | |||
11 | 11/15/2015 | Senator Ted Cruz | Sen. Ted Cruz Sunday continued to call for Muslim refugees from Syria to be barred from entering the United States but opening the borders to displaced Christians, arguing there is not a "meaningful risk" that Christians will commit terrorist acts. "There is no meaningful risk of Christians committing acts of terror. If there were a group of radical Christians pledging to murder anyone who had a different religious view than they, we would have a different national security situation," Cruz (R-Tex.) told reporters in a middle school gym here. "But it is precisely the Obama administration’s unwillingness to recognize that or ask those questions that makes them so unable to fight this enemy. Because they pretend as if there is no religious aspect to this," he said. | http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jeb-bush-syrian-refugees-christian-muslim_5648b98de4b045bf3def84df | |||
12 | 11/22/2015 | Mike Huckabee | “After today’s attack in Mali, the Obama-approved domestic anti-terror plan: Give up your guns and memorize a Koran verse,” Huckabee wrote. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/11/15/cruz-no-meaningful-risk-of-christians-committing-terrorism/ | |||
13 | 11/19/2015 | Marco Rubio | Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) seems to be going further than even Republican frontrunner Donald Trump in advocating the crackdown of U.S. Muslims. He doesn’t just want to consider shutting down mosques, as Trump says, but wants to shut down “any place where radicals are being inspired.”
“It’s not about closing down mosques. It’s about closing down any place — whether it’s a cafe, a diner, an internet site — any place where radicals are being inspired,” Rubio said on Fox News’ The Kelly File on Thursday night when asked if he agreed with Trump. “The bigger problem we have is our inability to find out where these places are, because we’ve crippled our intelligence programs, both through unauthorized disclosures by a traitor, in Edward Snowden, or by some of the things this president has put in place with the support even of some from my own party to diminish our intelligence capabilities.” “So whatever facility is being used — it’s not just a mosque — any facility that’s being used to radicalize and inspire attacks against the United States, should be a place that we look at,” he continued. | Fox News's "The Kelly File" | http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2015/11/20/3724509/rubio-trump-shut-down-mosques/ | ||
14 | 11/21/2015 | Donald Trump | GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS (HOST): You raised some eyebrows yesterday with comments you made at your latest rally. I want to show them, relating to 9/11.(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)DONALD TRUMP: Hey, I watched when the World Trade Center came tumbling down. And I watched in Jersey City, New Jersey, where thousands and thousands of people were cheering as that building was coming down. Thousands of people were cheering.(END VIDEO CLIP)STEPHANOPOULOS: You know, the police say that didn't happen and all those rumors have been on the Internet for some time. So did you misspeak yesterday?TRUMP: It did happen. I saw it.STEPHANOPOULOS: You saw that --TRUMP: It was on television. I saw it.STEPHANOPOULOS: -- with your own eyes?TRUMP: George, it did happen.STEPHANOPOULOS: Police say it didn't happen.TRUMP: There were people that were cheering on the other side of New Jersey, where you have large Arab populations. They were cheering as the World Trade Center came down. I know it might be not politically correct for you to talk about it, but there were people cheering as that building came down -- as those buildings came down. And that tells you something. It was well covered at the time, George. Now, I know they don't like to talk about it, but it was well covered at the time. There were people over in New Jersey that were watching it, a heavy Arab population, that were cheering as the buildings came down. Not good.STEPHANOPOULOS: As I said, the police have said it didn't happen. | Spoke at a Birmingham, Ala. rally, then confirmed allegations in interview with George Stephanopoulos | http://mediamatters.org/video/2015/11/22/abcs-george-stephanopoulos-fact-checks-donald-t/207020 | ||
15 | 11/23/2015 | Ben Carson | Rival Ben Carson got in on the conversation, telling reporters after a rally in Nevada on Monday that he saw it, too. “I think that was an inappropriate response," he said. "I don’t know if on the basis of that you could say all Muslims are bad people — I really think that would be a stretch.” Carson added that he saw “the film of it.” Asked what film he was referring to, Carson said "the newsreels." His campaign later apologized, saying Carson was thinking of footage from the Middle East, not New Jersey, according to ABC News. "He doesn't stand behind his comments to New Jersey and American Muslims," said campaign spokesman Doug Watts. "He was rather thinking of the protests going on in the Middle East and some of the demonstrations that were going on in celebration of the towers going down. | After a rally in Nevada | http://www.politico.com/story/2015/11/ben-carson-donald-trump-muslim-september-11-claim-216162 | ||
16 | 11/23/2015 | CNN Newsroom host Carol Costello | A Michigan mayor who was asked by a CNN anchor whether she is "afraid" to govern "a majority Muslim-American city" told Media Matters she was caught "completely by surprise" by the line of questioning.Karen Majewski, mayor of Hamtramck, Michigan, appeared November 23 on CNN Newsroom and was asked by anchor Carol Costello, "You govern a majority Muslim-American city. Are you afraid?" Majewski responded by explaining that she is "not afraid," and clarifying that she does not think the city is actually majority Muslim population-wise, though it did recently elect a majority-Muslim city council."I was very surprised," Majewski said of Costello's questioning during a Monday interview with Media Matters. "What I had expected and what people usually ask me about is the diversity of this city and the changing demographics and something about the way that reflects changing American demographics in general. So the focus on terrorism and fear caught me completely by surprise.""We just never think about it in those terms and we don't think of our Muslim neighbors in those terms," she added. "There may be tensions, but they're not tensions over something like terrorism."Majewski, who has served as mayor since 2006 and runs a vintage clothing shop in town, said CNN producers did not tell her beforehand about the terrorism-focused line of questioning. | CNN Newsroom with host Carol Costello | http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/11/23/michigan-mayor-responds-to-cnn-anchor-asking-he/207051 | ||
17 | Bigoted Passengers and Southwest Airlines | On Wednesday, November 18, 2015, a Philadelphia pizza shop owner and a friend were asked to step aside from the boarding gate becauase a passenger was afraid to fly with them when they spoke Arabic. They called the police and were eventually able to board the plane. The same day on another flight, 6 middle eastern men were removed from a flight. | http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/nov/21/southwest-airlines-muslim-middle-eastern-passengers | ||||
18 | 11/23/2015 | Donald Trump | In Columbus on Monday night, Trump said "the reporters are calling all day, all night ... they want to find out did Trump make a mistake," he said.Then, he read from a 14-year-old Washington Post article from one week after Sept. 11, 2001, as proof of his claim."Within hours of two jetliners plowing into the World Trade Center," Trump said, reading from the article, "law enforcement authorities detained and questioned a number of people who were allegedly seen celebrating the attacks."Now, there is no reference in the article to Trump's claim of seeing thousands and thousands of Muslims celebrating in Jersey City. But he highlights another line in the same story."And holding tailgate style — tailgate! You know what that means? Tailgate! That means football games, Ohio State. Thousands of people, in parking lots, on roofs. Tailgate is a lot of people."For this audience, Trump is on point — and comes across as believable. | Ohio Rally, 14,000 present | http://www.npr.org/2015/11/24/457203786/trump-tells-ohio-crowd-he-will-be-tough-on-isis | ||
19 | 12/2/2015 | Donald Trump | The billionaire businessman was asked by the hosts of Fox News' "Fox and Friends" how to fight ISIS but also minimize civilian causalities when terrorists often use human shields.
"The other thing with the terrorists is you have to take out their families, when you get these terrorists, you have to take out their families. They care about their lives, don't kid yourself. When they say they don't care about their lives, you have to take out their families," Trump said. Trump said he would "knock the hell out of" ISIS, and criticized the U.S. for "fighting a very politically correct war." | Fox News' "Fox and Friends" | http://edition.cnn.com/2015/12/02/politics/donald-trump-terrorists-families/index.html | ||
20 | 12/2/2016 | Valarie Kaur, a Sikh-American lawyer and interfaith activist, was boarding a plane to Los Angeles when a white man behind her in line raised concerns over her behavior. "I removed the luggage tag on my carry-on. It carried my breast pump, and I needed to make milk on the flight," she writes in a Facebook post. "The passenger behind me raised his voice... He asked why I removed the tag. I offered to explain, but he said he didn't want to know. Instead," she adds, "he told the other passengers in line." A gate agent eventually arrived and refused to let Kaur board the plane unless she showed her what was in her carry-on bag. "Only then was I allowed to take my seat. All the passengers in first class watched and I smiled weakly to show them I wasn't a terrorist," she writes. She describes her complicated reaction — simultaneously uncomfortable and offended — clearly in the post, which makes it so obvious that the entire incident was unwarranted. | The good news is, Kaur says, Delta quickly apologized via Twitter, and the other members of the flight crew were "truly professional and respectful. | On a Delta Airlines flight to Los Angeles | http://www.refinery29.com/2015/12/98881/valarie-kaur-breast-pump-airport-security | ||
21 | 12/4/2015 | Gov. George Pataki | Twitter, @GovernorPataki: We must declare war on radical Islam. @LorettaLynch I'm not edging toward violent speech, I'm declaring we kill them. Go ahead, arrest me. | ||||
22 | 12/3/2015 | Fox News Expert Dr. Keith Ablow | From the December 3 edition of Fox News' America's Newsroom: KIETH ABLOW: We don't have the facts, you're right. But as a journalist, as someone who tries to put together stories in my office as a psychiatrist and make sense of them, the one that make sense without all the facts would be something happened at the party that led him to say, "that's it, I've had it." Maybe he said, "why aren't we celebrating my holidays?" Maybe somebody said something that he considered off-color about his faith and he decided, look, now it's go time. Listen, if somebody named Syed leaves your party and people say, "why is Syed leaving," you know what? Call the cops. That's the point at which we're at in this country. I'm sorry to say it, but we're there, and to do otherwise would be called the psychological force of denial. | Fox News' "Fox and Friends" | http://mediamatters.org/video/2015/12/03/foxs-ablow-criticizes-obama-for-wanting-to-talk/207212 | ||
23 | 12/4/2015 | Liberty University president Jerry Falwell Jr. | In an address during the school’s convocation on Friday, university president Jerry Falwell Jr. began his rousing call-to-arms by referring to something he was holding in his back pocket, presumably a gun (but who knows? Maybe it was just a stick of gum): “If some of those people in that community center had what I have in my back pocket right now … Is it illegal to pull it out? I don’t know ... I’ve always thought that if more good people had concealed-carry permits, then we could end those Muslims before they walked in ... and killed them.” Then, the leader of the Christian university, which often serves as a stop for presidential campaigns, urged his students, many of whom are less than 20 years old, to obtain weapons to shoot other people with. “I just wanted to take this opportunity to encourage all of you to get your permit. We offer a free course. Let’s teach them a lesson if they ever show up here.” Falwell told The Washington Post that he was carrying a .25 pistol on Friday, and has had a concealed carry permit for about a year. He also clarified that by referring to “those Muslims,” he, of course, meant only Islamic terrorists. A spokesman for Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) called Falwell’s comments “rash and repugnant.” | school’s convocation | http://gawker.com/liberty-university-president-tells-students-to-arm-them-1746505840 | ||
24 | 12/7/2015 | Nevada Assemblywoman Michele Fiore (R) | "What--are you kidding me? I’m about to fly to Paris and shoot ‘em in the head myself!" Fiore said she told Muth when asked why she didn't join the statement on Syrian refugees. | http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/michele-fiore-syrian-refugees-shoot-em | |||
25 | 12/7/2015 | Donald Trump | Trump's call to bar Muslim immigration into the U.S. is just the latest in a series of anti-Islamic statements. He previously suggested shuttering certain mosques in the U.S. and claimed he saw footage of American Muslims cheering after the 9/11 attacks -- footage that no television network has been able to dig up. | http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-muslim-immigration-us_5665f75de4b072e9d1c7252b | |||
26 | 12/10/2015 | Rep. Loretta Sanchez | We know that there is a small group, and we don’t know how big that is — it can be anywhere between 5 and 20%, from the people that I speak to — that Islam is their religion and who have a desire for a caliphate and to institute that in any way possible,” stated Sanchez. “They are not content enough to have their way of looking at the world, they want to put their way on everybody in the world. And again, I don’t know how big that is, and depending on who you talk to, but they are certainly — they are willing to go to extremes. They are willing to use and they do use terrorism.” | http://www.dailywire.com/news/1775/congressional-democrat-1-5-muslims-willing-start-michael-qazvini | |||
27 | 12/14/2015 | Unnamed robber | A store clerk who was shot in the face told co-workers the robber called him a "terrorist" before the shooting, presumably because he is of Indian descent. The victim, 34, whose name was not released, told Kaur the robber called him a "terrorist" and said he used to kill people like him in Iraq. he robber put the barrel of his gun into the clerk’s mouth, but the clerk turned his head before he was shot, so that the bullet exited his cheek. Grand Rapids police confirmed the statements. The clerk's name was not disclosed, but the shop belongs to Inderjit Singh. | Grand Rapids, Michigan | http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2015/12/robber_called_store_clerk_terr.html | ||
28 | 12/29/2016 | Two young men | Police reported that two white men in their early 20s pulled over to Amrik Singh, began to curse at him, backed into him when he tried to move away, and then attacked him and broke his collarbone. Singh was wearing a turban and had a beard, traditional fashions for Sikh men. | From Slate: Harsimran Kaur, legal director of the Sikh Coalition, told the Times that her group received three times as many requests for help from victims of discrimination and attacks this December than in previous years. "It's definitely a hostile time, a scary time," she said. "The Paris and San Bernardino attacks, as well as all of this rhetoric by politicians about Islamophobia and xenophobia—all these incidents have emboldened people who feel biases to act out." | Fresno, California | http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2015/12/29/attackers_are_confusing_sikhs_for_muslims_in_hate_crimes.html | |
29 | 1/11/2016 | Donald Trump | A Muslim woman wearing a hijab was escorted out of Donald Trump's campaign event on Friday by police after she stood up in silent protest during Trump's speech. Rose Hamid, a 56-year-old flight attendant sitting in the stands directly behind Trump, stood up Friday during Trump's speech when the Republican front-runner suggested that Syrian refugees fleeing war in Syria were affiliated with ISIS. Despite her silence, Trump supporters around her began chanting Trump's name -- as instructed by Trump campaign staff before the event in case of protests -- and pointed at Hamid and Marty Rosenbluth, the man alongside her who stood up as well. As they were escorted out, Trump supporters roared -- booing the pair and shouting at them to "get out." One person shouted, "You have a bomb, you have a bomb," according to Hamid. | Soon after the incident, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a leading Muslim civil liberties group, called on Trump to apologize."The image of a Muslim woman being abused and ejected from a political rally sends a chilling message to American Muslims and to all those who value our nation's traditions of religious diversity and civic participation," CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad said in a statement. "Donald Trump should issue a public apology to the Muslim woman kicked out of his rally and make a clear statement that American Muslims are welcome as fellow citizens and as participants in the nation's political process." | After a rally in South Carolina | http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/08/politics/donald-trump-muslim-woman-protesting-ejected/ | |
30 | 1/25/2016 | Donald Trump | A Sikh man (wearing a red turban) was ousted from a Donald Trump rally at the Muscatine High School in Iowa. The man was escorted out of the rally after interrupting Trump's speech for displaying a banner that said "Stop Hate". After the protestor was escorted out of the rally, Trump responded with the following quote: “He wasn’t wearing one of those hats was he?...referring to the red "Make America Great hats" that Tump supporters were wearing...And he never will, and that’s OK because we got to do something folks because it’s not working.” | After a rally in Iowa | https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/01/25/donald-trump-makes-hat-joke-as-turban-clad-protester-ejected-from-iowa-rally/ | ||
31 | 2/6/2016 | Marco Rubio | At the Feb. 1 GOP debate, Rubio criticized Obama for his recent visit to a Baltimore mosque. Quote: "Look at today – he gave a speech at a mosque," Rubio said at a New Hampshire town hall. "Oh, you know, basically implying that America is discriminating against Muslims. Of course there’s going to be discrimination in America of every kind. But the bigger issue is radical Islam." Quote: "My problem with what he did is, he continues to put out this fiction that there's widespread discrimination against Muslim Americans." | GOP debate (Feb 6, 2016) | http://www.vox.com/2016/2/4/10918372/marco-rubio-muslims-media | ||
32 | 2/8/2016 | Aeromexico security personnel | After passing through two comprehensive screenings before his Aeromexico flight from Mexico City to New York City, Waris Ahluwalia, a Sikh-American actor and designer, was asked to take off his turban in order to board the flight. This is not the artist’s first brush with intolerance. In 2013, a Gap subway advertisement using his photo was defaced with anti-Muslim graffiti in New York, according to the Huffington Post. The caption on the ad was changed from “Make Love” to “Make Bombs,” Huffington Post reported. The defacer also wrote “Please stop driving TAXIS” on the image. | The Sikh Coalition tweeted a photo of Ahluwalia,maintaining that he would not return back to New York until the following demands were met: the airline should make apublic apology and airport security personnel get Sikh awareness training and better training on how to screen passengers with religious headwear. | Mexico City | https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2016/02/08/why-a-sikh-actor-barred-from-boarding-a-plane-because-of-his-turban-is-refusing-to-fly-home/?tid=sm_fb | |
33 | 2/19/2016 | Michael Troxwell, construction worker. | Michael Troxell, 27, is being held without bail on suspicion of using homicidal violence against Abdul Jamil Kamawal, 68. Police responded to a 911 call of a man being attacked with a shovel, and when they arrived found Kamawal covered in straw. He died soon after from his injuries. Kamawal was a retired 22-year survey technician for Washington County and worked to help refugees settle in the Portland area. He founded two non-profit organizations to help people from his native Afghanistan. Troxwell was doing construction work on Kamawal's property. | The Council on American-Islamic Relations has asked the Washington County Sheriff's Office to investigate whether the death of 68-year-old Abdul Jamil Kamawal was motivated by anti-Islamic sentiments. Kamawal was found dead outside his family's suburban Portland home Feb. 10 without his shoes on. Because Muslims remove their shoes during prayer, Rabah Khamis, a volunteer at Kamawal's mosque, says some believe Kamawal was praying when he was killed in Tigard. | Portland, Oregon | http://portlandtribune.com/pt/9-news/293154-170455-the-death-of-abdul-jamil-kamawal-what-we-know-so-far and http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/oregon-man-killed-muslim-advocacy-group-fears-hate-37063135 | |
34 | 2/24/2016 | A personalized license plate featuring seven characters — FMUSLMS - was issued in Minnesota. A photo of the license plate on the back of a pickup, reportedly taken in St. Cloud, was posted on Facebook over the weekend by #UniteCloud, a grassroots organization that works to resolve cultural tension in the St. Cloud area. The license plates were issued in June 2015, according to DPS. The application was processed at a deputy registrar’s office in Foley, and reviewed by Driver and Vehicle Services. According to CBS affiliate WCCO, the public safety agency released the original application for the controversial plate on Tuesday, and it indicated that “FMUSLMS” was a band name. No band by that name showed up in a series of Google searches that included various spellings. | Officials are working to take possession of the plate, according to an agency statement that called the plate “offensive and distasteful.”“The Department of Public Safety apologizes for this error,” said the statement, sent to The Washington Post on Tuesday. “The Driver and Vehicle Services Division is reviewing its process for approving personalized license plates today and will immediately provide additional review and oversight of applications.”In a separate statement, Gov. Mark Dayton (D) said he was “appalled that this license plate was issued by the State of Minnesota. It is offensive, and the person who requested it should be ashamed. That prejudice has no place in Minnesota.” also Jaylani Hussein, executive director of the Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said in a written statement that his organization plans to send a letter to the state asking for tighter oversight on personalized license plates.“We are extremely concerned as a community that this type of expression of anti-Muslim (sentiment) is not only existing, but we also missed looking at it,” Hussein stated. “In a personalized license plate, there should be much more careful view because a lot of people who want to create certain types of messages.” | St. Cloud, Minnesota | http://www.religionnews.com/2016/02/23/state-to-revoke-anti-muslim-license-plate/ | ||
35 | 2/28/2016 | Perpetrators unclear at the moment | Three young men, — 23-year-old Mohamedtaha Omar, 20-year-old Adam Mekki and 17-year-old Muhannad Tairab — were discovered with multiple gunshot wounds inside a home that police labeled a “party house,” according to ABC affiliate WPTA-TV. Investigators said they believe the killings occurred within a one-hour window or so, between the time a group of people left the home and later returned to find the victims.They were members of a diaspora community from Africa’s eastern Sahel region, according to Al Jazeera. There were conflicting reports on Sunday as to the religion of the three Americans. Local outlets described the victims as Muslim, but Darfur People’s Association founder and vice president Motasim Adam, who visited with the families Saturday, told the Associated Press that Omar and Tairab were Muslim and Mekki was Christian. | While authorites have released statements claiming this crime was not motivated by race or religion, local groups think otherwise. Ibrahim Hooper, a spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the Washington-based Muslim advocacy group, said it has reached out to investigators in the case, to local Muslim community leaders and to the families of the victims. | Fort Wayne, Indiana | https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2016/02/28/the-mysterious-execution-style-murders-of-three-young-muslims-in-indiana/ | |
36 | 3/1/2016 | Donald Trump | At a rally in southwest Virginia on Monday, Republican front-runner Donald Trump again told an apocryphal story about a general killing Muslim terrorists with bullets dipped in pigs’ blood. In Tennessee on Saturday, he promised to bar Syrians from the country “until we find out what the hell is going on.” In Oklahoma City the night before, he launched into a passionate defense of waterboarding after a protester flashed a sign reading “Islamophobia is not the answer.” | Various rallies accross the US (South Carolina,Oklahoma, Virginia) | https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-anti-muslim-rhetoric-plays-well-with-fans-but-horrifies-others/2016/02/29/477f73dc-de37-11e5-846c-10191d1fc4ec_story.html?hpid=hp_rhp-top-table-main_gopcampaign-957pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&tid=a_inl | ||
37 | 3/2/2016 | US Military | U.S. Army Captain Simratpal Singh was originally given temporary accommodations for the beard and turban he wears as part of his Sikh religion. But now, the first Sikh in years to be accommodated by the U.S. military is suing them for discrimination on the basis of religion. As the end date of his accommodation draws closer, officials told Singh he must undergo a series of tests: a helmet test and three days of "intensive safety mask testing," according to theBecket Fund, his legal representation along with the Sikh Coalition. As of Tuesday afternoon, the officials have postponed the tests due to court pressure, but will move forward in defending them. The tests are meant to determine whether Singh's beard and turban are a distraction in combat situations. However, members of the Special Forces and other men with beard exemptions have not had to take these tests. Singh's lawyers argue that these tests violate the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which they said "forbids the military from suppressing a soldier's religious exercise unless it has a compelling interest that cannot be met in a less restrictive way." | Update (3/3/2016): Capt. Simratpal Singh, a decorated Sikh-American soldier seeking permission to serve in the U.S. military with his articles of faith intact, received a win Thursday night as U.S. District Judge Beryl A. Howell issued a temporary restraining order preventing the Department of Defense from imposing "any non-standard or discriminatory testing for his helmet and gas mask" until Singh's federal lawsuit has been resolved. "The Court issued an extremely well-reasoned opinion granting Capt. Singh's request for an order to stop the Army from subjecting him to standards that are different than those that apply to everyone else," Eric Baxter, senior counsel at the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, told NBC News. "This means that the intensive helmet and gas mask tests that were scheduled to start tomorrow are now forbidden. The judge made clear that if the Army wants to study the impact of long hair on helmet safety or the impact of facial hair on mask safety, it must do so in a scientifically valid study, not a study of one soldier whose religious liberty is at risk as a result." | http://mic.com/articles/136819/sikh-captain-simratpal-singh-is-suing-the-army-for-the-right-to-wear-his-turban-and-beard#.sHfadrVkt | ||
38 | 3/5/2016 | Jeffrey C Pittman, 44 | In an apparent hate crime, a gurudwara in the US state of Washington was vandalised by a “naked” man who desecrated sacred items of the Sikh worship place, drawing condemnation from the community leaders. The incident occurred on Wednesday when Jeffrey C Pittman, 44, broke into the gurudwara in Spokane. Deputies say that Mr Pittman was arrested early Thursday morning wearing nothing but a sheet taken from the temple’s furnishings. He was also holding the gurudwara’s ceremonial sword. Mr Pittman was booked in Spokane County Jail connection with charges of burglary, malicious mischief and malicious harassment, which is the state’s statute for a hate crime, The Seattle Globalist reported. | The perpetrator was arrested, but it is unclear at the moment whether he will be charged with a hate crime. | Spokane, WA | http://www.theindianpanorama.news/united-states-america/gurudwara-vandalized-washington-60997/ AND http://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/sikh-american-army-officer-seeking-serve-turban-beard-gets-temporary-n531936 | |
39 | 3/23/2016 | Ted Cruz | Senator Ted Cruz called for la Senator Ted Cruz called for law enforcement agents to "patrol and secure Muslim neighborhoods" in the United States in response to Tuesday's terror attacks in Brussels, which killed at least 34 people. Cruz, who is currently running for the Republican presidential nomination, released a statement on Tuesday saying that the country needs "to empower law enforcement to patrol and secure Muslim neighborhoods before they become radicalized."w enforcement agents to "patrol and secure Muslim neighborhoods" in the United States in response to Tuesday's terror attacks in Brussels, which killed at least 34 people. | The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the largest Muslim civil rights organization in the country, slammed Cruz's comments as encouraging a "fascist-like treatment of American Muslims" and called on him to issue a public apology. "[Cruz's statement] is not only unconstitutional, it is unbefitting anyone seeking our nation's highest office and indicates that he lacks the temperament necessary for any president," CAIR said in a statement. | https://news.vice.com/article/ted-cruz-police-patrol-secure-muslim-neighborhoods-brussels-attacks | ||
40 | 3/30/2016 | Donald Trump | Lt. Brian James Murphy, who was the first police officer to respond to the 2012 Sikh temple massacre in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, asked Donald Trump about a question pertaining to civil liberties of minorities, as well as the public's misconception that Sikhs, who where turbans, are members of the Islamic faith. In response, Donald trump launched a speech about the need to guard Americans against radical Islam - while neglecting to answer Murphy's question on the protection of civil rights of minorities, particularly Muslim and Sikh minorities. The transcript of the response is in the link to the right: http://mic.com/articles/139318/donald-trump-was-asked-about-sikh-americans-and-somehow-made-it-about-islamic-terrorism#.ORd5jfUZZ | http://mic.com/articles/139318/donald-trump-was-asked-about-sikh-americans-and-somehow-made-it-about-islamic-terrorism#.ORd5jfUZZ | |||
41 | 4/1/2016 | United Airlines flight crew | A United Airlines pilot asked a Muslim family of five to leave a plane before it took off, citing "safety" issues. Eaman-Amy Saad Shebley, her husband and three young children were about to take off on a flight bound for Washington at a Chicago airport when the pilot asked them to get off the aircraft. The family had enquired earlier whether the air stewardess could provide five-point harness safety seats for their children. | The Council on American-Islamic Relations sent a letter to United Airlines on the family’s behalf demanding disciplinary action against the staff involved. “We are tired of Muslim-looking passengers being removed from flights for the flimsiest reasons, under a cryptic claim of ‘security’,” said CAIR-Chicago Executive Director Ahmed Rehab said in a statement. “Security means securing passengers, not harassing and humiliating them and booting them off their flight for, of all things, actually asking for security.” Individual response: Ms Shebley wrote on Facebook: “Shame on you #UnitedAirlines for profiling my family and me for no reason other than how we look and kicking us off the plane for "safety flight issues" on our flight to DC for the kids spring break. My three kids are too young to have experienced this.” United Airlines Response: In a statement, United Airlines said the family was rebooked “on a later flight because of concerns about their child’s safety seat, which did not comply with federal safety regulations” and said the airline has “zero tolerance for discrimination” | Flight from Chicago, Illinois to Washington, DC | http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/muslim-family-kicked-off-united-airlines-flight-for-how-they-looked-a6964471.html | |
42 | 4/72016 | Students at the University of Michigan | A number of pro-Trump, anti-Islam sentiments were written on the University of Michigan's campus (initially on April 1, the posts that were written in chalk on the diagonal contained the slogans #Trump2016 and #StopIslam. Later, on April 7th, other slogans such as "No Turkey, Qatar, Saudi, Pakistan," "No more Muslim violence," "F**k SJWs" and "Trump 16" were scrawled on the diagonal). | The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee of Michigan on Thursday questioned the efforts of the university in addressing the safety concerns of Muslim students. The letter read: "Contrary to the University of Michigan's stated mission of inclusion and intolerance, many feel that had the ugly messages been directed at any other group, a much more direct and strong message of disapproval by the University of Michigan would have occurred," the letter said | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | http://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2016/04/more_anti-islam_messages_found.html |
1 | When | Where | Perpetrators | Targets | What was said/done | Response | Article Link | Additional Notes/Quotes | |
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2 | 11/13/2015 | San Diego, CA | Pregnant Muslim Woman | A muslim women was walking with child in a stroller, the perpertrator pushed the stroller toward her. The suspect was someone the women knew and has harassed here before. | No suspect; still under investigation. | http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/Pregnant-Muslim-Woman-Assaulted-in-Mission-Valley--351641931.html | |||
3 | 11/13/2015 | St. Petersburg, Florida | Martin Schnitzler, 43, of Seminole, Fla. | Threatening phone messages were left at the Islamic Society of Pinellas County in Pinellas Park, Fla., and the Islamic Society of St. Petersburg.The suspect left a voicemail at the Pinnellas Park mosque saying he was going to the center to “firebomb you and shoot whoever is there.”In one message, the caller said, "I'm taking the war to you and I'm going to have a big following."
Hatem Jaber, a volunteer and teacher at the St. Petersburg mosque, says the caller called Friday's attacks in Paris "the last straw."
| The suspect left a voicemail at the Pinnellas Park mosque saying he was going to the center to “firebomb you and shoot whoever is there.” Suspect was arrested Tuesday and charged with using a telephone to make violent threats. If convicted, he faces up to 10 years in federal prison.The FBI's Tampa field office spokesman, Dave Couvertier, said the calls came from the same person, who was identified and interviewed over the weekend. Couvertier said investigators found no actual plans to carry out acts of violence. | http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/11/17/mosques-vandalized-terrorized-paris-terror-attacks/75915076/ | Muslim community doesn't understand why the FBI didn't perceive this to be a greater threat. | ||
4 | 11/13/2015 | On a street in the Mission Valley district of San Diego, California | Unidentified man | An unidentified pregnant woman, dressed in a traditional Muslim headscarf and pushing her child in a stroller. | A man followed her and made racially charged threats. He then allegedly stopped her and pushed her stroller back into her | San Diego Police confirmed Wednesday they are investigating an assault on a pregnant Muslim woman the same night as the terror attacks in Paris. The victim said the suspect had threatened her before, and contacted police. It's unclear whether he'll face charges. | http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/Pregnant-Muslim-Woman-Assaulted-in-Mission-Valley--351641931.html | ||
5 | 11/13/2015 | University of Connecticut | Unidentified | Mahmoud Hashem, a civil engineering student from Egypt | When Hashem returned to his dorm room Saturday morning, he discovered that someone had written the words "killed Paris" underneath the name tag on his door. When asked by WTNH if he felt safe on campus after the incident, Hashem responded: "Maybe, I don't know." | Univ. police are investigating.University spokeswoman Stephanie Reitz released the following statement:
“This hurtful act is clearly unacceptable, and contradicts UConn’s values as it works to provide a welcoming environment for all students on all of our campuses. UConn Police and other UConn officials have begun investigations into this incident, and at the same time are working to provide support to the student and impacted community.”
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3CWS513olg | Hashem, who is originally from Egypt, was shaken by the incident. He says he has lived in the U.S. for five years and never had any issues before. “I feel like upset because I don’t do anything. It’s not my fault,” he said. “This not my fault. These are terrorists not me. So don’t treat me like terrorists. I don’t deserve that.” Dan Fay, Mahmoud’s roommate, took a picture and contacted authorities when he saw the vandalism. | |
6 | 11/14/2015 | Omaha, Nebraska | Unidentified | Attendees of the Islamic Center of Omaha | On Monday morning, leaders of the mosque reported that their building had been targeted by vandals over the weekend for the third time in fourth months. This time, someone had spray-painted an Eiffel Tower on an exterior wall. Mohammed Rasheed, chairman of the Islamic Center, later said both the FBI and local law enforcement had mounted an investigation into the incident. | http://www.wowt.com/home/headlines/Vandals-Target-the-Islamic-Center-of-Omaha-After-Paris-Attacks-350899561.html | Surveillance video captured the suspect involved in the two prior vandalism incidents at the Islamic Center, but there have not been any arrests. Rasheed said the frequency of the vandalism is making members apprehensive about coming to worship. People kind of ask themselves, is it safe to go to that place or not? Which is an unfortunate thing, said Rasheed. | ||
7 | 11/14/2015 | Baitul Aman mosque in Meridien, Connecticut (Ahmaddiya Center) | Unknown | Someone fired multiple rounds into the mosque after the Paris attacks, and bullets ripped through three interior walls and areas where members gather for prayer.Mosque was empty at the time. | http://www.myrecordjournal.com/meriden/meridennews/8027155-129/mosque-opens-its-doors-wider.html | ||||
8 | 11/14/2015 | Outside suspect's home in Norman, OK | Suspect Mark James Riedel, 47. | Riedel was shot by police officers after he allegedly called 911 to tell dispatchers that he was going to "start shooting anything that looks like a Muslim after what they did to France." He called twice. In the first call, he told a dispatcher, "You guys seem to be ignoring me. I'm just going to start shooting at cars." In the second call (embedded above), the dispatcher tried in vain to keep him on the phone.
When police arrived at his house, he allegedly walked out carrying a pistol, and was shot when he ignored repeated demands to put the weapon down, according to a Norman Police | http://www.news9.com/story/30532340/officers-shoot-norman-man-who-called-911-threatening-to-shoot-muslims | ||||
9 | 11/14/2015 | Former Navy woman | Twitter name @irish_beebs, she tweeted on Saturday, November 14 at 3:06 p.m: "Dearborn, MI, has the highest Muslim population in the United Sates. Let's fuck that place up and send a message to ISIS. We're coming." In a follow-up tweet to her Dearborn threat, she added fuel to the already brewing fire by adding, "I want to re-enlist now. #PrayersForParis." In one tweet, she took a photo of a vehicle with Arabic writing on it and asked authorities to investigate it. In another tweet, she said, "People who aren't American need to learn not to stand 3 inches away from me, because I will punch you. That's how we do it in America." | A report was filed at the Dearborn Police Department on Saturday evening after the tweet began spreading over social media. Dearborn Police Chief Ron Haddad said the department was investigating the incident and will determine in coming days whether charges will be filed. Police Chief Ron Haddad said the department is forwarding Sarah Beebe's case to the U.S Attorney and Wayne County Prosecutor's Office. "We're going to conduct a thorough investigation," said Haddad. | http://www.arabamericannews.com/news/news/id_11382/Dearborn-police-locate-woman-who-made-domestic-terrorism-threats.html | In an interview with WXYZ Channel 7, Beebe, a Navy veteran who lives in Fort Gratiot, which is just north of Port Huron, said her tweet was ignorant and will haunt her for the rest of her life. | |||
10 | 11/15/2015 | Meriden, CT | An Islamic Center | An Islamic center is foundriddled with bullets some penetrating through the entire building. | Suspect indentified; still under investigation | http://www.courant.com/breaking-news/hc-meriden-mosque-shot-1118-20151117-story.html | |||
11 | 11/15/2015 | Charlotte, NC | Unidentified suspect | Uber driver Samson Woldemichael, a Christian Ethipian immigrant and father | Driver picked up his assailant outside an Irish pub. Near the end of the ride, the passenger became belligerent. "He told me he was going to shoot me right in face or strangle me," Woldemichael told The Huffington Post. "He used a lot of bad words ... really dirty words, and said I was a Muslim." He then repeatedly punched Woldemichael in the face. Woldemichael says he drove halfway around the block before the passenger "hit me so hard on the forehead with his bare hand." "He then choked me with one arm," Woldemichael added, "and started hitting me with the other one. I couldn't move. The only thing I could do was step on the brake, and then I was honking on the horn continuously." Woldemichael told WBTV the man then got out of the car, ran a short distance away and then turned around and launched into another tirade, this time keeping his hand behind his back as though he were armed. That's when Woldemichael says he drove away and called 911. The cops, he said, arrived within a few minutes, but by that point his assailant had disappeared into the night. Woldemichael says he suffered two bruises to his head. | Police are investigating. | http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/uber-driver-muslim_564b8d85e4b08cda348b337f | "Yeah, he should be arrested," Woldemichael told HuffPost. "I don't care about myself -- I don't want revenge -- but he should be educated. He's a dangerous guy and there's no reason he's not gong to do it again to another guy. He's full of hate to a certain group." Full voicemail: “Yes, I’m a red-blooded American watching the news in France. I’m over this shit. I’m calling all mosques in Pinellas County. I’m bringing it to you baby, I’m tired of this shit. Guard your children. I don’t care if you are extremists or not. I’m tired of your shit. Get out of my fucking country. I am going to bomb your fucking location. My name is Martin Schnitzler and you can fucking come and find me and report me whenever you want. I am going to fucking take you guys down. I’m sick of you sand n*****s fucking the world up. Fuck you. Fuck Allah. We’ll see how you like it when someone firebombs your fucking place, starts shooting people at will in our country. I’m taking the war to you and I’m going to have a big following. We’re over this shit. You’re not the only mosque in this call. Everyone is getting this call tonight. Fuck you.” | |
12 | 11/15/2015 | Aboard American Airlines Flight 2124, about to depart from Washington's Ronald Reagan National Airport on its way to Boston | The flight's crew thought the two passengers were acting suspiciously, according to WCVB | Two "suspicious" people, whom conservative commentator Laura Ingraham excitedly described as "two Middle Eastern passengers!" | The pair were removed from the flight, questioned by police, and released. American Airlines said they would be accommodated on another flight. A K-9 unit that swept the flight detected no threats. | The two passengers were questioned by police and released.American Airlines said they will be accommodated on a later flight. | http://www.wcvb.com/news/flight-heading-to-boston-evacuated-due-to-suspicious-activity/36466602 | ||
13 | 11/15/2015 | AMC movie theater at 84th and Broadway in Manhattan | Unidentified suspect | Christian Alexander Pean, a medical student , US citizen, of Mexican and Haitian descent | Pean was in the lobby of the theater waiting for a friend to go see "The Martian." According to Pean, he was just texting on his phone when: ...this guy came up to me. He was maybe two feet away from my face and asked assertively, "What are you doing here?" I replied, "I'm going to watch the Martian. I'm waiting for my friend. She has the tickets." I thought maybe he worked there, or was just striking up a conversation. Then he goes on and gets louder, "Is that really what you're doing? Stop standing there and texting. You know what happened in Paris. Guys like you texting and standing...that's suspicious." And then: "
He takes a step closer, "Take off your jacket. Open it up and show me what's inside." And he starts to try and REACH in my jacket. I back up and tell him "Do not do that. Get away from me." He kept yelling at me and motioning for me to take my jacket off."
That's when Pean started to film the video above.
| http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/all-the-islamophobic-acts-in-us-canada-since-paris_564cee09e4b031745cef9dda | |||
14 | 11/15/2015 | The Elmasri family home in Orlando, Florida. | Unidentified | When Amir Elmasri, his wife, Nehil, and their children all returned to their home Sunday morning, they found a bullet hole in the garage. The bullet had traveled into the couple's bedroom and lodged itself inside a dresser. When police arrived, they discovered evidence of three shots fired at the house. Although there's no evidence yet of a hate crime, Elmasri told police he suspects his family was targeted because they're Muslim. "We are as peaceful as any American family,” he told WFTV. “I mean, why would you shoot at my garage?” | When Orange County Sheriff’s deputies arrived at the scene, they found evidence that three shots were fired at the home.Police did not have any suspects in the case and did not find any evidence that the shooting was a hate crime based on Elmasri’s religion. Regardless, the man “expressed concern and believes this incident may be retaliation toward him for the recent terrorist attacks in France because he is Muslim,” the report said.Elmasri said the shooter had to be someone who knows he and his family are Muslims. The neighborhood has only one entrance, and it requires a code to enter the gate.
| http://www.wftv.com/news/news/local/shooting-targets-orlando-muslim-man-wake-paris-att/npN4N/ | http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/breaking-news/os-muslim-home-shot-france-attacks-20151116-story.html | ||
15 | 11/15/2015 | Rizwan Mosque in Southwest Portland, Ore. (Ahmaddiya Center) | Ahmaddiya Muslim Community arriving for afternoon prayer were greeted by protesters outside the Portland Rizwan Mosque in Southwest Portland. A handful of protesters, bearing loudspeakers and wearing sandwich boards emblazoned with phrases like “Jesus Saves From Hell,” shouted obscenities as Muslims made their way into the building. | http://www.katu.com/news/local/Protesters-target-Portland-mosque-following-attacks-in-Paris--350386641.html | http://www.ibtimes.com/mosque-protests-turn-vicious-after-paris-attacks-muslims-brace-backlash-they-always-2185466 | ||||
16 | 11/15/2015 | Green Bay Packers game, Lambeau Field, WI | During the pregame moment of silence, one fan at Lambeau Field thought it would be a good time to shout an extremely inappropriate comment directed at Muslims: "Death to Muslims." | After the game, Rodgers called out the fan during his press conference with the media.“I must admit, I was very disappointed with whoever the fan was who made a comment that I thought was really inappropriate during the moment of silence. It’s that kind of prejudicial ideology that puts us in the position that we’re in today.” | http://uproxx.com/sports/2015/11/aaron-rodgers-calls-out-fan-who-yelled-during-moment-of-silence-muslims/ | ||||
17 | 11/16/2015 | The Islamic Center of Pflugerville, about 15 miles outside Austin, Texas | Unknown | A member arrived at the center for morning prayer and found torn pages of the Quran outside, smeared with feces. Police are investigating the incident as a hate crime. | Police are investigating the incident as a hate crime. | http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/11/17/mosques-vandalized-terrorized-paris-terror-attacks/75915076/ | “"A few individuals who did what they did, they don't represent 1.6 billion Muslims. They don't represent me for sure and the Austin Muslim community." —Faisal Naeem, board member at The Islamic Center of Pflugerville. On Monday night in Pflugerville, community members arrived at the Islamic Center of Pflugerville to offer support and donations. One of those bringing monetary support was 7-year-old Jack Swanson. He brought $20 from his piggy bank. "This gives me hope because this means that it's not you know one versus the other because two years, 10 years, 50 years — I'll be gone. But my kids and Jack, both Americans, born here are going to grow up together," Naeem said. | ||
18 | 11/16/2015 | Area near University of Cincinnati | Driver in a car | Muslim pre-med student | Haneen Jasim said she was wearing her hijab as she walked home Saturday night from studying at a Starbucks near the University of Cincinnati. The 22-year-old student said the driver started honking his horn, cursing and calling her a terrorist as she crossed the street — and then he drove straight toward her and didn’t stop.Three people walking in front of Jasim grabbed her and pulled her onto the sidewalk just before the car struck her.“Within an instant he tried to run over me,” Jasim said. “If it wasn’t for the three people in front of me, grabbing me onto the sidewalk, I would have been dead right there.” | Jasim said the man drove away before she could read his license plate number, and she wasn’t sure police could help her without that information.So she instead called the Council on American Islamic Relations, whose officials said this was the third such incident of anti-Muslim harassment reported in Cincinnati since the Nov. 13 terrorist attacks in Paris. | http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/muslim-student-nearly-run-over-by-man-who-called-her-a-terrorist-im-terrified-to-cross-the-street-now/ | “It’s very disappointing, as well that people in our community would stoop so low,” said Karen Dabdoub, executive director of the local CAIR chapter. “Obviously, the people here had nothing to do with the Paris attack or any terrorist attacks or terrorist ideology for that matter.”Dabdoub said a Muslim woman was assaulted in a Kroger parking lot in the city’s Hyde Park neighborhood, and another Musli woman was insulted and spat on by someone in a passing car. | |
19 | 11/17/2015 | Townhall meeting in Spotsylvania County, VA | Two white men attending the meeting | Samer Shalaby was speaking on behalf of the Islamic Center of Fredericksburg about a proposal to move the mosque to a larger location | One characterized Islam as "an evil cult," while another said that “every Muslim is a terrorist” and told Shalaby "Shut your mouth, I don't want to hear your mouth." He added, "Everything that I will do can do to keep you from doing what you are doing will happen." | A sheriff's deputy eventually broke up the meeting due to the disruptions. | http://www.fredericksburg.com/news/local/spotsylvania/islamic-center-of-fredericksburg-will-continue-pursuing-plans-for-a/article_ce9ba8b6-60cd-5546-b782-5056d4dbe2ae.html | Includes videos of the meeting | |
20 | 11/17/2015 | Aboard Spirit Airlines Flight 969 as it was about to leave Baltimore-Washington International Airport on its way to Chicago | Four passengers were removed from a 6 a.m. flight according to ABC7 journalist Suzanne Kennedy who was on the flight (three mailes, one female). She said they had several backpacks and appeared to be of Middle Eastern descent, in their early 30s. Witness notified flight crew after observing one of the men wathcing a "media report" on his cell phone. The four men were pulled off the flight, everyone was eventaully deplaned. Following a security checkby TSA, flight was cleared for takeoff around 8:45 a.m. without the four men. At 9:45 a.m., one adult male was released with no charges, while others were held for more interviews.All four people were released with no charges filed. According to another passenger, one of the detained men had been watching a news report on his mobile phone. Another report indicated that the removed woman had run to the back of the plane with her child as the plane was preparing for takeoff. | http://wjla.com/news/local/gallery/several-people-removed-from-spirit-airlines-flight-at-bwi | Woman who alerted the agent said: “The scariest moment in my life,” passenger Jenna Farella told CBS Baltimore of some undescribed "suspicious activity" by a handful of fellow passengers. “I’ve been through some scary times. This was the worst. I have never prayed so hard in my life.” | ||||
21 | 11/17/2015 | New Territory, TX | A 26 year old Black man, Clayton Alexander Cansler, living a mile from a mosque. | He sent a direct message over Facebook in which he said he would "shoot up a mosque," accompanied by an image of an assault weapon and ammunition | Authorities say he confessed to the messages and was arrested on charges of making a terroristic threat, a felony. Cansler was found and arrested at the Sugar Land Airport, where he works. The Ft. Bend County Sheriff's Dept. said that Cansler said he sent the messages because he was "distressed due to having a close friend die in the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks in addition to recent Terroristic attacks in Paris, France." | http://abc13.com/news/ft-bend-co-man-accused-of-threatening-to-shoot-up-mosque/1088963/ | |||
22 | 11/18/2015 | Chicago Midway Airport | Southwest Airlines boarding agent | Two American Citizens living in Philadelphia, Maher Khalil and Anas Ayyad (Palestinian-Americans) | Agent told the pair they wouldn't be allowed to board after another passenger indicated that he/she was afraid to fly with them after hearing them speaking Arabic to one another | Khalil called 911; flight was delayed and the two men were questioned; both were eventually allowed to board | http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/Philly-Pizza-Shop-Owner-Profiled-Southwest-Airlines-351944441.html | If that person doesn't feel safe, let them take the bus, Khalil said to a Southwest Airlines gate agent. "We're American citizens just like everybody else." | |
23 | 11/18/2015 | Jon Ritzheimer, 32, of Phoenix | property in Hancock, N.Y of a group called the Muslims of America, which publishes a newspaper, The Islamic Post, which recently labeled him an “American Taliban" | The FBI got involved after a Muslim group based near Albany notified the agency that Jon Ritzheimer, 32, of Phoenix had posted a video on Nov. 18 in which he showed a gun, made profane anti-Obama statements and said he was driving cross-country to confront them, sources and a group spokesman said. Agents were able to talk with him initially, but two days later, when he was in Scranton, Penn., he got angry and cut off communication with them. At that point, the alert, citing a “potential threat to law enforcement,” was issued, sources said. Ritzheimer, a former Marine, has made threats against Muslims a personal cause. He has organized an armed protest at a Phoenix mosque, threatened to “arrest” all senators who voted for President Obama’s nuclear pact with Iran, and encouraged all Americans to carry rifles in public for protection against terrorists. Ritzheimer bellows in the video that he’s “going to see those assholes who called me a f------ terrorist.” He continues, “F--k you Muslims. We're gonna stop at virtually every mosque along the way, flip them off and tell them to get f-----.” He then cocks the slide on a handgun. He also insults President Obama: “And Obama, you stupid sorry sack of sh--t, you wanna come out and say we're all afraid of these poor little widows and orphans? F--k you. That's not what's coming over here … And guess what: We're f-----g ready for them.” | nydailynews.com/news/crime/fbi-warns-ny-police-anti-islam-arizona-man-article-1.2448001 | ||||
24 | 11/19/2015 | Corpus Christi, TX | Islamic Society of South Texas | A mosque receives hate mail stating, “Convert to Christianity Before It’s Too Late.” | No suspectsl still under investigation | http://www.kristv.com/story/30571272/potential-threat-letter-sent-to-local-mosque | |||
25 | 11/19/2015 | Falls Church, VA | Chester H. Gore, 27 | Dar Al-Hijrah Islamic Center | Chester H. Gore, 27, was charged with using a hoax explosive device on Thursday at the Dar Al-Hijrah Islamic Center on Row Street, off Leesburg Pike (Falls Church, VA). Gore tried to enter the iron fence around the mosque about 2 a.m. Thursday and then threw two smoke bombs and a Molotov cocktail toward the building, outreach director Imam Johari Abdul-Malik said. Young members of the mosque who live in the neighborhood saw him, confronted him and he left, Abdul-Malik said. | Gore, who has no fixed address, caused an estimated $200 damage to a gate at the mosque, officials said. He was charged with using the device, possession and use of illegal fireworks, entering the property of another for the purpose of causing damage based on religious conviction, and destruction of property. | http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Man-Left-Hoax-Explosive-Device-at-Fairfax-County-Mosque-Police-Say-353071911.html | ||
26 | 11/20/2015 | San Antonio, TX | Man enters mosque shouts profanities and desecrates prayer rugs with shoes. | Suspect identified; charged with “criminal trespassing.” | http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/flag-waving-texas-man-arrested-at-mosque-after-wiping-boots-on-prayer-rugs-and-cursing-worshipers/ | ||||
27 | 11/21/2015 | Irving, TX | Bureau of American Islamic Relations | Irving Islamic Center | About a dozen protesters — most carrying long guns, some masked — lined up outside an Irving mosque on Saturday to “Stop the Islamization of America.” | David Palmer, a City Council member wandered down to the protest in sweatpants after a concerned mosque member told him about it. He thought the protestors being there armed was ridiculous. “Does it look like there’s any threat here? Nobody’s even close to them,” Palmer said, standing in a parking lot where police cars nearly outnumbered the four or five mosque members who watched the spectacle.
“My initial impression was they were using them for intimidation,” Palmer said. “I doubt that they’d be happy if some of the Muslim churchgoers here showed up at their Christian church, their Baptist church, their Methodist church tomorrow morning with rifles slung over their shoulders.”
Palmer said the police chief personally warned mosque leaders about the rally.
| http://thescoopblog.dallasnews.com/2015/11/armed-protesters-set-up-outside-islamic-center-of-irving.html/ | ||
28 | 11/26/2015 | University of Texas Campus/Nueces Mosque (near the campus) | Unidentified assailant | A Muslim (male) student who was walking from the mosque. | He was attacked and shoved to the ground. He was wearing headphones and an individual yelled at him and accused him of taking instructions from ISIS. | Police have increased patrols near the mosque. From the article, it appears nothing was done to find the assailant. | http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/passerby-attacks-headphones-wearing-muslim-student-he-suspected-of-taking-orders-from-isis/ | “This is like a wakeup call for us, we need to do something because we have students coming here,” said Umer Esmail, the mosque’s imam | |
29 | 11/26/2015 | Pittsburgh, PA | Passenger, who asked to be dropped off to a home in Hazelwood area | 38-year-old Moroccan immigrant taxi driver who moved to the U.S. five years ago | “He started the conversation and began to ask questions like, ‘You seem to be like a Pakistani guy. Are you from Pakistan?’ ” the driver said in an interview from his bed at UPMC Mercy, where he is being treated for a bullet wound in the upper back. “And I said, ‘No, I’m from Morocco. But I’m an American guy.’“Then he continued the conversation. He began to speak about ISIS killing people. I told him ‘Actually, I’m against ISIS. I don’t like them.’ I even told him that they are killing innocent people. I noticed that he changed his tone and he began to satirize Muhammad, my prophet, and began to shift to his personal life. He mentioned that he has two kids and was in prison for some time.“So it was this kind of stuff until we got to his destination. He asked me to wait for a little bit because he forgot his wallet in the house. I waited for just five minutes, I think, and I noticed that he came out of the house carrying a rifle in his hand. I noticed him coming toward me. I didn’t hesitate. I [made] a fast decision to leave and drove my taxi away because I felt he was going to do something. There is danger. He would shoot me or something. I felt like he had the intention to kill me.”The driver said that as he sped away he heard a couple of gunshots, one of which blasted out the back window of his cab and struck him. The incident occurred between Flowers Avenue and Tecumseh Street, and he was able to drive a couple of blocks further to Mansion Street, he said, where he had to pull over. He then waved down a passing car and got someone to call the police.He remains in UPMC Mercy in stable condition, the bullet still lodged in his back between his shoulder blades. He spoke with a detective at about 8 a.m. Thursday in the hospital. | Pittsburgh police released a statement with some details of the shooting but they have not determined whether the incident was motivated by the driver’s race or religion. | http://www.post-gazette.com/local/city/2015/11/29/Muslim-taxi-driver-shot-on-Thanksgiving-in-Pittsburgh-calls-attack-a-hate-crime/stories/201511290154 | ||
30 | 11/27/2015 | Lexington, KY | Islamic Center of Lexington | The Islamic Center of Lexington receives an email threatening to kill everyone inside. The threat said, “I’m going to kill everyone I (sic) there you Muslim f**ks. Salabis is coming for you.” | No arrests or charges. Suspect left a name. | http://www.wtvq.com/2015/11/27/email-threatens-kentucky-mosque/ | |||
31 | 11/30/2015 | LaGuardia airport, NY | Virgin Airlines | Iranian-American Bobby Abtahi, a Dallas attorney who also serves as the vice-chair of the City Plan Commission | he was pulled aside by the gate agent and told the captain was “not comfortable” with him getting on board. He said that after he asked for a reason and to speak to the pilot, he was told the “discomfort” was because because he’d “cut off” a crew member on his way into the airport.A supervisor soon arrived and went on the plane to speak to the crew, Abtahi adds, and he was still not allowed on the flight. He was allowed to cancel it with no penalty.Abtahi told the Morning News that he “truly hopes” the decision was not related to his race: “[B]ut the thought did cross my mind since I haven’t shaved in five days and my hair is a mess. I’ve been on a beach for five days.”Abtahi was able to re-book with American Airlines and get on his way; American tweeted rather pointedly that they were happy to have him on board.Meanwhile, a host of Dallas City Council members and media figures started tweeting that they’d very much like an explanation for Virgin’s decision. (Technically, airline contracts of carriage do allow wide latitude for flight crews to decline to let a passenger board for any reason.) | Virgin apologized: After further review, we believe this was the result of a misunderstanding and we’re reaching out to apologize to Mr. Abtahi this afternoon for his experience today. As an airline that prides itself on our award-winning guest service, we take issues like this very seriously. We are sorry Mr. Abtahi had this experience today, as it was not representative of the guest service for which we are known. To further apologize, we’re offering Mr. Abtahi two free future flights on us (as well as full reimbursement for his flight today). Mr. Abtahi turned down the free flights and asked that Virgin donate them to the charity of his choice, the Human Rights Initiative of North Texas. HRI provides legal services to immigrants and refugees who have suffered human rights abuses. Virgin agreed. | http://jezebel.com/iranian-american-dallas-city-official-says-he-was-stopp-1745362193 | ||
32 | 12/1/2015 | Anaheim, CA | owner of Al-Farah Islamic Clothing in Anaheim, California | The Los Angeles-based Council on American-Islamic Relations said the owner of Al-Farah Islamic Clothing in Anaheim, California, found an English translation of the Quran pierced with multiple holes and hanging on the front door of the store Tuesday morning. The store owner contacted CAIR-LA and the Anaheim Police Department, which is investigating the incident as a possible hate crime, Anaheim police Sgt. Daron Wyatt said. Several months ago, an unidentified individual shattered a store window. Police are investigating whether the two incidents are related. | FBI officials are reviewing the incident. | http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/national-international/Bullet-Riddled-Copy-Quran-Left-at-Islamic-Store.html | "Anyone has the right to be a bigot, but when that bigotry is expressed through the targeting of individuals or businesses through acts of intimidation similar to a cross burning, it crosses the line into criminal behavior," said CAIR-LA Executive Director Hussam Ayloush. "If you shoot up a Quran on your own property, that is bigoted freedom of expression. If you deliver that bullet-riddled Quran to a Muslim home or business, that is an act of intimidation and a hate crime." | ||
33 | 12/1/2015 | Fox News | Host Eric Bolling | Fox News host Eric Bolling made the startling claim on Tuesday that there were reports of Muslims in New Jersey being given advance notice of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks so they could watch the attacks from their rooftops.“I remember specifically the news reports about Jersey City. They said people were on the roofs watching the planes fly in. They were tipped off prior to the thing,” Bolling said. “And this was a narrative that was going on. I remember video. I don’t remember if it was Pakistan or Paterson.” Bolling, a former commodities trader, said it is ultimately inconsequential whether “thousands” of American Muslims cheered the attacks or whether “a handful” did. “There were claims that his group, his whole mosque, was cheering the planes actually, finally, doing what he tried to do in 1993. Whether or not it was a thousand, thousands, a few hundred, a handful. Who cares, there were Muslims,” he added before being cut off to cries of “I care” from his co-hosts. He then got into a twitter battle with a few folks and cited a NYTimes aritcle, but the line he was citing was in fact at the center of a different false conspiracy theory — one claiming that Israelis had advance knowledge of the attacks. | http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/fox-news-host-floats-new-muslim-smear-then-loses-it-on-twitt | ||||
34 | 12/2/2015 | Manassas, VA | 12/2/2015 | Manassas Mosque | A man claiming to be from the Jewish Defense League left a voice message on the Mosque's phone that said if one Jew was killed in the California shooting, he would retaliate against the Mosque.
The caller said, "We'll do to your people what you did to them. We are checking now to see if one Jew has been killed or shot in California. If that has been that case, we say, never again....The Holocaust." | Prince William County Police are investigating | http://www.wusa9.com/story/news/local/prince-william-county/2015/12/03/manassas-mosque-receives-threat/76748648/ | ||
35 | 12/6/2015 | Kerbey Lane Cafe (Austin, TX) | A customer | eilah Abdennabi, a Palestinian-American born in Chicago, and Sirat Al-Nahi, an Iraqi-American born in Seattle, | "I have never felt more dehumanized and humiliated than I did this morning. Leilah and I went to go grab breakfast at Kerbey Lane Cafe today. She went to park her car and I went to grab us a table. As I’m waiting, this older man begins watching her park through the window, he begins to insult her parking skills and I stay quiet. Then he says, “She should just go back to Saudi Arabia where she came from.” and nobody said anything. I literally couldn’t believe he said that and I asked him to repeat what he had just said. Maybe I should have let it go, maybe I set myself up for this, but I couldn’t believe what he said and I guess I hoped someone would have the humanity to acknowledge it because their silence hurt just as much as his words. But nobody cared when he repeated it and they didn’t care when he added, “And the same goes for you. What? You have a gun in there? Just go ahead and shoot me.” At this point the management got up and came over and proceeded to seat him in a pathetic attempt to deescalate the situation. They chose to seat the racist guy who just made a girl cry right in from them, rather than us. When we spoke to management, they basically said they were sorry it happened, but they can’t do anything. They couldn’t not seat him. The man is across from and watching this whole thing unfold and Leilah goes to talk to him and he says the same things in front of the entire restaurant and nobody says a single thing. As we turn to leave, Leilah, in tears, says, “Just go everyone knows we were told very racist things and this restaurant doesn’t feel the need to address it because who cares about us?” And somebody called out, “Nobody.” and we left. Because it was true." | Kerbey Lane also issued a public apology on Facebook:
We have reached out to both of the guests who had a negative experience with another guest in our restaurant today and apologized, and we want to publicly apologize for the way this was handled. We do not condone discriminatory comments or behavior in any way, shape, or form; and according to our policy the guest who made these hateful comments to another guest should have been asked to leave our restaurant. This was a mistake made by our management, and we are addressing it with that individual. For anyone who has any concerns about Kerbey Lane’s policies, please contact us directly at or social@klcmail.com. | http://www.fox7austin.com/news/local-news/56075624-story | ||
36 | 12/7/2015 | Middle School in the Bronx | Young Men | Sixth grade girl | A Muslim girl was attacked at her New York middle school by three schoolmates who referred to the girl as a terrorist organization and tried ripping off her hijab. | Officers responded to a 911 call about the attack at P.S. 89, which was reported as a bias incident in which three students attacked one other student, but a police report was never taken, a law enforcement source said. The boys were expected to appear at a disciplinary hearing for their alleged actions shortly after the incident, but it was postponed in order to allow the boys’ families to hire legal representation, the school source said. | http://www.insideedition.com/headlines/13411-muslim-sixth-grader-allegedly-attacked-by-schoolmates-who-called-her-isis-tore-at-her-hijab | ||
37 | 12/7/2015 | Queens, NY | White Man in his 50s | Sarker Haque | Sarker Haque, owner of Fatima Food Mart in Astoria, Queens, was attacked by a customer who entered his store reportedly asking if everything was free. He then attacked Haque multiple times allegedly saying, “I’ll kill Muslims.” He continued attacking him until another customer entered the store and called police. | Police arrested the attacker, described a white man in his 50s. | https://cair-ny.org/blog/cairny_calls_for_hate_crime_probe_of_attack_on_muslim_store_owner.html | ||
38 | 12/7/2015 | Philadelphia, PA | Al Aqsa Islamic Society | Severed pig's head left at N. Phila. mosque | Philadelphia police, the FBI, and the city's Human Relations Commission launched investigations | http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20151208_Severed_pig_s_head_left_at_N__Phila__mosque.html | |||
39 | 12/7/2015 | Miami-Dade, FL | Sikeer Aktaruzzaman | Store clerk, Sikeer Aktaruzzaman, was shot multiple times. | Police are investigating | http://www.local10.com/news/store-clerk-shot-multiple-times-in-southwest-miami-dade | |||
40 | 12/7/2015 | Twin Falls, Idaho | The Islamic Center of Twin Falls | The Islamic Center of Twin Falls wasvandalized on Monday, with the words “HUNT CAMP?” spray painted on its windows. The man who reported the vandalism to police speculated that the vandal’s words are likely in reference to an internment camp in Idaho for Japanese-Americans during World War II, commonly referred to as the Hunt Camp. In this case, it seems the vandal is calling for American Muslims to be detained in similar camps. | Police are investigating | http://magicvalley.com/news/local/twin-falls-islamic-center-vandalized/article_1dccaa5b-9d74-59a1-b4a7-89c9e4c720f6.html | |||
41 | 12/7/2015 | St. Louis, MO | CAIR-STL | A man who identified as a “former Marine” called the Saint Louis office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-STL), threatening to chop off the heads of any Muslims who came to his home. | Police are investigating | http://fox2now.com/2015/12/07/suspect-in-custody-for-threatening-local-mosque/ | |||
42 | 12/7/2015 | Palm Beach, FL | Joshua Killets | Islamic Center of Palm Beach | 27year-old Joshua Killets was arrested for smashing windows and overturning furniture at the Islamic Center of Palm Beach. Killets hadpreviously posted Islamophobic content on his Facebook profile. Killets even bragged about committing the act to the person who reported the incident to local police. | Killets was arrested | http://www.arabamericannews.com/news/news/id_11498/Florida-man-arrested-for-vandalizing-mosque.html | ||
43 | 12/8/2015 | Jersey City, NJ | Al Tawheed mosque | Hate messages were sent in the mail and on the phone | Letter has been turned over to NJ police | http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Jersey-City-Mosque-Hate-Mail-Phone-Threats-361055841.html?_osource=SocialFlowTwt_NYBrand | |||
44 | 12/8/2015 | Queens, NY | Piro Kolvani | Sarker Haque | Sarker Haque, owner of the Fatima Food Mart in Queens, was assaulted by 55-year-old Piro Kolvani, who said “I kill Muslims” during the attack. Kolvani has been charged with a hate crime. | Kolvani has been charged with a hate crime | http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/florida-man-attacks-muslim-store-owner-queens-article-1.2459160 | ||
45 | 12/8/2015 | State College, PA | Nicholas Tavella | Indian Student | 19-year-old Nicholas Tavella, a Penn State student, grabbed an Indian student by the throat while he was crossing an intersection, telling him, “Don’t make me put a bullet in your chest.” Tavella admitted to police he racially profiled the student, saying he appeared to be Middle Eastern. | Tavella is charged with felony ethnic intimidation, and faces misdemeanor charges of terroristic threatening, simple assault, disorderly conduct and stalking and harassment. | http://www.collegian.psu.edu/news/campus/article_0126e5b6-9e02-11e5-9241-d391f34a6252.html | ||
46 | 12/8/2015 | Grand Forks, ND | Matthew William Gust | Somali-owned Juba Coffee House and Restaurat | 25-year-old Matthew William Gust set fire to the Somali-owned Juba Coffee House and Restuarant with a molotov cocktail, causing $90,000 in damages. | Gust has been charged with a class B felony for arson, which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison. | http://www.wday.com/news/north-dakota/3902049-update-details-revealed-after-east-grand-forks-man-charged-arson-somali | ||
47 | 12/9/2015 | Los Angeles, CA | Gurdwara in Los Angeles Suburbs | The walls of the Gurdwara in LA were vandalized with hateful graffit. The graffiti included the phrase, “F@#k ISIS,” and the words “Islam” and other reference of gangs | Forwared to White House; Department of Homeland Security to investigate | http://www.india.com/news/world/gurdwara-vandalized-in-los-angeles-with-anti-isis-graffiti-769840/ | |||
48 | 12/9/2015 | Seattle, WA | Hamza Warsame | Hamza Warsame, a student at Seattle Central College, was brutally beaten and then shoved off the roof by other students near the campus. | Police are investigating | http://www.rawstory.com/2015/12/family-claims-muslim-teen-died-after-he-was-beaten-and-shoved-off-roof-at-seattle-central-college/ | |||
49 | 12/9/2015 | Washington, DC | Owner of Paint1ng.com | Aaditya Shah | Painting company stated "Death to Muslims" after Aaditya Shah cancelled after the company was late to the job. | Police have been contacted to open a felony threat investigation | http://dcist.com/2015/12/_all_aaditya_shah_wanted.php | ||
50 | 12/9/2015 | Washington, DC | U.S. Rep Andre Carson | U.S. Rep. André Carson (D-Ind.), one of only two Muslims members of Congress, received a death threat. Rep. Carson blamed the death threat on the “toxic environment” of US politics, created in part by Donald Trump’s escalating rhetoric targeting ethnic minorities. “What concerns me is you have the demagoguery taking place from people seeking to become president of the United States,” Rep. Carson told CNN’s Jake Tapper. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2015/12/09/muslim-congressman-blames-death-threat-in-part-on-toxic-environment/ | ||||
51 | 12/10/2015 | New York, NY | Robert Murino | Workers at Salt and Pepper Restaurant | A customer at a Herald Square restaurant burst into an anti-Muslim tirade, slapping one worker than busting glass partitions with a chair while a Muslim woman in Brooklyn was kicked by a man who called her trash, police sources said. | Robert Murino has been arrested | http://m.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/exclusive-man-blasts-muslims-hits-worker-nyc-eatery-article-1.2462061 | ||
52 | 12/10/2015 | East Plano, TX | Home of Muslim homeowners have been vandalized twice | Police are investigating | http://dfw.cbslocal.com/video/3331462-targeted-and-terrorized-plano-family-in-fear/ http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2015/12/10/plano-family-in-fear-after-possible-hate-crime/ | ||||
53 | 12/10/2015 | Santa Clara, CA | CAIR | Police had to evacuate a local office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations after a letter containing a suspicious white powder was discovered. While the substance came back as harmless, the letter ominously read, “Die a painful death, Muslims.” Two similar letters were also sent to the Washington, DC CAIR office. | Police are investigating | http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/dec/10/denise-slader-california-state-worker-sparks-hate-/ | |||
54 | 12/10/2015 | Sacremento, CA | Denise Slader | Two muslim Men | On December 10, a hate crimes investigation was opened against Denise Slader, an employee for the California Department of Corrections. Slader was caught on video attacking two Muslim men praying in a public park with her fists and a cup of hot coffee. | Slader, who was not arrested after the incident, is under investigation by the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office for allegedly committing a hate crime and battery | http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/dec/10/denise-slader-california-state-worker-sparks-hate-/ | ||
55 | 12/10/2015 | Seattle, WA | Ride - share passenger | Driver | Just before 9 PM local time Wednesday night, a ride-share driver was assaulted by a man in a group of three passengers, who accused him of being a terrorist. The driver demanded the trio exit his car, but as they were leaving, the aforementioned man reached inside the car and began punching the driver. The man in question has been arrested and charged with Washington’s hate crime statute. | Police arrested the attacker for assault, and he’s being investigated for malicious harassment | http://q13fox.com/2015/12/10/hate-crime-charge-possible-after-passenger-punches-ride-share-driver-and-accuses-him-of-terrorism-police-say/ | ||
56 | 12/11/2015 | Palm Springs, CA | Islamic Society of Palm Springs | A Southern California mosque was damaged by arson | Police are investigating | http://www.cbsnews.com/news/possible-arson-fire-damages-california-mosque/ | |||
57 | 12/11/2015 | Tampa, FL | Muslim women | A muslim woman was nearly shot Thursday as she left a Florida mosque, and another woman was nearly run off the road. | Police are investigating | http://www.rawstory.com/2015/12/muslim-woman-shot-at-and-another-nearly-run-off-the-road-in-tampa-after-leaving-mosques/ | |||
58 | 12/11/2015 | Phoenix, AZ | Islamic Community Center of Phoenix | Windows were smashed and an office under construction was ransacked at the Islamic Community Center of Phoenix on Friday. | Police are investigating | http://www.abc15.com/news/region-phoenix-metro/north-phoenix/vandalism-reported-at-islamic-community-center-in-phoenix- | |||
59 | 12/15/2015 | Grand Rapids, MI | Liquor store clerk | Michigan liquor store clerk fought back after a robber shoved a rifle into his mouth and called him a terrorist. The robber shot the man in the cheek, luckily the clerk survived. | http://www.rawstory.com/2015/12/clerk-survives-after-gunman-calls-him-a-terrorist-and-blasts-his-face-i-used-to-kill-people-like-you-in-iraq/#.VnATgJDgKUA.twitter | ||||
60 | 12/17/2015 | Arlington, TX | Arlington Police Department and Nichols Junior High School | Armaan Singh Sarai | Armaan Singh Sarai, a student at Nichols Junior High School in Arlington with a heart condition, was arrested and jailed for three days based on a bully’s accusation that he had a bomb in his backpack. Nichols principal Julie Harcrow immediately called police, who searched Armaan’s backpack and determined there was no bomb. Despite that fact, Armaan was detained for three days at a juvenile detention facility. Neither police nor the school informed Armaan’s parents where he was being held. | http://usuncut.com/news/sikh-boy-arrested-dallas/ | |||
61 | Week of 11/15 | San Diego State campus | White man in his 20s | Hijabi female student | A white man in his 20s grabbed a female Muslim student's headscarf in a campus parking lot Thursday afternoon and made racist comments to her, campus police said. "The attacker came at the student from behind and choked her with the hijab, or headscarf," said Hanif Mohebi, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations-San Diego, who met with the student. "He told her, 'Get out of this country.' That she was a terrorist and that 'You people bombed Paris.'" | SDSU police Lt. Randy Lawrence said Monday that no suspect has been identified.
| http://www.latimes.com/local/crime/la-me-sdsu-protest-20151124-story.html | About 400 people participated in a march and demonstration Monday at San Diego State in response to a report of a hate crime against a Muslim student last week.
"When Muslim women are under attack, what do we do?" a student called out to the crowd. "Stand up, fight back!" marchers responded in a chant that continued as the crowd walked from the center of campus to the student union, where several speakers denounced acts of hatred and intolerance against Muslims and other groups. | |
62 | Week of 11/16 | New York | Sameya Omarkheil, 22, an Afghan-American student at St. Paul’s School of Nursing in Queens | Sameya Omarkheil, 22, an Afghan-American student at St. Paul’s School of Nursing in Queens, said a man intentionally tripped her early last week as she was rushing to take an exam. The man then threw his cigarette butt near where she had fallen, ground it out with his shoe and said, “Go back to your country,” recalled Ms. Omarkheil, who was born and raised in New York and also wears a hijab.“I was so scared on the inside, I couldn’t say anything back,” she said. | Ms. Omarkheil reported the episode to campus security but did not go to the police because she was in the middle of midterms and had no time. Once her exams were done, she said, she thought it was too late. | http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/26/nyregion/im-frightened-after-paris-terrorist-attacks-new-york-city-muslims-cope-with-a-backlash.html?mwrsm=Facebook&_r=0 | Personal Facebook post reported by CAIR NY in an email to the listserv | ||
63 | Week of 11/17 | Dearborn Heights, MI | Woman wearing a headscarf, lives alone with her kids b/c husband working abroad; has lived in the neighborhood for 6 months | Within a one-week period, a woman received two racially charged letters in her mailbox from an anonymous neighbor who threatened violence against the family.
One of the letters was inside an envelope that was labeled 'Arab' with no return address.
The first letter stated; “Please quit honking your horn everyday and disturbing your neighbors. Are you stupid that you don’t understand how annoying it is? I know you are sand n*ggers and don’t understand American culture, but stop the madness before something bad happens to your house or you. Thank you, Sincerely your neighbor.” A few days later, she received a second letter. This time it was more vulgar. “Stop honking your horn blowing you dumb sand n*gger. Stop the madness. We Americans hate you Arabs. Stop your fucking horn blowing or die. Go back to your Middle Eastern country. We HATE you more than n*ggers.” | Dearborn Heights Police Chief Lee Gavin is treating the case as a high priority and has assured the family that the city will not tolerate any Islamophobic threats. | http://www.arabamericannews.com/news/news/id_11387/Dearborn-Heights-Police-investigating-neighbors-threatening-letter-against-Muslim-family.html | |||
64 | Week of 11/23 | Hudson County, NY | Hudson County Sheriff’s Officer Alex Pino | Mohamed Elmaksoud, a West New York history teacher who went to same high school as Pino | Hudson County Sheriff’s Officer Alex Pino has been placed on administrative leave, with pay, after writing an anti-Muslim, profanity-laced Facebook post directed at a West New York teacher last week. Excerpt of post: “(Expletive) THE KURAN (Expletive) THE MUSLIMS (Expletive) THE TERRORIST. TRUMP FOR PRESIDENT. (Expletive) ON THE MOSQUES. TEAR THEM ALL DOWN. WE SCCOMMODATE (sic) TOO MANY OF THOSE PEOPLE HERE. FOLLOW OUR KAWS (sic) IN PLACE” He told the news website that he was remorseful and posted the comment “in the heat of the moment.” A disabled veteran who served in the Iraq war three times, Pino said he was “defending myself and the people in the line of duty and my fellow veterans who gave their lives.”He emphasized that “of course I would protect (Muslims), you know, the good ones, not the extremists.”“I was not directing that toward the good Muslims, I was directing that toward the terrorists ... I’m completely against hurting people,” he continued. “It was taken the wrong way. I should have (explained myself) more in detail. All ‘Muslims’ is wrong. Now the good Muslims are taking severe offense to that. That was not my intention.” | Placed on admin leave, with pay | http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/n-officer-profanity-filled-rant-muslims-article-1.2450209 | ||
65 | 1st Ave, NYC | Latino NYU Student | A man called the student a "fucking Arab motherfucker, fucking terrorist leave this country, we're gonna blow you all up." He also spit on the student. | http://usuncut.com/news/nyu-latino-student-mistaken-for-muslim-gets-spit-on-his-response-will-warm-your-heart/ | Not an article but a personal FB post by the student | ||||
66 | Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, NY | The two women (who are sisters) and an infant were allegedly approached Friday evening in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, by a postal worker who shouted obscenities and reportedly said, "I am going to burn your 'f**king' temple." He allegedly elbowed one of the women and spat in her face while she was waiting to cross the street. The man followed her across the street and called the other Muslim woman a “n**ger” and said, "I am not crazy, I am a postal worker." The two women walked into a corner store with the man still following them. Inside the store, he reportedly continued threatening to burn their “temple” and even began shouting at the infant. | The New York chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-NY) today called on the New York City Police Department (NYPD) and the FBI to investigate as a possible hate crime an alleged threat to two Muslim women by a man wearing a U.S. Postal Service uniform and identifying himself as a postal worker. As a follow up, Dainton Coley, 33, who works at the USPS location on Atlantic Avenue, was arrested on Tuesday on charges of acting in a manner injurious to a child, aggravated harassment and menacing as a hate crime, police said. | http://abc7ny.com/news/2-muslim-sisters-say-postal-worker-harassed-them-and-spat-on-them-/1097118/ | 11/23/15 CAIR-NY Press Release http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20151124/bed-stuy/muslim-sisters-baby-harassed-possible-hate-crime-police-say | ||||
67 | Irving, TX | Bureau of Islamic Relations | Irving Islamic Center | An anti-Muslim group that brought guns to an Irving mosque has published the home addresses of dozens of Muslims and “Muslim sympathizer[s]” in the city.“THE NAME AND ADDRESS OF EVERY MUSLIM AND MUSLIM SYMPATHIZER THAT STOOD UP FOR SHARIA SHARIA TRIBUNALS IN IRVING TX. LISTED BELOW,” wrote David Wright III, who organized Saturday’s armed protested outside the Irving Islamic Center.Below that Facebook message, Wright posted a city document with the name and address of every resident and speaker who opposed a City Council vote earlier this year, when false rumors that Irving’s mosque harbored a Shariah court led city leaders to back a state bill aimed at blocking Muslim influence.Wright, who is convinced that America is due for a Paris-style attack by Muslims, also posted the addresses to his personal Facebook page, a couple hours after he wrote in another thread: “We should stop being afraid to be who we are! We like to have guns designed to kill people that pose a threat in a very efficient manner.”A friend replied below the list: “Abide by it [the consitution] or be treated as the treasonous filth or invaders that you are.” | A rally in support of the Muslim community will beheld this week | http://irvingblog.dallasnews.com/2015/11/group-that-brought-guns-to-irving-mosque-publishes-muslims-home-addresses.html/ | |||
68 | NY | Ferida Osman, 21, a Hunter College senior and a Muslim | “Even in New York,” said Ferida Osman, 21, a Hunter College senior and a Muslim, who recalled being spat on by a stranger as she waited for a train at Pennsylvania Station last week. “Definitely in New York. Especially in New York!”The pressure and scrutiny on Muslims in New York since the Paris attacks “feels like 9/11 happened all over again,” she said.“It feels like everybody’s staring like you’re on stage and you’re scared to do anything wrong,” she continued.Ms. Osman, who was born and raised in the United States and wears a hijab, said she was attacked last Tuesday as she was en route from Hunter to her home in Huntington, on Long Island. She was talking on her phone when suddenly she felt a spray of saliva hit her. She said he heard someone yelling, “Go back home, you terrorist,” laced with a vulgarity. | http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/26/nyregion/im-frightened-after-paris-terrorist-attacks-new-york-city-muslims-cope-with-a-backlash.html?mwrsm=Facebook&_r=0 | |||||
69 | Newark Liberty International Airport | 30-year-old Muslim American, Kameelah Rasheed | After passing through regular security checks at Newark Liberty International Airport on her way to a holiday in Istanbul, Kameelah Rasheed was called for further questioning by customs officers.
She was later allowed on the United Airlines flight, but eventually forced to leave the aircraft ahead of take-off to be interrogated by an FBI agent. Rasheed said that she was the only passenger of about 200 who was asked to leave the flight on Tuesday, as the customs officers confiscated her passport and phone. "I was the only visibly Muslim person," said the New York resident, who wears a headscarf. The customs officers asked her several of the same questions repeatedly, she said, including: "Why are you flying? Where are you going in Istanbul? How can you afford to go on holiday? How much was the ticket price?" "The questions were circular and nonsensical," she said. "I wasn't going to the border with Syria. I was going to the tourist locations, to see the Hagia Sophia and take a ferry across the Bosphorus." Rasheed was accused of having booked a one-way ticket, even after showing evidence of return flight tickets to the officers on her phone. Rasheed, an artist, educator, Stanford University graduate, Fulbright scholar and contributing editor at The New Inquiry, added that while the airline had booked another ticket for her, she was scared of being targeted again on her onward journey and chose not to travel. | http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/11/muslim-forced-plane-anti-islam-rhetoric-rises-151125200650016.html | |||||
70 | Queens, NY | Hindu Indo-Caribbean home | Over 40 jhandi flags were burned in the front yard of a Hindu home. Jhandi flags are customarily raised at the culmination of Indo-Caribbean Hindu prayer rituals and are representative of various Hindu deities. These flags are an emblematic identifier of many Indo-Caribbean homes, and this crime can be seen as an attack against not just Hindus, but Indo-Caribbeans at large. | Police are investigating | http://www.sadhana.org/index.php/resources/news-and-announcements/133-weareone |