Ceremony honours ‘only’ Canadian Muslim soldier killed in WW1
Canada’s first book of remembrance is also its largest. It details the names of more than 66,000 Canadians who died in [...]
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Trump campaign misidentifies Sikh as Muslim supporter on campaign leaflet
A Sikh man was misidentified as Muslim supporter of Donald Trump on a campaign leaflet in Ohio. Gurinder Singh Khalsa, [...]
Canada’s PM apologies to its Sikh communities for the Komagata Maru incident
Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has apologised in parliament for an incident that took place in 1914. It [...]
UN Secretary-General condemns rising anti-Muslim and anti-refugee bigotry
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned the divisive myth-making of the far-right and the growing hostility towards [...]
Slovakia election: neo-Nazi party gains fourteen seats
Slovakia’s ruling party lost its parliamentary majority, and neo-Nazis gained 8 per cent of the vote in [...]
Joshua Bonehill-Paine jailed for inciting antisemitic hatred
The self-styled “nationalist, fascist, theorist and supporter of white rights” Joshua Bonehill-Paine, of Yeovil, [...]
Vandals daub swastikas and racist slogans on Jewish and Muslim graves in Austria
Vandals daubed swastikas and anti-migrant slogans on Muslim and Jewish graves over the weekend in western Austria. The [...]
Why do Sikhs also experience anti-Muslim violence and hate?
A decision not to charge a 17-year-old with a hate crime contradicts Illinois hate crimes law, according to the Sikh [...]
White supremacist Frazier Glenn Miller Jr. guilty of murder in Jewish center shootings
The man who admitted killing three people at two suburban Kansas City Jewish sites told jurors he hoped to “die a [...]
Neo-Nazi found guilty of attempted murder of Sikh dentist in ‘revenge’ for Lee Rigby’s murder
A jury found self-confessed neo-Nazi Zack Davies, 26, guilty of attempted murder after he attacked a Sikh dentist in his [...]