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Women targeted in rising tide of attacks on Muslims

Euro-Islam10 years ago04 mins

June 28, 2014 More than half of Islamophobic attacks in Britain are committed against women, who are typically targeted because they are wearing clothing associated with Islam, new data reveals. The figures of anti-Muslim attacks, compiled in the nine months following the murder of soldier Lee Rigby in May 2013, come days after Saudi Arabian…

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Saudi student may have been murdered because she was wearing a hijab

Euro-Islam10 years ago03 mins

June 18, 2014 Detectives are investigating whether a Saudi student was murdered in a frenzied knife attack because her traditional Islamic dress marked her out as a Muslim. Nahid Almanea, a 31-year-old student at the University of Essex, was wearing a hijab and a full-length navy blue robe, called an abaya, when she was knifed…

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