NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – A brutal beating left a beloved grandfather in the hospital Friday night and police want to know if it was an act of hate. The whole incident apparently started with a simple question and answer, but it ended with the victim bloody and bruised from head to toe. It happened just before…
National Post – October 4, 2012 Ebrahim Ebrahimi’s 19-year-old daughter, her head bloodied from severe knife wounds, had just been rushed to hospital, and his handcuffed wife was under arrest. Two years later, Mr. Ebrahimi is trying to piece that life back together, and he took the stand in defence of his wife at…
News Agencies – May 7, 2012 Two elderly Muslims were beaten up on their way to the mosque in the northern town of Amiens. The attack occurred when the two victims, ages 70 and 71, were on their way to morning prayers. They were accosted by two men with short haircuts who said they…
21.12.2011 On Wednesday before Christmas, Britain’s Court of Appeal ruled that a baby at risk of becoming the victim of an “honour killing” must be adopted to keep her safe. The baby was the result of her unmarried Muslim mother’s secret affair with a married man and now had to be adopted to save it…
News Agencies – February 8, 2011 City councillors in Paris unanimously adopted a proposal to name a street, square or other site after Mohammed Bouazizi, the Tunisian vegetable vendor whose protest suicide sparked that country’s Jasmine Revolution. The proposal had been brought forward by Tunisian-born Mayor Bertrand Delanoe. Bouazizi, 26, doused himself with petrol and…
