Area chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-SFBA) today called on state and federal law enforcement authorities to investigate a possible bias motive for vandalism of the home of a Muslim woman who is running for elected office. CAIR said the house of Nadja Adolf, a Newark resident running for a seat on her…
A Mosque in Dorval, in Montreal’s West Island, has been vandalized for the fourth time this year. The mosque’s doors were spray painted with the words “Koran 511” in orange graffiti. In June 2008 and April 2009, the same mosque, the Turkish Muslim Association of Montreal mosque in Dorval, was vandalized in a similar manner,…
Czech authorities are trying to find out who placed a pig’s head on the fence outside a mosque near Prague. Spokesperson Jan Milulovsky says that someone also wrote “Stop Islam” on the fence, partially damaging the wall and entrance to the mosque in the Kyje neighborhood on the outskirts of Prague. Photographs of the incident…
The cities of Bell and Cudahy in Southeast Los Angeles county, which have fought with corruption and bruising politics for years, are now suffering from defamatory attacks towards Muslim candidates for city council. Hussein Chahine and Ali Saleh are two of such candidates, who have been smeared as terrorists in addition to having their homes…
A mosque in the eastern Bosnian village of Fazlagica Kula has been set on fire, just hours before the beginning of Eid-al-Adha. Media reports disclosed that the inside of the mosque and its roof were completely burned. Investigation into the incident is ongoing and the cause has not yet been confirmed, but Bosnian Muslim officials…
