Turkish man arrested for deadly mall shooting
WASHINGTON - Authorities on Sunday were still working to determine what prompted a 20-year-old man to open fire in a Washington state mall, killing five people.Police arrested the suspected gunman, Arcan Cetin of Oak Harbor, Washington, on Saturday. Police said he was taken into custody without incident in Oak Harbor, some 30 miles (...Muslim man burned after car gets firebombed in hate attack
Philadelphia - A Muslim man has suffered from severe burn injuries after a driver threw a firebomb into his vehicle and fled the scene, in what is being reported as a hate crime. A man in northern Philadelphia is wanted for throwing a firebomb into the occupied car. The assailant allegedly screamed “there you go, Muslim!” as he...Disabled Muslim Army veteran accused of being ‘terrorist,’ raided by bomb squad
Mohamed Abbas, a disabled U.S. Army veteran working at the Department of Defense’s Marine Department Maintenance Command Production Plant, was accused by a co-worker of threatening to blow up the base following the San Bernardino attack in December 9, 2015.The following day, he reportedly went to work...Sikh man causes scare at mall
PENNSYLVANIA- Passersby in a shopping center in Northampton County immediately called the police on a Sikh man, thinking he was Muslim because of the kirpan he was carrying. Harpreet Singh Khalsa, 33, said he was the victim of racial profiling, but police believed that the people who called did the right thing.They received many...Texas says withdrawing from U.S. refugee resettlement program
DALLAS - Texas gave notice on Wednesday that it was withdrawing from participating in the U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement's program, citing security concerns after failing in federal court to halt the inflow of Syrian refugees into the state.The Texas State Refugee Coordinator sent a letter to the agency,...Law enforcement interrogates N.Y. bomber’s family
NEW YORK - The wife of the Afghan-born U.S. citizen charged in last weekend's bombings in New York City and New Jersey has returned to the United States, a law enforcement official said, as a defense lawyer pressed to get access to the accused man.Ahmad Khan Rahami, 28, has been held in a Newark, New Jersey,...Obama tells Israel ‘it cannot permanently occupy Palestinian land’
NEW YORK - Barack Obama has told Israel it cannot permanently occupy and settle on Palestinian land in a speech to the United Nations. The move marks another bitter shift in the rocky relationship with the president and the country's closest ally. Obama said both sides would benefit...U.S. mistakenly grants citizenship to 858 people from countries of “concern to national security”
WASHINGTON — An internal Homeland Security audit has revealed that at least 858 immigrants from “countries of concern to national security” were mistakenly granted citizenship.Many of the residents had deportation orders, although the Homeland Security report didn’t specify how many. The Homeland Security Department’s...Lebanese man sentenced 10 years in Iran prison for being “U.S. spy”
WASHINGTON - Iran sentenced Nizar Zakka, a Lebanese citizen with permanent U.S. residency, to 10 years in prison and a $4.2 million fine after he was found guilty of “Being a U.S. spy,”, his U.S.-based lawyer announced on Tuesday.Zakka, an information technology expert, was invited to Iran by a government...Restaurant owner puts up “Muslims get out” sign
MINNEAPOLIS — A Minnesota restaurant owner is drawing controversy over a sign telling Muslim customers to “get out.” The sign outside Treats Family Restaurant in Lonsdale, Minnesota, reads “Muslims Get Out.” A second line reads “In Support Of St. Cloud,” reports CBS Minnesota. On Saturday, a man stabbed several people...
NY, NJ bombing suspect rushed to hospital after shootout
September 19th, 20160 Ahmad Khan Rahami on a stretcher after a shootout (REUTERS) NEW YORK -- Ahmad Khan Rahami, a 28-year-old man suspected for an explosion in New York and New Jersey is in custody following a shootout with police on Monday morning. Rahami was taken to a hospital on a stretcher with a bandaged and bloodied right shoulder. An officer was...Trump: The U.S. needs to profile Muslims like in Israel
NEW YORK - Trump is using a bomb plot in New York and New Jersey to call for “profiling” of radical Muslims in the U.S.“You’ll never solve the problem if you’re afraid to use the real name, this is radical Islamic terrorism,” he said, after a bomb went off in New York City and injured 29 people. Over the weekend, law...Police: Man said ‘Allah’ before stabbing nine people at mall
MINNESOTA - The man who injured eight people during a stabbing attack at a Minnesota shopping mall asked at least one of his victims whether they were Muslim and made reference to Allah, authorities said. However St Cloud Police Chief Blair Anderson declined to call the attack an act of terrorism, saying the motive for the...Georgia State Professor tells Muslim student she can’t wear Niqab
Georgia State student Nabila Khan was asked by a professor to remove her niqab in compliance with Georgia’s Anti-mask laws. Photo | The SignalGEORGIA - A Muslim student at Georgia State University was told by her professor that she couldn’t return to class with a Niqab. During the first week of the fall semester, Nabila Khan...Muslim family’s apartment set on fire
MARYLAND - A widowed Muslim mother and her two children are the targets of hates crimes in an apartment complex, after unknown culprits left hate-graffiti and then returned on another day and lit their home on fire. The incident took place in Windsor Mill. The Council on American-Islamic Relations on Friday said the family was......
Trump concedes Obama born in U.S., falsely blames Clinton for rumors
Trump (Reuters)WASHINGTON — Republican Donald Trump finally acknowledged on Friday that President Barack Obama was born in the United States but accused Hillary Clinton of starting the so-called birther controversy, a charge that independent fact-checking sites have said is false."President Barack Obama was born in the United States....The internet thinks Hillary Clinton has a body double
NEW YORK - Hours after Hillary Clinton nearly collapsed at a 9/11 anniversary event last Sunday, internet users claimed that an elderly woman who wasn’t Clinton appeared outside of Chelsea Clinton’s $10 million luxury condo in Manhattan.Internet users had some doubts about the woman’s claims and began to investigate......
Arrest made in arson at Florida mosque where gunman prayed
ORLANDO - A Florida man who investigators say posted anti-Islamic material on social media was arrested on Wednesday on charges of setting fire to a mosque attended by the gunman who committed the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, police said.The case is being prosecuted as a hate crime under Florida law, and the...Teen ‘doctor’ arrested on new charges in Virginia
STAFFORD, VA. — A Florida teenager accused of pretending to be a doctor faces new charges in Virginia after authorities say he fraudulently tried to buy a luxury car. Malachi Love-Robinson was arrested Friday and charged with identity theft and other fraud offenses after he attempted to purchase a Jaguar at a car dealership,...Walmart, Coke apologize for 9/11-themed display at Florida store
PANAMA CITY, Florida — A Walmart spokesman said a 9/11-themed display at a Florida store was designed and created by Coca-Cola. A photo of the display at the Walmart in Panama City, Fla. was posted to Twitter by user @online_shawn and immediately sparked outrage among online commentators who objected to the use of the Sept. 11, 2001...Clinton returns to campaign trail after scrutinized about health
NORTH CAROLINA — Hillary Clinton got back on the campaign trail on Thursday after taking three days off for pneumonia, and the Democratic presidential candidate faced a more challenging political landscape, with Republican rival Donald Trump rising in opinion polls. Senior Clinton aides said they always expected the race to the Nov.......
Fake bomb, Muslim attire used in Sept. 11-timed robbery plot
NEW YORK — A New York man has been arrested for plotting to rob a store around the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks in which he planned to wear traditional Muslim attire and display a fake bomb, federal officials said. Juneal Ali, 29, was arrested by police on Tuesday and charged with attempted robbery and conspiracy, a complaint...Muslims are now more disliked than atheists and homosexuals
WASHINGTON - Believing in ‘Allah’ is worse than believing in no god at all, according to a recent study that surveyed U.S. residents. The study from sociologists at the University of Minnesota who compared Americans’ perceptions of minority faith and racial groups found that Muslims are now more unpopular than both......
Muslim Marine claims he was forced into a dryer and burned
WASHINGTON - A Muslim Marine said he was called a terrorist and ordered into an industrial clothes dryer multiple times by a drill instructor who then turned it on, burning him, according to an article published by The Washington Post.The treatment of recruits in the Marine Corps have been extinsevely investigated following the suicide...UPDATE : Police seek assistance in identifying man who set Muslim woman on fire
NEW YORK — Police released video Tuesday of a suspect in the attack. The video shows a man walking down a street, but it's hard to make out his face. In the suspected hate attack, a stranger set a Scottish Muslim tourist on fire while she was window shopping on New York's Fifth Avenue.The incident took place on Saturday......