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Police cuff a shirtless man seen earlier chasing an Asian man and trying to break into a restaurant while holding a large weapon, in Edinburgh, Scotland, June 19, 2026. (Screen capture: X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
June 21, 2026, 6:59 pm
Scottish police charge man after apparent anti-Muslim attacks in Edinburgh
Five hurt in series of assaults by armed man seen chasing an Asian man, trying to break into restaurant; Muslim groups blame ‘political rhetoric that demonizes entire communities’
By Reuters
A knife-wielding assailant during an apparent anti-Muslim rampage in Edinburgh, Scotland, on June 19, 2026. (Screenshot: X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
June 21, 2026, 3:47 am
Counterterror police probe after 5 hurt in apparent anti-Muslim attacks in Edinburgh
Shirtless man filmed wielding knife in Scottish city’s streets, yelling during arrest that he’s ‘protecting the country from these fucking Muslim bastards raping our young daughters’
By Jill Lawless
Illustrative: The famous Al-Uzair Mosque in the town of Abu Ghosh, near Jerusalem, November 11, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
August 28, 2025, 12:27 pm
Israeli suspected of filming himself urinating on mosque near Jerusalem
After video of man desecrating house of worship in Abu Ghosh goes viral, police arrest resident of nearby moshav for ‘insulting religion’
By Charlie Summers and ToI Staff
A damaged grave is seen in a cemetery near the Old City of Jerusalem, after two teens were arrested on suspicion of vandalizing and damaging the graveyard, on July 11, 2025. (Israel Police)
July 11, 2025, 11:09 am
Two 14-year-olds arrested for vandalism at Muslim cemetery near Jerusalem’s Old City
Police say surveillance operators saw teens damaging tombstones and graves on security cameras; suspects to appear in court
By ToI Staff
Joseph Czuba, then 71, stands before Circuit Judge Dave Carlson for his arraignment at the Will County courthouse in Joliet, Illinois, October 30, 2023. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
May 2, 2025, 8:35 pm
Illinois man sentenced to 53 years for hate crime killing of Palestinian child
Joseph Czuba stabbed to death Wadee Alfayoumi and knifed his mother Hanan Shaheen days after the October 7 attack by Hamas on Israel
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Joseph Czuba, then 71, stands before Circuit Judge Dave Carlson for his arraignment at the Will County courthouse in Joliet, Illinois, October 30, 2023. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
February 26, 2025, 1:15 am
Trial opens for murder of six-year-old Palestinian boy in Chicago in wake of Oct. 7
Hanan Shaheen says her landlord Joseph Czuba, 73, said ‘You, as a Muslim, must die,’ before assaulting her and stabbing her son Wadee Alfayoumi 26 times
By AP and ToI Staff
Carl Mintz, a Jewish man in Farmington Hills, Michigan, in an audition tape he made for a stage production about Jesus Christ, uploaded September 17, 2021. Mintz was arrested on October 14, 2023, and charged with threatening to 'hunt Palestinians' amid deadly violence between Israel and Hamas. (Screenshot via YouTube via JTA)
October 20, 2023, 8:14 pm
Police arrest Detroit Jewish man who said he wanted to ‘hunt Palestinians’
Carl Mintz charged with making a terrorist threat after a post on social media proposing violence in the heavily Muslim neighborhood of Dearborn
By Andrew Lapin
Illustrative: Women walk down a street in the predominantly Somali neighborhood of Cedar-Riverside in Minneapolis on May 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
May 1, 2023, 12:12 am
Man charged with setting fire to two mosques in Minneapolis
Police chief says 36-year-old Jackie Rahm Little nabbed after attempting ‘to inflict terror onto our Muslim community’
By AP
People attend a memorial at the location where a family of five was hit by a driver, in London, Ontario, June 7, 2021 (Brett Gundlock/The Canadian Press via AP)
June 7, 2021, 11:58 pm
Canadian family killed in ramming were targeted for being Muslim — police
4 killed, 9-year-old boy hospitalized after truck plows into pedestrians in Ontario; suspect Nathaniel Veltman, 20, is arrested; police haven’t determined if he’s hate group member
By Rob Gillies
This Oct. 8, 2019, file photo shows Democratic candidate for the 28th district for the Virginia Senate, Qasim Rashid, in Fredericksburg, Virginia (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)
June 5, 2021, 10:28 am
US court upholds man’s conviction for lynch threat to Muslim political candidate
Joseph Cecil Vandevere also accused of posting anti-Semitic threat on Florida synagogue’s Facebook page accompanied by photo of 1915 lynching of a Jewish man
By Michael Kunzelman
The Islamic Center of Cape Girardeau in O'Fallon, Missouri. (Screen capture: Google Maps)
April 30, 2020, 7:38 pm
Man charged with hate crime over arson attack on Missouri mosque
42-year-old Nicholas Proffitt spent time in prison more than a decade ago for defacing the Islamic Center of Cape Girardeau, which he set fire to last week
By AP
The scene outside London Central Mosque in Regent's Park, where police have arrested a man on suspicion of attempted murder, in London, February 20, 2020 (Marc Ward/PA via AP)
February 20, 2020, 7:09 pm
Muezzin stabbed in neck at London mosque as hundreds watch; police: not terror
Victim was reciting Muslim call to prayer when he was assailed by attacker, who was caught at the scene; injured man, in his 70s, hospitalized with non-life-threatening wounds
By AP and ToI Staff
An inscription on a wall in the Palestinian village of Al-Jib says 'Arabs? Expel or kill!' December 19, 2019 (Israel Police)
December 19, 2019, 11:21 am
Cars vandalized in Palestinian village, graffiti urges ‘expel or kill’ Arabs
Police investigate latest case of destruction of property in West Bank town
By ToI Staff
A car in Deir Ammar targeted in a price tag attack on October 16, 2019. (Yesh Din)
December 15, 2019, 12:54 pm
Hate crimes against Palestinians down in 2019, but perpetrators becoming bolder
Report says recent attacks required elaborate coordination; many originate in the hardline Yitzhar settlement; 6 endangered lives, were classified as terror
By ToI Staff
A vandalized building in the Arab Israeli town of Manshiya Zabda, December 12, 2019. The graffiti says: 'Arabs are enemies, expel or kill' (Israel Police)
December 12, 2019, 7:59 am
Police probe hate crime after cars, buildings vandalized in Arab Israeli town
Graffiti in Manshiya Zabda, near Haifa, declares ‘Muhammad is a pig’ and ‘Arabs are enemies, expel or kill.’ Authorities say they’ll use all means to bring perpetrators to justice
By ToI Staff
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