A Florida man pleaded guilty on Friday to a federal hate crime for threatening to bomb two mosques and shoot their congregants shortly after November\’s deadly attacks in Paris.
Bernie Sanders referenced the Holocaust and condemned Republican candidate Donald Trump’s “anti-Muslim rhetoric and hatred” in a visit to a Washington mosque.
A West Bank mosque was set on fire and nationalist slogans were painted on its walls.\n
A mosaic of more than 100 women of all ages attended the inaugural Women’s Mosque of America’s jumma’a, the Friday call to prayer, on Jan 30.
A mosque was set alight in a suspected arson attack in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday and the name of an Israeli vigilante group called \”price tag\” was found scribbled on an outside wall, Palestinian officials and witnesses said.
Israeli police are investigating the torching of the entrance to a mosque in northern Israel and the spraying of anti-Arab slogans on its walls.
Supporters of Egypt\’s Muslim Brotherhood stormed and torched a government building in Cairo on Thursday, while families tried to identify hundreds of mutilated bodies piled in a Cairo mosque a day after they were shot dead by the security forces.
Jerusalem\’s identity is Arab, and the city\’s and Christian holy sites must be protected from Israeli threats, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said.
French Jewish leaders are calling the tossing of two pig heads into a mosque not far from Toulouse \”an odious desecration.\”
On July 20, Jewish Journal columnist Dennis Prager conducted a lengthy interview on his radio show with Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, author of “What’s Right With America,” who is best known for his plans to build an Islamic community center, including a mosque, near the World Trade Center in New York. What follows is the transcribed text of that interview.
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