Attacks on Muslims

Turkey alerts citizens to risk of attack in United States, Europe on heels of Western warnings

This warning has come after protestors in Sweden burnt copies of the Koran

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Protesters demonstrate outside the Consulate General of Sweden after Rasmus Paludan, leader of the Danish far-right political party Hard Line, who has Swedish citizenship, burned a copy of the Koran near the Turkish embassy in Stockholm, in Istanbul, Turkey, January 22, 2023.
A Muslim American woman leaves the mosque after attending Friday "Jumaah" prayers at the Islamic Cultural Center of New York in New York City, New York, U.S., August 25, 2017

U.S. anti-Muslim hate crimes rose 15 percent in 2017

CAIR attributed the increase in part to the policies of US President Donald Trump, particularly restrictions on immigration from Muslim-majority countries.

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Khawlah Noman, 11, speaks to reporters with her mother at Pauline Johnson Junior Public School, after she told police that a man cut her hijab with scissors in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Canadian police search for man who cut 11-year-old girl's hijab

The attack comes as Canada approaches the first anniversary of a deadly shooting in a Quebec City mosque that killed six people at prayer.

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