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1 week ago | 
thecanary.co | Maryam Jameela
Countless Muslim graves in Carpenders Park Lawn Cemetery in Hertfordshire have been desecrated, in what has been labelled an Islamophobic hate crime by police. 85 graves in the Muslim section of a cemetery, largely the graves of babies and children, have been vandalised. Disturbing pictures showed the desecrated site, with name plaques broken, soil from marked graves dug up, and damaged headstones.
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1 week ago | 
thecanary.co | Maryam Jameela
Another Columbia student, Mohsen Mahdawi has been detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Mahdawi is a green card holder who, alongside Mahmoud Khalil, organised protests against Israel’s genocide in Palestine. Now, senators in Vermont, where Mahdawi was apprehended have released a blistering statement:Earlier today, Mohsen Mahdawi of White River Junction, Vermont, walked into an immigration office for what was supposed to be the final step in his citizenship process.
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1 week ago | 
thecanary.co | Maryam Jameela
Three students at Paul Revere Middle School in Houston have been violently attacked in a likely Islamophobic attack. Three hijabi Afghan girls were attacked by a group of 20 fellow students. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) found that:One student was reportedly beaten so severely that she became unresponsive to teachers and was taken to Texas Children’s Hospital in the Medical Center, where she remained for four days.
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2 weeks ago | 
thecanary.co | Maryam Jameela
The mother of a 12 year old autistic child has shared shocking footage with the BBC. In the clip, her son can be seen being restrained on the ground by five members of staff at Springwell Leeds Academy’s north site. The group are in a padded seclusion room where the staff members tackle the child to the ground, and pin him there. The child’s mother said:This is a child and these are five grown adults in a school where he’s supposed to be safe.
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2 weeks ago | 
thecanary.co | Maryam Jameela
Richard Burgon, MP for Leeds East, has asked questions about Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) plans for people on Personal Independence Payments (PIP) and received an outrageous answer. As the Canary’s most recent coverage has demonstrated, Labour have shown nothing but contempt for disabled people when it comes to policy on disability benefits. The announcement of these policies has caused untold distress for disabled people.
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2 weeks ago | 
thecanary.co | Maryam Jameela
Tell MAMA, an anti-Islamophobia monitoring group, is facing fresh accusations after having its government funding cut last month. Now, peer and chief executive of Muslim Women’s Network UK, Shaista Gohir has accused Tell MAMA of under-reporting instances of Islamophobia, not offering support to certain MPs, and of potentially being used as a Tory monitor for so-called extremism.
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2 weeks ago | 
thecanary.co | Maryam Jameela
Israel has targeted and killed yet more Palestinian journalists. The strike on a media tent in Khan Younis comes after Israel has been accused numerous times of targeting journalists specifically. Al Jazeera reported :Israel’s attack burned Palestine Today reporter Hilmi al-Faqaawi to death along with another man named Yousef al-Khazindar. Journalists Hassan Eslaih, Ahmed al-Agha, Muhammad Fayek, Abdallah Al-Attar, Ihab al-Bardini and Mahmoud Awad were also injured.
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2 weeks ago | 
nowthenmagazine.com | Maryam Jameela
Skip to main content Sheffield Central MP Abtisam Mohamed and Earley and Woodley MP Yuan Yang have both been detained and deported by Israeli officials, along with two aides travelling with the pair. The Israeli Embassy in London released a statement, explaining: Israel will not allow the entry of individuals or entities that act against the state and its citizens, promote calls for its boycott, accuse it with false allegations, or call for sanctions against ministers and elected officials....
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4 weeks ago | 
thecanary.co | Maryam Jameela
A group of politicians and intelligence officials associated with the Donald Trump administration are, bizarrely, attempting to play down the hugely embarrassing leak of a group chat which mistakenly added a journalist. In a fiery hearing, CIA director John Ratcliffe exploded at questions about the severity of the leak. However, the Atlantic, whose editor in chief was mistakenly added to the chat, have now revealed screenshots of the conversation in question.
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4 weeks ago | 
thecanary.co | Maryam Jameela
Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu was arrested over the weekend on corruption charges. However, as the leader of the opposition, Imamoglu’s arrest has sparked anti-government protests in Turkey. Imamoglu has presented a staunch opposition to Turkish president Recep Erdoğan and, as Al Jazeera reported:The court’s decision to send Imamoglu to pre-trial detention comes after the opposition, European leaders and tens of thousands of protesters criticised the actions against him as politicised.
