The Somali Association of South Africa (SASA) says the shooting of four Somali nationals in Mitchells Plain last week was not religiously motivated, contrary to recent media reports. The incident took place at the Mitchells Plain Town Centre on Wednesday, where a lone Somali gunman opened fire on four fellow[…]
Two men suspected of helping the gunman behind the deadly attacks in Copenhagen faced a court hearing Monday as Danes mourned the victims of a shooting spree that authorities said may have been inspired by last month’s attacks in Paris. The defense lawyer for one of the suspects said they[…]
OPINION-January 2015 marked the moment when the world witnessed two lone wolves commit the heinous crime of murder at the Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris. #JeSuisCharlie went viral in the hours that followed with the world’s condemnation in its full plethora. A month later and again we are told of[…]
The following is a statement released by the Claremont Main Road Mosque, in response to the recent killing of three Muslim youths in Chapel Hill, North Carolina: The Claremont Main Road Mosque (CMRM) condemns in the strongest possible terms the callous murder of three Muslim students in North Carolina on[…]
Authorities in the US state of North Carolina are trying to determine whether hate played a role in the shooting deaths of three Muslim students. Craig Stephen Hicks, 46, was charged with three counts of first-degree murder on Wednesday in the fatal shootings of Deah Shaddy Barakat, 23, his 21-year-old[…]
Three American students have been shot to death at a residential complex of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a suspect has been arrested over the incident, according to local police. Chapel Hill police told local news outlets that Craig Stephen Hicks, 46, was arrested and charged[…]
Afghan officials say that security forces have arrested five people suspected of being involved in a massacre last month that saw extremists attack a military school in Pakistan, killing 148 people, most of them children. The two officials told The Associated Press on Saturday that the men, all Afghan nationals,[…]
Two masked gunmen entered the Paris headquarters of satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo and opened fire with automatic weapons, killing at least 11 people, in what President Francois Hollande called a “terrorist attack.” Speaking at the scene of the attack, Hollande said the government had raised the alert level in[…]
The Israeli army has shot dead a Palestinian in the occupied West Bank at the Zaatara checkpoint south of Nablus city, Palestinian security officials said. The Israeli military has confirmed to Al Jazeera that a Palestinian man was killed and another was injured on Monday after soldiers encountered a group[…]
Protesters have clashed with police in the US state of Missouri after a black teenager, reportedly brandishing a gun, was shot dead by a white officer. A crowd of around 300 people gathered near a petrol station in Berkeley on Wednesday, after the shooting death of 18-year-old Antonio Martin. Protesters[…]
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