Perspective: The deadly consequences of Islamophobia -- Road rage incidents or hate crimes? | Aminah Suhail Qureshi

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A report published in The Guardian indicated a 500 percent increase in Islamophobic attacks in Greater Manchester with 224 incidents reported since the suicide bombing at a concert last month.

Three young Muslim students, Deah Shaddy Barakat, Yusor Mohammad, and
Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha were killed over a parking dispute in Chapel Hill,
North Carolina, on February 10, 2015. Photo: Anadolu Agency

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By Aminah Suhail Qureshi | July 2, 2017

The Islamic Cultural Centre of Quebec City, Canada was attacked by a young student on 29 January 2017 shortly after the end of evening prayers and resulted in the death of six worshippers. After having committed the crime, he himself called the police and surrendered. People who knew him reported him to be a white nationalist who held far-right and anti-Muslim views.

Nabra Hassanen – a woman, a black, and, most of all, a Muslim as was evident from her hijab – was reportedly accompanied by other Muslim teens, disputed to be between four and 14 in number, on her way to the All Dulles Area Muslim Society (ADAMS), a local Muslim community centre and mosque in Sterling, Virginia, after eating an early breakfast from McDonald’s before the start of Sunday’s fast when a teenage boy from her group exchanged harsh words with a stranger in a car. The argument flared up and with it the motorist who then drove the car over the kerb towards them, exited it and chased them with a metal baseball bat. As witnesses reported, he also yelled and threw beer bottles at them before getting out of the car and chasing them. His target had definitely shifted from the bicyclist to the whole group of teenagers of whom all but one managed to run and find refuge in the mosque.
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