Racism & Hate Crimes

OP-ED: White Supremacists Without Borders

White Supremacists Without Borders Morris Dees and J. Richard Cohen, New York Times 22 June 2015   MONTGOMERY, Ala. — A VARIETY of clues to the motives of Dylann Storm Roof, the suspect in last week’s mass shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., have emerged. First, we saw the patches he wore on his jacket in a Facebook photo: the flags of regimes in South Africa and Rhodesia that brutally enforced white

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US Update: Hearing for Suspect in Charleston Shooting

In Charleston, Raw Emotion at Hearing for Suspect in Church Shooting Nikita Stewart and Richard Pérez-Peña, New York Times 19 June 2015 Image: Clockwise from top left: Susie Jackson; Sharonda Coleman-Singleton; DePayne Doctor; Ethel Lance; Daniel Simmons Sr.; Clementa Pinckney; Cynthia Hurd; Tywanza Sanders.CreditClockwise from top left: David Goldman/AP; Jeffrey Collins/AP; Leigh Thomson/Southern Wesleyan University, via AP; David Goldman/AP

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Islamic Extremists Kill Muslim Lawyers

The Killing Of Muslim Lawyers: An Unrecognized Problem Richard Horowitz, The Daily Caller 22 April 2015   Last month a Taliban faction took responsibility for killing Samiullah Afridi, the lawyer who represented the doctor who assisted the CIA in locating Osama Bin Laden. In 2009, West Point’s Combating Terrorism Center published a report showing that al-Qaeda kills eight times more Muslims than non-Muslims. As a preponderance of terrorist attacks

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“Bring Back Our Girls”

  ‘Bring Back Our Girls’ The New York Times May 3, 2014 By Nicholas Kristof Dozens of heavily armed terrorists rolled into the sleepy little town one night in a convoy of trucks, buses and vans. They made their way to the girls’ boarding school. The high school girls, asleep in their dormitory, awoke to gunfire. The attackers stormed the school, set it on fire, and, residents said, then herded several hundred terrified girls into the vehicles

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Links to Hate Crime Resources

Anti-Defamation League Hatebase.org (Launched by the Sentinel Project, Hatebase.org is the world's largest online repository of structured data on hate speech. Hatebase was designed to help NGOs assess relative risk across conflict zones by looking for elevated levels of inflammatory language.) Human Rights First: Hate Crime and Human Rights and the organization's Ten-Point Plan for Combating Hate Crimes International Association of Chiefs of

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Articles

Hate Crimes ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Mezuzahs Burned In Brooklyn Investigated As Hate Crime On Holocaust Remembrance Day By Ellen Yan, Huffington Post 9 April 2013   Religious objects attached outside the door frames of Jewish homes were burned in a Brooklyn apartment building Monday, New York City police said. The NYPD's hate-crimes task force is

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Archived Updates

8 June 2012, "Hate Crime in South Africa Gets International Scrutiny," by Human Rights First 17 May 2011, "Homophobic hate crimes on the rise, UN human rights chief warns," by UN News Centre 26 March 2006, “Jews in France Feel Sting as Anti-Semitism Surges Among Children of Immigrants,” by The New York Times 9 March 2006, “3 Students Held in Arsons at Churches,” by the Los Angeles Times 7 March 2006, “3 Jews Are Attacked in a Paris Suburb,”

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