Crime

Children & Teens

Irving man who helped fugitive father elude capture gets 10 years in prison Islam Yaser-Abdel Said, 32, helped conceal his father who was one of the FBI’s most wanted fugitives. The feds say Yaser Said, 64, murdered Islam Said’s two sisters in 2008 — an alleged crime for which he awaits trial.

April 27, 2021   

(Dallas Morning News) An Irving man was sentenced Tuesday to a decade in federal prison for helping his fugitive father elude capture for more than a dozen years in the alleged murders of his two teenage daughters, federal authorities said. Islam Yaser-Abdel […]

Alcohol & Drugs

Israel blasts French ruling keeping Sarah Halimi’s killer from trial Calling the murder ‘despicable,’ Foreign Ministry says court judgment fails to convey attitude of zero tolerance toward anti-Semitism

April 21, 2021   

(Times of Israel) Israel blasted on Tuesday the ruling by France’s highest court that the murderer of Sarah Halimi was not criminally responsible because he had smoked marijuana before the crime. “Sarah Halimi was murdered for clearly anti-Semitic motivations, for the sole […]

Children & Teens

Girl’s beatings livestreamed

April 3, 2021   

(Otago Daily Times) A teenage refugee was subjected to protracted, livestreamed beatings by her own family after supposedly bringing shame on them, a court has heard. “What’s just absolutely appalling is that she was hit so many times she couldn’t tell the […]

Crime

Muslim groups mourn and raise money for Colorado shooting victims As further details about the suspect began to emerge, many expressed concern and fear over ramped-up Islamophobia.

March 24, 2021   

(Religion News) Muslim organizations are mourning and raising money for the 10 people killed in the mass shooting on Monday (March 22) at a King Soopers grocery store in Boulder, Colorado. The Colorado Muslim Leadership Council on Tuesday released a statement in solidarity […]