{"id":35761,"date":"2019-03-16T18:23:09","date_gmt":"2019-03-16T18:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=35761"},"modified":"2019-03-16T18:23:09","modified_gmt":"2019-03-16T18:23:09","slug":"a-summary-of-attacks-on-muslims-in-western-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=35761","title":{"rendered":"A summary of attacks on Muslims in Western countries"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The killing of at least 49 Muslim worshippers at two mosques on Friday in New Zealand<\/a> was the latest in a series of attacks against Muslims in western countries – and by far the worst.<\/p>\n

Researchers have documented a surge in anti-Muslim attacks in the United Kingdom<\/a>, Canada<\/a> and the United States<\/a>, among other countries, noting an all-time high in recent years.<\/p>\n

Here are some of the most deadly:
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US – August 2016:<\/strong> A New York imam and his associate are shot and killed<\/a>\u00a0on a busy street near their mosque in Queens. Police say it was a hate crime. The attacker is arrested and charged with murder.<\/p>\n

Switzerland – December 2016:<\/strong> A 30-year-old man enters a mosque<\/a> in central Zurich and starts firing at a handful of men who were drinking tea after evening prayer. Three are wounded.<\/p>\n

Another victim was killed by the same perpetrator earlier in the day. The suspect escapes but is found dead near a river close to the mosque.
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Canada – January 2017:<\/strong> Alexandre Bissonnette, 27, kills six Muslim worshippers<\/a>\u00a0and injures scores of others in an attack at a Quebec City mosque during evening prayers.<\/p>\n

The fatalities include one victim who was killed as he attempted to tackle the gunman. Nineteen others are injured in the shooting. Bissonnette is sentenced to life imprisonment.
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US – May 2017:<\/strong> Two men are stabbed to death <\/a>after they try to intervene when a man starts yelling racial slurs at two women of Muslim appearance on a train in the north-western US state of Oregon.<\/p>\n

The attacker is identified as 35-year-old Jeremy Joseph Christian. A third man is seriously injured.
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UK – June 2017:<\/strong> A 48-year-old man in London drives a van into a group of worshippers<\/a> who had just come out of a mosque after a late-night prayer, killing a 51-year-old man and injuring nine others.<\/p>\n

The driver, 48-year-old Darren Osborne, allegedly shouted “I want to kill all Muslims – I did my bit” after the attack. Osborne is sentenced to 43 years in jail on terrorism-related charges.<\/p>\n

Spain – August 2017:<\/strong> The number of crimes directed towards Muslims in Spain increases following deadly attacks<\/a> in Barcelona and Cambrils as mosques in the cities of Granada, Fuenlabrada, Logrono and Seville are desecrated and firebombed.
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Three Moroccans are brutally assaulted in Navarre, while a Muslim woman is injured from in attack in front of a Madrid metro.
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New Zealand – March 2019:<\/strong>\u00a0Twenty eight-year-old Australian Brenton Tarrant allegedly kills 49 people<\/a> at two mosques in Christchurch. He is arrested and is facing charges.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\n SOURCE:
\n Al Jazeera and news agencies<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The killing of at least 49 Muslim worshippers at two mosques on Friday in New Zealand was the latest in a series of attacks against Muslims in western countries – and by far the worst. Researchers have documented a surge in anti-Muslim attacks in the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States, among other countries,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}