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Texas Man Charged With Hate Crime For Mosque Fire, Attempting To Blow Up Car

25 year-old Marq Vincent Perez.
A federal grand jury charged a South Texas man with a hate crime Thursday for allegedly setting fire to a mosque in January, adding to charges tied to his reported attempt to blow up a car.
The grand jury indicted Marq Vincent Perez, 25, for a Jan. 28 burglary and arson at the Victoria Islamic Center, federal prosecutors said Thursday.

Questions After Police Rule Muslim American Teen’s Murder As Road Rage

Police booking photo of the suspect, Darwin Martinez Torres.
Activists and the mother of a Muslim American teenager who was murdered in Virginia on Sunday rejected the police’s conclusion that the crime was not motivated by hate.
Nabra Hassanen was assaulted before dawn on Sunday in Sterling, Virginia, about 50 km west of Washington DC, after attending overnight prayers at the All Dulles Area Muslim Society mosque for the holy month of Ramadan.

London Bridge Attackers ‘Not Welcome In Community In Life Or Death’ Says Imam

Thomas Andrieu, a top aide to the French Interior Minister, left, greets Qari Mohammed Asim MBE, Senior Imam At Leeds’ Makkah Masjid, right, during a meeting at the Grand Central Mosque in Paris, France, Feb. 2, 2015. (AP/Francois Mori)
A senior imam has told Middle East Eye that the perpetrators of the London Bridge attacks should not be afforded the traditional Islamic burial because they “are not accepted in the community in life and in death”.

American Muslims Raise Over $500,000 For Portland Attack Heroes

A small portion of the memorial for two men fatally stabbed on a light rail train in Portland, Ore., last week is shown in Portland, Ore., Wednesday 31, 2017. (AP/Don Ryan)
Muslim groups have raised more than $500,000 for the heroes killed while defending two women who were being harassed by an Islamophobic passenger on a train in Portland last week.
Ricky Best and Taliesin Myrddin Namkai-Meche were fatally stabbed, and Micah Fletcher was critically wounded by a man who was shouting bigoted slurs at teenagers who appeared to be Muslim.