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Dublin’s Mater Hospital recorded a 68% increase in knife-related injuries in its Emergency Department over the past five years, prompting calls from ED doctors for more measures to deal with the issue. The Irish Association of Emergency Medicine (IAEM) is calling for a focus on prevention and first aid skills, as well as equipment to deal with what it describes as a concerning and urgent issue across the country. Over the past decade, knife-related crime has been on the rise and while incidents dipped last year, knife injuries are now a regular issue for doctors in emergency departments. The IAEM...

The Manchester terrorist phoned police to proclaim his allegiance to Islamic State in the middle of his stabbing spree that left two dead. Jihad Al-Shamie, 35, claimed responsibility for the attack after driving at worshippers in his car outside Heaton Park Hebrew Synagogue as worshippers attended for the holy day of Yom Kippur. He then attacked others with a knife and tried to storm the synagogue, wearing a fake suicide belt. Father-of-three Melvin Cravitz, 66, was killed, along with Adrian Daulby, 53, believed to have been inadvertently shot by police as he ran to block the synagogue doors to stop...

Reform UK’s newest MP has claimed that whole cities have “essentially become Muslim” as a result of mass migration. Danny Kruger, who defected from the Tories earlier this month, claimed the UK was becoming a “segregated society” with “whole communities living an entirely un-British life”. The former minister and political secretary to Boris Johnson in Downing Street joined Nigel Farage to help develop policy in a new unit preparing Reform for government. On the BBC’s Political Thinking podcast, Mr Kruger said he believed “the rate of immigration is simply too great and too swift”. Asked why he had a particular...

Mayor Abdullah H. Hammoud scolded resident Edward “Ted” Barham, a Christian, “Although you live here, you are not welcome here.” “He then turned to a personal attack on his city’s resident, accusing Barham of being “a bigot, and you are racist, and you’re an Islamophobe. Although you live here, I want you to know as mayor, you are not welcome here. And the day you move out of the city will be the day that I launch a parade celebrating the fact that you moved out of this city.” (WND News Center) The Christian minister was objecting to naming street...

California is one step closer to adding another official holiday to its calendar. The California Legislature has passed AB 268, introduced by Assemblymember Ash Kalra (D-San José), which would designate Diwali as an official state holiday. Diwali, also known as the “Festival of Lights,” is celebrated annually by Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, and Jains worldwide. Celebrants light small oil lamps, place them around the home, and pray for health, knowledge, and peace. The word “Diwali” is a shortened version of the Sanskrit term “Deepavali,” which means “a row of lamps.” “Designating Diwali as an official state holiday not only recognizes the...

Riots break out in Malmo, a town in the south of the country, after far-Right activists burnt the Koran in street Around 300 protesters took to the streets tonight, with tyres being burnt and rocks being thrown at the police It comes after leader of Danish far-Right party Hard Line, was denied permission to have a meeting in Malmo Rasmus Paludan was arrested on Friday by police who say they suspected he was going to break Swedish laws

A man on the FBI's Most Wanted List for slaying his two daughters in "honor killings" outside an Irving hotel in 2008 has been captured, the FBI and Irving Police Department announced Wednesday evening. Yaser Abdel Said is accused of shooting and killing his two daughters, 18-year-old Amina and 17-year-old Sarah. Investigators believe he was taking them to dinner when he shot them in the back of a taxi cab outside the Omni Hotel in Irving. -snip The FBI classified the shootings as "honor killings." In the recorded 911 call, one of the girls is heard saying her father shot...

For twelve years, Yaser Said has been on the run after his horrific murders of his daughters on January 1, 2008. He did it because they had non-Muslim boyfriends, which as far as Yaser was concerned, brought dishonor upon the family. Murder didn’t dishonor the family, but Muslim girls with non-Muslim boys did. This is the reality of honor killing, while the enemedia condemns those who speak out against it as “Islamophobic ... Said had been on the run since 2008 after police said he took his daughters, 18-year-old Amina and 17-year-old Sarah, to get something to eat on New...

A woman who made anti-Semitic remarks years ago on social media, including one tweet saying she’d purposely give the wrong medication to Jewish people, has had her medical certificate permanently revoked by the State Medical Board of Ohio. ... "hahha ewww .. I'll purposely give all the yahood [Jews] the wrong meds,” Kollab said on January 2, 2012 – the tweet that would ultimately cost her the residency at Cleveland Clinic seven years later. Another translated tweet on Aug. 20, 2011 read: “Allah will take the Jews.”

How does a Somali get elected to Minnesota’s state legislature? Because she’s from “Little Somalia,” Minneapolis, home to the largest Somali community in America. So it should come as not surprise that a Somali activist unseated one of the longest-serving members of the state legislature earlier this year in Minneapolis. Ilhan Omar defeated Rep. Phyllis Kahn who was in the legislature for 22 terms (44 years). Omar could be the first Somali in America to be elected to any state legislature if she wins in November. Minneapolis is recruiting ground for young terrorists. At least 36 Somali men from Minnesota...

A British schoolgirl who fled the UK to join ISIS in Syria has been killed by an airstrike in Raqqa. Kadiza Sultana, 17, is thought to have died earlier this year after her home in the terror state's stronghold city was hit by a bomb believed to have been dropped by a Russian plane.

I feel unsafe in US, Muslim American Olympic Star Ibtihaj Muhammad says American athlete Ibtihaj Muhammad, who is also the U.S.'s first hijab-wearing Olympian, said she feels unsafe in her own country due to rising Islamophobic tendencies.