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SHAFAQNA-A restaurant manager humiliates two Muslim women and refuses to serve them in Tremblay-en-France in the suburb of Parison Saturdaynight, telling them “terrorists are Muslims and all Muslims are terrorists.” One of the victims videotaped the shocking incident and shared it on social media. The video went viral and stirred the outrage of thousands of users. The video does not record the incident from the begiing; it starts in the middle of a violent verbal attack from the manager. When one of the veiled women said, “we do not want to be served by racists.” The manager came toward to her table and replied angrily, “Racists do not make bombs and do not kill people, racists like me.” The...

Nazia (right) and Faisal Ali were kicked off a Delta Air Lines flight from Paris to Cinciati on July 26.(Photo: Liz Dufour) Nazia Ali had removed her sneakers, finished sending a text message to her parents and was putting on headphones and settling into her seat for the nine-hour flight from Paris to Cinciati when a Delta Air Lines crew member approached she and her husband, Faisal. They were excited to come home July 26 to West Chester Township to see their three young sons following a 10th-aiversary trip to London and Paris, “the city of romance and love,” he said. What happened next would overshadow the good times they’d enjoyed: A flight crew member had complained to the pilot that she ...

SHAFAQNA – Soon after the San Beardino attacks last December, Mona Haydar and her husband Sebastian Robins began searching desperately for a way to “replace trauma and terror with love.” Haydar, a Syrian-American Muslim from Flint, Michigan, says that a lot of people don’t realize that when an extremist performs acts of terror in the name of Islam, it’s often Muslims who start fearing repercussions. In fact, there’s been a surge of anti-Muslim rhetoric and incidents in America in recent months. “After San Beardino we were completely and totally depressed,” the 27-year-old wrote in an email to The Huffington Post. “We had days where we didn’t leave the house.” In a video for Upworthy, Robins,...