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A man was arrested for allegedly intimidating and threatening worshippers at a mosque in Phoenix. The Phoenix Police Department on Saturday night arrested Noel Thomas Becht on charges of trespassing, disorderly conduct and threatening and intimidating, according to The Associated Press. Becht remained in custody at the Maricopa County Jail as of Monday. Becht initially entered the United Islamic Center Saturday evening around 7 p.m. He asked about the Muslim religion and requested to sit in on a prayer service, police say. He then reportedly started wandering around the mosque and entering rooms and areas he should not have...

At least four people have been injured after a man intentionally drove into a crowd of people in western Germany in what appears to have been an attack directed at foreigners. Those hit by the car included Syrian and Afghan citizens, and some were seriously injured. Muenster police said the 50-year-old driver of a Mercedes drove into a crowd in the centre of Bottrop shortly after midnight Tuesday.

CHEMNITZ, Germany (Reuters) - Far-right demonstrators clashed with leftist protesters in the eastern German city of Chemnitz on Monday after an Iraqi and a Syrian were arrested over a fatal stabbing that had triggered violent demonstrations. Over a thousand leftist protesters massed near a giant statue of Karl Marx in Chemnitz on Monday evening to protest attacks on foreigners that occurred during an impromptu demonstration on Sunday after reports spread on social media about the stabbing of a 35-year-old German man. Nearly the same number of demonstrators waving German and Bavarian flags gathered nearby, some breaking through police barriers aimed...

A burned Quran filled with bacon was found outside a Sacramento mosque Saturday, the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department said. It was hanging by a handcuff from a temporary fence outside the Masjid Annur Islamic Center. ... The center, which is the largest mosque in the greater Sacramento area, is next to a police station but it has been targeted in the past. Another center was targeted about 20 miles west in Davis, California. As Ramadan Taraweeh prayers were underway Friday, an individual dropped a "large quantity" of cut up pages of the Quran outside the Islamic Center of Davis, Sgt....

HPAKANT, Myanmar, July 2 (UPI) -- A mob burned down a mosque in northern Myanmar, the second attack in a little more than one week. Several hundred villagers wielding sticks, knives and other weapons raided and burned the structure around 3:30 p.m. Friday, according to the state-run Global New Light of Myanmar state-newspaper. Local authorities and security forces said they tried to disperse the mob but that the mob was unresponsive and entirely beyond control. No arrests were made and an investigation has been launched....

Investigators have identified a woman believed to have threatened people at the Islamic Association of Tarrant County on Sunday afternoon. The FBI has interviewed the woman, but Fort Worth police tell NBC 5 it's not clear yet whether her actions will be considered a crime. One of the alleged targets of that woman's rant said Monday she is not the one with whom he's angry. The call to prayer is a constant rhythm in the southwest Fort Worth neighborhood surrounding the Islamic Association of Tarrant County. The chanting voice weaves through daily lives there and right now, it cuts through...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Donald Trump protesters swarmed and attacked Trump protesters during and after the New York businessman’s remarks at the San Jose Convention Center Thursday night. As Trump supporters streamed into and later out of the convention center they were berated with profanities by angry protesters. Some Trump supporters looked for ways to avoid the protest crowd while others walked directly into it with pro-Trump paraphernalia. One Trump supporter, a woman, was egged and punched, while another woman was hit and shoved by an anti-Trump mob. At least two men who attended Trump’s rally walked away with blood...

Six people suffered from smoke inhalation injuries early on Thursday morning after unknown attackers set fire to a hotel in Bingen, Rhineland-Palatinate. The fire broke out in the hotel on the town’s main street at around 3:15am, police reported. 25 people, including 16 refugees, were staying there that night, the hotel’s owner told broadcaster SWR. Four people staying in the hotel and two firefighters were hurt by smoke inhalation. Two of the residents had to be treated in hospital. Police say there may have been a racist motive to the attack on the hotel, which currently houses a number of...

Belgian police briefly used water cannon to control several hundred rowdy protesters in central Brussels on Sunday after they ignored an official call for marches to be postponed following Tuesday's bombings. Amid fears of further attacks, officials wanted to give police the scope to focus on investigations which have widened to other countries, leading to the arrest of an Algerian in Italy and intelligence cooperation with Germany. Police carried out 13 new raids in Belgium itself. Hundreds nevertheless gathered at the Bourse to express solidarity with the victims of the suicide bomb attacks at Brussels airport and on a rush-hour...

VANCOUVER -- Police said they were looking for a suspect after more than a dozen Syrian refugees were pepper sprayed late Friday night in Vancouver. The attack happened outside the Muslim Association of Canada Centre during a "welcome night" event for newly-arrived Syrian refugees. City police said a crowd of men, women and children had gathered outside the MAC centre when a man wearing a white-hoodie apparently rode by on a bicycle and sprayed 15 to 30 people. Witnesses said several of those who were hit started coughing and complaining of burning eyes. Police said that a number of people...

An alarming majority of Jews living in Europe today are afraid to reveal their Jewishness, a survey carried out by the Rabbinical Centre of Europe (RCE) published on Tuesday found. The data indicates a severe erosion in the sense of security felt by European Jews. The survey found that over 85% of Jews in Europe do not bring their children to synagogue on Rosh Hashana to hear the shofar, out of fear of anti-Semitism. According to Rabbi Menachem Margolin, head of the European Jewish Association, "rabbis and community leaders from all over Europe report that more and more Jews refrain...

Al Qaeda Infiltration?Evidence Suggests Terror Network Has Greater Presence in U.S. Than Thought ABCNEWS.com W A S H I N G T O N, Aug. 4, 2004— U.S. intelligence has evidence al Qaeda operatives cased major targets in New York and Washington from the inside, ABC News has learned. It was part of a meticulous surveillance operation that managed to obtain unusual access. Information found on the computer files of Mohammed Khan, the 25-year-old computer engineer who was arrested last month in Pakistan, is responsible for the current terror alert at financial centers in New York, Washington, D.C., and Newark,...