Australia

Below is a list of 11 incidents in Australia that could be considered Islamophobic:

Austria

Below is a list of 2 incidents in Austria that could be considered Islamophobic:

Belgium

Below is a list of 3 incidents in Belgium that could be considered Islamophobic:

Bosnia and Herzegovina

In the 1990s, the Bosnian Genocide and the Kosovo War, both of which involved the mass murder of innocent Muslims, have been linked to Islamophobia.^[34] In Bosnia, Christian Serb and Croat militias carried out genocidal attacks on the Muslim Bosniak community. According to the ICRC data on the Bosnian Genocide, "20,000 people were killed, 12,000 of them children, up to 50,000 women were raped, and 2.2 million were forced to flee their homes."^[35] Many attacks on religious buildings and symbols took place in towns such as Foča, where all of the town's mosques were destroyed. On 22 April 1992, Serbs blew up the Aladža Mosque and eight more mosques dating from the 16th and 17th centuries were damaged or completely destroyed.^[36]

Brazil

Below is a list of 5 incidents in Brazil that could be considered Islamophobic:

Bulgaria

Below is a list of 2 incidents in Bulgaria that could be considered Islamophobic:

Canada

In recent years, attacks against Muslims increased, mainly in the provinces of Ontario and Quebec. Until 2016 the attacks were all arson incidents, vandalism and melee attacks. However, since 2017 incidents started to be deadly and carried out with terrorist tactics, resulting in 11 deaths, of whom six in 2017, one in 2020 and four in 2021.^[39]

Below is a list of 17 incidents in Canada that could be considered Islamophobic:

Chad

Below is a list of 1 incidents in Chad that could be considered Islamophobic:

China

Below is a list of 4 incidents in China that could be considered Islamophobic:

Central African Republic

Below is a list of 6 incidents in the Central African Republic that could be considered Islamophobic:

Denmark

Below is a list of 7 incidents in Denmark that could be considered Islamophobic:

France

In 2010 France banned face coverings including women wearing the niqāb. The French Collective against Islamophobia reported "an explosion" in the number of physical attacks on women wearing the niqab. Kenza Drider, a protester against the law, said: "I'm insulted about three to four times a day. Most say, 'Go home'; some say, 'We'll kill you.' One said: 'We'll do to you what we did to the Jews.'... I feel that I now know what Jewish women went through before the Nazi roundups in France. When they went out in the street they were identified, singled out, they were vilified. Now that's happening to us."^[83] After the Charlie Hebdo shooting in January 2015, there were reports of attacks on mosques and Muslim citizens throughout the country.^[84]

Below is a list of 20 incidents in France that could be considered Islamophobic:

Germany

Below is a list of 17 incidents in Germany that could be considered Islamophobic:

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Date	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator
23 November 1992	Arson	3	9	Mölln, Schleswig-Holstein	Muslim Turks Bahide Arslan and her two granddaughters Yeliz Arslan and Ayse Yılmaz died after firebombs were thrown into their home by neo-Nazis in Mölln. Nine others were injured in the attack, which sparked fears among the Turkish immigrant community.[106][107][108][109]	neo-Nazis
28 May 1993	Arson	5	14	Solingen, North Rhine-Westphalia	Solingen arson attack of 1993: The Solingen arson attack of 1993 was one of the most severe instances of xenophobic violence in modern Germany. On the night of 28 to 29 May 1993, four young German men (ages 16–23) belonging to the far right skinhead scene, with neo-Nazi ties, set fire to the house of a large Turkish family in Solingen in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Three girls and two women died; fourteen other family members, including several children, were injured, some of them severely. The attack led to violent protests by Turks in several German cities and to large demonstrations of Germans expressing solidarity with the Turkish victims.[110]	Four neo-Nazis
9 September 2000 – 25 April 2007	Shooting	10	1	Various cities	Bosphorus serial murders: A neo-Nazi group committed several murders of ethnic Turks and Kurds. The police discovered a hit list of 88 people that included "two prominent members of the Bundestag and representatives of Turkish and Islamic groups".[111]	Nationalsozialistischer Untergrund
9 June 2004	Bombing	0	22	Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia	2004 Cologne bombing: 22 people were wounded when a pipe bomb detonated in a business area popular with Turkish immigrants in Cologne. A barber shop was completely destroyed and many other shops and numerous parked cars were seriously damaged by the explosion.[112][113]	Nationalsozialistischer Untergrund
10 December 2007	Arson	0	0	Lauingen, Bavaria	A mosque was set on fire after someone threw an incendiary device at it.[30]	Unknown
11 December 2007	Arson	0	0	Lindau, Bavaria	A mosque was defaced with neo-Nazi graffiti and swastikas.[30]	Unknown
1 July 2009	Stabbing	1	1	Dresden, Saxony	Murder of Marwa El-Sherbini: Marwa El-Sherbini was stabbed to death in a courtroom in Dresden, Germany. She had just given evidence against her attacker who had used insults against her because she wore an Islamic headscarf. El-Sherbini was called "Islamist", "terrorist" and (according to one report) "slut".[note 1] Her husband Elwy Ali Okaz was seriously injured during the incident, he received at least 16 stab wounds to the head, neck, upper body and arm.[115]	Alex Wiens
January 2010 – 2011	Arson	0	0	Berlin	Three different mosques were set on fire by the same man.[38]	Unnamed man
10 May 2016	Stabbing	1	3	Grafing, Bavaria	A 28-year-old man killed a 56-year-old man and injured three others. While investigators initially thought the crime had Islamist motivation, they late found no evidence of an Islamic background. Instead, authorities state the perpetrator was haunted by delusions of a world overrun by Islam.[116][117]	Paul H.
22 July 2016	Shooting	9 (+1)	36	Munich, Bavaria	2016 Munich shooting: An 18-year-old opens fire at a McDonalds and shopping mall frequented by migrant teens, killing 9 and wounds another 36 (though only 4 by direct gunfire) before committing suicide. While the attack was originally reported as a bullying related incident, Bavarian police in 2019 would state that the shooting was motivated by far right extremism and xenophobia.[118][119]	David Sonboly
27 September 2016	Bombing	0	0	Dresden, Saxony	Bomb attacks hit a mosque and a convention centre in the eastern German city of Dresden. Police said that the motive appeared to be xenophobia and nationalism.[120][121]	Nino K.
17 July 2018	Shooting	0	0	Heilbronn, Baden-Württemberg	A man fired six shots at a female employee wearing a headscarf in a Turkish-owned bakery. The owner of the bakery suspected that the attack was racially motivated.[122]	Unnamed man
31 December 2018 – 1 January 2019	Vehicular attack	0	10	Bottrop and Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia	Bottrop and Essen car attack: A car was intentionally driven into crowds of people in the cities of Bottrop and Essen in Germany, injuring ten[123] people.[124][125][126] Upon his arrest, Andreas reportedly expressed xenophobic and racist motives.[127] The attacker is reported to have schizophrenia.[128]	Andreas N.
31 May 2019	Stabbing	0	1	Bremen	A 27-year-old man stabbed a 16-year-old Muslim boy in the neck after making anti-Muslim comments towards him and his friend.[129]	Unnamed man
8 June 2019	Arson	0	0	Kamen, North Rhine-Westphalia	The outer wall of the Eyüp Sultan Mosque in Kamen, North Rhine-Westphalia, was defaced with Islamophobic graffiti.[130]	Unknown
9 June 2019	Vandalism	0	0	Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia	Several vandals threw rocks at the Kassel Central Mosque and damaged the mosque.[130]	Unknown vandals
19 February 2020	Shooting	10 (+1)	5	Hesse	Hanau shootings: 9 people were killed and 5 others wounded in a terrorist shooting spree by a far-right extremist targeting two shisha bars in Hanau. After the attacks, the gunman returned to his apartment, where he killed his mother and then committed suicide.[131][132][133]	Tobias Rathjen

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Greece

Below is a list of 2 incidents in Greece that could be considered Islamophobic:

Iraq

Below is a list of 1 incidents in Iraq that could be considered Islamophobic:

Israel and Palestine

Below is a list of 8 incidents in Israel and Palestine that could be considered Islamophobic:

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Date	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator
25 February 1994	Shooting	29 (+1)	125	Hebron, Palestine	Cave of the Patriarchs massacre: A gunman opened fire on a large number of Palestinian Muslims who had gathered to pray inside the Cave of the Patriarchs compound in Hebron. The perpetrator was subsequently overpowered and beaten to death by survivors of the massacre.[137]	Baruch Goldstein
3 May 2010	Arson	0	0	Nablus, Palestine	A mosque in the West Bank was destroyed in an arson attack. In previous months, other mosques had been attacked; some were vandalised with Hebrew graffiti and other mosques have been destroyed or damaged by arson in the past.[138]	Israeli settlers (suspected)
10 June 2010	Vandalism	0	0	Kiryat Tiv'on, Israel	In northern Israel the walls of mosques were spray painted with the Star of David as well as messages such as "There will be war over Judea and Samaria" and "This structure is marked for demolition."[139]	Four Kfar Hasidim yeshiva students
16–17 August 2012	Melee attack	0	3	West Jerusalem, Israel	Zion Square assault: Four Palestinian teenagers were beaten by dozens of Israeli teenagers, who chanted "Death to Arabs."[140]	10–15 Israeli teenagers
2 July 2014	Kidnapping, Melee attack	1	0	Shuafat, East Jerusalem	Kidnapping and murder of Mohammed Abu Khdeir: 16-year-old Mohammed Abu Khdeir was kidnapped near a mosque, and later found murdered in Givat Shaul.[141]	Yosef Ben David and 2 other teenage settlers
31 July 2015	Arson	3	1	Duma, Palestine	Duma arson attack: Members of the Dawabsheh family were killed when their house was firebombed by masked attackers.[142]	Amiram Ben-Uliel and 3 other Israeli settlers
13 June 2017	Stabbing	1	0	Ramla, Israel	Henriette Karra, an Israeli Arab Christian, was killed by her father after he found out she was in a relationship with a Muslim. Her father said this relationship violated the "family's honor."[143]	Sami Karra
10 March 2024	Vandalism	0	0	Bab al-Rahma Cemetery, East Jerusalem	Illegal settlers destroyed tombstones in the Bab al-Rahma Cemetery, adjacent to Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.[144]	illegal settlers

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Under the reign of President Suharto during the New Order (Indonesia), Islamists were suppressed, and religious Muslims were actively persecuted by the Indonesian government. Several Christian Generals who served under Suharto like Leonardus Benjamin Moerdani actively persecuted religious Muslims in the Indonesian military, which was described as being "anti-Islamic", denying religious Muslims promotions, and preventing them from praying in the barracks and banning them from even using the Islamic greeting "Salaam Aleikum", and these anti-Islamic policies were entirely supported by Suharto, despite Suharto being a Muslim himself, since he considered political Islam a threat to his power.^{[145][146][147][148]} The Christian General Theo Syafei, who also served under Suharto, spoke out against political Islam coming to power in Indonesia, and insulted the Qur'an and Islam in remarks which were described as Islamophobic.^{[149][150][151][152][153][154]}

Italy

Below is a list of 1 incidents in Italy that could be considered Islamophobic:

India

Religious clashes have been intermittent in modern India, which saw its own birth being marred by the religious riots that took place during the Direct Action Day and during its partition. Since then, India has seen violent incidents involving both the majority Hindu population and the minority Muslim population in a series of communal riots, one of which was the Bhagalpur riots of 1989, which has led to the death of 900–1,000 Muslims and leaving 50,000 displaced.^[155] Recently, India has also seen tensions between Hindus and Muslims in the 2002 Gujarat violence; In response to the Godhra train burning, the nationalist party Vishva Hindu Parishad had organized protests that had immediately turned violent.^[156] After days of rioting and violence, it was estimated that 790 Muslims and 254 Hindus were killed, 2,500 injured and 223 missing.^[157] Below is a list of incidents in India that have been considered to be Islamophobic:

Mali

Below is a list of 1 incidents in Mali that could be considered Islamophobic:

Myanmar

Below is a list of 11 incidents in Myanmar that could be considered Islamophobic

Netherlands

Below is a list of 5 incidents in the Netherlands that could be considered Islamophobic:

New Zealand

Below is a list of 1 incident in New Zealand that is Islamophobic:

Norway

Below is a list of 5 incidents in Norway that could be considered Islamophobic:

Philippines

Below is a list of 5 incidents in the Philippines that could be considered Islamophobic:

Poland

Below is a list of 2 incidents in the Poland that could be considered Islamophobic:

Romania

Below is a list of incidents in the Romania that could be considered Islamophobic:

Russia

Due to activity of the Muslim Chechens in organised crime and terrorism many Russians (including authorities) have associated Islam and Muslims with terrorism and domestic crimes.^{[243][244][245][246]}

Below is a list of 8 incidents in Russia that could be considered Islamophobic:

Sri Lanka

Below is a list of 10 incidents in Sri Lanka that could be considered Islamophobic:

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Date	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator
28 May – 8 August 1915	Shooting, bombing, arson	116	Unknown	Various cities, British Ceylon	1915 Sinhalese-Muslim riots: A widespread and prolonged ethnic riot took place in the island of Ceylon between Sinhalese Buddhists and the Ceylon Moors before being suppressed by the British colonial authorities.[252][253] According to some official estimates, which must be taken as approximate, the riots resulted in 25 killed, 189 wounded, 4 sexually assaulted, 4,075 houses and boutiques looted, 250 houses and boutiques burned down, 17 mosques burned and 86 mosques damaged.[254][255] Other official figures place total of 116 people were killed, 63 by military and Police forces.[256]	Sinhalese Buddhists
8–11 November 1985	Shooting, bombing	30–100+	Unknown	Muttur, Eastern Province	1985 Muttur massacre: The 1985 massacre in Muttur was a slaughter of Tamil civilians in the town of Muttur in Eastern Province, Sri Lanka. The massacre occurred when all three divisions of the Sri Lankan military attacked the town by land, air and sea. The motive of the attacks was deliberately aimed at slaughtering ethnic Tamils, who formed the local population in the region. The killings lasted for 3 days from 8 to 11 November. Civilians were shot and killed and burned with their houses. Over 30 people were confirmed to have been killed. Over 70 others who have been arrested or have been forcibly disappeared were not accounted for. Several others who attempted to escape and those who sought refuge at temples were also killed.[257]	Sri Lankan military
3 August 1990	Shooting, bombing	147	Unknown	Kattankudy, Eastern Province	Kattankudy mosque massacre: Tamil militants massacred over 147 Muslims in a mosque in Kattankudi.[258][259][260][261] The act took place when around 30 Tamil rebels raided four mosques in the town of Kattankudi, where over 300 people were prostrating during prayers. The LTTE later apologized (during the 2000 peace talks) for this act and asked the Muslims to return, but very few Muslims have taken up the offer.[262]	Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
29 April 1992	Shooting	157	Unknown	Polonnaruwa, North Central Province	Polonnaruwa massacre: A series of attacks on civilians in the villages of Alanchipothana, Karapola, Madurangala and Muthugal in eastern Polonnaruwa District.[263]	Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
15 October 1992	Shooting, stabbing, melee attacks	166–285	Unknown	Palliyagodella, North Central Province	Palliyagodella massacre: The Palliyagodella massacre was carried out by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam against the mostly Muslim population of the Palliyagodella village located on border region of the northern part of Sri Lanka that were controlled by the Tigers at the time. This was the largest massacre of Muslim civilians by the LTTE to date. Village eyewitnesses claim that some 285 men, women and children, around a third of the population, were killed by a 1,000 strong force of the Tamil Tigers;[264] however, the Sri Lankan government states that cadres massacred 166 to 171 people by a force of 150 attackers.[265][266]	Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
30 April 2001	Shooting, melee attack	2	15+	Mawanella, Central Province	Mawanella riots: The Mawanella riots was a series of planned attacks on the Sri Lankan Muslim minority by the majority Sinhalese in the town of Mawanella, that resulted in the deaths of two people and left more than 15 injured in the clashes and also leading to destruction of millions of rupees worth property in the region.[267][268][269][270]	Sri Lankan police, local thugs
18 September 2006	Shooting, stabbing, melee attack	10	0	Pottuvil, Eastern Province	Pottuvil massacre: The Pottuvil massacre is a disputed event in the Sri Lankan civil war where 10 unarmed minority Muslim civilians who were engaged in clearing a reservoir at Rattal Kulam in Pottuvil in the southern part of the Ampara District in the Eastern Province, were attacked and killed. All the men were aged between 19 and 35 years of age; three of the men were decapitated and the others were shot or hacked to death by the unknown gunmen.[271]	Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
15–17 June 2014	Shooting, stabbing, melee attack, arson	4	80	Kalutara District, Western Province	2014 anti-Muslim riots in Sri Lanka: The 2014 anti-Muslim riots in Sri Lanka were religious and ethnic riots in June 2014 in south-western Sri Lanka. Muslims and their property were attacked by Sinhalese Buddhists in the towns of Aluthgama, Beruwala and Dharga Town in Kalutara District. At least four people were killed and 80 injured.[272] Hundreds were made homeless following attacks on homes, shops, factories, mosques and a nursery.[273] 10,000 people (8,000 Muslims and 2,000 Sinhalese) were displaced by the riots.[274] The riots followed rallies by Bodu Bala Sena (BBS), a hard line Buddhist group.[275] The BBS was widely blamed for inciting the riots but it has denied responsibility.[276][277][278] The mainstream media in Sri Lanka censored news about the riots following orders from the Sri Lankan government.[279]	Bodu Bala Sena and followers
26 February – 10 March 2018	Widespread looting, assault, arson	2	15	Ampara and Kandy District	2018 anti-Muslim riots in Sri Lanka were a series of religious riots targeting Muslims that began in the Sri Lankan town of Ampara on 26 February 2018, spreading to Kandy District by 2 March until its end on 10 March 2018.	Unknown
6–16 May 2019	Widespread looting, assault, arson	9	100+	North Western Province	The 2019 anti-Muslim riots in Sri Lanka were a series of religiously motivated riots targeting Muslims in Sri Lanka. The riots originated as isolated incidents in the aftermath of the Easter bombings in the nation, beginning in Chilaw and subsequently spreading to much of the Northwestern Province.	Unknown

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Spain

Below is a list of 7 incidents in Spain that could be considered Islamophobic:

Sweden

Below is a list of 8 incidents in Sweden that could be considered Islamophobic:

Switzerland

Below is a list of 1 incidents in Switzerland that could be considered Islamophobic:

Ukraine

Below is a list of 2 incidents in Ukraine that could be considered Islamophobic:

United Kingdom

Below is a list of 28 incidents in the United Kingdom that could be considered Islamophobic:

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12 July 2005	Melee attack	1	0	Nottingham, England	A Muslim man, Kamal Raza Butt, was beaten to death outside a corner shop by a gang of youths who shouted anti-Islamic abuse at him and called him "Taliban".[308]	Unnamed gang
10 March 2006	Stabbing, vandalism	0	1	Preston, England	The Jamia Masjid mosque was attacked by gangs of white youths using brick and concrete blocks. The youths damaged a number of cars outside the mosque and stabbed a 16-year-old Muslim. The local police described the attack as "racially motivated".[309]	Unnamed gang
30 June 2007	Stabbing, melee attack	0	1	Blackley, England	Ghulam Mustafa Naz, a Muslim religious teacher, was stabbed and beaten by four men. Police suggested it was a hate crime.[310]	Four unnamed men
3 July 2007	Vehicular attack	0	0	Glasgow, Scotland	A vehicle was driven into a store owned by a Muslim man named Ashfaq Ahmed. The driver attempted to set fire to the vehicle and threw a gas canister into the shop. The massive blast destroyed the store.[310]	Unnamed men
3 August 2007	Arson	0	0	Bradford, England	A mosque in Bradford was seriously damaged in an arson attack.[310]	Unknown
9 August 2007	Arson	0	0	London, England	Assailants attacked the 58-year-old imam of the Central Mosque in Regent's Park. The victim required emergency surgery on both eyes as a result.[310]	Two unnamed men
22 August 2008	Melee attack	1	2+	Hastings, England	Mohammed al-Majed, a 16-year-old student from Qatar, was beaten up outside a kebab shop. He succumbed to his wound 2 days later in hospital. At least 2 of his friends were also injured during the incident. The perpetrator was convicted of "racially aggravated common assault."[311]	George Austin, Paul Rockett, and Alexander Quinn
6 July 2009	Arson	0	0	Glasgow, Scotland	The branch of Islamic Relief was badly damaged by a fire which police said was started deliberately, and which members of the Muslim community of Scotland allege was Islamophobic.[312]	Two unnamed men
8 April 2010	Melee attack	0	1	Nottingham, England	Abida Malik and Asif Ahmed were targeted by up to 20 men on a train. The attackers called the couple terrorists.[95]	20 unnamed men
10 May 2010	Bombing	0	0	Babworth, England	Inmates at Ranby Prison made a bomb intending to kill fellow Muslim prisoners. The inmates threw the bomb in the room where worshippers were in, but a prison officer removed it from the facility and disabled it before it went off.[95]	20 unnamed men
9 June 2010	Melee attack	0	1	London, England	A 13-year-old girl was burned and robbed in Grangewood Park by three teenagers who yelled anti-Muslim slurs.[95]	Three unnamed teenagers
3 December 2010	Attempted arson	0	0	Stoke-on-Trent, England	A mosque was filled with flammable gas in an attempt to light it on fire. The police classified it as a "deliberate racist attack".[38]	Four unnamed teenagers
26 May 2013	Arson	0	0	Grimsby, England	Two ex-soldiers firebombed a mosque four days after the death of Lee Rigby.[313]	Gavin Humphreys, Stuart Harness and Daniel Cressey.
29 April 2013	Stabbing	1	0	Birmingham, England	Murder of Mohammed Saleem: 82-year-old Mohammed Saleem was stabbed to death while on his way home from Green Lane Masjid in Small Heath, Birmingham. The perpetrator later stated that he killed Salem because he "was a Muslim and there were no witnesses".[314]	Pavlo Lapshyn
3 July 2016	Melee attack	0	1	Sunderland, England	A man was charged with racially/religiously aggravated assault after yelling "You're in our country now" and physically assaulting a Muslim woman at a mall.[315][316] He was formally convicted and jailed in July 2017.[317]	Peter Scotter
6 August 2016	Melee attack	0	1	Bletchley, England	A man was charged with racially/religiously aggravated assault after he kicked a pregnant Muslim woman in the stomach and caused her to lose her unborn twins.[318] He was convicted in May 2017. Rallies were held in Bletchley in support of the victims.[319]	David Gallacher
12 December 2016	Stabbing	0	1	London, England	A knifeman stabbed a passenger on a train at Forest Hill station before chasing people outside shouting "Who is a Muslim? I want to kill a Muslim." Authorities called the incident a "serious hate crime".[320]	Unnamed man
16 December 2016	Vandalism	0	0	Cumbernauld, Scotland	A mosque was vandalized with graffiti reading "Saracen go home" and "Deus Vult," a Latin term meaning "God wills it". Authorities stated the incident was "a hate crime".[321]	Unknown
16 December 2016	Melee attack	0	1	London, England	A Muslim woman was dragged along the pavement by her hijab. Authorities allege it was a "hate crime".[322]	Two unnamed men
23 May 2017	Suspected arson attack	0	0	Oldham, England	The door of the Jamia Qasmia Zahidia Islamic Centre in Oldham, Greater Manchester, was set alight and badly damaged. Mohammad Saddiq, an imam at the mosque, said the attack was arson attack in revenge for the Manchester Arena bombing.[323]	Unknown
19 June 2017	Vehicular attack	1	11	London, England	Finsbury Park attack: A man drove into a crowd of Muslims leaving a mosque after prayer. The incident was deemed terrorism and, while the motive is still under investigation,[324] several civil rights groups and politicians claim the perpetrator was motivated by Islamophobia.[325]	Darren Osborne
25 June 2017	Melee attack Vandalism	0	1	Heckmondwike, England	A Muslim dad-of-three was knocked out by thugs before racist graffiti was daubed on his walls quoting a controversial Katie Hopkins tweet stating "we need a final solution".[326]	Unnamed gang
26 June 2017	Melee attack	0	1	Manchester, England	A 13-year-old boy was repeatedly kicked in the head by a gang of older teens during a racially motivated hate crime. The perpetrators repeatedly called him a "Paki".[327]	Unnamed gang
11 September 2017	Melee attack	0	2	Manchester, England	A man set his dog on two Muslims during a ‘campaign of racism’. Jakub Wendland's cross breed bull terrier bit a man and left a woman traumatised. During one of the attacks, the 32-year-old shouted: "You bite her, bite her. They kill people. So go on, bite a Muslim." The Polish national, who denies being a racist, was jailed for two-and-a-half years at Manchester Crown Court.[328]	Jakub Wendland
20 September 2017	Vehicular attack	0	1	Leicester, England	A Muslim woman suffered serious injuries after being struck by a car. Police allege the car driver intended to kill her and that it was a hate crime.[329]	An unnamed man
24 September 2017	Stabbing	0	1	Altrincham, England	A 58-year-old Muslim man named Nasser Kurdy was stabbed as he arrived at the Islamic Cultural Centre on Grove Lane. Greater Manchester Police confirmed the incident is being treated as a hate crime, and that two men aged 54 and 32 had been arrested in connection with the attack.[330] Kurdy had treated victims of the Manchester Arena bombing. After he was out of the hospital, Kurdy said that he had forgiven his attackers and that they were "not representative of what this country stands for".[331]	Two unnamed men
10 October 2017	Melee attack	0	1	Manchester, England	A 12-year-old boy stamped on a Muslim schoolboy's head in a race hate gang attack, but was not arrested. The boy also chased and "terrorised" a 10-year-old boy with a medical crutch while wearing a mask, and caused £500 damage by hurling stones at a truck on a building site.[332]	Unnamed gang
25 October 2018	Assault	0	1	Stanwell, Surrey, England	A man shouting Islamophobic remarks went on a rampage armed with a baseball bat and knife, injuring one 19-year-old male. The man shouted "kill a Muslim" before carrying out the attack.[333]	Unnamed 50-year-old male

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In the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing, many residents of Middle Eastern descent and African-American Muslims became victims of the initial rage at "Muslim terrorists" as the initial news stories hypothesized. KFOR-TV's coverage of the bombing informed viewers that a member of the Nation of Islam had taken credit for the bombing. Even though the network cautioned that it might be a crank call, it repeated the claim throughout the day's coverage.^[334] According to a report prepared by the Arab American Institute, three days after the bombings, "more than 200 serious hate crimes were committed against Arab Americans and American Muslims. The same was true in the days following September 11."^[335] There were also suggestions on the radio that all Arab Americans should "be put in internment camps".^[334]

In the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, hate crimes against people of Middle-Eastern descent increased from 354 attacks in 2000 to 1,501 attacks in 2001.^[336] Among the victims of the backlash was a Middle-Eastern man in Houston, Texas who was shot and wounded after an assailant accused him of "blowing up the country"^[335] and four immigrants were shot and killed by a man named Larme Price who confessed to killing them as "revenge" for the September 11 attacks.^[337] Although Price described his victims as Arabs, only one was from an Arab country. This appears to be a trend; on account of stereotypes of Arabs, several non-Arab, non-Muslim groups were subjected to attacks in the wake of 9/11, including several Sikh men who were attacked for wearing their religiously mandated turban.^[338] According to a report prepared by the Arab American Institute, three days after the Oklahoma City bombing (which was committed by anti-government white American Timothy McVeigh), "more than 200 serious hate crimes were committed against Arab Americans and American Muslims. The same was true in the days following September 11."^[335]

While en route to Chicago, Shahrukh Khan, a well-known Bollywood actor, was held for what he described as "humiliating" questioning for several hours in Newark Airport, New Jersey because of his common Muslim surname Khan. He was released only following the intervention of the Indian embassy.^[339][340]

In April 2012, various media sources reported that the Joint Forces Staff College taught an anti-Islam course. The course taught that "they [Muslims] hate everything you stand for and will never coexist with you." It also proposed justified the destruction of the cities of Mecca and Medina "without regard for civilian deaths". The course was suspended after a student objected to the material.^[341][342]

In early August 2012 U.S. Representative Joe Walsh (R-IL) said at a town hall that radical Muslims were "trying to kill Americans every week." Soon after his remarks several attacks against Muslims took place in his district, including a 12 August acid bomb attack on a Muslim school in Lombard, Illinois during evening Ramadan prayers and hate graffiti found on 16 August in a Muslim Cemetery.^{[citation needed]} There also were several other attacks of mosques with pellet guns, acid bombs, eggs, or unclean animal parts. Some incidents are being investigated as hate crimes.^[343]

Research suggests that hate crimes and discrimination against Muslims in the United States leads to lower assimilation rates.^[344]

Below is a list of 56 incidents in the United States that could be considered Islamophobic:

Vietnam

The Cham Muslims in Vietnam are only recognized as a minority, and not as an indigenous people by the Vietnamese government despite being indigenous to the region. Muslim Chams have experienced violent religious and ethnic persecution and restrictions on practicing their faith under the current Vietnamese government, with the Vietnamese state confiscating Cham property and forbidding Cham from observing their religious beliefs. In 2010 and 2013 several incidents occurred in Thành Tín and Phươc Nhơn villages where Cham were murdered by Vietnamese. In 2012, Vietnamese police in Chau Giang village stormed into a Cham Mosque, stole the electric generator, and also raped Cham girls.^[426] Cham Muslims in the Mekong Delta have also been economically marginalized and pushed into poverty by Vietnamese policies, with ethnic Vietnamese Kinh settling on majority Cham land with state support, and religious practices of minorities have been targeted for elimination by the Vietnamese government.^[427]