Offensive hate graffiti was discovered on Edinburgh Central Mosque, alarming worshippers and prompting condemnation from local residents and community leaders. Police are treating the incident as a hate crime. United Voices stands with Scotland’s Muslim community and calls for full accountability.
Two mosques in the German city of Hannover were defaced with graffiti apparently in support of the Israeli military’s campaign in Gaza. The attacks are part of a documented and accelerating wave of Islamophobia across Europe that United Voices has been tracking — from Ireland to the Netherlands to France to Germany.
Across Texas, Florida, and other states, anti-Muslim networks have been monitoring Muslim Student Association social media to track campus events — then showing up uninvited to harass students while they pray, film them without consent, and in one case burn a Quran. United Voices has written to more than 2,000 university leaders demanding immediate action to protect Muslim students.
On August 10, someone targeted the BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir in Greenwood, Indiana with hateful graffiti in what police are investigating as a possible hate crime. United Voices stands with the Hindu community and calls for a full investigation — because an attack on any house of worship is an attack on all of us.
The death toll from Israel’s forced starvation of Gaza has reached 175 people — 93 of them children. On the same day that number was reported, Israeli forces killed at least 92 people including dozens of aid seekers, and Israeli extremists staged a provocative intrusion on the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound. United Voices is documenting the compounding horror.
