SAN JOSE — Eagerly anticipating her English students delving into “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone,” Maimona Afzal Berta arrived early to school Sept. 11. Her classroom walls at Fischer Middle School depicted a London skyline; soon the room would also include the famous Platform 9¾, a Hogwarts sorting hat and hanging replicas of floating…
The United States declared the ongoing violence against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar to be “ethnic cleansing” on Wednesday, putting more pressure on the country’s military to halt a brutal crackdown that has sent more than 600,000 refugees flooding over the border to Bangladesh. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson blamed Myanmar’s security forces and “local vigilantes”…
With hate crimes against Muslims on the rise since 9/11, a Palo Alto woman has been doing something to help prevent them from being harmed. Rana Abdelhamid, then just 16 years old, created the nonprofit International Muslim Women’s Initiative for Self-Empowerment (WISE) to train young Muslim women in self-defense. The group also offers lessons in…
A Bay Area refugee group is suing the Trump administration as part of a national lawsuit challenging the White House’s latest attempt to ban some refugees from entering the U.S. Jewish Family Services of Silicon Valley filed the lawsuit Monday along with other resettlement groups and individual refugees, arguing that restrictions on refugee admissions from…
The number of hate crimes reported in California jumped more than 11 percent in 2016, the FBI said Monday. There were 60 more hate crimes last year than in 2015 in the Bay Area’s nine counties — with the most reported in Alameda, San Francisco and Santa Clara counties. Statewide, the number of hate crimes…
Stephen Curry opened up about his avoidance of the White House and pled for productive conversations rather than “all of this noise” in a Veterans Day essay for The Players’ Tribune. “Let’s please not get lost in another one of these endless debates about who means what when they’re doing what, or who is disrespecting…
FREMONT, Calif. (KGO) — Hundreds of community-minded people gathered at Royal Palace Banquet Hall in Fremont to help their neighbors in the North Bay. Bay Area Community Unite and Muslim Americans for Peace and Prosperity joined forces with Islamic Relief USA to raise money for fire victims. Members of the Muslim community said they were…
