Source: Huffpost
A surgeon who treated victims of the Manchester Arena bombing in May was stabbed in the neck on Sunday as he entered his mosque in what police are treating as a hate crime.
“As I entered the grounds of the premises, I felt that pain and the blow to my neck,” Nasser Kurdy, 58, told The Guardian on Monday. “I turned around and saw this gentleman in a threatening pose. I did feel threatened, I did feel vulnerable.”
Source : The New York Times
State authorities in New Hampshire are investigating a possible hate crime after a family reported that their 8-year-old boy was pushed by teenagers off a picnic table with a rope around his neck, injuring him. The boy, who is biracial, was treated in the hospital and released, the police said.
The attack occurred Aug. 28 in Claremont, a city of about 13,000 in the western part of the state, and came to light after the boy’s mother, Cassandra Merlin, posted a photograph of her son’s bloodied neck and a statement about it on her Facebook page. “It truly saddens me that even in a city so small, racism exists,” she wrote.
Hate is a drug.
Hate is so addictive nothing else matters.
We cannot see our addiction or acknowledge it.
We do not understand we have a problem nor that we are addicted.
Hate becomes more important to us than family or job or sanity or God.
From this moment,
let there be no hate
that traces our hearts like dark clouds
from this moment
let us seek rainbows of love
in each other.
Source : The New York Times
After violence erupted over the weekend in Charlottesville, Va., writers from across the political spectrum were overwhelmingly united in their condemnation of the white supremacy and racism underlying the “Unite the Right” protest.
Pundits on the right who have been consistently critical of President Trump saw his equivocating response to the events — blaming “many sides” for the violence — as yet another sign of his inadequacy as the Republican leader. Others on the right condemned white supremacist ideology, but were eager to point to the violence of Antifa, the anti-fascist group that comprised many of the counterprotesters.
Emotions are the strongest feelings that come to life through our highest highs and our lowest lows. The two most extreme emotions are love and hate. As history has feed us the narrative, “Love conquers all.” This statement has been highly publicized and debated. Some agree with the idea that with love you can do anything and overcome any obstacle. In my experience love is stronger than hate because it grows you to the place and person you want to be while hate only brings pain, sorrow and distress in the end.
There are some days
When I can only find sense and comfort
In the purity and love
Of children
Who know nothing of hate.
I don’t care what anyone’s religion is.
I don’t care if they are not religious.
I don’t care what colour anyone is.
I don’t care what their nationality is.
I don’t care what their sexuality is.
I don’t care if they have two heads and are called Noddy.
I witnessed something ugly.
And I started to write about it.
Because that’s part of what I do,
Pay attention to my day,
And take note of what happens.
Good and bad.
Source: The New York Times
This Week in Hate highlights hate crimes and harassment around the country since the election of Donald Trump.
When Alandes Powell arrived at her son’s high school on Sunday, she saw a swastika and the word “Trump” spray-painted on a building. On benches and a sign at the school’s new baseball field, she saw more graffiti, including racist and homophobic slurs.
A friend had alerted Ms. Powell to the vandalism at Withrow University High School in Cincinnati, where her son is a senior and football player. Her first reaction was anger. “You want education to be a safe place,” she said. “These kids are just growing into who they want to be.”