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CAIR: US Anti-Muslim Incidents Rose About 70% in 1st Half of 2024

A man is detained as a protest camp in support of Palestinians, assembled during the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, is removed by authorities at McGill University’s campus in Montreal, Quebec, Canada July 10, 2024. REUTERS/Andrej Ivanov
A man is detained as a protest camp in support of Palestinians, assembled during the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, is removed by authorities at McGill University’s campus in Montreal, Quebec, Canada July 10, 2024. REUTERS/Andrej Ivanov
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CAIR: US Anti-Muslim Incidents Rose About 70% in 1st Half of 2024

A man is detained as a protest camp in support of Palestinians, assembled during the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, is removed by authorities at McGill University’s campus in Montreal, Quebec, Canada July 10, 2024. REUTERS/Andrej Ivanov
A man is detained as a protest camp in support of Palestinians, assembled during the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, is removed by authorities at McGill University’s campus in Montreal, Quebec, Canada July 10, 2024. REUTERS/Andrej Ivanov

Discrimination and attacks against Muslims and Palestinians rose by about 70% in the US in the first half of 2024 amid heightened Islamophobia due to Israel's war in Gaza, the Council on American-Islamic Relations advocacy group said on Tuesday.
Human rights advocates have reported a global rise in Islamophobia, anti-Palestinian bias and antisemitism since the eruption in October of the Israel-Gaza war which has killed tens of thousands and caused a humanitarian crisis.
In the first six months of 2024, CAIR said it received 4,951 complaints of anti-Muslim and anti-Palestinian incidents, a rise of nearly 70% compared with the same period in 2023.
Most of the complaints were in the categories of immigration and asylum, employment discrimination, education discrimination and hate crimes, CAIR said.
In 2023, CAIR documented 8,061 such complaints in the whole year, including about 3,600 in the last three months after the war broke out.
Alarming US incidents in the last nine months include the fatal October stabbing of a 6-year-old Palestinian-American child in Illinois, the February stabbing of a Palestinian-American man in Texas, the shooting of three students of Palestinian descent in Vermont in November and the attempted drowning of a 3-year-old Palestinian-American girl in May, Reuters reported.
There have been numerous protests in the US, Israel's key ally, against the war in Gaza since October. The CAIR report noted the crackdown by police and university authorities on pro-Palestinian protests and encampments on campuses.
CAIR says it compiles numbers by reviewing public statements and videos as well as reports from public calls, emails and an online complaint system. It also contacts people whose incidents are reported by the media.

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Flash Flooding Triggered by Heavy Monsoons in Northwest Pakistan Kills at Least 14 People 

Rescue workers clean the basement of a house damaged by flash flood waters in Darra Adamkhel, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan, on July 30, 2024. (AFP)
Rescue workers clean the basement of a house damaged by flash flood waters in Darra Adamkhel, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan, on July 30, 2024. (AFP)
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Flash Flooding Triggered by Heavy Monsoons in Northwest Pakistan Kills at Least 14 People 

Rescue workers clean the basement of a house damaged by flash flood waters in Darra Adamkhel, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan, on July 30, 2024. (AFP)
Rescue workers clean the basement of a house damaged by flash flood waters in Darra Adamkhel, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan, on July 30, 2024. (AFP)

Heavy monsoons in northwest Pakistan triggered flash flooding, killing at least 14 people, 11 from the same family, officials said Tuesday.

The rains in Kohat, a district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, flooded the basement of a house where the family slept, Bilal Faizi, a spokesman for emergency services said, adding they retrieved the bodies of a man, three women, six children, and an 11-month-old baby girl.

He said three others died in the districts of Hangu and Bajur in the same province.

Pakistan has been hit by heavy rains since early July, killing more than 60 people and damaging over 250 homes, mostly in the eastern Punjab and southwestern Baluchistan province.

Authorities warned the rains are likely to cause flash flooding next week in various parts of the country.

Still, weather forecasters say the country will receive less rain as compared to 2022 when the climate-induced downpour swelled rivers and inundated at one point one-third of Pakistan , killing 1,739, displacing nearly 8 million, and causing $30 billion in damage in the cash-strapped country.

Every year, many cities in Pakistan struggle with the annual monsoon deluge, from July through September, drawing criticism for poor government planning. The South Asian country is among the most vulnerable to climate change.