Date | Type | Dead | Injured | Location | Details | Perpetrator |
5 April 2015 | Rallies and violent confrontations | 0 | Numerous/Unknown number | Australia | Anti-Islam Rallies have been held across Australia since 2015. Reclaim Australia primarily opposes Islam in Australia and is considered Islamophobic. The group has attracted neo-Nazis and the involvement of neo-Nazis in promoting and attending Reclaim Australia rallies has been well documented. Speakers at Reclaim Australia rallies have been known to express extremist views, with one speaker in South Australia warning of the risks of "Islamic barbarity" and encouraging those in attendance to "insult and vilify Islam five times a day if you want to" | Reclaim Australia |
13 June 2015 | vilification | 0 | 0 | Perth, Australia | The United Patriots Front, a far-right Australian nationalist protest group which is associated with nationalist and neo-Nazi hate groups. protested Zaky Mallah's appearance on Q&A, a television programme, by roasting a pig outside the Melbourne office of the ABC in an apparent attempt to upset Muslims. In October the same year, the group beheaded a dummy outside the Bendigo City Council chambers to protest the 2015 Parramatta shooting and approval to construct a mosque in Bendigo. | United Patriots Front |
16 December 2016 | Melee attack | 0 | 1 | Perth, Australia | A Perth man was found guilty of assaulting a Muslim woman after a confrontation at a shopping centre in which he wished her a merry Christmas, called her a "fucking Muslim" and threw a beer bottle at her. | Adam David Peters |
19 March 2017 | Stabbing | 0 | 1 | Melbourne, Australia | Rev. Tomy Kalathoor Mathew, a priest, was stabbed in the neck moments before he was about to say mass at a church because the perpetrator thought he was "Hindu" or "Muslim" | Unknown |
9 February 2017 | Verbal abuse | 0 | 0 | Melbourne, Australia | Islamophobia was documented at the Thursday 9 February Q Society fundraising dinner, with guest speaker Larry Pickering stating that "If they are in the same street as me, I start shaking." and that "They are not all bad, they do chuck pillow-biters off buildings.", adding that he "can't stand Muslims". The cartoonist also auctioned a work depicting a man having sex with a niqab-clad person, who apparently is his wife's grandmother, mistaking her for his niqab-clad wife. Another Larry Pickering cartoon auctioned at the fundraiser depicted an Imam as a pig, being spit roasted, with a "halal certified" stamp on its rump. A case of wine called "72 Virgins" was also up for grabs, along with a signed photograph of Dame Joan Sutherland. Kirralie Smith has denied supporting Pickerings statements, however Smith has reiterated parts of the speech stating that "there are Muslims that actually do throw gays off buildings!" In February 2017, Cory Bernardi and George Christensen attracted criticism for speaking at the Q Society of Australia. The event received protests who called the event racist. | Q Society of Australia |
11 May 2017 | Melee attack | 0 | 4 | Sydney, Australia | Four Muslim women were assaulted in Sydney in an attack described by New South Wales police as "bias-motivated." | Unknown |
26 May 2017 | Discrimination | 0 | 0 | Perth, Australia | Muslim schoolgirls were told to leave a careers expo at the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre after attendants stated their "Muslim attire" was threatening. | Unknown |
16 March 2019 | Vehicular attack | 0 | 0 | Brisbane, Australia | A man rammed his car into the gates of a Queensland mosque while shouting offensive words to worshippers inside, a day after the Christchurch mosque shootings. | Unnamed man |
11 September 2019 | Vandalism | 0 | 0 | Brisbane, Australia | The name of the Christchurch shooter and phrase from a Serbian anti-Muslim song were sprayed onto the outer wall of a Brisbane mosque. | Unknown |
20 November 2019 | Melee attack | 0 | 1 | Sydney, Australia | A pregnant Muslim woman wearing a hijab was punched and stomped on by a man yelling "anti-Islamic hate speech at the victim and her friends". | Stipe Lozina |
Date | Type | Dead | Injured | Location | Details | Perpetrator |
16 March 2006 | Melee attack | 0 | 1 | Toronto, Ontario | A female student in headscarf assaulted at Hart House in the University of Toronto in what the Canadian Council on American-Islamic Relations called "an Islamophobic incident". | Unknown |
22 November 2011 | Melee attack | 0 | 1 | Mississauga, Ontario | A Muslim woman was with her children when she was attacked at a mall by someone who yelled "Leave our country. Go back to your country." Authorities stated that it was hate crime, and was deemed Islamophobic by the Ontario Human Rights Commission. | Unnamed man |
17 September 2013 | Melee attack | 0 | 1 | St. Catharines, Ontario | A 17-year old Muslim girl was punched in the nose, that left her bleeding and her headscarf was pulled off. | Three unnamed women |
19 November 2013 | Melee attack | 0 | 1 | Montreal, Quebec | A Muslim woman was beaten, called "dirty immigrant," and was told "go back to your country," despite the fact that she was born in Canada. | Two unnamed men |
December 2013 | Melee attack | 0 | 1 | Montreal, Quebec | A woman wearing a hijab was physically assaulted. The perpetrator stated that "her hijab and herself do not belong in Quebec." | Unnamed woman |
31 December 2013 | Bomb threat | 0 | 0 | Vancouver, British Columbia | A bomb threat was made against a Vancouver mosque and the building was evacuated by the RCMP. | Unknown |
26 November 2014 | Bomb threat | 0 | 0 | Montreal, Quebec | A bomb threat was made against a Montreal mosque and the police found a suspicious package. 12 buildings in the area were evacuated until the police neutralized the package. | Unknown |
20 May 2014 | Attempted arson | 0 | 0 | Montreal, Quebec | A man tried to throw a Molotov cocktail through the window of a mosque in, but was stopped by the police. The police had been watching the mosque because it had already been the target of multiple attacks. | Unnamed man |
26 September 2014 | Melee attack | 0 | 6 | Kingston, Ontario | Six Muslim students at Queen's University were attacked by four men, one of whom wielded a baseball bat and who yelled various racial epithet. One of the students suffered minor physical injuries. The police arrested two men in connection to the attack and charged them with assault. | Four unnamed men |
4 October 2015 | Melee attack | 0 | 1 | Montreal, Quebec | A pregnant woman wearing the hijab was attacked by teenagers, when they tried to pull off her hearscarf, causing her to fall. | Two teenagers |
14 November 2015 | Arson | 0 | 0 | Peterborough, Ontario | A day after the Paris attacks, the only mosque in Peterborough was set on fire. Police deemed the arson a hate crime. | Unknown |
29 May 2016 | Melee attack | 0 | 1 | London, Ontario | An Iranian student at University of Western Ontario suffered a concussion after being beaten and called an "Arab," despite the fact that he Iranian. Authorities stated it was a hate crime, and the mayor of London said that "Islamophobia had no place in Canada". | Two unnamed men |
24 October 2016 | Melee attack | 0 | 1 | Hamilton, Ontario | A Muslim teenager was beaten in a “race related” attack. | Two unnamed men |
27 November 2016 | Vandalism | 0 | 0 | Sept-Îles, Quebec | The mosque of Sept-Îles was vandalized. The mosque had previously been vandalized in 2014. Police suspect it was a hate crime. | Unknown |
29 January 2017 | Shooting | 6 | 19 | Quebec City, Quebec | Quebec City mosque shooting: A mass shooting occurred at the Islamic Cultural Centre of Quebec City. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Premier Philippe Couillard called the shooting a terrorist attack, but the perpetrator was not charged with terrorism. The incident was classified as a hate crime and an Islamophobic attack. | Alexandre Bissonnette |
Date | Type | Dead | Injured | Location | Details | Perpetrator |
4 October 1972 – 19 December 1988 | Bombing | 1 | 16 | Various cities, France | Anti-Muslim bombings in Paris, Cannes and Nice: A series of three bombings killed one and injured 16 others in the French cities of Paris, Cannes, and Nice by neo-Nazi attackers. | Parti nationaliste français et européen |
14 December 1973 | Bombing | 4 | 20 | Marseille, France | Four people killed when terrorists detonated a bomb at the Algerian consulate office in Marseille. | Charles Martel Group |
21 February 1995 | Shooting | 1 | 0 | Marseille, France | Murder of Ibrahim Ali: Ibrahim Ali, a seventeen-year-old French-boy of Comorian origin, was shot by three far-right extremists. | Unknown |
1 May 1995 | Forced drowning | 1 | 0 | Paris, France | Murder of Brahim Bouarram: Brahim Bouarram, a Moroccan immigrant, drowned after being pushed into the Seine river by three far-right extremists. | Unknown |
21 February 2005 | Vandalism | 0 | 0 | Paris, France | Vandals scrawled swastikas and other Nazi references on the walls of the Grand mosque in south-east Paris. Dalil Boubakeur, the director of the mosque described the vandalism as Islamophobic. | Unknown |
6 April 2008 | Vandalism | 0 | 0 | Arras, France | 148 Muslim graves were desecrated at the Notre Dame de Lorette, France's largest WWI cemetery. President Nicolas Sarkozy condemned the attack as a "hateful act" and the "most inadmissible kind of racism" | Unknown |
20 April 2008 | Arson | 0 | 1 | Toulouse, France | The Al-Salam Mosque was destroyed after it was set alight. Police suspect it was a hate crime. | Eight unnamed men |
24 July 2008 | Melee attack | 0 | 1 | Yvelines, France | Nouredine Rachedi, a 30-year-old French-born statistician, was beaten after being asked if he was Muslim. | Two unnamed men |
13 December 2009 | Vandalism | 0 | 0 | Castres, France | The Mosque of Castres in southern France, was vandalized in the night. Swastika in black paint, "Sieg Heil" in German, "France to the French" in French, and "White Power" in English were scrawled on the mosque. Additionally, a pig's feet was hung on the mosque. | Unknown |
23 September 2010 | Vandalism | 0 | 0 | Strasbourg, France | More than 30 tombstones were knocked down or broken, and swastikas were drawn on the gravel paths at a Muslim cemetery. The local mayor denounced the vandalism as an "unbearable racist act." | Unknown |
14 October 2010 | Melee attack | 0 | 1 | Paris, France | A 26-year old Emirati woman wearing a niqab was attacked by someone who later said, "I find it unacceptable that someone should be wearing a niqab in this country of human rights." | Unnamed woman |
14 January 2015 | Stabbing | 1 | 1 | Le Beaucet, France | Mohamed El Makouli was stabbed to death at home by a 28-year-old neighbour shouting "I am your God, I am your Islam." His wife, Nadia, suffered hand injuries while she tried to save him. | Thomas Gambet |
18 November 2015 | Melee attack | 0 | 1 | Marseille, France | A man attacked a Muslim woman wearing a headscarf with a box cutter after calling her a terrorist. | Unknown |
24-28 December 2015 | Riots | 0 | 0 | Ajaccio, France | 2015 Corsican protests: A Muslim prayer hall was burned down and Qur'ans were set alight following marches by Corsican nationalists. | Corsican nationalists |
13 March 2017 | Kidnapping, melee attack, rape | 0 | 1 | Marseille, France | Zak Ostmane, a 35-year-old Algerian LGBT rights activist, was kidnapped and raped by two men, one of which stated, "You people... you hate Trump. And you listen to black and Arabic music." | One English man and one American man |
29 June 2017 | Vehicular attack | 0 | 0 | Paris, France | A man attempted to drive his vehicle through a crowd gathered outside a mosque. He claimed that he wanted to "take revenge for the Bataclan and Champs-Elysees attacks" after being arrested. | Unnamed man |
23 June 2018 | Foiled plot involving firearms and improvised grenades and explosives | 0 | 0 | and Island of Corsica, France | 10 people from a far-right group including a retired police officer are arrested for suspicion of involvement in a terrorist plot. Several weapons were seized including home-made bombs and explosives. | Unnamed far-right group |
28 October 2019 | Shooting | 0 | 2 | Bayonne, France | Bayonne mosque shooting: An 84-year old former candidate for Front National attacked a mosque and seriously injured two people by gunfire. | Claude Sinké |
Date | Type | Dead | Injured | Location | Details | Perpetrator |
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 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. | Four neo-Nazis |
9 September 2000 – 25 April 2007 | Shooting | 10 | 1 | Various cities, Germany | 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". | 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. | Nationalsozialistischer Untergrund |
10 December 2007 | Arson | 0 | 0 | Lauingen, Bavaria | A mosque was set on fire after someone threw an incendiary device at it. | Unknown |
11 December 2007 | Arson | 0 | 0 | Lindau, Bavaria | A mosque was defaced with neo-Nazi graffiti and swastikas. | 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 "slut". 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. | Alex Wiens |
January 2010 – 2011 | Arson | 0 | 0 | Berlin | Three different mosques were set on fire by the same man. | 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. | Paul H. |
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. | 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. | Unnamed man |
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. | Unnamed man |
19 February 2020 | Shooting | 11 | 5 | Hesse | Hanau shootings: nine people were killed and five others wounded in a terrorist shooting spree by a far-right extremist targeting two shisha bars in Hanau. | Tobias Rathjen |
Date | Type | Dead | Injured | Location | Details | Perpetrator |
2002 Gujarat violence | Riots | 790 Muslims and 254 Hindus | 2500+ | Gujarat, India | The 2002 Gujarat riots was a three-day period of inter-communal violence in the western Indian state of Gujarat. | Hindu mobs |
8 September 2006 | Bombing | 37 | 125+ | Malegaon, India | 2006 Malegaon bombings: A series of bombs were detonated in a Muslim cemetery. The attack took place on the holy day of Shab-e-Baraat and most of the victims were Muslim pilgrims. | Abhinav Bharat |
11 October 2007 | Bombing | 3 | 17 | Ajmer, India | Ajmer Dargah bombing: Bomb exploded at the Dargah of Sufi saint Moinuddin Chishti. | JEM |
27 August 2013 – 17 September 2013 | Attacks | 62 | 93 | Muzaffarnagar district, India | 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots: Clashes between the Hindu and Muslim communities led to deaths and injuries of many people. | Various |
1–3 May 2014 | Shooting | 33 | 2+ | Assam, India | May 2014 Assam violence : Suspected NDFB militants kills 33 Bengali Muslim villagers in Assam. The motive of the attack is speculated to be revenge for not voting for Bodos in the Lok Sabha elections. | National Democratic Front of Bodoland |
28 September 2015 | Melee attack | 1 | 1 | Dadri, India | 2015 Dadri mob lynching: Mohammad Akhlaq, a Muslim resident, was beaten to death by a mob of villagers after a neighbor accused him of stealing and slaughtering a missing cow calf. His 22-year-old son Danish was seriously injured during the incident. | Hindu nationalists |
26 March 2017 | Melee attack | 2 | 10 | Patan district, India | 2017 Patan riots: Started as fight between two people of different communities and later turned into Hindu-Muslim riot in the Vadavali village in Gujarat's Patan district. | Hindu-Muslim riot |
5 April 2017 | Melee attack | 1 | 6 | Alwar, India | 2017 Alwar mob lynching: A mob of about 200 cow protection vigilantes assaulted a group of Muslims transporting cattle in northern India. Eleven men transporting the cattle were arrested and accused of smuggling the animals. None of the assailants in the cow protection group were arrested, but a criminal case has been opened. | 200 cow protection vigilantes |
7 April 2017 | Melee attack | 1 | 0 | Gumla, India | Mohammad Shalik, a 20-year-old Muslim man, was tied to a tree and whipped to death for being in love with a Hindu woman. | Three unnamed men |
24 June 2017 | Melee attack | 1 | 3 | Haryana, India | A man named Ramesh was arrested in India for being part of a mob that attacked a group of four Muslim teenagers on a train has said on TV that he was goaded into it by others because Muslims ate beef. One of the boys, 16-year-old Junaid Khan, was killed in the assault. | 20 unnamed men |
12 July 2017 | Melee attack | 0 | 10 | Farrukhabad, India | A Muslim family of 10 including women, children, elders and a handicapped teenager were assaulted in a train and robbed by a gang who yelled "Kill them, they are Muslims." | 30-35 unnamed men |
27 September 2017 | Melee attack | 1 | 0 | Pokaran, India | Near the India-Pakistan border, a Hindu priest named Ramesh Suthar accused folk singer Ahmad Khan of making mistakes while reciting hymns to evoke a Hindu goddess. Suthar and his friends proceeded to break Khan's musical instruments and kill him. A month later, at least 200 Muslims have fled their village in the western Indian state of Rajasthan fearing communal clashes. | Ramesh Suthar and several unnamed men |
23 February 2020 – 29 February 2020 | Riots | 53 | 200 | Delhi, India | The 2020 Delhi riots, which left 53 dead and more than 200 seriously injured, were triggered by protests against a citizenship law seen by critics as anti-Muslim. The riots have been referred to by some as a pogrom. | Rioters ] |
Date | Type | Dead | Injured | Location | Details | Perpetrator |
26 May 1930 | Attacks | 120–200+ | 900–2,000 | Rangoon, British Burma | 1930 Rangoon riots: Several anti-Indian and anti-Muslim riots exploded in Rangoon and various Burmese cities and ports following a massive Indian labors' strike which began at Rangoon's harbor. | Bamar people |
26 July 1938 | Attacks | 204 | 1,000 | Rangoon, British Burma | Multiple anti-Muslim riots again broke out in Burma. The agitation against Muslims and the British was led by Burmese newspapers. | Bamar people |
16 March 1997 | Attacks | 3 | Unknown | Mandalay, Union of Myanmar | 1997 Mandalay riots: A mob of 1,000–1,500 Buddhist monks targeted the mosques, Muslim shop-houses, and transportation vehicles for attack. Damaging, destroying, looting, and trampling, burning religious books, committing acts of sacrilege were also common. | Bhikkhu |
May 2001 – May 2002 | Attacks | 88 | Unknown | Taungoo, Union of Myanmar | Anti-Muslim riots broke out in Taungoo, Pegu division, resulting in the deaths of about 200 Muslims, in the destruction of 11 mosques and the setting ablaze of over 400 houses. On 15 May, the first day of the anti-Muslim uprisings, about 20 Muslims who were praying in the Han Tha mosque were killed and some were beaten to death by the pro-junta forces. The mosques in Taungoo remained closed as of May 2002. Muslims have been forced to worship in their homes. Local Muslim leaders complain that they are still harassed. After the violence, many local Muslims moved away from Taungoo to nearby towns and to as far away as Yangon. After two days of violence the military stepped in and the violence immediately ended. | Bhikkhu |
8 June 2012 | Attacks | 200+ | Unknown | Rakhine, Myanmar | 2012 Rakhine State riots: Many Muslims and Rakhine have been killed in sectarian violence in the state. | Bhikkhu |
20 March 2013 – 2 October 2013 | Attacks | 50 | 80+ | Various cities, Myanmar | 2013 Myanmar anti-Muslim riots: A series of violent acts and riots took place throughout the country targeting Muslims. | Bhikkhu |
2 July 2014 | Attacks | 2 | 12+ | Mandalay, Myanmar | A vengeful mob of 300 people started throwing stones and bricks at a tea stall. The mob went on to attack Muslim shops and vehicles and shouting slogans in Muslim residential areas. Two men — one Buddhist and one Muslim — were killed. A curfew was imposed on 3 July. | Unnamed mob |
23 June 2016 | Arson | 0 | 0 | Bago, Myanmar | A mob demolished a mosque in Bago Region, about 60 km northeast of the capital Yangon. | Unnamed mob |
2 July 2016 | Arson | 0 | 0 | Hpakant, Myanmar | A mob burned down a mosque in northern Myanmar. | Unnamed mob |
4 July 2017 | Attacks | 1 | 6 | Sittwe, Myanmar | A mob of at least 100 buddhists attacked 7 Rohingya men from Dapaing camp, killing one and injuring six others. An unarmed junior policeman was with the Muslim men at the time of the attack, but was unable to protect them from the mob and ran away back to the police station. | Unnamed mob |
Date | Type | Dead | Injured | Location | Details | Perpetrator |
28 May–8 August 1915 | Shooting, bombing, arson | 116 | Unknown | Various cities, British Ceylon | 1915 Ceylonese riots: A widespread and prolonged ethnic riot took place in the island of Ceylon between Sinhalese Buddhists and the Ceylon Moors ending in brutal suppression by the British colonial authorities. According to some official estimates, which must be taken as approximate, there were 25 murdered, 189 wounded, 4 incidents of rape associated with the riots, 4075 houses and boutiques looted, 250 houses and boutiques burned down, 17 mosques burned and 86 mosques otherwise damaged. Other official figures place total of 116 people were killed, 63 by military and Police forces. | Sinhalese Buddhists and British authorities |
3 August 1990 | 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. | 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.[The New York Times, Tamils Kill 110 Muslims at 2 Sri Lankan Mosques, 5 August 1990][The Times, Tamils kill 116 Muslims, 13 August 1990][Associated Press, Tamil Rebels Order Muslims to Leave City, 17 June 1995] 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 for this act and asked the Muslims to return, but very few Muslims have taken up the offer. | Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam |
29 April 1992 | Shooting | 157 | Unknown | Central Province, Sri Lanka.png" /> 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. | 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; however, the Sri Lankan government states that cadres massacred 166 to 171 people by a force of 150 attackers. | 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. | 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 19–35 years of age; three of the men were decapitated and the others were shot or hacked to death by the unknown gunmen. | 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. Hundreds were made homeless following attacks on homes, shops, factories, mosques and a nursery. 10,000 people were displaced by the riots. The riots followed rallies by Bodu Bala Sena, a hard line Buddhist group. The BBS was widely blamed for inciting the riots but it has denied responsibility. The mainstream media in Sri Lanka censored news about the riots following orders from the Sri Lankan government. | Bodu Bala Sena and followers |
26 February – 10 March 2018 | Widespread looting, assault, arson | 2 | 15 | Ampara and Kandy District, Sri Lanka | 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, Sri Lanka | 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 |
Date | Type | Dead | Injured | Location | Details | Perpetrator |
24 April 1999 | Bombing | 0 | 13 | London, England | Brick Lane nail bomb: A home-made bomb detonated in the boot of a car parked in Brick Lane, which was targeted due to its market's high volume of Bangladeshi clientele. Thirteen people were injured, and surrounding buildings and cars were severely damaged. The perpetrator was convicted of murder in 2000. | David Copeland |
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". | 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". | 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. | 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. | Unnamed men |
3 August 2007 | Arson | 0 | 0 | Bradford, England | A mosque in Bradford was seriously damaged in an arson attack. | 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. | 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." | 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. | 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. | 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. | 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. | 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". | 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. | 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". | 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. He was formally convicted and jailed in July 2017. | 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. He was convicted in May 2017. Rallies were held in Bletchley in support of the victims. | 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". | 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". | 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". | 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. | 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, several civil rights groups and politicians claim the perpetrator was motivated by Islamophobia. | 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". | 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". | 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. | 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. | 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. 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". | 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. | Unnamed gang |
25 October 2018 | Assault | 0 | 1 | Almondbury, Huddersfield, England | Assault of Syrian refugee teenagers at Almondbury Community School. | Unnamed |
16 March 2019 | Melee attack | 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. | Unnamed 50-year-old male |
Date | Type | Dead | Injured | Location | Details | Perpetrator |
15 September 2001 | Shooting | 1 | 0 | Mesa, Arizona | Murder of Balbir Singh Sodhi: Balbir Singh Sodhi, who wore a beard and a turban in accordance with his Sikh faith, was mistaken for an Arab Muslim. Roque had reportedly told friends that he was "going to go out and shoot some towel-heads" the day of the attacks. | Frank Silva Roque |
15 September – 4 October 2001 | Shooting | 2 | 1 | Dallas, Texas | Waqar Hasan, a 46-year-old Pakistani immigrant, was shot and killed inside of a grocery store in Dallas. Another victim, 28-year-old Raisuddin Bhuiyan was shot in the face while working on a convenience store. He was saved from brain damage, but lost sight of one of his eyes. The third victim, Vasudev Patel, 49, was gunned down in Mesquite, Texas on 4 October 2001. The perpetrator said his motive was "to avenge the United States on 9/11" | Mark Anthony Stroman |
14 January 2007 | Melee attack | 0 | 1 | Lackawanna, New York | A 26-year-old man of Yemeni ethnicity was physically assaulted by attackers who used a racist and anti-Muslim epithet during the incident. The victim was thrown to the ground, sustaining a fracture under one eye, a broken nose, and cuts requiring six stitches on his face and staples to the back of his head. | Unknown |
16 September 2007 | Melee attack | 0 | 1 | Locust Valley, New York | Zohreh Assemi, an Iranian American Muslim owner of a nail salon in Locust Valley, New York, was robbed, beaten, and called a "terrorist" in what authorities called a bias crime. Assemi was kicked, sliced with a boxcutter, and had her hand smashed with a hammer. The perpetrators, who forcibly removed $2,000 from the salon and scrawled anti-Muslim slurs on the mirrors, also told Assemi to "get out of town" and that her kind were not "welcomed" in the area. The attack followed two weeks of phone calls in which she was called a "terrorist" and told to "get out of town," friends and family said. | Unknown |
9 February 2008 | Arson | 0 | 0 | Columbia, Tennessee | The Islamic Center in Columbia was firebombed with Molotov cocktails by members of the right-wing extremist Christian Identity Movement. | Christian Identity Movement |
July 2010–March 2011 | Burning Qur'ans | 0 | 0 | Gainesville, Florida | Dove World Outreach Center Quran-burning controversy: The Dove World Outreach Center church planned to burn Qur'ans on the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Despite warning from the military leadership in the Afghan War, Terry Jones, the pastor of the centre, said it would be "tragic" if anybody's life was lost as a result of the planned Quran burning. While he added "Still, I must say that we feel that we must sooner or later stand up to Islam, and if we don't, it's not going to go away." His church's website claims to "expose Islam" as a "violent and oppressive religion;" it also displays a sign reading "Islam is of the Devil." In early September 2010, Jones cancelled and pledged never to burn a Quran, but on 20 March 2011, Jones held a "trial of the Quran" in his Gainesville church. Finding the scriptures guilty of "crimes against humanity," the Quran was burned in the church sanctuary. | Terry Jones |
25 August 2010 | Stabbing | 0 | 1 | New York City, New York | A New York taxi driver was stabbed after a passenger asked if he was Muslim. The perpetrator was charged with a hate crime. | Michael Enright |
24 January 2011 | Attempted car bombing | 0 | 0 | Dearborn, Michigan | 2011 Dearborn mosque bombing plot: A man was arrested and charged with terrorism after attempting to blow up the Islamic Center of America in Dearborn, Michigan, which has large Arab-American and Muslim populations. The man later said he opposed the Iraq war and targeted the mosque to "grab people's attention." He was arrested in the parking lot outside the mosque with a car filled with high-end, class C fireworks including M-80s. | Roger Stockham |
27 December 2012 | Melee attack | 1 | 0 | New York City, New York | Sunando Sen, a 46-year-old Indian immigrant, was hit and killed by a subway train when a woman pushed him onto the track. The woman later told authorities that she hates Muslims and "ever since 2001 when they put down the twin towers I've been beating them up." | Erika Menendez |
16 March 2014 | Shooting | 1 | 0 | Sacramento, California | A man gunned down Iraqi artist Hassan Alawsi in the parking lot of a Home Depot. Police suspect the shooter was motivated by "his dislike of people of Middle Eastern descent." | Jeffrey Caylor |
4 December 2014 | Vehicular attack | 1 | 0 | Kansas City, Missouri | Killing of Abdisamad Sheikh-Hussein: A Muslim Somali-American student at Staley High School was killed near the Kansas City Somali Center, a man intentionally rammed his car into him, knocking him into the air, and then ran over him, nearly severing his legs. The driver of the car made rants against Islam and threats against Muslim worshippers outside a mosque. The SUV used in the attack had an anti-Muslim bumper sticker which compared the Quran with Ebola, while another stated that "Islam is worse than Ebola". The FBI classified it as a hate crime. | Ahmed H. Aden |
10 February 2015 | Shooting | 3 | 0 | Chapel Hill, North Carolina | 2015 Chapel Hill shooting: Three Muslims killed by neighbour in their homes | Craig Hicks |
10 April 2015 | Attempted attack | 0 | 0 | Tompkins, New York | A man spent months gathering weapons and plotting an assault on a Muslim hamlet in northern New York City. | Robert Doggart |
26 December 2015 | Melee attack | 0 | 1 | Fresno, California | Amrik Singh Bal, a 68-year-old Sikh man, was beaten by someone who called him a "terrorist." | Daniel Coronel Wilson Jr |
29 June 2016 | Shooting | 0 | 2 | Minneapolis, Minnesota | 2016 Minneapolis shooting: A man shot at five Somali-Americans, wounding two of them. Witnesses later recounted that Sawina shouted Anti-Muslim expletives and stated he was going to "going to kill you all." | Anthony Sawina |
19 July 2016 | Melee attack | 0 | 1 | Omaha, Nebraska | Suthahar Subburaj, an Indian immigrant, was knocked unconscious outside an Indian restaurant by an assailant who shouted “ISIS... Get out of my country” as he beat him. Subbaraj is neither Arab nor Muslim. | Unnamed man |
13 August 2016 | Shooting | 2 | 0 | New York City, New York | Maulama Akonjee, a 55-year-old imam, and his assistant, 64-year-old Thara Uddin, was shot and killed while on their way home from Al-Furqan Jame Mosque in Ozone Park, Queens. Police suspect it was a hate crime. | Oscar Morel |
18 August 2016 | Shooting | 1 | 0 | Tulsa, Oklahoma | A Lebanese-American man was shot and killed on his porch in by an neighbor who regularly called him a "dirty Muslim" and "Arab" despite him being Christian. | Stanley Majors |
31 August 2016 | Stabbing | 1 | 0 | New York City, New York | Nazma Khanam, a Bangladeshi woman was fatally stabbed on a Queens sidewalk. The NYPD investigated it as a hate crime. | Yonatan Galvez Marin |
12 September 2016 | Arson | 0 | 0 | Fort Pierce, Florida | A man set a mosque on fire in fear of another "Manhattan World Trade Center attack or Boston Bombing." | Joseph Schreiber |
11 October 2016 | Attempted car bombing | 0 | 0 | Garden City, Kansas | 2016 Garden City bombing plot: Three men monitored apartment blocks which were known to house Muslim refugees, stockpiled an arsenal of weapons, and planned to kill by detonating explosives in four trucks laden with ammonium nitrate. | Kansas Security Force |
20 October 2016 | Vandalism | 0 | 0 | Fort Smith, Arkansas | Two mosques were damaged with graffiti swastikas and xenophobic slurs. | Craig Wigginton Abraham Davis |
10 November 2016 | Melee attack | 0 | 1 | New York City, New York | Two Muslim women in Brooklyn were attacked while they were walking and pushing their children in strollers. The perpetrator stated “This is the United States of America, you're not supposed to be different from us" and demanded they leave the country. | Unnamed woman |
14 November 2016 | Vandalism | 0 | 0 | Owensboro, Kentucky | The Islamic Center of Owensboro was vandalized for the second time in less than a year. | Unknown |
16 November 2016 | Melee attack | 0 | 1 | Charlotte, North Carolina | A student was beaten and choked by a teacher, ostensibly due to his religion. | Unnamed teacher |
25 November 2016 | Melee attack | 0 | 1 | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | A man attacked an Indian man sitting next to him at a bar after mistaking him for a Muslim. He was charged with "ethnic intimidation". | Jeffrey Burgess |
27 November 2016 | Melee attack | 0 | 1 | Fairfax County, Virginia | A man was beaten in a parking lot after someone yelled anti-Muslim slurs at him. The perpetrator was charged with a hate crime. | Robin McGreer |
5 December 2016 | Melee attack | 0 | 1 | New York City, New York | A Muslim New York City transit worker was pushed down the stairs at Grand Central Terminal by a man who called her a terrorist. | Unknown |
10 December 2016 | Stabbing | 0 | 1 | Simi Valley, California | A Muslim worshipper was stabbed outside of a mosque. The perpetrator was charged with a hate crime. | John Matteson |
17 December 2016 | Vandalism | 0 | 0 | Redmond, Washington | The sign outside a Redmond mosque was vandalized for a second time in a month. The sign was first vandalized 21 November. Police said they are investigating both incidents as possible hate crimes. | Nathan Gray |
18 December 2016 | Melee attack | 0 | 1 | New York City, New York | A man chucked hot coffee at a Muslim woman, hit her and accused her of being a “terrorist” in a Midtown Dunkin Donuts. He was charged with a hate crime. | Nathan Gray |
22 January 2017 | Vandalism | 0 | 0 | Davis, California | The windows of the Islamic Center of Davis were smashed. Police called it a hate crime. | Unknown |
22 January 2017 | Vandalism, attempted arson | 0 | 0 | Sacramento, California | Burglary and attempted arson took place at a restaurant. Racist and derogatory comments, including the word “terrorist,” were written on the walls directed at the owners, who are Sikh. Police called it a hate crime. | Unknown |
26 January 2017 | Melee attack | 0 | 1 | New York City, New York | A man kicked a Muslim airline worker and told her “Trump is here now” and “he will get rid of all of you.” | Robin Rhodes |
1 February 2017 | Vandalism | 0 | 0 | Roseville, California | Members of Roseville's Tarbiya Institute arrived Wednesday morning to find a dozen different racial epithets spray painted on the building's front and back. | Unknown |
11 February 2017 | Vandalism | 0 | 0 | Columbus, Ohio | An Islamic Center was vandalized with graffiti that read “Allah is a fraud.” | Unknown |
23 February 2017 | Shooting | 1 | 2 | Olathe, Kansas | 2017 Kansas shooting: A man shot and killed an Indian immigrant engineer he thought was Middle Eastern and wounded two others after shouting "get out of my country" and opening fire. | Adam Puritan |
4 March 2017 | Shooting | 0 | 1 | Kent, Washington | A man shot and injured a Sikh after shouting "get out of my country." | Unknown |
10 March 2017 | Melee attack | 0 | 1 | Salem, Oregon | A man beat an Arab employee of Al Aqsa Restaurant with a pipe, yelling "go back to your country terrorist" and "get out of America." | Jason Kendall |
12 March 2017 | Attempted arson | 0 | 0 | Port St. Lucie, Florida | A Florida man who attempted to set fire to a convenience store told deputies that he assumed the owner was Muslim and that he wanted to “run the Arabs out of our country.” The sheriff later said the store owners are actually Indian. | Richard Lloyd |
26 March 2017 | Melee attack | 0 | 1 | Washington, D.C. | Yosef Steynovitz was charged with assault with significant bodily injury, which is a felony, in connection with the beating of Kamal Nayfeh, a 55-year old Palestinian-American instructor at a community college in Charlotte, North Carolina. Steynovitz was also charged with a "suspected hate crime" based on "anti-Arab" bias. | Yosef Steynovitz |
11 April 2017 | Melee attack, stabbing | 0 | 1 | Milwaukee, Wisconsin | A woman was beaten and stabbed by a man. Munjed Ahmad of the Islamic Society of Milwaukee concluded that "Nothing was stolen. There was no robbery. Her valuables remain with her. The only motive we can think of—because everything stayed with her and this individual went straight for her scarf is a hate crime." | Unnamed man |
26 May 2017 | Melee attack, stabbing | 2 | 1 | Portland, Oregon | 2017 Portland train attack: A man fatally stabbed two people and injured a third on a MAX Light Rail train, after he was confronted for reportedly "yelling a gamut of anti-Muslim and anti-everything slurs." The Portland Police Bureau's report said Christian was shouting "hate speech toward a variety of ethnicities and religions", and directed his inflammatory remarks at two young Muslim women, one of whom was wearing a hijab. | Jeremy Joseph Christian |
5 August 2017 | Bombing | 0 | 0 | Bloomington, Minnesota | 2017 Dar Al-Farooq Islamic Center bombing: Bomb detonated in the Dar Al-Farooq Islamic Center in Bloomington. | Michael Hari and 2 others |
13 September 2017 | Melee attack | 0 | 2 | New York City, New York | An Orthodox Jewish woman and her daughter were allegedly beaten up at a Queens subway station by a drunk who mistook them for Muslims. | Dimitrious Zia |
19 September 2017 | Melee attack | 0 | 1 | Chicago, Illinois | Five football players at a private U.S. Christian college were charged in connection with a hazing incident that allegedly included anti-Muslim taunts and left a student with injuries requiring surgeries. | Five unnamed men |
24 March 2019 | Arson | 0 | 0 | Escondido, California | Escondido mosque fire: A man set fire to a mosque in Escondido, causing minor damage to the building. Police discovered graffiti on the mosque's driveway referencing the Christchurch mosque shootings shooter, leading them to consider the fire a terrorist attack. | John T. Earnest |
23 April 2019 | Vehicular attack | 0 | 8 | Sunnyvale, California | Isaiah Joel Peoples while on his way to a Bible Study Group, intentionally ran his car into a group of people because he assumed that they were Muslims and repeatedly said "Thank you Jesus" after crashing into them. Eight individuals were injured. One of the victims, a 7th-grade Indian origin girl, Dhriti Narayan, is in coma and doctors have removed the left side of her skull. He has been charged with a hate crime. | Isaiah Joel Peoples |