{"id":59175,"date":"2023-05-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/2023\/05\/06\/racist-attack-on-a-muslim-girl-in-berlin-targeted-her-hijab-by-an-extremist-right-wing-individual\/"},"modified":"2023-05-06T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-05-06T00:00:00","slug":"racist-attack-on-a-muslim-girl-in-berlin-targeted-her-hijab-by-an-extremist-right-wing-individual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/2023\/05\/06\/racist-attack-on-a-muslim-girl-in-berlin-targeted-her-hijab-by-an-extremist-right-wing-individual\/","title":{"rendered":"Racist attack on a Muslim girl in Berlin targeted her hijab by an extremist right-wing individual."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Muslim girl in Berlin was targeted in an attack aimed at her hijab by a right-wing extremist, according to a statement issued by the Berlin police.<\/p>\n<p>According to the statement, the girl was subjected to verbal and physical assault at a metro station and suffered minor injuries after the attacker removed her hijab and pulled her hair.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is still ongoing to identify the suspect who fled the scene after uttering racist slurs.<\/p>\n<p>Germany has witnessed a significant increase in racist incidents and Islamophobia, due to the rise of extremist right-wing groups and political parties exploiting the refugee crisis in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>According to TRT Arabic, Germany recorded at least 569 hate crimes against Muslims in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Over 5 million Muslims live in Germany, making them the largest religious group in the country after the Christian majority.<\/p>\n<p>The issue of the hijab has been controversial across Europe for years, highlighting the sharp divisions over the integration of Muslims into European societies.<\/p>\n<p>Source: IUMS, Electronic websites<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Muslim girl in Berlin targeted in a hijab-related attack by a right-wing extremist; Germany sees a rise in racist incidents and Islamophobia due to extremist groups and political exploitation of the refugee crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":59536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[414],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-our-news-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}