Hate crimes against Muslims around the world are on the rise, with the latest killings of Muslims in a mosque in New Zealand’s Christchurch city qualifying as a terrorist act. Here’s a list of attacks on Muslim worshippers over the last decade.
A Sri Lanka Muslim boy peeps through a broken window of a vandalized Mosque in Diana, Kandy, Sri Lanka, 2018. On December 15, 2010, two suicide bombers from Sunni extremist group Jundullah blew themselves up outside a mosque in southeastern Iran, killing six Revolutionary Guard commanders. On January 30, 2015, another Jundullah suicide bomber attacked a Shia mosque in the Pakistani town of Shikarpur and killed 71 people.
On January 29, 2017, 28-year-old Alexandre Bissonnette, who espoused far-right views and studied at a Canadian university, opened fire on worshippers in a Quebec City mosque, killing at least six men. On August 2, 2017, at least 29 people were killed in a suicide attack on a Shia mosque in the western Afghan city of Herat. On August 24, 2017, a suicide bomber blew himself up at the entrance of a Shia mosque in Kabul as other attackers stormed the building.
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