A Muslim man was just firebombed while driving on a Texas highway

The latest attack against a Muslim following Trump’s election is perhaps the most vicious yet, as a man was randomly firebombed in his car.

While driving on the Katy Freeway from Houston to his home in Cypress, Texas, Syed Raza noticed two men in a purple truck, asking him to roll down his window, thinking they were asking for directions. When he did, the men laughed and threw something in his car, which immediately engulfed his vehicle in flames.

“All I could think is I need to get out of the car,” Raza told KPRC-TV in Houston.

While the incident appears to be a hate crime, Mustafaa Carroll, who is the executive director of the Houston chapter for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), told US Uncut he is hesitant to label the attack as a hate crime until law enforcement investigates the incident as such.

“For it to be classified as a hate crime, the person has to first say, ‘You dirty Muslim’ or something to that effect, then do the crime, and then the charges are enhanced as a hate crime,” Carroll said. “I mean, it definitely looks hateful… but if it isn’t investigated as a hate crime, then future hate crimes accusations lose credibility.”

Raza was recently released from Memorial Hermann hospital in Houston after suffering severe burns to his face, arm, and neck. Raza told KPRC he plans to file a report with the Harris County Sheriff’s Office (HCSO). As of this writing, the HCSO has not returned US Uncut’s requests for comment, and no suspects have been publicly named in the attack.

KPRC captured video feed of Raza’s car burning, and of his injuries.

Muslim Woman Shot Dead in France

PARIS – A hijabi Muslim woman was killed while sitting in her car in Pantin, Seine-Saint-Denis, on Friday night, 23rd September 2016, after a shooter fired five bullets, killing her immediately.

“No damage was found on the vehicle which suggests that the individual put his arm inside the car and made this point blank shot, reported Agence France Presse from a source close to the investigation.

According to police reports, the woman was hit by five bullets, two of which were fired at her head at close range.

The shots were reportedly fired by a person on a scooter who fled the scene.

Though the victim was wearing a hijab, police ruled out Islamophobia.

An investigation for murder is underway and headed by the criminal brigade of the judicial police in Paris.

France is home to a Muslim community of nearly six million, the largest in Europe, according to Agence France Presse.

Scarred by pellets, Kashmir girls face uncertain future

Families in shock after girls, as young as 13, hit in the eyes with lead-based pellets in Indian-administered Kashmir.

Inside the ophthalmology ward at the Shri Maharaja Hari Singh hospital (SMHS)  in Srinagar, four teenage girls between 12 and 19, lie on parallel beds with their eyes shut.

Hit in the eyes with lead-based pellets, they are the latest victims of the "non-lethal" projectiles used by the Indian troops as a method of crowd control in India-administered Kashmir. 

Three of the girls -  13-year-old Ifrah Jan, and two 18-year olds, Shabroza Akhtar and Shabroza Baghat - were hit in the face during protests on Sunday in Rumhoo village, in the  Pulwama district of   southern Kashmir. 

Urfi Rashid, 19, was struck on Monday when she peered out of her home in the village of  Chitragam Kalan, in the southern district of  Shopian.  

On Thursday, Dr Tariq Qureshi, the head of ophthalmology at SMHS, told Al Jazeera that he had conducted primary surgery on all four. He is optimistic about the girls regaining their vision.

Deviant ideology has no place in Islam: Shaikh As-Sudais

Sheikh Abdul Rahman Al-Sudais, head of the Presidency of the Two Holy Mosques, said Salafism reflected the true Islamic way of life suited to any time or place. 

“It is the way of life of the adherents of Sunnah who followed in the footsteps of the Messenger (peace be upon him) and also the way of the early believers, the Muhajirs and the Ansars," Al-Sudais said while delivering the Friday sermon at the Grand Mosque.

"It is also following the will of the Prophet (peace be upon him) who said: ‘Hold fast to my Sunnah and the way of life of the rightly guided caliphs after me. Beware of the innovations in religious matters; each new innovation in religious matters is a deviation from the right path and every deviation ends up in Hell Fire,'" he said quoting Sheikh Al-Islam Ibn Taymiah.