Terrorism Watch

  STOCKHOLM — Outside Sweden’s national sports arena, two framed football shirts sit beneath a flag at half-mast, a memorial to the two fans killed by a terrorist in Brussels on Monday night, and a reminder to passers-by to be vigilant for follow-up attacks.  “I hope this is the last time this kind of thing happens,” said Kent Åberg, a 62-year-old airport worker who had come to pay his respects. “But I’m looking over my shoulder.” Stockholm is on edge after the shooting deaths of two fans ahead of an international football match in Brussels between Sweden and Belgium. The Tunisian asylum seeker who pulled the trigger said in a social media post he had targeted Swedes as “revenge in the name of Muslims.” The shooter was later killed by police.  The attack followed months of rising anger toward Sweden after copies of the Quran were burned by far-right activist Rasmus Paludan and then later in the year by Iraqi protester Salwan Momika. At the same time, a long-running online disinformatio

  As the ongoing Israel-Hamas war raises fears of anti-religious discrimination and hate worldwide,   new FBI statistics   paint a picture of hate crimes against Jews, Muslims, Black people and other US minorities. In 2022, there were at least 11,634 hate crime incidents reported to the FBI by law enforcement agencies, with anti-Black/African-American hate crimes the most common, comprising nearly a third of the reported total. Anti-Jewish incidents were the most common religion-related hate crime, totalling 1,124 incidents. “Today, the FBI released their annual statistics on hate crimes. Antisemitic hate crimes rose 25 percent from 2021 to 2022, and Antisemitism accounted for over half of all reported religion-based hate crimes,” Joe Biden said in a statement. “To those Americans worried about violence at home, as a result of the evil acts of terror perpetrated by Hamas in Israel, we see you. We hear you,” he added. “And I have asked members of my team, including Homeland Security Sec