An 11-year-old Muslim girl wearing a headscarf was injured in a suspected Islamophobic attack by two far-right extremists in the eastern state of Saxony, Germany on Sunday, according to local reports.<\/p>\n
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<\/span><\/p>\n An 11-year-old Muslim girl wearing a headscarf was injured in a suspected Islamophobic attack by two far-right extremists in the eastern state of Saxony, Germany on Sunday, according to local reports.<\/p>\n The suspected attackers, a 16-year-old male and 17-year-old female, targeted the Iraqi national in front of a supermarket in the town of Sebnitz, reported local media, citing the police in Dresden, Saxony\u2019s capital.<\/p>\n The female attacker first took off the Iraqi girl\u2019s headscarf and pulled her by her hair to the ground.<\/p>\n The male attacker then kicked the girl while the female attacker closed her mouth using her hand.<\/p>\n The attackers reportedly shouted \u201cWhat are you doing here? Go back to your country.\u201d<\/p>\n The Iraqi girl was injured during the attack. Police have launched an investigation into the suspected attackers.<\/p>\n Germany has witnessed growing xenophobia and anti-migrant hatred in recent years, fueled by the propaganda of neo-Nazi groups and the far-right Islamophobic Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.<\/p>\n The police recorded more than 19,000 far-right crimes in 2018, with extremists committing some 1,000 violent attacks against foreigners, immigrants, or political rivals.<\/p>\n Almost 500 people were injured in attacks inspired by far-right ideologies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An 11-year-old Muslim girl wearing a headscarf was injured in a suspected Islamophobic attack by two far-right extremists in the eastern state of Saxony, Germany on Sunday, according to local reports. An 11-year-old Muslim girl wearing a headscarf was injured in a suspected Islamophobic attack by two far-right extremists in the eastern state of Saxony, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":20159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[363,94,252],"class_list":["post-8375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-attack","tag-germany","tag-hijab"],"yoast_head":"\n