The Guardian reports on the continuing saga surrounding the five-year-old child at the centre of the Tower Hamlets foster story case. Earlier in August, The Times newspaper ran a front-cover story with the misleading headline “Christian child forced into Muslim foster care”. Following the...
The Birmingham Mail reports that The Department for Education will be reforming the disciplinary procedures to deal with any repeat of the ‘Trojan Horse’ attempts to infiltrate schools. Justine Greening, the Education Secretary, has spoken to the Birmingham Mail at the Conservative Party...
On Sunday 1 October, thousands of Muslims in Central London marked the holy day of Ashura with a march against ISIS, the Independent reports. The group gathered to mourn the innocent victims who have lost their lives to terrorism and to denounce violence carried out in the name of religion....
Cornwall Live reports that a 63-year-old man is under investigation for allegedly writing on his Facebook wall that he would have “no worries about ending the life of any Muslim”. On September 15, Eric King, from Cornwall, shared a Britain First’s Facebook post headlined “While Christianity...
Manchester Evening News reports that on Sunday the 24th of September, Doctor Nasser Kurdy was stabbed in the back of his neck outside the Altrincham and Hale Islamic Association at around 17:50. Nasser Kurdy, who is a 58-year-old orthopedic surgeon, was stabbed on his way to the mosque,...
A Palestinian student, Mohammed Awad, is losing hope of starting his Masters degree at Goldsmiths this term because of delays in approvals from the Israeli government, The Independent reports. Twenty-eight year-old Awad lives in the Gaza Strip and has been diligently pursuing his dream of...
On 27 September, eleven men were arrested across England and Wales for suspected involvement in National Action, a right-wing terrorist organisation banned by the UK government last year. Five of the men were arrested for allegedly planning acts of terrorism related to “threats against...
A survey conducted by YouGov and commissioned by Arab News evidences the concerns of British voters towards Arabs and Islam, underlying the tensions between different segments of UK society. The poll, which sampled 2,142 adults in August 2017, reveals that 63% of respondents believe that Arabs...
MEND ran a hugely successful fringe event on Tuesday at the Labour Party Conference in Brighton on the topic of Labour and Muslim women’s empowerment. On the panel was a selection of highly inspirational speakers, including Diane Abbott, the Shadow Home Secretary; Naz Shah, MP for Bradford West;...
A new survey published last week by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights shows that Muslims in Europe suffer discrimination in all areas of life. The study, which surveyed Muslim immigrants and descendants of immigrants in 15 European countries including the United Kingdom, shows...
