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Police have charged a 20-year-old man with four counts of murder and one count of attempted murder after he allegedly carried out a targeted hit-and-run, striking a family of five “because of their Muslim faith” in a “premeditated” act. A nine-year-old boy survived the attack and remains hospitalized with serious …

Ed Husain, professor at the Walsh School of Foreign Service in Georgetown University, visited mosques across Britain, speaking to businesses owners, imams and locals about life in predominantly Muslim neighbourhoods. He used his on-the-ground research to write a book, ‘Among The Mosques: A Journey Across Muslim Britain’, which is set …

The damning findings, laid out in a 44,000-word independent report by Professor Swaran Singh, a former human rights commissioner, were made after analysing 1,418 complaints made within the Conservative Party from 2015 to 2020. Two-thirds of complaints reported to officials at the Conservative Party’s headquarters were related to allegations of …

Writing on Twitter, Khan urged Western governments “who have outlawed any negative comment on the Holocaust to use the same standards to penalize those deliberately spreading their message of hate against Muslims by abusing our Prophet.” The PM blasted “extreme right politicians” in the West who spread hatred against Muslims …

Kazan is the capital of Tatarstan, a Muslim-majority republic around 800km east of Moscow. The region is known for its rich cultural history, combining Russian traditions with Tatar heritage. Speaking to local news station Tatarstan 24, Leysan Dauletova revealed that she discovered a gap in the market while feeling uncomfortable …

Journalist Nadiya Lazzouni told the BFM TV channel she was in contact with Macron’s administration and had asked for protection. She said she had been informed by a presidential security adviser that the authorities were treating the situation “very seriously” and “an investigation has been launched in order to assess …

An angry mob gathers outside a school to demand the sacking of a teacher who’d shown his class a picture of the Prophet Mohammed. There is chanting and a Muslim scholar addresses the crowd. The police are called and they try to get people to disperse. Such a scene immediately …

While social media favorite Bridges feigned annoyance at making the bantamweight limit so easily that she could have treated herself to a pre-weight glass of water, her unfortunate opponent, 45-year-old Carol Earl, weighed in 3.4lb over the maximum. In accordance with her Muslim faith, Earl, who initially wore a tracksuit and …

The right-wing populist Danish People’s Party (DPP) is proposing that, as part of an ongoing overhaul of immigration and naturalization rules in the country, in future, would-be citizens should declare their faith, or lack thereof, in order to be considered for Danish citizenship.  “For many people being Muslim raises some …

“We found absolutely no evidence that the reputational issues that have arisen over the conduct of a few individuals has had any link to the way IRW carries out this charitable work,” Dominic Grieve, who led the review, said.  On the contrary, the charity has made a lot of effort …