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By Hamed Chapman London, (The Muslim News): Police have stepped up patrols outside Ilford Islamic Centre in East London after a car drove by and threw eggs and stones at five people returning from Iftar and prayers on Tuesday. It is understood that volunteers at the Albert Road mosque have given CCTV footage to […]

5th May 2021

France: Arson attack targets mosque in SE France

By Yusuf Ozcan PARIS (AA): An arson attack was carried out on a mosque in France’s southeastern Albertville city on Monday night, the mosque said in a statement on social media. According to the statement, the entrance of the mosque, run by the Milli Gorus Islamic Confederation (CIMG), was damaged in the attack and […]

1st May 2021

France: Mosque in Rennes suffers 2nd attack

By Alaattin Dogru PARIS (AA): A mosque in northwestern France was subjected to an Islamophobic and racist attack for the second time in 20 days. Slogans such as “Wake up France”, “We warned you, immigration kills” and “No Islamization”, were written on the walls of Avicenna Islamic Cultural Center in Rennes,on April 29. The […]

15th Mar 2021

Sweden: Arson attack targets Muslim children’s school

By Atila Altuntas STOCKHOLM (AA): A fire broke out on Sunday at a private school in central Sweden where Muslim children are educated, said media reports. Hussein Aldaodi, the principal of Alsalamskolan School in the province of Orebro, told Swedish state broadcaster SVT that footage on school security cameras showed two people setting fire […]

14th Mar 2021

India: 14-year-old Muslim beaten up for drinking water at temple

By Shuriah Niazi NEW DELHI (AA): A Hindu man was arrested on Saturday for assaulting a Muslim boy for drinking water at a temple in a city near India’s capital New Delhi. The attack took place in Ghaziabad, a town in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, some 33 kilometers (20 miles) from the […]

3rd Mar 2021

Canada: Muslim women targeted by repeated threats

By Barry Ellsworth TRENTON, Canada (AA): Attacks and threats against five Somali-Canadian Muslim women have been reported in Edmonton, Alberta in the last 10 weeks, according to media reports Tuesday. In the Alberta province cities of Edmonton and Calgary, 140 incidents were reported in 2020, including death threats. But there are many so-called hate […]

24th Feb 2021

French mosque vandalized with Islamophobic graffiti

By Shweta Desai PARIS (AA): French Muslim organizations on Tuesday strongly condemned vandalism of an under-construction mosque in Strasbourg with Islamophobic graffiti. The words, “No to Islam, go back to your village” were sprayed across the fence on the site of the Eyyub Sultan Mosque, which once completed will be Europe’s largest Muslim place […]

24th Feb 2021

Spain: Community condemns explosive attack on mosque

By Alyssa McMurtry OVIEDO, Spain (AA): Residents and officials in the small Spanish town of San Javier, Murcia have condemned a violent attack against a mosque that took place early Sunday morning. According to local media, at around 4 a.m. (0300GMT) on Sunday morning an explosion was felt by residents living near the place […]

6th Jan 2021

Germany: Muslims concerned about rise of Islamophobia

By Mesut Zeyrek COLOGNE (AA): Germany’s Turkish-Muslim community is alarmed by the increase in Islamophobic hate crimes, senior figures told Anadolu Agency Monday. Kemal Ergun, president of the Turkish-Muslim association IGMG, said more and more mosques have become the targets of threats, vandalism or arson in recent months. “At least 122 mosques were targeted in […]

2nd Jan 2021

Germany: Mosque attacked twice in 2 weeks in southwest

By Mesut Zeyrek COLOGNE, Germany (AA): A mosque in Germany’s southwestern Baden-Wurttemberg city on Friday was attacked for the second time in two weeks, according to an official. In the early hours of New Year’s Day, Fatih Mosque in the town of Sontheim came under attack causing material damage, said Ali Ozdemir, the chairman of […]

25th Nov 2020

Azerbaijan slams Western concerns of Christian heritage but not Islamic ones

By Jeyhun Aliyev ANKARA, Turkey (AA): Azerbaijan’s leader on Monday criticized the leaders of some Western countries who “remained silent” over the destruction by Armenian forces of Azerbaijani cultural and religious monuments in the occupied territories. Addressing the nation in front of Agdam Mosque during his visit to the region recently liberated from Armenian occupation, […]

15th Oct 2020

France: Police arrest Muslim NGO head in raid

By Alaattin Dogru PARIS (AA): French police raided Wednesday the home of Muslim NGO BarakaCity’s founder and arrested him, the organization, which broadcast the raid live on its social channels, said. Idriss Sihamedi, the NGO’s president, was beaten up and arrested in front of his four children. “Search this morning at the home of […]

9th Oct 2020

Germany: 188 Islamophobic crimes in 3 months, 15 mosques attacked

BERLIN (AA) – German police recorded 188 Islamophobic crimes in the second quarter of this year, the country’s Interior Ministry has said. At least 15 mosques were attacked between April and June, and dozens of Muslims were physically assaulted or verbally harassed on the street or in a public place. Nine of them were injured […]

25th Sep 2020

Canadian Muslims urge gov’t to act against hate groups

By Barry Ellsworth TRENTON, Canada (AA): Following the murder of a caretaker at a Toronto mosque earlier this week, the head of a Muslim organization called Thursday for the government to do more to “eradicate this scourge” of white supremacism in Canada. Mohamed-Aslim Zafis was stabbed to death Sept. 19 and a suspect is […]

24th Aug 2020

New Zealand: Sentencing of terrorist who murdered 51 worshippers in mosques begins

By Jeyhun Aliyev (AA): The four-day sentencing hearing of the terrorist responsible for the Christchurch mosque attacks, the worst mass shooting in New Zealand’s modern history, began Monday morning, according to a local daily. Brenton Tarrant, 29, an Australian white supremacist who initially planned to attack three mosques, admitted killing 51 Muslims as they […]

2nd Jun 2020

Mosque arson attack in Greek Cyprus condemned

AA, Cyprium News, ABTTF: The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) on Monday condemned an attempt to burn down a mosque in Greek Cyprus. The attack with Molotov cocktails on Koprulu Haci Ibrahim Aga Mosque in the Limassol province on Sunday is unacceptable, said TRNC Prime Minister Ersin Tatar in a statement. At least three […]

19th May 2020

Germany: Pig’s-head vandalism of mosque condemned

By Dilara Hamit (AA): An Islamophobic incident in which a pig’s head was mounted onto the door of mosque in southern Germany drew condemnation from Turkey on Monday. Two unidentified people placed a pig’s head Saturday night on the door of the Fatih Mosque of the Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs (DITIB) in the […]

9th Mar 2020

France: Gunman opens fire in Paris mosque, wounding one

PARIS (Agencies): A man opened fire in a mosque in northeastern Paris on Sunday night, seriously wounding one person. The mosque is located on Rue de Tanger in the city’s 19th administrative district, he headquarters of ACIMA (Adda’wa Islamic Cultural Association Mosque)l, is reigiously and culturally diverse part of the capital. The gunman, wearing a […]

28th Jan 2020

France: Islamophobic attacks up sharply last year

By Yusuf Ozcan PARIS (AA): Islamophobic attacks in France rose by 54% in 2019, the president of the National Observatory of Islamophobia said Monday. In a written statement, Abdallah Zekri said there were 100 attacks against Muslims in France in 2018 and this rose to 154 in 2019. The attacks mostly occurred in the […]

9th Dec 2019

Germany: 11-year old girl wearing headscarf attacked brutally in E Germany

By Erbil Basay BERLIN (AA): 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. The suspected attackers, a 16-year-old male and 17-year-old female, targeted the Iraqi national in front of a supermarket […]

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Over 120 people attended a landmark conference on the media reporting of Islam and Muslims. It was held jointly by The Muslim News and Society of Editors in London on September 15.

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The Muslim News Awards for Excellence 2015 was held on March in London to acknowledge British Muslim and non-Muslim contributions to the society.

The Muslim News Awards for Excellence event is to acknowledge British Muslim and non-Muslim contributions to society. Over 850 people from diverse background, Muslim and non-Muslim, attended the gala dinner.