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As Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated a grand Hindu temple built on 27 acres donated by a Muslim-majority UAE on February 14, Muslims in India were being killed, and mosques, tombs, and mausoleums of Sufi saints and revered leaders were being demolished. The Hindu nationalist premier’s open assault on Muslim Indians is met not […]

29th Dec 2023

Editorial: Western leadership values at odds with their people and the world

As we go to press, the UN Security Council has passed a resolution calling for increased aid to Gaza. However, fearing the threat of yet another US veto, the resolution fell short of demanding a ceasefire or even a pause. Instead, it asked for “urgent steps” to establish “conditions for a sustainable ceasefire.” However, 24 […]

30th Jun 2023

Editorial: Hui Muslims defy Chinese government demolition of mosques

Generally, reporting of human rights abuses against Muslims in China focuses on Uyghur Muslims of Turkic origin who live in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in Western China at the crossroads of Central and East Asia. However, very little is known about ethnic Hui Chinese Muslims’ suffering. Thousands of protesters in a majority Hui Muslim […]

30th Jun 2023

Editorial: Cultural Genocide of Muslims in India

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Indian government is trying to erase any trace of the Mughal Empire and with-it Muslim legacy as it seeks to portray India as a historically Hindu-only land and subsequently othering its 200-million Muslim population in what has been dubbed “a cultural genocide.” To date, more than 7,000 Indian villages bearing […]

26th May 2023

Editorial: Bloom review falls foul of own recommendations

(Credit:Alfredo Borba/WikiCommons) The Government’s faith adviser, Colin Bloom, published the long-awaited review of government engagement with faith communities, Does government ‘do God?’ An independent review into how government engages with faith. The review is a mixed bag, particularly when it comes to the Muslim community. Despite some favourable recommendations, Muslims continue to be perceived more […]

26th May 2023

Editorial: Sudanese crises another reminder of UK’s double standard laden Home Office

The UK government was quick to aid the Ukraine and its citizens, following Russia’s invasion of the country in February 2022. Ukrainian refugees were offered immediate safe and legal passage to the UK. In contrast, besieged Sudanese caught up in a “preventive proxy war” engulfing their capital watched helplessly as foreign countries mediated short ceasefires […]

21st Apr 2023

Editorial: The Muslim News mourns loss of lead writer and friend

Hamed Chapman, 76, died in the early hours of Friday, March 24, following an illness. And with his passing, The Muslim News has lost a dear colleague and friend. Hamed, born John Edgar, began writing for The Muslim News in 1996, just seven years after the paper’s inception, making him one of the publication’s longest-running […]

21st Apr 2023

Editorial: Emboldened Home Secretary allowed to slander yet another Muslim community

Not content with slandering all Albanian migrants as criminals last year, the Home Secretary set her sight on maligning yet another of Britain’s Muslim communities. This time, it was the turn of the country’s 1.5 million-strong Pakistani population to be abused by Suella Braverman’s “politics of performative cruelty,” which incorrectly and dangerously claimed that “almost […]

21st Apr 2023

Editorial: Practising Muslim ascends to Scotland’s highest office

It has been a long and arduous journey for Muslims in the West, especially in the post-9/11 and 7/7 UK. Anti-terror legislation has been passed, almost, entirely targeting Muslim populations, resulting in stifling surveillance that sees all Muslims as potential terrorists. And despite the Home Secretary’s denial, Muslims have also been the most discriminated against […]

24th Mar 2023

Editorial: No right not to be offended, Muslims told

Muslims have no right not to be offended, insists Home Secretary Suella Braverman following the desecration of a copy of the Qur’an. Damage to the sacred book at a Wakefield high school being recorded as a ‘hate incident’ did nothing to deter Braverman from ordering the police to prioritise freedom of speech over taking offence […]

24th Mar 2023

Editorial: Tories cheerleading banishment of desperate asylum seekers

Desperate to reclaim the huge lead Labour has held in opinion polls since Boris Johnson’s disgraced ousting last summer, the government is playing the tried and tested refugee demonization card, unflinchingly stigmatising desperate asylum seekers arriving on small boats. Following Brexit, a slew of measures aimed at curtailing basic liberties, such as the right to […]

24th Mar 2023

Editorial: Anti-Islam group must be purged from Parliament

The Palace of Westminster has been the centre of political power in the UK for over 900 years. Parliament has evolved to assert its authority from absolute rule by the monarchy to what is supposed to be a modern democratic legislature in an age of technology. Progress appears to have included a secret anti-Islamic organisation […]

24th Mar 2023

Editorial: Police harassment jeopardises essential community support

In recent years, the police have not gotten very good press. In London, a ‘litany of terrible scandal’ led to the early retirement of Met Police Commissioner, Cressida Dick, last April after the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, said he had lost confidence in her ability to make changes. Much criticism has been levelled at […]

24th Feb 2023

EDITORIAL: Muslims younger, Christians older, what are the implications?

The gap between the average ages of Christians and Muslims has, for years, been growing. Over the next four decades, Islam is projected to continue to grow globally and even match the number of Christians. The latest census in England and Wales confirmed the trend, revealing that the average age of Muslims is 27, 13 […]

24th Feb 2023

EDITORIAL: Unprincipled Prevent review

Photo: Pixabay License Home Secretary Suella Braverman called it “superb,” the Daily Telegraph’s Home Affairs Editor, Charles Hymas, described it as a “landmark” review but with the exception of the incumbent Tory government and sections of the right-wing media, everyone else disagreed. Shadow Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper, said it was “confused” and a significant opportunity […]

24th Feb 2023

EDITORIAL: Mocking Türkiye-Syria earthquake highlights depth of depravity

What do a British radio DJ, a French satirical magazine, and a prominent Israeli Rabbi have in common? The trio proved that hate speech, while unacceptable when aimed at any other community in “civilised” democracies, is inconsequential when directed at Muslims. As all three have mocked and celebrated recent earthquakes that claimed the lives of […]

27th Jan 2023

EDITORIAL: Anti-Muslim discrimination extends to groomed schoolgirls

C: by-nc-nd Alecska @ Followthestory.net Creative Commons Western imperialism colonised, expropriated, and exploited people of colour in the pursuit of wealth and power.The invasions were accompanied by an embedded barbaric slave system that became part of a hierarchical power structure of European and American countries, with Britain at the top. With a post-World War II […]

27th Jan 2023

EDITORIAL: Harry’s Afghan kill count, a show of racism hypocrisy

(Photo credits: Eva Rinaldi/Joe Catron Flickr Commons) This month’s publication of Prince Harry’s memoirs had been long-awaited, being teased since last July as the “definitive account of the experiences, adventures, losses, and life lessons that have helped shape him” ahead of his leaving the British royal family in 2020. The tell-all autobiography relates the cycle […]

30th Dec 2022

EDITORIAL: Muslims reverse trend of England becoming more Godless

Image by rawpixel.com For the first time in a census of England and Wales, less than half of the population (46.2%) described themselves as ‘Christian’, a whopping 13.1% decrease from 2011. This was the headline finding from the latest release of data from the decennial mandatory household questionnaire, which started in 1801. The stark result […]

30th Dec 2022

EDITORIAL: Seminal moment exposing the great tragedy of the Palestinian Nakba

Farha, a story of a 14-year-old girl who witnesses atrocities by Zionist militias during the Nakba (TaleBox/Netflix) The screening of Farha on Netflix, the world’s largest streaming service, signifies a significant breakthrough in exposing genocidal crimes committed against the Palestinian people during the establishment of Israel in 1948. In the face of intense lobbying from […]

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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.

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 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.