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Month after month, the pages of this paper are filled with harrowing reports on the rising tide of Islamophobia sweeping this country. The number of Anti-Muslim hate crimes has surged by 40%, with 1,678 incidents reported in London alone in the year up to January 2018. Despite the spike in attacks, there has been […]

28th Dec 2017

Opportunity for IPSO to prove its worth

It is just over three years since the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO) was established to replace the discredited Press Complaints Commission, which had been the main media regulator since 1990. But IPSO hasn’t done much to show that it will not again be yet another damp squid or to respond to the desperate need […]

29th Sep 2017

The Times must be brought to account for its Islamophobia

There was little objectivity regarding the plight this month of the young girl put into care in Tower Hamlets, which The Times splashed on its front page for four days in a row. On the one side was the five-year-old victim, emphasised as being white, Christian and a native English speaker. On the other side […]

31st Mar 2017

IPSO need to change Editor’s Code

Sir, Your excellent interview with the head of Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO), Sir Alan Moses, was an eye opener. [ Issue 334 Media watchdog chief backs tighter discrimination code] It shows that the press watchdog hasn’t much teeth to reduce the increase in Islamophobia reporting in the media. The most important issue, which you […]

28th Oct 2016

Fatima Manji slams IPSO regulator for condoning “hate speech”

Ala Abbas Channel 4 News Presenter Fatima Manji has spoken out against the press regulator, Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO), after it cleared the former Editor of The Sun Newspaper, Kelvin MacKenzie, of religious discrimination. The decision to clear MacKenzie on October 19 was “fundamentally flawed” and “frightening”, according to Manji. IPSO received 1,700 complaints […]

28th Oct 2016

Press ruling gives licence to more Islamophobia

The Editors’ Code of the relatively new Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO) is quite clear on discrimination. ‘i). The press must avoid prejudicial or pejorative reference to an individual’s, race, colour, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation or to any physical or mental illness or disability. ii) Details of an individual’s race, colour, religion, gender […]

30th Oct 2015

Landmark media conference on the reporting of Islam and Muslims

Abdul Adil Over 120 people attended a landmark conference on the media reporting of Islam and Muslims was held jointly by The Muslim News and Society of Editors in London on September 15. Those attending included editors and senior journalists from major media outlets as well as a cross section of Muslim community members and […]

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.