Government discriminates against appointment of advisor on Islamophobia

The Tory Government seem to be in no rush to deal with an Islamophobia inquiry within its ranks or in society as a whole.

Muslims fewer rights than murderers

No less than 88 per cent of those stopped at ports are Muslims and
only 30 people (0.007 per cent) of the 419,000 stopped under Schedule 7 in the last decade have been convicted.

Detaining Muslims at ports is ‘Islamophobic’, says Cage

The detention of Muslims at ports and airports for up to six hours under discredited anti-terrorism laws is so disproportionate that the practice has become Islamophobic

Muslim pilgrims detained by anti-terror police for 5 hours

A couple say they were among several Muslim families subjected to “humiliating” searches for five hours at Heathrow Airport upon their return from Hajj last month.

GCSE and A-level honour roll

A sample of 127 Muslim students of the many across the country who have excelled in their GCSE, A-level and equivalent exams this year.

Ten year old achieves top GCSE grade

A brilliant 10-year-old Muslim schoolboy has scored top marks in his Computer Science GCSE,

Iranian denies attacking five Birmingham mosques

An Iranian man has denied causing at least £11,500 of damage to five mosques that had their doors and windows smashed on March 21.

Muslim Hands gets Queen’s award

International Muslim NGO Muslim Hands has been honoured with the highest award a voluntary group can receive in the UK.

10K anti-Muslim incidents in US

A total of 10,015 anti-Muslim incidents have been recorded by America’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy body since 2014.

Green candidate resigns over anti-Muslim social media post

A Green Party candidate in Ontario, Canada, was forced to resign on September 12 following a row over a resurfaced anti-Muslim Facebook post.

Humiliated in Parliament but Johnson still refuses to apologise for insulting Muslim women

Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, was taken to task for not apologising for derogatively likening Muslim women who wear a burqa to letterboxes and bank robbers.

New Jersey Mayor quizzed at airport on terrorism

The Mayor of Prospect Park in New Jersey, US, says that he was “harassed and detained” at John F Kennedy International Airport on August 2.

Racial and religious abuse in football up for a seventh consecutive year

Incidents of racial, religious and other forms of discrimination in English football rose for the seventh year in a row last season, according to football’s equality and inclusion charity Kick It Out.

Racist who tried to kill teen jailed

A white extremist who vowed to “kill all Muslims” before trying to murder a “tanned” teenager the day after the Christchurch mosque terror attacks was jailed for 18 years

Teen has hijab pulled off and is pelted with eggs in Dublin

Police is investigating reports that a Muslim teenager had her hijab pulled off and was pelted with eggs by a group of people in Dublin.

White supremacist jailed for ‘Punish a Muslim Day’

A white supremacist behind the ‘Punish a Muslim Day’ campaign has been jailed for 12 and a half years on September 3

Woman banned from park after telling Muslim to ‘go back’ to where she came from

A white woman was banned from children’s theme park in Pennsylvania, US, after allegedly telling an African American Muslim mother in hijab to “go back” to where she came from

Women thrown off flight for branding Muslim passengers ‘terrorists’

Two British women were kicked off a Thomas Cook flight from Turkey to Gatwick last month after they had alleged three Muslim men in white robes were “terrorists” and a “threat” to the safety of the plane.

Women viciously assaulted for wearing hijab

Police are appealing for witnesses to a vicious Islamophobic attack in Ealing, west London

Investigate ‘war criminal’ congressman, say Muslim group

Muslim American campaigners are calling for Congress to investigate a Republican Congressman in light of his confession that he killed hundreds of Iraqi civilians and posed for a photograph with dead combatants while he was in the Marine Corps Reserve.

Israel lobbies US to stop fighter jets sale to Turkey

Israel worked behind the scenes to ensure that the US stopped the sale of its F-35 stealth fighter jets to Turkey

UAE backs India on Kashmir issue

The UAE backed India in the Kashmir crises says change of status would improve social justice and security and confidence of the people in the local governance

Book Review: Muslim women used to further foreign agenda

Hussein discusses how Muslim women cannot be placed in any given narrative, and are often used as a PR opportunity to further a foreign agenda. Their susceptibility to being used – with or without their consent - leads to scepticism both abroad and at home.

Legal Corner: BT failed to make adjustments for autistic job applicant

BT has lost an appeal against the finding that it was liable for disability discrimination

Musings of a mum: The plague of perfection

What if our worth was defined by the quality of our relationships and the reflection of our character in those interactions?

Obituary: Passing of a pioneering Muslim scholar

September 9 was a day of profound sorrow for many around the world as the news of the death of 75-year-old Mawlana Yusuf Sulayman Motala,

How grandparents can be of invaluable help in a volatile ‘me first’ age

We can no longer recreate ‘community parenting’ in the traditional village environment with the maxim, “It needs a village to raise a child”, but we can easily create a productive and innovative role for grandparents to bring about similar benefits.

In conversation with Khadijah Mellah, the first hijab wearing jockey

.... the first jockey to competitively race while wearing a hijab.

How climate change is affecting Hajj

Climate change could make it increasingly dangerous for people to perform the rite of Hajj, especially during summer months, according to a study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Children sleep through fire alarms

Three-quarters of children are likely to sleep through the sound of a standard smoke alarm because their sounds are the wrong frequencies, a study by the University of Dundee has warned.

Egypt top African Games

Egypt has topped the final medal table in the 2019 African Games in Morocco on August

Human rights abuses in Jammu and Kashmir

Musings of a mum

Muslim medallists

Obituary: Nabeel al-Azami