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By Ahmad Adil NEW DELHI (AA): A new design was unveiled for a mosque in the northern Indian city of Ayodhya as part of the settlement of the controversial Babri Mosque case. However, many Muslim organisations have rejected the proposed building of new mosque. They say the mosque should be built where the original Babri […]

18th Dec 2020

EU upholds Belgian ban on halal kosher slaughter

By Busra Nur Bilgic Cakmak (AA): Europe’s top court on Thursday backed a ban on the halal and kosher slaughter of animals in Belgium, triggering a backlash from Muslim and Jewish communities. The European Court of Justice ruled that “the principle that an animal should be stunned prior to being killed meets the main objective […]

15th Dec 2020

UK: Man jailed for Central London Mosque stabbing

LONDON (AA): A man who stabbed and injured the muezzin, a person who performs call to prayer, in a London mosque last February has been jailed for more than 11 years in prison on Monday. “Daniel Horton, 30, of no fixed address, was sentenced today, Monday, 14 December, to 11 years and three months imprisonment,” […]

14th Dec 2020

India: New law targets interfaith couples

By Shuriah Niazi NEW DELHI (AA): Haidar Mansuri, 34, and 28-year-old Shabila Chand [both Muslim] in India’s northern state of Uttar Pradesh decided to get married after a year-long courtship. Shabila left her home in Azamgarh to marry Kushinagar resident Haidar. As they were about to get married on Dec. 8, someone informed the police […]

12th Dec 2020

Austrian court annuls headscarf ban in primary schools

By Askin Kiyagan VIENNE (AA): The Constitutional Court in Austria on Friday declared “unconstitutional” and “discriminatory” the ban on headscarves in primary schools and annulled the decision taken by the far-right government in 2019. The law prevented girls younger than 10 from wearing the headscarf and had been challenged by two children and their parents. […]

10th Dec 2020

Australian charged for urging ‘murder of Muslims, Jews’

By Riyaz ul Khaliq (AA): An Australian man has been charged with terrorism-related offences as court documents revealed he allegedly called for murder of “non-whites, Jews and Muslims,” local media reported on Thursday. Australian Federal Police said in a statement that the man from the southern New South Wales city of Albury has “regularly used […]

8th Dec 2020

New Zealand mosque attacks: Premier vows accountability

By Riyaz ul Khaliq (AA): New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Monday vowed accountability for the families of the victims of last year’s mosque attacks in Christchurch, as her government is set to publicly release a major report on the massacre. Brenton Tarrant, an Australian white supremacist, killed 51 people and injured 40 more […]

7th Dec 2020

India: ‘Never forget’: India MP on Babri mosque demolition anniv

By Ahmad Adil NEW DELHI (AA): India’s most recognized Muslim politician and President of the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen Asaduddin Owaisi on Sunday asked people to “never forget” about the demolition of Babri Masjid. On Dec. 6, 1992, the 16th century mosque in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh was torn down by Hindu hardliners, […]

27th Nov 2020

Canada mosque killer’s parole eligibility time reduced

By Barry Ellsworth TRENTON, Canada (AA): The parole eligibility for the killer of six people in the 2017 Quebec City Mosque shooting was reduced Thursday to 25 years from 40 years. The Quebec Court of Appeal ruled that the right given judges in 2011 to hand out consecutive life sentences was unconstitutional, constituting cruel and […]

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, […]

24th Nov 2020

Austria: Do not link religion with terror, faith leaders warn

By Askin Kiyagan VIENNA (AA): As racism and discrimination against Muslims in Austria soars, particularly after a terror attack on Nov. 2, clerics in the European country warn the authorities not to associate terrorism with any religion. After a hijab and face veil ban, and ban on foreign funding of religious groups, populist politicians have […]

20th Nov 2020

US: Imam assaulted, rights group urges hate crime probe

By Ovunc Kutlu (AA): A US Muslim civil rights and advocacy group called for a full investigation by local police into a hate crime committed against a Muslim religious leader in southern California city of Anaheim in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. The Council on American-Islamic Relations’ (CAIR) Los Angeles office, in a statement, said […]

8th Nov 2020

France: 4 Muslim children ‘terrorized’ by police for 11 hours

By Umit Donmez PARIS (AA): This week four elementary school children were “terrorized” and grilled during more than 11 hours of detention by French police over false allegations of “justifying terrorism,” according to the children’s parents. The police “clearly wanted to terrorize us,” said Servet Yildirim, the father of one of the children. Under a […]

1st Nov 2020

France: Arson attack targets mosque

By Yusuf Ozcan PARİS (AA) – An unidentified arsonist attempted to set fire to a mosque in Chateaudun, France, the head of the mosque said Saturday. The General Secretary of Islamic Confederation National Opinion (CİMG), Fatih Saikir said someone poured a can of gasoline onto the mosque and started a fire but it was […]

28th Oct 2020

France: Mosque in Vernon receives death threats

By Alaattin Dogru PARIS (AA): A mosque in Vernon district in northern France received a threatening notice Tuesday, according to a post on Twitter by the Islam & Info website. The notice, left in the mosque’s mailbox, contained death threats and insulting messages against Turks, Arabs and the community who comes to the mosque […]

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 […]

14th Oct 2020

Canada: Toronto mosque closed after violent threats

By Barry Ellsworth TRENTON, Canada (AA): A Toronto mosque remained closed Tuesday after receiving violent threats as police investigate the incident. “The threats specifically contained a promise that guns had been procured to ‘do a Christchurch all over again,” the National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM) tweeted Saturday, referencing the attack on two mosques […]

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 […]

1st Oct 2020

India: Case acquitting accused in demolition of Babri Mosque ‘an institutional failure’

By Iftikhar Gilani (AA): Describing the handling of a case pertaining to the demolition of the 16th century Babri Mosque as “an institutional failure”, an Indian legal luminary believed that successive governments in New Delhi and the Indian province of Utter Pradesh (UP) had shown a little stamina and in fact put impediments in […]

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 […]

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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.