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By Roy Ramos & Hader Glang ZAMBOANGA CITY, (AA) – Four people have been killed and two others left in critical condition after a roadside bomb exploded in the Philippines’ troubled Muslim south, according to the military Wednesday. Lt. Colonel Warlito Limet, 2nd Mechanized Infantry Battalion commander, said in a report that the victims […]

16th Feb 2016

Philippines leader to discuss shelved peace deal with Muslims

By Hader Glang ZAMBOANGA CITY, (AA): The Philippines’ outgoing president pledged Monday to discuss a shelved law aimed at sealing a peace process in the country’s war-torn Muslim south at an upcoming regional ASEAN summit in the United States. The Philippines’ Congress adjourned earlier this month for election campaigning without approving the Bangsamoro Basic […]

13th Feb 2016

Uganda: President woos voters at Kampala mosque

By Halima Athumani KAMPALA, (AA): Uganda President Yoweri Museveni is wooing Muslim voters with a promise to look into the case of 14 incarcerated Muslims. Addressing a congregation during Friday prayers at the National Old Kampala mosque, Uganda’s senior Islamic cleric, Sheikh Shaban Ramadhan Mubajje, was pressured by the crowd into asking the president […]

8th Feb 2016

UK mosques open doors for interfaith dialogue

LONDON (AA) – More than 90 mosques across the U.K. opened their doors on Sunday to people of every faith and of no faith on the second annual “Visit My Mosque Day”. The Secretary General of the Muslim Council of Britain, the U.K.’s largest Muslim umbrella body and the organizer of the event, said the […]

2nd Feb 2016

Myanmar welcomes first democratic gov’t in 50 years

By Kyaw Ye Lynn NAY PYI TAW (AA) – Almost three months after the National League for Democracy (NLD) won a landslide victory in Myanmar’s national elections, its members finally took their seats in parliament Monday — row upon row clad in its trademark rich ochre. Of the 491 elected seats in the two […]

17th Jan 2016

Uganda agrees to fresh probe into 1979 Muslim massacre

By Halima Athumani KAMPALA, (AA): The Ugandan government has finally agreed to investigate the murders of 67 Muslims massacred 37 years ago. “The government has set up a team to carry out a thorough verification exercise of all the claims by victims of the 1979 Muslim massacre and report back within three weeks,” Ugandan […]

13th Jan 2016

Cambodia: Khmer Rouge beheaded Muslim captives

By Lauren Crothers PHNOM PENH (AA) – A Muslim witness has told Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge tribunal how captives pleaded with members of the dystopian regime not to rape them before they were brutally beheaded and tossed in a shallow pit. Testifying in Case 002/02 at the tribunal in Phnom Penh on Wednesday, an unnamed Cham Muslim […]

5th Jan 2016

US: Company, US workers clash after 150 Muslims fired

By Michael Hernandez WASHINGTON (AA): The legal representative for approximately 150 Muslim workers who were fired from a meat packing facility was adamant Monday that the group simply wants to return to work. The workers, the majority of whom are Somali, were dismissed from a facility in Fort Morgan, Colorado, after more than 200 […]

4th Jan 2016

Myanmar authorities ban mosque’s jubilee celebrations

By Kyaw Ye Lynn YANGON, (AA): Authorities have banned a mosque on the outskirts of commercial capital Yangon from celebrating its platinum jubilee on Monday, following complaints from the country’s firebrand nationalist monk Wirathu. A caretaker at the mosque told Anadolu Agency by phone that Muslim followers had planned to celebration the Sunni Jameh Mosque’s 75th birthday on the Jan. 4 anniversary of the country’s Independence Day. However, local authorities denied […]

31st Dec 2015

US: Most Americans protect Christian freedom above others

WASHINGTON (AA): Americans prioritize religious freedom for Christians above other faiths, endorsing those of Muslims’ the least, according to a poll released Wednesday. The Associated Press/NORC Center for Public Affairs Research survey comes amid anti-Muslim rhetoric by Republican presidential candidates in the wake of terror attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, California. Eight out of […]

23rd Dec 2015

Thailand: Blast injures 7 Thai soldiers in Patani

By CS Thana BANGKOK (AA) – Seven Thai soldiers have been injured in an overnight bomb attack in an insurgency-plagued province in the Muslim south, local media reported Wednesday. Seven soldiers were injured after a bomb planted near their base in Narathiwat went off while they were returning from a patrol just after midnight, […]

12th Dec 2015

Gambia now ‘an Islamic state’: President Jammeh

ANKARA (AA) – Gambia is now an Islamic state, the west African country’s president has declared. Gambian President Yahya Jammeh made the declaration in the country’s coastal town of Brufut on Thursday. “Gambia’s destiny is in the hands of the Almighty Allah. As from today, Gambia is an Islamic state. We will be an Islamic state […]

13th Dec 2015

Thailand: Muslim Thai officer killed in blast at cemetery

By CS Thana BANGKOK (AA): A Thai army officer was killed and his father seriously wounded Sunday morning when a bomb went off at a cemetery in the country’s insurgency-plagued Muslim south. A police official in Yala province who requested anonymity citing ongoing investigations told Anadolu Agency that that Said Chedoma “was paying respect […]

12th Dec 2015

US Muslims seeking community in wake of attacks

By Michael Hernandez FALLS CHURCH, Virginia (AA) – When a mosque in suburban Virginia became the target of a firebomb attack, faith leaders decided that rather than turn inward, it was the moment to embrace the local community. The incident occurred just six days after Daesh-claimed gunmen attacked multiple sites in Paris, claiming the lives of 130 […]

7th Dec 2015

Myanmar gov’t accused of denying 12 Muslims fair trial

By Joshua Carroll YANGON, (AA): An international human rights organization has slammed the Myanmar government for denying fair trial to 12 Muslim men accused of receiving training from a so-called “Myanmar Muslim Army”. Defense lawyers for the men along with security experts have claimed that the group does not even exist, suggesting that the government has invented a threat […]

27th Nov 2015

Nigeria: Muslims hit out amid national-service hijab row

By Rafiu Ajakaye LAGOS, (AA) – Nigerian Muslims have rejected a ban on a ‘long hijab’ for female college graduates enrolling for national service. One Muslim group has described the decision by the government agency handling the recruitment as “discriminatory, baseless and unacceptable”. Graduates in Nigeria undertake a mandatory one-year period of national service. However, director-general […]

22nd Nov 2015

Italy: Muslims rally against terrorism

ROME (AA) – Muslims held rallies across Italy on Saturday against terrorism after last Friday’s deadly terror attacks in the French capital Paris. Numerous Italians also accompanied Muslims who gathered at squares in several cities across the country –hundreds in Rome, Milan and Genoa — under the slogan “Not in my name”, aimed at distancing Islam from terrorism. In Rome, hundreds stood in silence for one minute in […]

24th Oct 2015

Pakistan: Blast kills 22 Shia Muslims Ashura procession in Sindh

By Aamir Latif KARACHI, (AA): At least 22 people were killed and dozens of other people were injured in a suspected suicide blast at a Shia procession in southern Pakistan’s Sindh province Friday evening, police said. The Muslims were commemmorating martyrdom of grandson of Prophet Muhammad, Imam Husayn, who was killed with his family […]

23rd Oct 2015

France: Islamophobic attacks on the rise

ANKARA (AA): Islamophobic attacks in France have tripled during the first nine months of this year compared with the same period last year, a French nongovernmental organization said Thursday. The Collective Against Islamophobia in France said in a statement that 110 Islamophobic attacks took place during the first nine months of 2014, while within the same period […]

18th Oct 2015

Myanmar: Suu Kyi warns against race, religious divisions

YANGON (AA): Myanmar’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi called on voters Saturday not to be influenced by divisions over race and religion during her first visit to conflict-stricken Rakhine state in 15 years. However, she her and other parties have refused to run Muslim candidates for the election and have refused to accept Rohingya […]

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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.