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By Aamir Latif KARACHI, Pakistan (AA): At least eight people, including seven teachers, were killed on Thursday when gunmen opened fire in a school in northwestern Pakistan, police said. The shooting occurred at a high school in the remote town of Parachinar, nestled on the border with neighboring Afghanistan. Mohammad Imran, a senior police officer, […]

21st Sep 2022

Jammu & Kashmir: Muslim students singing Hindu religious song unwillingly stirs controversy

By Hilal Mir SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir, India (AA): A Hindu religious song by Muslim students singing unwillingly at a government school in Indian-administered Kashmir stirred controversy, prompting Muslim clerics to strongly object and call the act intolerable. Muttahida Majlis-e-Ulema, or United Council of Clerics, an umbrella organization representing dozens of religious organizations of all […]

15th Mar 2021

Sweden: Arson attack targets Muslim children’s school

By Atila Altuntas STOCKHOLM (AA): A fire broke out on Sunday at a private school in central Sweden where Muslim children are educated, said media reports. Hussein Aldaodi, the principal of Alsalamskolan School in the province of Orebro, told Swedish state broadcaster SVT that footage on school security cameras showed two people setting fire […]

6th Jul 2019

Nigerian school forces Muslim girls remove headscarves

By Rafiu Ajakaye LAGOS, Nigeria (AA): Nigeria’s headscarf crisis festered Friday after footage emerged online of school guards and teachers ordering Muslim girls to remove their headscarves before entering a school compound in the southwestern town of Ibadan. The video sparked outrage on social media as Nigerians took sides mostly along religious lines over […]

14th Mar 2019

Nigeria: School building collapse in Lagos leaves 10 dead

By Rafiu Ajakaye LAGOS Nigeria (AA): At least ten people have been confirmed dead, many trapped, and 40 others rescued alive from debris of a school building that collapsed on Wednesday morning in Nigeria’s southwestern Lagos city, a disaster management official said. “[…] figures from various organizations that took part in the operation has […]

4th Dec 2018

Nigeria: Muslims sue Nigerian premier varsity over hijab

By Rafiu Ajakaye LAGOS, Nigeria (AA): Muslim parents on Monday sued Nigeria’s premier university of Ibadan after a school owned by the varsity barred 11 Muslim girls from wearing their religious head covering in their classrooms. The case was filed following weeks of controversy on the Muslim girls’ head covering in the International School […]

23rd Sep 2015

US Muslim teen quits school after controversial arrest

NEW YORK (AA): A U.S. Muslim boy arrested after a teacher mistook his homemade clock for a bomb, has withdrawn from a Texas school district, his family told local media Tuesday. Mohamed Elhassan Mohamed formally pulled his 14-year-old son, Ahmed Mohamed, from the MacArthur High School of Irving Independent School District (IISD), according to the Dallas Morning News. “Ahmed said, I don’t want to go […]

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.