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Home Secretary, Sajid Javid’s invitation snub from the State Banquet held for US President Donald Trump by Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace was not Islamophobic said the Spokesman for the Prime Minister (Sajid Javid profile photo: UK Parliament/CC) -(Banquet photo: Dominic Lipinski/PAWire/PA) Hamed Chapman Home Secretary, Sajid Javid, has refused to spell out whether […]

30th Nov 2018

Russia agency tweeted more anti-Muslim than Brexit posts

Elham Asaad Buaras Russia linked twitter accounts invested more in inciting anti-Muslim hatred than influencing Brexit, according to research by leading British researchers. Analysis by the cross-party think-tank Demos on Russian twitter activity revealed that Saint Petersburg-based group the Internet Research Agency used social media posts to undermine the confidence of citizens of rival countries. […]

30th Nov 2018

Anti-Muslim white supremacist who amassed a bomb factory avoids terror charges

A white far-right extremist who turned his Bristol home into a bomb factory has not been charged with terrorism-related offences, despite waging a white supremacist anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant social media campaign

26th Oct 2018

Hate crimes against Muslims soar

Hamed Chapman Religious hate crime in England and Wales has soared by a massive 40 per cent in the past 12 months, with recorded offences hitting a record high and more than half committed against Muslims. Statistics released by the Home Office show that the overall number of recorded hate crimes altogether rose 17 per […]

27th Jul 2018

Anti-Muslim hate crimes carried out by far-right extremists

Vandals have spray-painted Nazi swastikas on a Turkish mosque in Freiburg, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany in March 2017 (Photo: Anadolu Agency) Harun Nasrullah Far-right groups carried out 92.5 per cent of all anti-Muslim hate crimes in Germany last year, according to new Government figures released on May 8. German police began registering anti-Muslim hate crime last January […]

26th Oct 2017

3000 people sign petition calling for resignation of Solihull councillor following anti-Muslim retweets

Nadine Osman Over 2,750 people have signed a petition calling for the resignation of a Solihull councillor following his retweets of a series of anti-Muslim comments last month. Jeff Potts, who sits on a religious education committee, has been suspended by the local Conservative group, however he still remains a councillor. Potts re-tweeted highly inflammatory […]

26th Oct 2017

Failed UKIP leadership candidate launches new anti-Muslim party

Failed UKIP leadership candidate Anne Marie Waters launches new anti-Muslim party. Photographer: Kuolem/WikiCommons. Nadine Osman Defeated UKIP leadership candidate Anne Marie Waters announced she will split from the party and found a new one called For Britain (FB). Anti racism group Stand Up To Racism say they are troubled by the launch of new […]

29th Sep 2017

Letters threatening acid attacks sent to Muslims in Bradford

Nadine Osman Muslims in Bradford, West Yorkshire, have been sent malicious letters threatening to launch acid attacks and “kill scum Muslims”. Police have launched a hate crime investigation into the letter delivered last month by second-class post with a Lancashire postmark. Letters included an image of a sword and the England flag with the slogan […]

25th Aug 2017

Couple detained on honeymoon ‘because the groom is Muslim’

Nadine Osman A newlywed British couple’s honeymoon was ruined after they were detained at LAX airport in Los Angeles for 26 hours and then deported, apparently because the groom was Muslim. Natasha Politakis, 29, and her new husband Ali Gul, 32, who is of Turkish descent paid £7,000 for a two-week trip to LA, Hawaii […]

25th Aug 2017

Muslim motorist called ‘terrorist’

Nadine Osman A British Muslim recorded the vile moment he was branded a “terrorist” by a businessman in the middle of Piccadilly Circus. Ahmed Hammad, 32, was riding through London’s West End with his Canadian pal Imran Baig on a motorbike when the suit-wearing pedestrian stepped out into the road and hurled the insult at […]

25th Aug 2017

Shopper rants at man over wife’s niqab

Elham Asaad Buaras A video of a woman going on an anti-Muslim rant at a niqab wearing woman and her husband in a west London supermarket has gone viral earlier this month. The footage filmed by the husband on July 31 and uploaded to Facebook by a family friend has since been viewed thousands of […]

25th Aug 2017

Trump in denial over anti-Muslim terrorism

(Photo: Michael Vadon/Flickr/Commons) It should really come as no surprise that a US president who has specifically targeted Muslims for all the ills of American society should be in denial of growing Islamophobia sweeping his country and much of the rest of the world. As The Muslim News reported last month a new American study […]

27th Jan 2017

Google auto-complete searches

Sir, The reality is that Google had to be challenged many times by different groups, including media organisations, before it removed anti-Semitic completion results. (‘Google removes anti-Semitic, anti-Muslim and sexist auto-complete search’ The Muslim News, 30 December 2016). So don’t feel too bad; you’re not alone in this. In any case, Facebook and Twitter are […]

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.