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Hamas rally in Ramallah, March 2007 (Photo: Hoheit/Wikimedia Commons) Harun Nasrullah The European Union’s highest court has kept Palestinian group Hamas on its terror list. The Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) decision on July 26 overturns a judgment from a lower European court to remove Hamas from the list in 2014. The […]

31st Mar 2017

Companies can ban employees from wearing the hijab, rules the European Court of Justice

Nadine Osman The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that employers can ban Muslim employees from wearing the headscarf (hijab), but only if they bar all other religious and political symbols. The landmark ruling came amid legal disputes in Belgium and France over the right for Muslim women to wear the hijab at work. […]

31st Mar 2017

Europe’s real identity crisis

One of the most famous and influential British philosophers of the nineteenth century, John Stuart Mill, advanced the principle of freedom of thought, speech and association, underpinned by individual freedom and self-expression. Unfortunately, across the channel, that hard-won freedom of the individual is being threatened as populism and the “tyranny of the majority” play havoc […]

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.