TOP STORIES

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  BJP fails to win West Bengal despite its anti-Muslim election campaign

  Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party has failed to win a key state in elections held amid record Covid-19 deaths and cases. The BJP .

• Hundreds of Palestinians killed and injured by Israeli forces in Al-Aqsa mosque and Gaza

  As we go to print at the end of Ramadan, Israeli police have attacked with fired rubber-coated metal bullets and tear gas Palestinians praying tarawih [night prayers] in the holy month of Ramadan, in Al-Aqsa Mosque in East Jerusalem, injuring hundreds of Palestinian worshippers.

ISSUE 385 - PRINT FORM

• Issue 385

EDITORIALS

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  Election results highlight deeper divisions entrenched across UK

  The elections show four nations deeply entrenched in national differences, with the ruling parties solidifying their control in each region.

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  Surging pandemic exposes Modi’s failures in India

  The magnitude of the pandemic in India has exposed just how much Modi has neglected the healthcare system of the world's second-most populous country in favour of pushing his divisive nationalist policy.

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  Starmer’s questionable leadership

  This month’s election results have exposed Sir Keir Starmer as a man of no policies. Regardless of whether he is able to survive the latest fallout the party needs much soul-searching.

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  Uyghurs added to forsaken list of persecuted Muslims

  Classic genocide has been committed in the autonomous region by the Chinese state that includes not just killing and carrying out crimes against humanity but deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part on Uyghur Muslims.

ELECTIONS

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  Exclusive: 205 Muslim councillors elected and history is made in devolved parliaments

  205 (53 female, 152 male) of 594 Muslim candidates were elected across 275 councils.

HOME NEWS

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  Eid al-Fitr messages from political leaders

  Eid messages from Leader of Labour Party, Leader of the Liberal Democrats, Leader of the Scottish National Party, the First Minister of Wales and the Mayor of London, exclusively to The Muslim News.

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  Expert evidence in contentious race report treated with contempt, says MP

  Afzal Khan has written to the Equalities Minister seeking permission that those listed in the highly contentious Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities report be allowed to remove their names.

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  Starmer withdrawal from Iftar event “distorted” by Jewish reports

  Ramadan Tent Project has criticised a misleading report in the Jewish Chronicle on the withdrawal of the Labour Leader from an Open Iftar event.

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  PM’s opposition to probe into Israel war crimes a hit on ‘the UK credibility’

  Boris Johnson under fire for condemning ICC war crime probe in West Bank and Gaza

• Muslims recall meeting the Duke of Edinburgh

  Several Muslims have recalled various instances of meeting with the late Duke of Edinburgh in an often favourable, affable and cheerful light.

• China committing genocide against Uyghur Muslims say UK MPs

  British Member of Parliament in the House of Commons have declared that Uyghur Muslims and other minorities are “suffering crimes against humanity and genocide” in Xinjiang, China,

WORLD NEWS

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  Basketball star confirms he is a Muslim and observing Ramadan

  NBA star Kyrie Irving has confirmed that he has converted to Islam and is fasting, during a post-game press conference on April 23.

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  India: Mosques and Muslim NGOs rally in aid of vulnerable as health sector struggles with soaring Covid cases

  Mosques and Muslim NGOs in several parts of India have sprung to action in aid of the most vulnerable as astronomical infection rates severely cripple the country’s health system,

• India: Muslims cremate Hindu victims as kin shun last rites over infection fears

  Muslim civic workers in India have been praised for working tirelessly to perform the last rites of Hindu Covid-19 victims

INTERIVEW

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  In conversation with award-winning poet and spoken word artist Aminah Rahman

  17-year-old multi-award-winning, published poet and spoken word artist Aminah Rahman talks about her passion for the art

ISLAMOPHOBIA

• Minnesota mosque vandalized with ‘death to Islam’

  A mosque in Minnesota was vandalized with anti-Muslim graffiti on April 25, the thirteenth day of Ramadan.

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  UK’s first hijab-wearing MP calls on UK’s ambassador to France to condemn hijab ban

  The UK’s first hijab-wearing MP has rallied 28 parliamentarians and called on the UK’s outgoing ambassador to France to condemn the country’s hijab ban for under-18s.

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  Muslim Advocates sues Facebook

  A US-based civil rights group has filed a lawsuit against Facebook, claiming the company’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg deceived Congress when he testified that his site removes hate speech,

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  The Times pays Muslim charity £50K after false human trafficking claims

  Muslim charity accepts substantial damages from The Times newspaper for false 'trafficking' claims

HEALTH AND SCIENCE

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  Malaria vaccine from Oxford Covid-19 team offers new hope

  A malaria vaccine shown to be 77 per cent effective in trials – the highest level ever achieved – offers hope of controlling the disease
  
  
  

ENVIRONMENT

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  Leaders Summit on Climate seeks to bring US back into leadership role in international climate negotiations

  On Earth Day, April 22, world leaders convened virtually at the Leaders Summit on Climate, hosted by US President, Joe Biden, to re-affirm their commitments to reducing carbon emissions.

OBITUARY

• Aisha Lowry: Carers and disabled rights’ activist

  The last few emails we, of the Muslim Blue Stockings group set up by the late (marhoomah) Aisha Lowry, who passed away on April 20 aged 75, received, just hours before her death, speak volumes about her character

REGULAR COLUMNS

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  Legal Corner: When can an employee be reinstated or re-engaged following an unfair dismissal?

  Orders for reinstatement and re-engagement can, and are, considered in appropriate cases. Whether they are reasonable depends on the circumstances of the dismissal, and any findings made at that stag

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  Book Review: Journey through Iraqi culture

  Pomegranate by Weam Namou, Hermiz Publishing, Paperback, 2021. £10.84

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  Musings of a mum: Ramadan 1442

  Fasting in a socially distanced Ramadan 1442 has been difficult, Fasting is a social exercise. There is a reason why we do it as a community over one month.

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  Poets’ Corner: Fire of Love

  To submit a poem for publication please email editor@muslimnews.co.uk

SPORT

LETTERS

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  Gone but not forgotten

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