Security agencies too focused on ‘Islamist’ terror in run-up to Christchurch mosques terror attack, inquiry rules

New Zealand’s security agencies were “almost exclusively” fixated on the risk of “Islamist terrorism” in the run-up to last year’s Christchurch mosques terror attack, ruled an inquiry

Delayed Home Office report dispels myths about sexual grooming

The majority of child sexual abuse gangs are made up of white men under the age of 30, according to a delayed Home Office report about the ethnicity of offenders that dispels racist smears linking most grooming to Asian men.

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Johnson hypocritical over Christmas

People in the south-east can take solace in the fact that Johnson has awarded them a six-day notice on Christmas disruption, a vast improvement on the two-hour warning afforded to Muslims for Eid al-ʾAḍḥā.

Macron digging deeper hole for himself

Draconian measures in the new draft law to tackle ‘separatism’, published on December 9, are directed against Muslims, and their religion yet explicitly mentions neither.

No one community is predisposed to child abuse

Most child sex groomers are white, says Home office research, debunking Quillan Foundation report that 84 per cent of grooming gangs are Asian “of Pakistani origin with Muslim heritage.”

In conversation with trailblazing rugby player Zainab Alema

Interview with British Ghanaian rugby player and The Sunday Times newly named Vitality Grassroots Sportswoman of the Year Zainab Alema

France shuts down its only anti-Islamophobia NGO and sole Muslim school, bans homeschooling and raids several mosques

The French Government announced the dissolution of its largest anti-Islamophobia NGO, ordered raids on dozens of mosques, declared a ban on all homeschooling and shut its only Muslim school - all in the space of a fortnight

‘Christmas important for everyone’ Hancock defends criticism over Eid lockdown

Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Matt Hancock, has hit back at claims relaxing coronavirus rules for the Christmas period could be seen as “unfair” to those forced to celebrate Eid Al-ʾAḍḥā and Diwali under strict lockdown measures.

10-year-old becomes one of UK’s youngest Covid victims

The parents of a 10-year-old boy, thought to be one of the youngest victims of Covid-19 in the UK, have spoken of their “indescribable” pain.

Refugee girl’s drowning ‘was an accident’ rules coroner

The death of a Somali refugee schoolgirl who drowned in a river in Bury was an accident the coroner into her death ruled on December 4.

Positive pandemic workplace experiences not shared by BAME doctors

BAME doctors are less likely than their white peers to experience improvements in workplace teamwork during the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a report published on November 27.

26 Muslim women featured in the BBC’s 100 Women List

Twenty-six Muslim women from 20 countries are featured in the BBC’s 100 Women List of the most inspiring and influential women from around the world.

Bradford University bestows honorary doctorates on England cricketer & community activist

Yorkshire and England cricketer Adil Rashid and community-activist uncle Javed Bashir were awarded honorary doctorates from the University of Bradford

Manchester MP launches Diverse Curriculum Charter

Manchester Gorton MP Afzal Khan has announced a new Diverse Curriculum Charter for schools in his constituency.

Indian Government attempt to gag Muslim intellectual

India’s National Investigating Agency raided the house-cum-office of Dr Zafarul-Islam Khan, a renowned journalist, author and activist.

Alija Izetbegović commemorated on death anniversary

An exhibition dedicated to the life and work of Alija Izetbegović has been opened in Sarajevo following a ceremony to commemorate the 17th death anniversary of the first President of an independent Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Dodin first Arab named in Biden’s White House

Palestinian-American Reema Dodin is to be appointed Deputy Director of the White House Office of Legislative Affairs, making her the first Arab American woman to hold the post and the first Arab-American in President-elect Joe Biden’s Adminstration.

Emirati royal buys half of ‘anti-Arab’ Israeli football club

Emirati royal Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Nahyan has purchased a stake of around 50 per cent in Israeli football club Beitar Jerusalem, a club notorious for ‘La Familia’ fans who chant racist, anti-Arab and Islamophobic slogans.

No to Muslim candidate for by-election, says Minister

Kuruba Sharanappa Eshwarappa, Minister for Rural Development in the southern federal state has categorically announced that the BJP will not field a Muslim candidate for the Parliamentary by-elections.

Calls for hate crime probe into 3 year hate campaign on Muslim family in Maryland

Muslim leaders in Maryland, US, have called for a hate crime investigation after a man was assaulted in an attack believed to be part of a wider 3-year-long campaign of Islamophobic abuse targeting a family

Turkey condemns ‘racist threat message’ in Greece

Turkey has condemned a “racist threat message,” in north-eastern Greece written on an elevator of a flat building that is the residence of Ahmet Mete, the Mufti of Xanthi in Western Thrace, Greece.

Muslim inmate can sue Virginia prisons over grooming policy, court rules

A US federal court ruled that a Muslim inmate at Nottoway Correctional Centre in Burkeville, Virginia, can continue his lawsuit challenging the state’s prisons’ grooming policy

Legal Corner: Employment Tribunal clarifies on scope of discrimination on grounds of ‘gender reassignment’

Non-Binary People Protected By UK Equality Act, Says Landmark Ruling Against Jaguar Land Rover

Musings of a mum: 2020 – The year of the reboot

2020 was supposed to be the year where I had plans. My first year in almost a decade where I didn’t have any upcoming baby bears on the horizon, where I started building my own way into the future of my choice.

Book Review: Compelling tales of adventure and mystery

Moon of Masarrah, Sign of the Scorpion & Hour of the Oryx (Series) by Farah Zaman. 2018. Zeenatul Zaman/Book Power Publishing. 2020.

Poets’ Corner: Christmas

Champions League: Salah becomes Liverpool’s top goalscorer

Mohamed Salah has surpassed Steven Gerrard as Liverpool’s all-time top goal scorer in the Champions League on December 9.

Virtual 2020 Climate Ambition Summit tried to keep up momentum on #ClimateAction but was ultimately underwhelming

The 2020 Climate Ambition Summit took place in lieu of COP26, which will be hosted next year in Glasgow. The 6-hour summit gave world leaders, youth climate activists and business heads time to talk about their renewed commitments to climate action.

UK first to start Covid-19 vaccinations

The UK has become the first nation to start vaccinating its citizens with the newly approved Covid-19 vaccine produced by Pfizer and BioNTech.

France’s double standards on freedom of expression

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Designing mugs for NHS

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Fear and insecurity after Sabra & Shatila massacre

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