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A victim of Birmingham and Telford grooming gang rapists has waived her anonymity to shed light on the horrors of she experienced at the hands of Shahmeel Khan and Mohammed Ali Sultan and to raise awareness about the scourge of mostly Muslim grooming gangs.

LONDON (AP) – British police arrested a 27-year-old man in the early hours of Monday morning on suspicion of murder and seven counts of attempted murder following a string of stabbings in a busy nightlife district in the central England city of Birmingham over the weekend.

A man claiming to be an eyewitness to part of the Birmingham stabbing spree says the suspect is a “black guy” and he saw him stab a woman “several times in the neck”.

Police now say that they are hunting a single knifeman following eight stabbings, one deadly, in multicultural Birmingham, but will not release a description of the suspect. 

West Midlands Police had declared a “major incident” in Birmingham, England’s multicultural second city, confirming multiple stabbings.

Birmingham Council is set to create a fast track recruitment programme for ethnic minorities, force staff to undertake “equalities training” and launch a new “race equality” curriculum in schools.

Britain’s National Crime Agency (NCA) has seized some 59 properties worth an estimated £17 million after busting an organised crime ring importing massive quantities of heroin into Britain from Pakistan. 

Dame Louise Martin, President of the Commonwealth Games Federation, has quit the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee 2022, following calls for voluntary board resignations “to make way for new voices from the Black community”.

Former U.S. attorney general Jeff Sessions is calling on the Birmingham City Schools and the Birmingham Housing Authority to reverse its ban on Church of the Highlands, Alabama’s largest church. The Housing Authority’s commissioners recently voted to cancel its relationship with the church because the pastor “followed” and “liked” social media posts by Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk.

The largest church in the state of Alabama has been “canceled” by the Birmingham Housing Authority because Pastor Chris Hodges follows Turning Point USA founder and president Charlie Kirk on social media and has “liked” Kirk’s Instagram posts. Donald Trump Jr. commented on the city’s actions, tweeting: “They’re canceling the pastor of the largest (and most racially diverse) church in Alabama just because he liked some of [Charlie Kirk’s] posts. Absolutely insane.” 

Alabama was not an exception to the civil unrest underway nationwide done in the name of George Floyd, who died in custody on Minneapolis police.

A Muslim father in Birmingham, England, is being prosecuted for removing his son from LGBT lessons, which he claim risk the safety of his child.

The Magic City Acceptance Academy, an LGBTQ-themed charter school, is seeking approval to open in Birmingham, Alabama.

A “devastated” Muslim man is demanding an apology and compensation after McDonald’s served him a “diabolical” Sausage McMuffin in Birmingham, England.

A gang in Birmingham, England, has been convicted for luring homosexuals to a public park using the Grindr app, where they were robbed, urinated on, and in one case told they deserved to be victimised for being a “white man responsible for attacks on Muslims in New Zealand.”

A High Court judge has ruled that Muslim protestors will be permanently banned from protesting LGBT relationship lessons outside a school in Birmingham, England. Today a High Court judge, Mr Justice Warby, upheld the decision in June of this year

Waffle House is known to stay open for through everything— rain, sleet, shine, and in this case, employee shortages.

A “violent predatory rapist” who came to the United Kingdom from Ethiopia as a refugee has been convicted for roaming the country by train assaulting women.

A body believed to be that of three-year-old Kamille “Cupcake” McKinney was found inside a dumpster in Birmingham, Alabama, Thursday night by police and FBI agents.

Surveillance video from C & C Beauty Supply shows two alleged armed robbers fleeing under a barrage of gunfire from the store owner.

A wheel-chair bound man dying of lung cancer made one final request before his death on September 10th in Birmingham, Alabama.

Six people, including two children, were treated for exposure to a suspected chemical substance following an attempted robbery at a Co-op in Birmingham.

West Midlands Police officers were attacked and had seemingly volatile chemicals thrown on them less than 24 hours after a colleague was mown down in a hijacked police vehicle.

A man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after allegedly running over a police officer with his own patrol vehicle in Birmingham.

Two men were taken to hospital after a car-chase ended in a shooting and machete attack near to where children were playing, in the second violent incident to take place in a residential area in Britain’s second city.

New Era Baptist Church is making headlines again as it displays a controversial message regarding President Trump and black voters in America.

A region of the multicultural Midlands city of Birmingham has seen the highest rate of newly-reported cases of female genital mutilation (FGM) in the UK.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The Russian protest band Pussy Riot is planning a concert in Alabama to benefit Planned Parenthood after the state passed the nation’s toughest anti-abortion law.

BIRMINGHAM, United Kingdom — Nigel Farage has said the British are a nation of “lions led by donkeys” and that the people must “fight back” against the “career political class” in an impassioned speech to a Brexit Party rally.

Parents do not have a veto over what their children can be taught in schools, the British Education minister has said.

A man has been detained under the Mental Health Act after a series of widely reported vandalism attacks against a number of mosques in the United Kingdom, which hit the headlines in the aftermath of the Christchurch New Zealand mosque shootings.

West Midlands Police’s counterterrorism unit is investigating after five mosques in the Birmingham area were vandalised.

As many as 80 per cent of pupils are being kept home from Parkfield Community School in protest at what parents described as the “aggressive” promotion of homosexuality in the classroom.

The number of children being treated at hospital in the UK with stab wounds has nearly doubled in five years.

Trevor Phillips has accused the BBC of “whitewashing” crime stories by not addressing the high number of black-on-black stabbings, and warned politicians and police to stop ignoring the links between race and gang violence. 

A Muslim councillor has apologised after Labour activists accused him of attacking the party’s “values and traditions” when he suggested primary school-aged children were “too young” for a curriculum based around celebrating LGBT lifestyles and so-called diversity.