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Londoners are the least likely regional group in the UK to be relaxed with pre-marital sex and homosexuality, with researchers blaming “religious differences” for the discrepancy with the rest of the country.

Lincolnshire Police has been slammed for using public resources to produce a 12-minute video promoting Islam in the UK.

A Channel 4 documentary designed to expose Britain as bigoted towards Muslims has been accused of racism and bigotry.

British volunteers who join the Israeli army are foreign fighters and should be prosecuted as such on their return to the UK, according to Baroness Warsi.

Muslims outnumber Christian pupils in more than 30 church schools nationwide, including one which proudly proclaims to have a “100 per cent Muslim population”.

LONDON (AP) — The British government says six U.K. citizens have been killed and others injured in a road crash in Saudi Arabia.

An imam involved with the British government’s review of Sharia courts in Britain has praised the divisive left-wing organisation Hope not Hate for what he termed their “incredible work” opposing “hatred”.

Hundreds of protesters have marched through central London today to demand the British government help civilians caught up in the Syrian civil war in Aleppo. Waving Syrian flags, and banners reading: “save Aleppo”, “hand in hand with Aleppo” and “enough with

British Muslims have taken to London streets for the second time in three days to call for a Caliphate. Gathering once again outside the mothballed Syrian embassy in London’s Belgrave Square, around 400 Muslims gathered to proclaim Allahu Akbar (our

More pressure should be put on migrants to integrate, as “regressive religious and cultural ideologies” are taking root as the UK struggles to cope with the pace and scale of immigration and becomes increasingly segregated, a government report has said.

The BBC is set to broadcast a two-part ‘Muslim Big Brother’ reality TV series featuring a supporter of jailed radical cleric Anjem Choudary who has defended Islamic State and was involved with the banned terror group Al-Muhajiroun.

Some British Muslims live such segregated lives they believe the UK is a Muslim nation and 75 per cent of the population follow the Islamic faith, a government report will reveal this week.

TEL AVIV – Only one in 25 British Muslims believe Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda terrorist group was responsible for the 9/11 attacks, a new poll has found.

One of the UK’s leading sharia courts “protects wife-beating suspects by sabotaging criminal proceedings against them”, a women’s rights group has told a Parliamentary committee.

Polygamy is “commonplace” within Muslim communities in Britain, with husbands fathering as many as 20 children by four wives, a Peer has said. She has called for a change in the law so that Muslim women know their rights under British law not to be discriminated against.

Children under ten years old are being referred to the government’s counter-radicalisation programme on an almost daily basis, the latest figures have revealed.

Asian Image, a news site for British Muslim and Hindus, has run an editorial which concludes: “So, whilst we may well moan of Islamophobia, let’s face it, the biggest threat to Muslims are in fact other Muslims.”

Government ministers are considering a raft of measures to crack down on hate preaching in the wake of the jailing of Anjem Choudary, who was allowed to promote Sharia in the UK for two decades. Questions have been raised over

A government report has slammed high unemployment rates among Muslim women, blaming “Islamophobia” among other things.

A Facebook post penned by a British Muslim calling for Islamists and their families to be deported has gone viral.

Some Muslim parents would not speak out if their children went to Syria to fight with terrorists, according to a new study conducted in Birmingham. Muslim parents told academics they feared police would arrest family members who traveled to Syria. The

Gays should be put to death under sharia law whether the Islamic doctrine is implemented in Muslim countries or the West, exclaimed Britain’s most notorious radical Islamist preacher, Anjem Choudary, during an interview.

Muslims living in Luton in the United Kingdom were told during Ramadan last year that it was their Islamic “duty” to throw homosexuals from a “high building,” a jury at the Old Bailey has heard. Five men have appeared at

The Muslim ‘scholar’ who preached against gays in Orlando weeks before Sunday’s massacre was a British-born Muslim who now blames the Media for “defamation”, claiming his alleged support for killing gays was an “academic exercise – not a personal opinion, verdict or in support of violence”.

Police Scotland have said they will do “anything” to be more “diverse” and will be introducing a special hijab to encourage more female Muslims to join the force. The Scottish Police authority released a detailed report on how they are

A Conservative Party Police and Crime Commissioner has blocked a licence for a gay sauna – because the location is too close to a mosque, which she said might cause “policing issues”. The sauna’s owners withdrew the application after receiving

A British Muslim has received death threats from other members of his community after he spoke out about alleged hate preaching and the glorification of murder by Imams in three local mosques. Khalil Ahmed says he has been targeted after

The majority of British people believe Islam is incompatible with British values, and one in three say the ideology promotes acts of violence. More than 56 per cent of respondents to a new ComRes poll disagree with the view that

Women should not travel more than 48 miles without a male chaperone, a British Muslim organisation affiliated to the Muslim Council of Great Britain has told its followers. The organisation reasoned that “Allah knows best”. According to the Blackburn Muslim

Muslim chaplains working within Britain’s prison system have been routinely distributing Islamist hate literature, leaving extremist pamphlets preaching death to non-believers and hatred of the West within easy reach of inmates, a leaked review has revealed. The Ministry of Justice,

That Multicultural policies and a lack of integration may have directly fuelled violent extremism, is “one of the most significant findings” of the What British Muslims Really Think survey and documentary, presenter and former Labour politician Trevor Philips said. In

An MP for Birmingham has backed recent warnings that Muslims are failing to integrate in the UK, placing blame, however, on government policy and a lack of jobs and houses. Khalid Mahmood (above right), Labour MP for Perry Barr, Birmingham and the

British Muslims are far more likely to hold anti-Semitic views than the general British population, and are far less likely to see anti-Semitism as a problem, analysis of a poll on Muslims attitudes has found. Although anecdotal evidence of anti-Semitism

An elderly Britain First protester was booted to the ground with a well-aimed flying kick during a clash with East London Muslims this past weekend. The incident happened outside the East London Mosque following a “provocative” demonstration by the nationalist group.

A poll revealing the deep discord between British Muslims and the British people at large has been reported by the Guardian under a headline which suggested unity between the two groups. The headline was later altered, but the article itself

The largest Muslim sect in the UK, controlling half of Britain’s Mosques, hosted an Al-Qaeda associate of Osama bin Laden who spoke to numerous future terrorists as he toured their mosques across the country. The Deobandi sect was founded in