Oxford students have reacted in anger after the director of the university’s Middle East Centre said mounting accusations of rape against Islamic Scholar Tariq Ramadan looks like “Europeans” wanting to “gang up against a Muslim intellectual”.
Qatar is spending £400,000 to promote the teaching of Arabic language and culture in British classrooms, according to reports.
A Pakistani Christian who said he was beaten unconscious by Muslims angered at poppies and a cross displayed in his car has warned that Islamic intolerance is on the rise in Britain.
Barnet Council has come under fire after deleting hundreds of comments objecting to plans for a mosque in a suburb home to one of Britain’s largest Jewish communities.
Alleging U.S. “rape culture” caused the Hollywood sex abuse scandal, the Independent has claimed that only Islam can provide the answer to preventing violence against women.
A 14-year-old boy who was knifed in the head and neck outside a Shia mosque in Birmingham was the victim of a sectarian attack, his family have said.
The number of terrorism-related arrests in Britain has surged almost 70 per cent to a new record high, as the country’s security services grapple an unprecedented threat.
More than a quarter of people in Britain hold at least one anti-Semitic view, with the figure rising to 55 per cent amongst Muslims, according to a survey of attitudes to Jewish people.
The chief inspector of schools in England is to listen to the concerns of Muslim campaigners who are calling for a hijab ban in state primaries.
Children as young as five are being allowed to wear hijabs by potentially thousands of state primary schools, alarming campaigners who say the Muslim headscarf sexualises children.
The BBC has attempted to shut down debate surrounding the controversial veils that are required of women in some strict interpretations of Islam, creating a feature titled “Things Not to Say to Someone Who Wears a Burqa”.
A group who dubbed themselves the Three Musketeers have been found guilty of planning terror attacks on police and military targets in the UK.
A Sheffield-based Muslim radio station has had its license revoked for broadcasting more than 25 hours of sermons “encouraging and condoning” violence against non-Muslims.
A Muslim woman has launched legal action against her daughter’s school after being told she was not permitted to wear a face veil on the premises, news which left her “in a state of shock”.
A Sheffield-based Muslim radio station has had its license suspended after broadcasting 25 hours of sermons “encouraging and condoning” violence against non-Muslims. Ofcom investigated Iman FM after a complaint that the radio station had, during Ramadan, aired lectures by Anwar
There is “no point” putting Muslims in Britain under scrutiny after three terror attacks in three months, according to Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, who argued the UK should include Islamophobia in its definition of “extremism”.
The ringleader of the London Bridge attack joined a demonstration led by notorious hate preacher Anjem Choudary in support of Fusilier Lee Rigby’s killer, it has emerged.
A growing number of radical Muslims are flocking to move from France to Britain, where generous welfare payments, lack of scrutiny from the authorities, and the ease with which families can practice strict Islam have earned the UK a reputation as a halal paradise for Salafists who are unable to secure visas for Saudi Arabia.
Khalid Masood came back from jail obsessed with Islam, neighbours have said, after serving two years for a brutal attack that he tried to blame on ‘racism’.
The trial of jihadis who stashed a pipe bomb and a machete inscribed with the word ‘kafir’ as they plotted a terror attack was brought to a halt on Thursday in the wake of Wednesday’s attack in Westminster.
The rate of beheadings and Islamist-inspired stabbings has risen 11-fold in the last five years according to a major new report. Terror attacks in the UK also tripled during this period. The 1000-page report by the Henry Jackson Society examines all
Britain’s new terrorism watchdog Max Hill has expressed “enormous concern” about returning jihadis, warning that Islamic terrorists have UK cities in their sights for future attacks. Mr Hill, who was unveiled last week as the new independent reviewer of terrorism
The inaugural ‘Modest Fashion Week’ took place over the weekend, an event targeted at Muslim consumers and sponsored by a makeup brand who refuse to sell products to supporters of U.S. President Donald J. Trump. According to organisers of the event,
Father-of-two Faisal Bashir has called on police to do more to tackle hatred coming from Muslim communities after harassment drove him from his home when he left Islam.
A Labour activist has said UKIP are “enemies of Islam”, warning Muslim voters they will go to hell if they fail to vote Labour at the upcoming Stoke by-election.
Analysis of National Health Service (NHS) statistics has found that a case of female genital mutilation (FGM) is either treated or discovered every hour in England.
Demand for Shariah-compliant banking reached an all-time high last year in the UK according to Al Rayan Bank, which recorded a 449 per cent rise in Islamic savings since 2012.
Christmas events across the UK are being guarded by armed officers, as police warn a terror assault is “highly likely” following the deadly attack in Berlin.
A Muslim from Sunderland who started a polygamy “matchmaking” website for men seeking multiple Sharia marriages says that monogamy is not “in tune” with man’s nature and believes he has already been responsible for 100 ‘weddings’.
The BBC was “overwhelmingly” justified in calling a senior London imam an extremist, the High Court has ruled.
(Reuters) – Double Olympic silver medallist Louis Smith has apologised for a leaked video in which he and fellow gymnast Luke Carson appeared to mock Islam. “I am not defending myself, what I did was wrong,” the Briton said on
A booklet claiming that those who insult Islam must be killed and that apostates deserve assassination has been handed out at an East London mosque, it has emerged. Police are investigating the booklet as a possible hate crime.
Parents are outraged after a Newham school gave just three days notice they would be closed so that Muslim staff can celebrate Eid.
Theresa May has claimed Muslims in Britain “benefit greatly” from Sharia law as she launched plans for an “independent inquiry,” headed by a Muslim and guided by two “leading imams,” into whether some of the controversial courts’ judgements are at
Two men have been convicted of kicking an 81-year-old Muslim grandfather to death in an “unprovoked” attack in Rotherham last year. Mushin Ahmed died after he was punched, kicked and stamped on by Dale Jones and Daniem Hunt as he
Inspectors are investigating at least 21 unregistered schools over fears they are radicalising students with “narrow Islamic-focused curriculums”. The “illegal” schools are under investigation after allegedly teaching extremist material to up to 50,000 children across Britain. Labour’s Shadow Education Secretary
Years of permissive multiculturalism is to blame for the rise of Sharia courts and the Rotherham rape scandal, an academic claimed yesterday. Dr Rumy Hasan, a senior lecturer at the University of Sussex’s Centre for Migration Research, said “do-what-you-want” and
The first Muslim woman to serve as a British government minister, Baroness Warsi, has called for mosques in the UK to be built without minarets to help develop a “distinctly British brand” of Islam. She argued that there was no reason
