Sectarianism

The legitimacy of the hotly contested by-election in Gorton and Denton was thrown into doubt on Thursday as independent election observers claimed to have witnessed illegal “family voting” practices in which multiple people enter the voting booth, which some have tied to the constituency’s large Muslim population.

Syrian security forces used gunfire on Tuesday to disperse feuding groups of protesters in Latakia, a coastal town in the area dominated by the once-influential, but now persecuted, Alawite religious minority.

Sectarian violence was rekindled in Northern Ireland on Saturday night as police were attacked with petrol bombs following a pro-unionist demonstration that took place in the city.

Heated protests broke out in the heavily Muslim area of Rochdale after a police officer was filmed kicking a detained man in the head.

A freshly elected Green Party councillor justified the October 7th terror attacks on Israel by arguing that Hamas had a right to “fight back”.

Muslim radicals were falsely claiming that Hindus were harassing girls in the lead-up to the recent sectarian riots in Leicester, a report into the incidents has claimed.

Liz Truss’ plan to push for more immigration into Britain constitutes “betraying Brexit voting Tories”, Nigel Farage has said.

15 people have reportedly been arrested in the wake of sectarian riots between Muslims and Hindus in the British city of Leicester.

Irish Nationalists in Northern Ireland burnt a picture of the Queen, along with other British symbols on bonfires on Monday night.

An imam hired to be an independent advisor on Islamophobia for the British government has been dismissed for working to get a “blasphemous” film about the daughter of the prophet Muhammad cancelled.

British movie The Lady of Heaven has been banned in Morocco after Islamic authorities condemned it for presenting a version of Islamic history they disagree with and “hurting the feelings of Muslims”.

Northern Ireland has registered over 600 attacks on churches and other places of worship over the past five years for an average of one attack every three days, a new report reveals.

Muslim prison chaplains have warned their lives are in danger from sectarian radicals supporting a Sunni Muslim from Bradford who killed a member of the Ahmadiyya sect living in Scotland.

The UK’s largest Muslim organisation has appointed a panel to investigate a sectarian hate group making death threats against alleged “apostates”, led by a man who has supported the group and believes apostates should be killed. The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB)

British police have started confiscating Muslim sectarian hate literature — some of it calling for murder — but won’t charge those distributing and displaying it with a crime. Police in Glasgow were responding to the murder of Asad Shah, from the persecuted Ahmadi

One of the UK’s most prominent and widely cited experts on Islamic radicalisation is under investigation for insisting that a shopkeeper, murdered for being an apostate, is indeed an apostate. Shiraz Maher, a Sunni Muslim and senior research fellow at the International

Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday as part of a five-day Middle East trip that will also include visits to Egypt and Iran.

A Kuwaiti court has sentenced two men in their 20s to death on charges of spying for the Islamic Republic of Iran and planning terror attacks inside the country.

After American-armed troops from the American-supported Iraqi central government were routed from the city of Ramadi by an inferior ISIS force, the head-choppers embarked on what the Kurdish Rudaw news service describes as a “bloody purge.”

The U.S.-backed Saudi-led military campaign in Yemen, which has moved into its next phase codenamed “Operation Restoring Hope,” has been marked by continued battles and new airstrikes against Iran-backed Houthi jihadists.