Muhammad and Allah

Arts & Entertainment

Ofcom rules TV channel broadcast ‘antisemitic hate speech’ The Ahlebait channel, serving the UK's Shia Muslim community, said it 'sincerely regrets potentially offensive antisemitic remarks were broadcast,' after CST complains to broadcast watchdog

July 27, 2022   

(Jewish News) The broadcast watchdog Ofcom has ruled that a television channel serving the Shia Muslim community in the UK broadcast content that “amounted to antisemitic hate speech” and was “abusive and derogatory towards Jewish people.” Investigating a complaint made by the […]

Legal

Alleged terrorist Hamdi Alqudsi used ‘soccer game’ code in plans to send men to Syria, court told Phone taps of an accused terrorist who allegedly gathered men who pledged to ISIS used a code to try and avoid suspicion from police, a court has been told.

July 20, 2022   

(NCA NewsWire) Extensive phone taps played to a court have revealed how the alleged leader of a Sydney-based terrorist group used a code in the form of an “A-League soccer team” to discuss alleged plans to send men to Syria to fight […]

News: North America

Holy Land Five: Palestinian released, deported to Turkey after more than decade in US prison Mohammad el-Mezain was held in ICE custody for nearly a year after completing his prison sentence

July 1, 2022   

(Middle East Eye) Mohammad el-Mezain, a Palestinian resident in the US, was released from detention and subsequently deported to Turkey after serving more than a decade in an American prison, following a controversial case in which he and others involved in a […]

Clerics & Preachers

London mosque hosts hate preacher who called 9/11 and Charlie Hebdo attacks ‘comedy’ MP demands to know how Egyptian-born Dr Omar Abdul Kafi, who has also given sermons about getting 'revenge' on Jews, was allowed into the UK to speak at Finsbury Park mosque in north London.

April 22, 2022   

(Jewish News) An MP has demanded to know “how on earth” an Egyptian-born “hate preacher who has previously given sermons about killing Jews” was allowed to enter the UK. Dr Omar Abdul Kafi had last month given a lecture at the Finsbury […]

Academics & Education

Family of murdered school teacher Samuel Paty sue French ministries They accuse French intelligence services and local education authorities of not having done enough to prevent the teacher’s 2020 murder

April 6, 2022   

(Connexion) The family of Samuel Paty, the French school teacher murdered by a jihadist in October 2020, is suing the ministries of education and interior for “non-assistance of a person in danger” and “non-prevention of a crime.” They accuse the intelligence services […]

Holidays

New York Muslims voice concern over Times Square’s first Tarawih prayers Several members of the Muslim community have voiced concern over holding Tarawih, an extra night prayer performed during Ramadan, at the bustling thoroughfare

April 1, 2022   

(Middle East Eye) New York City’s Times Square is set to host its first ever Tarawih prayers on Saturday, but several members of the Muslim community have voiced concern over the event being held at the bustling location. According to social media advertisements […]

Academics & Education

New NUS president posted Islamic chant threatening ‘Jews’ and sympathised with Hamas Shaima Dallali was confirmed as the next NUS leader following a vote at the student body's annual conference in Liverpool on Monday.

March 28, 2022   

(Jewish News) The National Union of Students has voted for a new president who only last week had to apologise for a historic tweet in which she posted the words of an infamous Islamic chant threatening “Jews” with an attack by “the […]

Government & Politics

Minneapolis mosques to broadcast call to prayer all year round Minneapolis City Council Member Jamal Osman announced this week that mosques will be allowed to play the adhan several times between the hours of 7 a.m. and 10 p.m. daily and all year round.

March 25, 2022   

(Star Tribune) The Muslim call to prayer will soon be heard regularly in parts of Minneapolis. Minneapolis mosques can now publicly broadcast the adhan, or call to prayer, over loudspeakers without acquiring a permit and so long as they abide by the […]