(BBC) A supporter of Islamic State (IS) who planned a terror attack with a hunting knife has been jailed for six years. Haider Ahmed, 19, from Redhill in Surrey, was found guilty of preparing an act of terrorism at an earlier hearing […]
(BBC) Muslim women in France are disobeying the rules at a local swimming pool by wearing burkinis. In a protest inspired by US civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks, they bathed in suits covering their entire bodies — apart from the face, hands […]
(BBC) Jack Letts, who left the UK to join the Islamic State group as a teenager, has said he had been an “enemy of Britain.” The Muslim convert, who is in custody in a Kurdish jail, admitted he was once ready to […]
(BBC) A former national counter terrorism co-ordinator has told the BBC the government is not doing enough to ensure that venues are secure. Nick Aldworth has warned new legislation is needed to reduce the impact of any future attack. He is supporting […]
(BBC) The chairman of the Conservative Muslim Forum has told the BBC he will resign his party membership if Boris Johnson wins the leadership race. Mohammed Amin said the MP was not “sufficiently moral” to be PM. He criticised Mr Johnson’s comments […]
(BBC) Home Secretary Sajid Javid has said his exclusion from the state banquet held for the US president was “odd.” Several other ministers, including Environment Secretary Michael Gove and Defence Secretary Penny Mordaunt, attended the event earlier this month. Mr Javid criticised […]
(BBC) The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) has accused the Tory Party of “fundamental failures” in tackling Islamophobia. Its head of public affairs, Miqdaad Versi, said he had seen “hundreds of cases” within the party, “demonstrating the scale of the problem.” When […]
(BBC) More than 70 people were intercepted in one day as they crossed the English Channel on eight boats, the government has confirmed. HM Coastguard assisted UK Border Force off the south coast, as a total of 74 migrants tried to reach […]
(BBC) There were “opportunities galore” to identify that the London Bridge extremists were plotting an attack, an inquest has heard. Gareth Patterson, the lawyer representing several victims’ families, said there was evidence the attackers had been in contact since January 2017. Eight […]
(BBC) The lawyer representing Shamima Begum’s family has written to the home secretary accusing UK authorities of failing to protect the east London girl from being “groomed” by Islamic State. The letter accuses police and her local council of failing to safeguard […]
(BBC) Days after the deadly attack on a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, a private patrol service was launched in New York to protect Muslim places of worship there. The additional security has proved controversial. On a Friday afternoon, minutes before the […]
(BBC) A family court judge has refused to reopen the case of a man accused of subjecting a three-year-old girl to female genital mutilation (FGM) after he was cleared by a jury. In April 2018, Judge Carol Atkinson said she was “satisfied” […]
(BBC) The government has rejected a definition of Islamophobia created by a cross-party group of MPs. The All-Party Parliamentary Group on British Muslims wanted to define it to tackle what it called a “social evil.” But a government spokesman said the wording […]
(BBC) A man who left USB sticks containing terrorist propaganda inside shoes at six mosques in England has been jailed. Omar Ashfaq, 24, of St Thomas Road, in Derby, left 17 of the sticks in footwear while Muslim worshipers were praying between […]
(BBC) A man has pleaded guilty to spreading terrorist documents around six mosques. Omar Ashfaq, from Derby, was charged with eights counts of dissemination of a terrorist publication between 31 May and 8 June last year. The 24-year-old pleaded guilty on the […]
(BBC) Sajid Javid has said he gets abuse “because of my colour” from the “far left” and “far right” of UK politics. The home secretary told the BBC’s Political Thinking podcast he was criticised either for being “too brown” or “not brown […]
(BBC) A former police chief has called on Google to amend its technology to help stop the spread of terrorist material. Ex-Met Police assistant commissioner Sir Mark Rowley says it is a disgrace a jailed radical preacher ranks top for search term […]
(BBC) EU officials are struggling to agree on a law aimed at preventing the spread of “terrorist content” online. The European Parliament approved a draft version of the law on Wednesday evening, which would impose a one-hour deadline to remove offending content. […]
(BBC) Shamima Begum — who joined the Islamic State group aged 15 — is set to be granted legal aid to fight the decision to revoke her UK citizenship. The 19-year-old, who left east London in 2015, was stripped of her citizenship […]
(BBC) An event involving a psychologist who has claimed sex and relationship education could cause children “harm” has been cancelled by a university. Dr Kate Godfrey-Faussett is being investigated by the British Psychological Society after saying the lessons were part of an […]
(BBC) An Islamic State fighter held in Syria has told the BBC he was one of at least seven students and ex-students from University of Westminster to join IS. Zakariyya Elogbani abandoned a degree in business management which he was taking at […]
(BBC) Somali families feel “stigmatised” by female genital mutilation (FGM) safeguarding practices, a university report has found. Those who took part in the Bristol study cited “intrusive and traumatic” questioning around FGM by school staff, social workers, health practitioners and police. Community […]
(BBC) It was too dangerous to send British officials to rescue Shamima Begum’s baby son in Syria, Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has said. The child died in a refugee camp after his mother, who joined IS in 2015, was stripped of UK […]
(BBC) The lawyer for a failed asylum seeker fighting to protect her daughter from female genital mutilation (FGM) says the Home Office should review the case. Last week the High Court ruled a judge could not prevent Home Secretary Sajid Javid from […]
(BBC) A teenage supporter of Islamic State (IS) has been convicted of planning a terror attack with a hunting knife. Haider Ahmed, 19, from Redhill in Surrey, told contacts he wanted to conduct a suicide mission. But Kingston Crown Court heard Ahmed’s […]
(BBC) Two Tory councillors have quit after being accused of sharing Islamophobic posts on social media. Len Milner and Chris Smith, who sit on East Staffordshire council, “liked” a cartoon posted on Facebook depicting a mock beheading of Labour’s Sadiq Khan. Mr […]
(BBC) The home secretary cannot be barred from deporting a failed asylum seeker whose daughter would be at risk of female genital mutilation (FGM) if taken abroad, a senior judge decided. The High Court heard the woman, who has links to Bahrain […]
(BBC) The Dutch husband of Shamima Begum, who joined the Islamic State group in Syria in 2015 aged 15, has said he wants her to return to the Netherlands with him. Yago Riedijk and Ms Begum married days after she arrived inside […]
(BBC) A shooting range in Merseyside has been criticised for using images of IS bride Shamima Begum as a target. Labour MP Angela Eagle said she was “disapproving” of the use of living people’s faces by Ultimate Airsoft Range in Wallasey. Ms […]
(BBC) All children must learn about same-sex couples regardless of their religious background, the head of Ofsted says. Hundreds of parents protested outside a Birmingham school against it teaching pupils about same-sex couples and gender identity. Ofsted chief inspector Amanda Spielman told […]
(BBC) The UK’s largest teachers’ union has warned government not to introduce measures that would make teaching staff criminally responsible for failing to report the forced marriage of a pupil. A Home Office consultation is exploring such proposals for teachers, health workers […]
(BBC) Shamima Begum — the schoolgirl who fled London to join the Islamic State group in Syria — has said she never wanted to be an IS “poster girl.” Ms Begum, who has just given birth, said she now wants the UK’s forgiveness and […]
(BBC) Brunel University in London is hoping to encourage more Muslim women to play sport by launching a sports hijab. A 2017 study by Sports England found just 18% of Muslim women participate in regular sport, against 30% of the UK’s female […]
(BBC) Female genital mutilation (FGM) is increasingly being performed on babies and infants in the UK, the Victoria Derbyshire programme has been told. FGM expert and barrister Dr Charlotte Proudman said it was “almost impossible to detect” as the girls were not […]
(BBC) The UK has begun returning migrants, who cross the Channel in small boats, to France in a bid to deter others from doing the same, the Home Office said. On Thursday, a small number of failed asylum seekers, who landed on […]
(BBC) Potential victims in areas where forced marriage is prevalent are unaware it is a crime, a charity has said. While legislation has seen a rise in people reporting concerns, campaigners said there was a “worrying split” with some victims and families […]
(BBC) A former postman has admitted to spreading terrorist information, on the first day of his trial. Sajid Idris, 36, was sentenced to 21 months, suspended for two years, at Kingston Crown Court. In July 2017, Idris, 36, from the Grangetown area […]
(BBC) A man who planned to drive a van into 100 people in London was working with a government de-radicalisation programme at the time, a court has heard. Islamic State (IS) supporter Lewis Ludlow pleaded guilty last August to planning the Oxford […]
(BBC) A terror suspect arrested over a “frenzied” knife attack on three people in Manchester has been detained under mental health laws. The 25-year-old is being held on suspicion of attempted murder after the stabbings on New Year’s Eve at the city’s […]
(BBC) The stabbing of three people — including a police officer — in Manchester is being treated as a terrorist investigation, police say. A man, aged 25, was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after the attack on New Year’s Eve at […]
(BBC) The UK and France are to step up joint patrols and increase surveillance to tackle a rise in the number of migrants trying to reach Britain in small boats. Home Secretary Sajid Javid, who has cut short a family holiday, agreed […]
(BBC) Thousands of demonstrators in Brussels have marched against a UN migration pact, adopted in Marrakesh last week. Flemish right-wing parties called the march, which took place near major EU institutions, amid fears the pact could lead to an increase in immigration. […]
(BBC) Criminalising forced marriage could stop victims from speaking up if their parents are locked up, campaigners say. While legislation sends a “strong message,” a charity working with victims said it also scared off others. Rubie Marie, 35, who was forced to […]
(BBC) Germany’s Interior Ministry has said it regrets serving pork sausage at a conference on Islam in Berlin earlier this week. The ministry said the food selection had been designed for the “diverse religious attendance” at the German Islam Conference in Berlin. […]
(BBC) People smugglers are telling migrants that they must enter the UK before “the borders shut properly” after Brexit, a BBC South East investigation found. More than 100 people, the majority claiming to be Iranian, have entered British waters in boats this […]
(BBC) Jewish and Muslim community leaders have joined forces in a “landmark” challenge to hate crime in Scotland. The Muslim Council of Scotland and the Scottish Council of Jewish Communities said they were determined to address Islamophobia and anti-Semitism. They have published […]
(BBC) More than 100 migrants, claiming to be Iranian, have attempted the dangerous journey by small boat to the UK in the past three weeks. Why? On 23 November, shortly before sunrise, eight migrants were found clinging to a dinghy in choppy […]
(BBC) Eight suspected migrants have been rescued from a boat in the Channel, the French authorities have said. Helicopters and coastal patrols were sent to find them along with a British RNLI crew after a French team raised the alarm at about […]
(BBC) Five suspected migrants have been picked up from a small boat by French authorities off Audinghen in northern France. A statement from the Prefecture Maritime de la Manche said a call for medical assistance raised the alert and a fishing vessel […]
(BBC) Three British imams have joined calls for the UK to offer asylum to Asia Bibi, the Pakistani Christian woman recently acquitted of blasphemy. It comes after former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, and other politicians, urged the government to help her. Ms […]
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