The brutal killing of Imam Jalal Uddin, a 71 year old respected Imam in Rochdale, by Mohammed Hussain Syeedy throws up an element that is [...]
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A suicide bomber shouted “Allahu akbar” and blew himself up in a packed mosque in northwestern Pakistan, killing at least 25 people and wounding 30 [...]
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More than half of girls in British schools and colleges have faced sexual harassment, according to a new report on Tuesday that called for sex [...]
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The Independent has today highlighted a serious racially aggravated assault against a Polish man in Leeds which took place last Friday. The assault was alleged to have been conducted by 20 young people and points towards a hate crime. Furthermore, the Polish Embassy put out the following statement on Twitter, stating: “The assault in Leeds
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Saudi authorities deployed drones to watch over nearly 2 million pilgrims as they ascended Mount Arafat at the climax of the haj pilgrimage on Sunday, [...]
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The Bell of Hope rings at New York City’s St. Paul’s Chapel at 8:46 a.m., the time American Airlines Flight 11 slammed into the North [...]
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday said the Palestinians wanted to form a state devoid of a Jewish population and termed it “ethnic cleansing”, [...]
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Three women arrested in connection with a car loaded with gas cylinders found in a side road near Notre Dame cathedral had been planning an [...]
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The recent arrest of a suspected neo-Nazi, Sean Creighton, 44, on a terrorism offence contained an interesting footnote. He allegedly possessed a badge with “burn your local mosque” written on it. This idea, to burn a local mosque, has appealed to neo-Nazis and Islamophobes in Europe and North America. The image, however, comes from the
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Saudi Arabia’s top religious authority said Iran’s leaders were not Muslims, drawing a rebuke from Tehran in an unusually harsh exchange between the regional rivals [...]
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