Police investigate possible hate crime against Al-Huda Islamic Centre in Sheffield

June 17, 2016 Article

Police are investigating a possible hate crime against the Al-Huda Islamic Centre in Sheffield. The building is on Hanover Street. Muhbeen Hussain, the founder of British Muslim Youth, contacted Tell MAMA about this incident this morning. Reports coming in that a mosque in Sheffield has been attacked. Quran's and items inside have been decimated. @TellMamaUK

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Naz Shah MP Deserves a Second Chance. As a Campaigner She is a Trailblazer

June 15, 2016 Article

It is rarely that we get involved into the political melee of the cut and thrust of politics and the political life of Members of Parliament. On this occasion, we felt that it is was important to show support for a Member of Parliament who genuinely cares and is passionate about people. Naz Shah MP

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Another Hate Crime Attack in Rotherham. Afghan Taxi Driver Assaulted

June 14, 2016 Article

Sadly, we have received another report of a violent assault against an Afghan taxi driver in Rotherham. We were notified just within the last hour of this assault on a 28 year old taxi driver in the Swinton area of Rotherham, which took place today on Tuesday the 14th of June 2016. The attack took

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Omar Seddique Mateen. Synonymous of Homophobic Bigotry We Must Overcome

June 12, 2016 Article

About two years ago, we stood up against some of the homophobia that we were coming across not only in wider society but also within some small sections of Muslim communities. The wide majority of Muslims in the UK get on with their lives and worship piously and without any harm or hindrance to anyone.

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U.S. Army reserve major threatened North Carolina mosque

June 12, 2016 Article

A North Carolina man faces ethnic intimidation charges after leaving bacon at a mosque and making death threats to its members as they prepared for worship in observance of Ramadan, Islam’s holy month, authorities said on Friday. Russell Thomas Langford of Fayetteville was arrested late on Thursday, the Hoke County Sheriff’s Office said. He is

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Anti-Muslim Hatred Should Not Be Used to Divide Communities

June 11, 2016 Article

Organisations and agencies working on tackling hatred and prejudice have a duty to highlight the reality of such issues, whilst carefully balancing the community impacts of the information that is disseminated. In undertaking this work, whilst anti-Muslim hatred may be an issue that is sadly growing, it should not be the over-riding issue through which

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Crawley Ahmaddiya Mosque Suffers a Hate Crime

June 6, 2016 Article

Once again, a peaceful law-abiding community suffers the injustice of being targeted for hate graffiti and is targeted on the basis that some Muslims regard it as being heretical. So what do these moral guardians of faith do, they decide to promote intra-Muslim sectarianism by scrawling the following on the Noor Mosque in Crawley. The

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Orthodoxy in Islam Does Not Equate to Extremism

June 1, 2016 Article

Security must always be intelligence led and not led by assumptions based on personal beliefs. This is the basis of policy making around community safety, yet with the heightened atmosphere around extremism, it is sadly the case that some people automatically link orthodoxy in Islam with extremism, as though the former must lead to the

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Shot Allegedly Fired at Young Female Muslim in the Rotherham Area. Police Find No Evidence

May 27, 2016 Article

We received notice of an incident in the Rotherham area yesterday evening which according to the victim was said to have involved a firearm, (possibly a pellet gun), which was allegedly fired at a young Hijab wearing driver in the area and this was mentioned by relatives in the initial instance after the incident. The

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AFD leader Frauke Petry under investigation for perjury

May 25, 2016 Article

Frauke Petry, leader of the anti-immigration party Alternative for Germany (AfD), is under investigation over accusations of perjury, the public prosecutor’s office in Dresden said. Petry, her party buoyed by the arrival of more than one million mostly Muslim migrants in Germany last year, is accused of lying under oath to the state electoral committee

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