Terrorist will not answer questions if forced to attend, Arena bomb inquiry told

October 14, 2021 Article

A convicted terrorist accused of grooming Manchester Arena bomber Salman Abedi will not answer any questions if he is forced to attend the public inquiry into the atrocity, a court has heard. The bereaved families of the 22 people killed in the explosion want Abdalraouf Abdallah, 28, to explain his links to Abedi and explore […]

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Mosque attack suspect had video of New Zealand mass killing on phone, court told

October 14, 2021 Article

A phone recovered from a man on trial for terrorism offences contained three copies of...

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“It was one of the worst days of my life,” Muslim man assaulted, robbed along Leeds and Liverpool Canal

October 13, 2021 Article

“It was one of the worst days of my life.” For one Muslim man, the...

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German city allows mosques to broadcast call to Friday prayers

October 11, 2021 Article

The German city of Cologne will start permitting mosques to broadcast muezzin calls for prayer, the city said. The calls can be broadcast for five minutes every week for the Friday prayer around noon and audible outside the Muslim houses of prayer, city spokeswoman Katja Reuter said. Cologne mosques need to apply for a special […]

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Mother gives evidence in trial of man charged over ‘mosque attack plot’

October 11, 2021 Article

The mother of a man on trial accused of plotting an attack on a mosque...

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Man facing trial over mosque terror attack plot

October 8, 2021 Article

By Press Association 2021 A man has gone on trial accused of plotting an attack...

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Scores killed and wounded by Afghan mosque blast during Friday prayers

October 8, 2021 Article

At least 100 people have been killed or wounded in an explosion targeting Shiite Muslims at a mosque in northern Afghanistan, according to a Taliban police official. Dost Mohammad Obaida said the “majority of them have been killed”. The blast occurred during the Friday prayer service at the Gozar-e-Sayed Abad Mosque in Kunduz province, when […]

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£90 fine for racist who urinated on Croydon mosque

October 5, 2021 Article

A racist who urinated against the Croydon Mosque & Islamic Centre on London Road in...

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Eddie Marsan: ‘Young people need to know what antisemitism is’

September 29, 2021 Article

Ridley Road starts on BBC One on Sunday, October 3. It’s the Swinging Sixties in London’s East End, and far-right fascism is on the rise. Enter Vivien Epstein, a young Jewish hairdresser from Manchester who finds herself embroiled in an undercover movement against racism, after following her lover, Jack Morris, to the capital. This sets […]

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Taliban official speaks of strict punishment and says executions will return

September 24, 2021 Article

One of the founders of the Taliban has said the hard-line movement will once again carry out executions and amputations of hands, though perhaps not in public. Mullah Nooruddin Turabi dismissed outrage over the Taliban’s executions in the past, which sometimes took place in front of crowds at a stadium, and warned the world against […]

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