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Why would someone dump a pig’s head outside an Islamic institution?
January 22, 2016 By Tell Mama

Why would someone dump a pig’s head outside an Islamic institution?

Staff and students at the Madani Academy in Portsmouth suffered the fear and indignity of discovering a pig’s head attached to the school gates. The pig’s head had a swastika drawn below the phrase ‘F**k Allah’. It mirrors an incident in December 2013 when a pig’s head was stuck on a spike outside of the

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Muslim Female on Advisory Board to Government on tackling Islamophobia Incessantly Abused
January 15, 2016 By Tell Mama

Muslim Female on Advisory Board to Government on tackling Islamophobia Incessantly Abused

Akeela Ahmed has worked for many years in the community sector and currently also sits on the Cross Government Advisory Group to tackle Anti-Muslim hatred. The Advisory group meets with ministers and advises and informs them of key areas and issues where anti-Muslim bigotry affects Muslim communities and is part of the Government’s strategy to

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Muslim Female on Advisory Board to Government on tackling Islamophobia Incessantly Abused
January 15, 2016 By Tell Mama

Muslim Female on Advisory Board to Government on tackling Islamophobia Incessantly Abused

Akeela Ahmed has worked for many years in the community sector and currently also sits on the Cross Government Advisory Group to tackle Anti-Muslim hatred. The Advisory group meets with ministers and advises and informs them of key areas and issues where anti-Muslim bigotry affects Muslim communities and is part of the Government’s strategy to

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Muslim Female on Advisory Board to Government on tackling Islamophobia Incessantly Abused
January 15, 2016 By Tell Mama

Muslim Female on Advisory Board to Government on tackling Islamophobia Incessantly Abused

Akeela Ahmed has worked for many years in the community sector and currently also sits on the Cross Government Advisory Group to tackle Anti-Muslim hatred. The Advisory group meets with ministers and advises and informs them of key areas and issues where anti-Muslim bigotry affects Muslim communities and is part of the Government’s strategy to

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Muslim Female on Advisory Board to Government on tackling Islamophobia Incessantly Abused
January 15, 2016 By Tell Mama

Muslim Female on Advisory Board to Government on tackling Islamophobia Incessantly Abused

Akeela Ahmed has worked for many years in the community sector and currently also sits on the Cross Government Advisory Group to tackle Anti-Muslim hatred. The Advisory group meets with ministers and advises and informs them of key areas and issues where anti-Muslim bigotry affects Muslim communities and is part of the Government’s strategy to

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What’s behind the Sunni-Shia tensions in Nigeria?
January 12, 2016 By FM

What’s behind the Sunni-Shia tensions in Nigeria?

Muhammadu Buhari, a Sunni Muslim and a former military dictator, has surprisingly won the 2015 Presidential elections in Nigeria after three consecutive defeats. Buhari has campaigned on a platform of ‘change’, promising economic stability, to curb corruption and to utilise political strength in tackling the terrorist group, Boko Haram. The Buhari government, however, has faced international criticism, due to the clash between the army and the minority Shia community in Zaria. Reports of events prior to the clash are unclear, the army asserts that the Nigerian Chief of Army Staff, Genenral Tukur Buratai, was blockaded near Zaria and the convoy was attacked by a petrol bomb. The Shia Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) deny any attack occurred and demand the release of their leader Ibraheem Zakzaky. The government forces raided Zakzaky’s home and the whereabouts of his wife and sons are unknown. The IMN have stated that they have been killed in the raid, however, the Nigerian authorities have declared that his wife is in custody. Iran has condemned the attacks and called for the release of the Shiite leader. The movement has also been confronted by Boko Haram. The problem remains complex: it would be too simplistic to apportion [...]

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Lord Pearson of Rannoch’s Question in the House of Lords
January 12, 2016 By Tell Mama

Lord Pearson of Rannoch’s Question in the House of Lords

UKIP Peer, Lord Pearson of Rannoch, is set to ask a question in the House of Lords on the 27th of January 2016. The question that has been tabled is the following: “Whether Christians could be recorded as having committed an anti-Muslim hate crime from April 2016 by preaching the divinity of Christ in public

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Lord Pearson of Rannoch’s Question in the House of Lords
January 12, 2016 By Tell Mama

Lord Pearson of Rannoch’s Question in the House of Lords

UKIP Peer, Lord Pearson of Rannoch, is set to ask a question in the House of Lords on the 27th of January 2016. The question that has been tabled is the following: “Whether Christians could be recorded as having committed an anti-Muslim hate crime from April 2016 by preaching the divinity of Christ in public

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Lord Pearson of Rannoch’s Question in the House of Lords
January 12, 2016 By Tell Mama

Lord Pearson of Rannoch’s Question in the House of Lords

UKIP Peer, Lord Pearson of Rannoch, is set to ask a question in the House of Lords on the 27th of January 2016. The question that has been tabled is the following: “Whether Christians could be recorded as having committed an anti-Muslim hate crime from April 2016 by preaching the divinity of Christ in public

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Lord Pearson of Rannoch’s Question in the House of Lords
January 12, 2016 By Tell Mama

Lord Pearson of Rannoch’s Question in the House of Lords

UKIP Peer, Lord Pearson of Rannoch, is set to ask a question in the House of Lords on the 27th of January 2016. The question that has been tabled is the following: “Whether Christians could be recorded as having committed an anti-Muslim hate crime from April 2016 by preaching the divinity of Christ in public

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