Umar Haque, who taught at two schools and at a madrassa, has been convicted of attempting to radicalise 110 of his pupils despite Ofsted inspections at the schools not revealing any concern of extremism. Questions have been raised about extending Ofsted’s powers to combat extremism as a result, a topic which is already controversial.
Figures from the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime reveal a 40% rise in Islamophobic hate crime in London, but Scotland Yard warns these figures do not reveal the full extent of the problem because many go unreported.
Several UK politicians, including the Mayor of London, have expressed their concerns over the impact the delay of releasing bodies for burial is having on Muslim and Jewish communities. The issue concerns one jurisdiction of London in particular, which is home to the UK’s largest Muslim and ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities.
Guardian correspondent, Masuma Rahim, writes that the limited media coverage of acid attacks against South Asians is a symptom of larger media biases and the absence of minority representation in the news industry. Rahim is, in particular, responding to a hate crime by a white man, John Tomlin, against two South Asian, Muslim relatives. Resham…
The Fairfax County Police Department are blaming “road rage” as the mostly likely reason, instead of a hate crime, in the killing of a Muslim teenager in Virginia whose body was found in a pond later. Nabra Hassanen, 17, was killed on Sunday after she and a group of nearly 15 friends encountered a driver,…
