Far Right political party Britain First has been attacked as racist, Islamophobic and fascist after a BBC documentary on the group aired last night. We Want Our Country Back followed the “patriotic” organisation as it fought to have Islam banned in the UK. In one scene, deputy leader Jayda Fransen says, “Where there are Muslims there…
The ideology which drives Islamic extremists has significant support from Muslims around the world, Tony Blair has warned. The former British prime minister said that unless religious prejudice in Muslim communities is rooted out, the threat from the extremists will not be defeated. Speaking at the 9/11 Memorial Museum in New York City, Blair said that while the numbers…
Fear of Muslims has stirred up division between neighbours in Britain in a way not seen in living memory, the Archbishop of Canterbury has warned. The Most Rev Justin Welby said tensions had “seeped into our society” threatening to fracture multiculturalism by widening “cracks” between different communities into seemingly insurmountable barriers. Britain, he said, is…
One of the world’s largest fashion retailers is launching a new advertising campaign featuring – for the first time in its history – a Muslim woman wearing a hijab. Mariah Idrissi, 23, appears in the H&M advert, which is trying to encourage people to recycle clothes. She told the BBC that she believed the fashion industry was…
Almost one week after the stampede in Mina killed hundreds of pilgrims, Muslims worldwide mourned the loss of prominent Muslim scholars, judges and professionals, who are believed to be among the stampede victims. The stampede occurred last Thursday when hundreds of pilgrims died and almost one thousand injured in a stampede outside Makkah. It began…
