Section: News
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Thousands to receive free lifesaving training at mosques across the UK
Sessions at 100 mosques are part of the British Islamic Medical Association’s Lifesavers programme, which aims to slash inequality in survival rates
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Plea for help getting Qur’ans and prayer mats to Muslim children in care
The community organisation Muslim Children in Care has given out dozens of prayer packs but says there is a huge unmet need for more
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Living in more diverse areas makes teens less likely to get Pip for autism
Nuffield Trust study lends weight to claims reported by Hyphen that parents of autistic Muslim children find it harder to access diagnosis
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Award-winning Senegalese restaurant in limbo after closure of Africa Centre
Little Baobab in Southwark had run a free catering school to help young people into the industry and now faces ‘start from zero again’
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‘This time it backfired’: Sweden’s far right loses ground after anti-Muslim election campaign
The imam behind Ask a Muslim says the Sweden Democrats’ fall in support reveals the limits of the party’s divisive tactics — even as its ideas remain embedded in mainstream politics
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Sadiq Khan urged to investigate police role in referring babies to Prevent
Most referrals of young children to Home Office’s counter-terror scheme in England and Wales were made by police, with stark regional differences
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Ahmed Iqbal Ullah: the legacy of the schoolboy’s murder 40 years on
The killing of the 13-year-old Bangladeshi Muslim exposed racial tensions in Manchester and would rally hundreds to organise against racism. Now, his family feel a ‘duty’ to speak up again amid the rise of the far right
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Muslim taxi drivers in plea for wudu space at Heathrow Airport
Campaigners say hundreds of Muslim cabbies currently share one sink in a converted toilet cubicle and have offered to cover building costs themselves
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Mosque denied security cash under new Home Office rules after waiting years
MPs blast ‘vague’, ‘opaque’ process as mosques get turned down for security funding just hours after new code of conduct published
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Senior MP tells Burnham: ‘get on with’ appointing anti-Muslim hostility tsar
Six months after government announced ‘special representative’ to oversee Islamophobia work, position is vacant — and takeup of new definition is patchy










