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The Labour Party has relied on Muslim voters to win many ‘safe seats’ and prides itself on its values of fairness and equality. This report highlights that there is still some distance to travel to help Muslim members of the Party feel that they are welcome and safe in the Labour Party.

The Inquiry into the terrorist attack at the Manchester Arena continues. It was set up as a response to the Inquests into the 22 deaths from the terrorist attack at the Manchester Arena on 22 May 2017.

Zara is the first female leader of any major Muslim organization in British Muslim history.

This report published by the Centre for Media Monitoring compared the reporting of terrorist attacks committed by Muslims and those by far-right activists over a four year period.

194 Muslim charities responded to the pandemic crisis through supporting vulnerable people, opening food banks and helping people who are self-isolated, a report by the Muslim Charities Forum found.

A new report compiled by a group of academics has produced surprising results on the perceptions of Islam on campus. Academics from Durham, SOAS, Coventry and Lancaster universities have examined the ways in which Islam and Muslims are understood on campus.

In an auction on 15 July, Sotheby’s sold the document that ordered the expulsion of Muslims from Granada for 52,500 pounds. The document signed by King Ferdinand V and Queen Isabella marked a key moment in the history of Europe.

The government lost its appeal on 16 July on Shamima Begum’s right to return to the United Kingdom after she left Britain to join ISIL in 2015. The Court of Appeal partially overturned an earlier ruling by the Special Immigration Appeals Commission from earlier this year.

11 July 2020 was designated as Srebenica Memorial Day and Waqar Azmi, the founder and chairperson for Remembering Srebenica, said ‘Srebrenica has become a world symbol of the horrific consequences that can result from inaction, and therefore, taking action, however small, matters”.

The Aziz Foundation has applied for a prayer space after constantly being reminded of the lack of such a prayer space for Muslims in the Piccadilly area.

Protests were held on Saturday 27 June in London, Birmingham, Cardiff, Manchester, London, Sheffield, Toronto and Los Angeles over the death of Shukri Abdi. Shukri was 12 when she drowned in the River Irwell, near Manchester.

Researchers found that 62% of Londoners identify as religious whereas only 53% of the population in Great Britain identify as religious. It is an intensive form of religiosity as 30% of Christians in London attend services and pray regularly. Only 13% do the same in Britain as a whole.

Christie’s has broken the record for a fee paid for the acquisition of a copy of the Qur’an when it sold a Timurid era copy on Thursday 25 June for six million pounds in London. The auction price went for ten times the original starting price which was set at 600,000 – 900,000 pounds.

The British government has spent 200 million pounds on prevent in the past five years.

What is emerging is that those mosques that have better systems in place have been best suited to tackle the financial shortfall.

London Learning Consortium and The Media Society have joined forces to run a London Citizen Journalism Competition in 2017 to support aspiring citizen journalists. If you’ve ever wanted to give this a go, now is the opportunity!

The Bradford Literature Festival, only in its second year, has proven to be a huge success attracting thousands of people from across the district and beyond showcasing Bradford’s rich cultural heritage.