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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 571

Muslims in the United Kingdom

Protesters throw flares towards police officers in Liverpool on August 3, 2024 during the 'Enough is Enough' demonstration held in reaction to the fatal stabbings in Southport on July 29. (Peter Powell/AFP)
August 8, 2024, 1:11 pm
‘Doesn’t feel like home’: Liverpool Muslims fearful amid racist UK riots
‘It’s not just Muslims… everyone is scared’: Minority groups report feeling worried, afraid to leave home as violent and racist riots spread
By Sachin Ravikumar, Janis Laizans and Manon Cruz
A van approaches the gates of HM Prison Wandsworth in south London on September 7, 2023, a day after terror suspect, Daniel Abed Khalife escaped from the prison while awaiting trial. (Justin Tallis/AFP)
September 9, 2023, 2:25 pm
UK police arrest escaped terror suspect in London
21-year-old former soldier Daniel Khalife sparked a massive manhunt after escaping from Wandsworth prison in south London
By AFP
A law enforcement vehicle is seen near the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue on January 16, 2022, in Colleyville, Texas. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images/AFP)
January 26, 2022, 12:41 pm
Two more men arrested in UK over Texas synagogue attack
British counterterrorism police say four others also questioned over connection to Malik Faisal Akram, who took hostages at Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville
By AFP
British Conservative Party MP Nusrat Ghani joins members of the Uyghur community as they demonstrate to call on the British parliament to vote to recognize alleged persecution of China's Muslim minority Uyghur people as genocide and crimes against humanity in London, April 22, 2021. (JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP)
January 24, 2022, 9:43 pm
UK to probe lawmaker’s claim she was fired over her Muslim faith
Ex-transport minister Nusrat Ghani alleges that while demoting her, government whip said her ‘Muslimness’ makes others uncomfortable
By Jill Lawless
Congregation Beth Israel hostage taker, identified as 44-year-old British national Malik Faisal Akram. (Courtesy)
January 17, 2022, 5:08 am
UK police arrest 2 teens over Texas synagogue attack, reportedly gunman’s sons
Law enforcement official cited saying Malik Faisal Akram was in contact with sons during crisis; FBI has previously said hostage-taker was acting alone
By AFP and ToI Staff
Screen capture from video of an interview with Shamima Begum, right, a British teen who joined the Islamic State. Her newborn baby is held by a woman, left, during the interview from Syria, February 2019. (YouTube)
March 9, 2019, 12:58 am
Baby of British IS bride Shamima Begum dies in Syrian refugee camp
19-year-old Begum had said she wanted to raise her son in the UK, but the government has revoked her citizenship
By AP
Screen capture from video of an interview with Shamima Begum, right, a British teen who joined the Islamic State. Her newborn baby is held by a woman, left, during the interview from Syria, February 2019. (YouTube)
February 21, 2019, 5:09 am
Britain and Bangladesh wash their hands of Islamic State teen mother
Shamima Begum traveled to Syria in 2015 aged just 15, but after giving birth in a refugee camp last weekend, she wants to come home
By Alice Ritchie
Then-British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson talks at a press conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on May 22, 2018. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
August 10, 2018, 6:18 pm
Britain in a frenzy over Boris Johnson’s ‘bank robber’ burqa comments
Critics accuse former foreign secretary of seeking attention, encouraging Islamophobia, while many Conservatives support him
By Florence Biedermann
Then-British foreign secretary Boris Johnson (L) and then-British prime minister Theresa May in May 2017. (Thierry Charlier/Pool Photo via AP)
August 9, 2018, 4:08 am
UK’s May says Boris Johnson should apologize over burqa comments
Prime minister contends remarks by former foreign secretary ‘have clearly caused offense’; but Johnson dismisses calls for retraction
By AFP
Then-British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson talks at a press conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on May 22, 2018. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
August 7, 2018, 7:02 pm
UK’s Boris Johnson under fire for denouncing burqas as ‘ridiculous’
Chairman of Conservative Party calls on ex-FM to apologize for saying women wearing Muslim face covering look like ‘letter-boxes’
By AFP
Britain's Home Secretary Sajid Javid walks along Downing Street in central London on June 12, 2018. (AFP/Daniel Leal-Olivas)
June 17, 2018, 5:40 pm
Far-right terror threat on the rise in Britain
Unveiling new counter-terror strategy, Home Secretary Sajid Javid says Islamic terrorism remains biggest threat to UK, but right-wing hate crimes increasing
By Pauline Froissart
The Chabad student center in Oxford, UK. (Screen capture: Google Street View)
May 29, 2018, 12:11 pm
Muslim Labourites condemn 2 anti-Semitic attacks in Oxford
Offenders set a fire and left anti-Jewish notes outside Chabad center; statement comes as British Jews still outraged about racism in Corbyn’s party
By Michael Bachner
An ad in the Telegraph newspaper, May 17, 2018 (Board of Deputies of British Jews/Twitter)
May 19, 2018, 2:12 am
British Muslims denounce anti-Semitism in full page newspaper ad
Leaders of various groups warn against ‘those who cynically use’ Israeli-Palestinian conflict ‘to vilify Jews or promote anti-Semitic tropes’
By JTA
The rear of the Nottingham Crown Court in Nottingham, England. (CC BY-SA 2.0, Alan Murray-Rust, Wikipedia)
March 2, 2018, 9:42 pm
UK man convicted of running over Muslim woman in hate attack
Paul Moore badly injured 47-year-old Zaynab Hussein in ostensible revenge for attacks by Islamic extremists
By AP
A police cordon at the site of a ramming attack near Finsbury Park Mosque in north London, June 19, 2017 (Yui Mok/PA, File via AP)
February 2, 2018, 12:03 am
Man found guilty of fatal London mosque attack
Darren Osborne, father of four, 48, was acting out of an obsessive hatred of Muslims when he rammed a truck into mosque worshipers last year
By Robin MILLARD
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