Girls in hijab questioned by Ofsted inquisitors should tell them to get lost and mind their own business
Clothes don't sexualise people...
New Home Office stats highlight “failure” of Prevent
Prevent referral statistics released by the Home Office today may have inadvertently highlighted its "ineffective and counterproductive" nature...
“Segregation” of boys and girls in Islamic school ruled unlawful
...in the same week as a BBC investigation revealed shocking institutional failures surrounding an explosion in child-on-child sexual abuse in mixed schools across the country...
Investigation reveals shocking increase in sexual assault amongst children
Rapes between under-18s rose to an average of one every four hours...
“Grooming” and the Exploiting of Exploitation
Who gets away scot-free when the news cycle and public discourse is dominated by people arguing about race? Those very same individuals and institutions that have been systematically and institutionally failing these young girls for decades...
Judgement Released: Judicial Review into Prevent
We welcome the release of the judicial review judgement after waiting for almost eight months. Although we seek to appeal parts of it, we are please to say that there are some very positive outcomes for the community, alhamdulillāh...
Ofsted to appeal high court defeat by Birmingham Muslim school
Al-Hijrah school did a service to the whole country by challenging Michael Wilshaw's "weaponised" Ofsted over misrepresenting the benign practice of separating boys and girls in a faith school...
Think tank funded by foreign extremists writes report on foreign extremist funding
In a move of rarely paralleled irony, the Henry Jackson Society (HJS), linked to and funded by some of the most prolific Islamophobes from overseas, has published a curious “report” against overseas funding of Muslim projects in the UK, under the infamously ambiguous pretext of “extremism”.
Hundreds of Mosques Continue Evening Prayers After Ramadan
Following the success and popularity of the tarāwīh prayers during Ramadān this year, Islam21c has learnt that hundreds of mosques across the country will in fact be continuing to hold similar congregational prayers at night...
May is playing a dangerous game exploiting Finsbury Park attack
If we are not very careful right now, then our horror, anger and frustration provoked by the rising and increasingly violent tide of Islamophobia will be misused against us.