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Human Aid has accused the Commission of applying “undue scrutiny” to Muslim charities, and that premature escalation to a statutory enquiry should be seen "in the context of a larger pattern of harassment of Muslim Charities at UK borders."

Dr Allamah Khalid Mahmud Sahib was a senior Muslim scholar and was among the first Ulamā’ to have settled in the UK, dedicating his life for the service of Islam, promoting it and protecting it. May Allāh have mercy on him.

Anti-racism groups slam the Equality and Human Rights Commission, calling it “a political tool of the Tories” as it drops investigation into Islamophobia in the Conservative Party whilst continuing to investigate the Labour Party for Anti-Semitism.

The Islam21c team would like to extend their sincerest condolences to Shaykh Zahir Mahmood (and his family) whose mother has passed away to meet her Lord (subḥānahu wa taʿālā). May Allāh have mercy upon her.

His story may not have received as much “air-time” as Tom Moore, for reasons one no longer needs to speculate over. Perhaps if words like “refugees” and “Ramadan” were replaced with “homeless” and “Christmas”, it would make the front pages.

Amid poverty and unemployment coupled with the rapidly growing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, Afghanistan is bearing the brunt of an unprecedented crisis.

Activists raise concerns that the authorities are using COVID-19 as an excuse to “operationalise” the island as a home to refugees, despite it being called a “dangerously flood-prone island without adequate healthcare”

Prominent scholars and academics from around the world have compiled a powerful letter entitled “A Message to Humanity” amidst the coronavirus pandemic.

“You have brought back the freedom of religion to Germany”

A freedom of information request has shown that hundreds of children under the age of six have been referred to the government’s toxic “counter-extremism” strategy Prevent.