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Prime Minister finally responds to MP’s Islamophobic comments

Image by Jacob King/PA Rishi Sunak has said MP Lee Anderson’s remarks that sparked an Islamophobia row “weren’t acceptable, they were wrong”, as he denied the Conservative Party has Islamophobic tendencies. The Prime Minister addressed the row on Monday after facing growing calls to speak out about the former Tory deputy chairman’s remarks.  Mr Anderson

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Women bear the brunt of increased anti-Muslim abuse in the UK

Image by Dominic Lipinski/PA The number of Islamophobic incidents reported to an organisation monitoring anti-Muslim sentiment and abuse in the UK more than tripled in the four months since the Hamas attacks in Israel last year. Tell Mama, the leading agency in measuring and monitoring anti-Muslim hate in the UK has said the number of Islamophobic

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Pakistani cricketer has his contract terminated

Image by Samuel Rajkumar/Reuters Haris Rauf (pictured above) has had his contract terminated by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) as he refused to join the Test team for the tour of Australia, which coincided with his stint at Australia’s Big Bash League (BBL). In a statement released yesterday the PCB said: “Haris’ central contract has

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MP says there should be a memorial for Muslim soldiers

Image by PA MP Sajid Javid (pictured above) has called for a memorial to honour Muslims who served with Britain and its allies during the two World Wars. The World Wars Muslim Memorial Trust, registered in 2016, seeks to honour those Muslim soldiers from the Indian subcontinent, the Middle East and North Africa who were

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Medical student given a full scholarship to study at UCLan

Image by UCLan Sumayyah Atcha (pictured above), 18, a first year University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) student is one of two inductees of UCLan’s Livesey Scholarship, which aims to get more people from under-represented backgrounds into university. The former Bolton Muslim Girls School said the surgeons who intricately operated on her sister Sharifa’s spina bifida

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The UK’s smartest teen calls for more support for the gifted

Image by SWNS Seventeen year old Mahnoor Cheema (pictured above), said to be the smartest teenager in Britain with an IQ of 161, is appealing for better support for gifted youngsters. The Slough prodigy, who is taking 28 A-Levels and achieved 34 A*s in her GCSEs argues that teachers struggle to accommodate her due to

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Rishi Sunak refuses to apologies for transgender jibe

Rishi Sunak still refuses to apologise to the family of Brianna Ghey after making a Trans joke while the murdered transgender teenager’s mother was visiting parliament. The Prime Minister said it is “wrong” to suggest he joked about Trans people when he made a “how to define a woman” jibe at Sir Keir Starmer while calling it “sad”

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