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Pro Palestine rally will be as vocal and trenchant as ever

Organisers of tomorrow’s Al-Quds Day event are resisting calls to tone down the event for fear that it may cause offence to pro-Israel groups. The annual rally and march in support of Palestinian rights is set to attract a huge number of participants this year

Police urged to change heavy-handed tactics for Al-Quds Day march

A number of organisations have sent a strongly worded letter to the Metropolitan Police Commissioner demanding that he fulfils his responsibility to ensure that Friday’s Al-Quds Day event is policed independently without fear or favour. The letter comes in the wake of an increasing number

Huge crowd expected for Al-Quds Day rally in London

Thousands of protestors are expected to descend on London from all over the country on April 5 for this year’s Al-Quds Day rally. The turnout could be the biggest to date in the long history of the event, in view of the rising death toll

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Extremism definition is anti-democratic, divisive and Islamophobic

Today’s announcement by Michael Gove that the government is widening the definition of extremism to catch mostly mainstream Muslim organisations is the latest in a series of Islamophobic measures seeking to exclude Muslims from public life. The blackballing of Muslim groups as a threat to

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British govt funding package for mosques is a bribe best avoided

The government’s announcement of a £117m funding package for mosque security is a bribe which only serves to highlight the disdain with which Muslims are treated. Instead of genuinely consulting the Muslim community and engaging with it to plan and deliver its own security as