A former Conservative minister and an independent Muslim member of parliament (MP) sparked debates on cousin marriage in the United Kingdom after the MP opposed the former minister’s proposals to ban first-cousin marriages in the country.
An Islamic charity in the United Kingdom is facing criticism for giving a teaching role to a young woman accused of extremism and for hosting a sermon saying men should force their wives to cover up.
A shocking review by the United Kingdom’s terrorism watchdog has found that the British government has failed to deal with Islamist gangs and criminals in British prisons, making them a breeding ground for jihadists and a place where non-Muslim prisoners and staff live in fear.
Concerns have been raised in the United Kingdom after a member of parliament (MP) from the ruling Labour Party advocated for measures that would prohibit the desecration of religious texts and the prophets of the Abrahamic religions, which some critics considered a possible reintroduction of blasphemy laws in the country.
A teenager accused of murdering three children in a mass stabbing at a Taylor Swift-themed holiday club in Southport, which sparked far-right riots across the United Kingdom, has been charged with terror offense, murder, and making a biological weapon.
For the first time in British legal history, a man was given a “deterrent sentence” of four and a half years in prison for conspiring to commit female genital mutilation (FGM) and forced marriage after he was accused of arranging to send a young girl to Iraq.
Two mosques in the United Kingdom were reported to the Charity Commission for recently hosting sermons where they said women should not refuse to have sex with their husbands, adding that a man can hit his wife if she refuses sex and that wives who refuse to have sex with their husbands have no right to receive financial support from their spouses.
A public inquiry, established in 2023 to uncover more details into the murder of an imam in the United Kingdom in 2016, heard that the two suspects who planned his murder reportedly called the imam "Voldemort" for allegedly practicing "black magic.”
An ex-Muslim Christian preacher who was reported missing following a failed assassination attempt against her has won £10,000 (equivalent to $13406.25) in damages and costs from London’s Metropolitan Police after an incident where she was arrested at the city’s Speakers’ Corner.
