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Grattan on Friday: Labor’s Fatima Payman defects to crossbench as government worries about Muslim vote

Senator Fatima Payman, who announced on Thursday she was quitting her party, has now officially joined that well-known club of “Labor rats” – those who have been thrown overboard or jumped ship.

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Fatima Payman quits Labor with ‘heavy heart but a clear conscience’

Senator Fatima Payman has quit the Labor party to sit on the crossbench, declaring she was acting with “a heavy heart but a clear conscience”.

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Labor’s outdated rules come back to bite in Payman saga

With independents on the rise, can Labor really cling to an archaic rule that has cost it a young, smart, passionate Muslim senator?

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Polling predicts how Britain’s diverse voter base could swing at the general election

Exclusive: polling shows that war in Gaza may impact 1 in 5 Asian voters ahead of tomorrow’s ballot, though ethnic minority voters stay loyal to Labour overall.

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France’s Muslims fear for their futures as Le Pen’s far right party surges

Tensions are rising in France, home to one of Europe’s largest Muslim minorities, ahead of the snap election run-off.

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Political strategist Glenn Druery having ‘informal conversations’ with Muslim groups and Fatima Payman

The so-called preference whisperer approached by Muslim groups to discuss next election following rising anger about Labor’s stance on Palestine and Gaza conflict

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Could the WhatsApp election hurt Labour at the polls?

In some constituencies – often with large Muslim populations – a parallel viral campaign focuses on emotive issues such as Gaza that rarely feature in national coverage

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Muslim Vote group says it will target Labor ministers and whip at next federal election

First high-profile candidate due to be announced this week by ‘grassroots’ movement backing independents against Tony Burke and Jason Clare

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Trump immune to interference charges

The former US president will not be charged for allegedly interfering in the 2020 election, and Fatima Payman is considering a new ‘teal-style’ political organisation.

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View from The Hill: Albanese suspends rebel senator Payman from participating in caucus indefinitely after she says she’d cross the floor again

Anthony Albanese sprang into action after his recalcitrant senator, young Muslim woman Fatima Payman, gave a defiant Sunday morning interview on the ABC Insiders program in which she vowed to cross the floor again if similar circumstances arose.

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Dagestani Jews look to rebuild after extremist attacks in the restive region of southern Russia

Jews in the predominantly Muslim region of Dagestan in southern Russia say they are determined to regroup and rebuild following a deadly attack by Islamic militants on Christian and Jewish houses of worship in two cities last weekend

The Independent UK

Reform activist filmed making slur about Sunak denies being racist because he has ‘had Muslim girlfriends’

Andrew Parker had said army recruits should use migrants arriving by small boats in Kent as “target practice”, and labelled Islam a ‘disgusting cult’ in widely condemned comments

The Independent UK

‘No way I can vote Labour’: Will pro-Palestine Brits sway the UK election?

Despite raging protests, those abandoning Labour over Starmer’s position are unlikely to affect the outcome.

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Harvard looks to combat antisemitism, anti-Muslim bias after protests over war in Gaza

Two task forces charged with proposing ways to combat anti-Muslim, anti-Arab and antisemitism at Harvard University have delivered their preliminary recommendations to the school’s interim president

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‘Here I found respect for who I am’: the French citizens who choose to leave

Scores of highly qualified French citizens from Muslim backgrounds have left the country in recent years

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US Issues Rare Criticism Of India In Religious Freedom Report

The United States offered rare criticism of close partner India in a report published Wednesday on religious freedom, while also voicing alarm over rising bigotry worldwide against both Jews and Muslims.

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‘Eid means mourning’: Muslims lynched in India after shock election result

The attacks expose how election setback for PM Modi’s Hindu majoritarian party was no win for secularism, say analysts.

International Business Times

Indonesia's All-girl Muslim Metal Band Heads To Glastonbury

When three Indonesian teen girls formed a metal band 10 years ago to sing about gender equality and peace over bone-crunching guitars and drums, they could scarcely have dreamed of one day playing at Glastonbury.

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The Guardian - UK

Will Gaza affect the election? In Ilford, I saw the ways it already has

Palestine has galvanised Ilford – and a local candidate is looking to harness that energy and challenge Wes Streeting MP, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

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Woman Charged With Attempted Murder After Drowning 3-Year-Old Child

A woman in Texas faces charges for attempting to drown a child and making racial remarks towards a Muslim family at a pool, sparking calls for a hate crime...

International Business Times

Arab-American Mayor Warns Biden Has Not 'Earned My Vote'

Abdullah Hammoud's election as the first Muslim mayor of Dearborn was a watershed moment for this city, an automaking hub home to the highest concentration of Arab-Americans in the United States.

The Guardian - UK

‘They’re trying to divide us’: Muslims in France voice fears over rise of far right

People in Lyon say country at dangerous juncture in snap elections after National Rally’s EU parliamentary gains

The Independent UK

A Muslim mob in Pakistan torches a police station and lynches a man after accusing him of blasphemy

A Muslim mob in northwestern Pakistan has lynched a man over allegations that he had desecrated Islam’s holy book, the Quran

Radio France Internationale

France's Muslim voters fear far-right election win

Muslim voters are increasingly worried about the prospect of a far-right victory less than two weeks before France's snap parliamentary elections, fearing the possible restrictions that could follow.

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