Two Muslim men pulled an elderly couple and their grandson from a burning house in Leeds last Friday.
You probably didn’t hear about it.
Mohsin Qayyum. 22.
Mohammed Yusuf Iqbal. 20.
Both from Bradford.
They drove past the garden. They saw the fire. They ran straight in.
Sheila Robinson, the grandmother who was trapped inside, posted on social media:
"My family and I will be forever grateful to these young men."
Her granddaughter Kayla wrote:
"Drove past the garden, seen it, and ran straight in and made sure everyone was okay without a second thought."
Everyone got out. The house can be replaced. The family is alive.
Every outlet that covered it called them heroes.
They deserved every word.
But not one headline told you they were Muslim men.
We have seen this before.
Two weeks ago, a teacher was stabbed in the neck protecting his pupils from a knife in his Manchester classroom.
Maysum Abdullah. 27. Science teacher.
LBC named him a hero. So did the Independent, the Manchester Evening News, the Mirror, the Sun.
He ran towards the blade.
A hero in every paper. A Muslim man in none of them.
This is the pattern.
When a Muslim name appears in a crime, the faith leads the headline.
When a Muslim name appears in a rescue, it vanishes from the page.
Now look at who that erasure clears the path for.
Bradford, the same district these men come from, is now led by Reform as its largest party.
One of their candidates, Daniel Devaney, topped the poll in his ward after writing on Facebook that Muslims were "pure scum" and that he wanted to "blast [them] off the face of the earth."
He was not deselected. He was not suspended. He was elected.
They are loud about our religion when they want to call it a threat.
They are silent when that same religion sends two young men running into a fire.
The book they want to criticise is the same book that commands us to save a life.
"Whoever saves one life, it is as if he had saved all of mankind."
— Qur'an 5:32
Qayyum and Iqbal lived that verse on a Friday in Leeds.
Abdullah lived it in a Manchester classroom.
And the headlines recorded the act, but erased the faith that drove it.
When we are the suspect, our religion is the whole story.
When we are the rescuer, it is not worth a line.
Their names are Maysum Abdullah, Mohsin Qayyum, and Mohammed Yusuf Iqbal.
Muslim men.
Say both.
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A pregnant Muslim woman was kicked in the stomach in a Co-op car park in Milton Keynes.
He called her the “f***ing problem with this place,” attacked her “clown clothes”.
Hit her with a wine bottle and bag of ice.
Kicked her in the stomach twice after she told him she was pregnant
She lost her unborn twins.
The judge called her attacker a “shabby racist.”
A ‘SHABBY’ racist.
Not a TERRORIST.
Not a MONSTER.
He served under 2 years. He’s been walking free since 2020. Samsam Haji-Ali’s twins are still dead.
If he’d been Muslim, this would have led every news bulletin as a terror attack.
Thirty worshippers were inside the Zainabia Islamic Centre when a petrol bomb was thrown onto the roof. They put out the fire themselves.
These attacks didn’t all happen this week.
They happened years apart. That’s the point. People forgot. Our system doesn’t.
The Women and Equalities Committee’s first-ever inquiry into gendered Islamophobia, published January 2026 (HC 571), documented over 6,000 verified incidents in 2024 — a 165% rise since 2022.
73% of assaults came after the summer riots.
65% targeted women and girls.
The Muslim Women’s Network UK surveyed women before and after the riots. Before — 16% feared for their safety. After — 75%.
Home Office figures show anti-Muslim hate crimes rose 19% last year. Muslims are the target of 44% of all religious hate crimes. Only 6% result in charges.
The government’s Hate Crime Action Plan expired in 2020. No replacement has been published in six years.
They let 3 women dressed in burqas strip off to the chants of “take it off”
They let hate marches happen across the UK.
Anti Islam murals across Northern Ireland.
They proscribed Palestine Action as terrorists.
And they still refuse to use the word Islamophobia.
The system is broken.
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For the third time, Gaza faces Eid without complete laughter
without decorations that resemble children’s joy and without a morning that feels like Eid
PAM BONDI SHOULD BE IN PRISON!!!
Raskin to Pam Bondi today:
“You're running a massive Epstein coverup right out of the DOJ. You redacted the names of abusers, enablers, accomplices and coconspirators, apparently to spare them embarrassment and disgrace, which is the exact opposite of what the law ordered you to do.
Even worse, you shockingly failed to redact many of the victims names, which is what you were ordered to do by congress. Some of the victims had come forward publicly, but many had not. Many had kept their torment private, even from family and friends. But you published their names, their identities, their images on thousands of pages for the world to see.”
Thank you @RepRaskin 🤍👊🙏🏻
If Disney really fired Mark Ruffalo because of his support of Palestine and calling out the atrocities of ICE I hope every single person deletes boycotts the company.
JD Vance says “Denmark hasn’t done a good job keeping Greenland safe.”
American children are killed in schools because America refuses to keep America safe.
Every single major news outlet should be reporting on this, and the fact that none have is abhorrent. This country exists because of Native Americans. Treating them like they are foreign invaders is so fucking disgusting. WE are the foreign invaders. This is their home, and I will never understand why our leaders treat them as if they are subhuman.
This administration is a fucking cesspool of the worst people imaginable. Every democrat senator and representative should be fighting this. This country would literally not exist without the help Native Americans gave to settlers. This government sickens me.