Muslim School in Birmingham Targeted With Bomb Threat Email

Hundreds of children were evacuated from a Muslim-ethos school on the last day of term after the school received a bomb threat. 

Hamd House School in Birmingham was swept by police and sniffer dogs on Tuesday after the school received a threatening email, Birmingham Live reported.

Police gave the all clear but a harassment investigation is ongoing. 

“School was full and pupils were celebrating the last day before summer, we were giving out awards,” proprietor Israr Khan said, adding that the evacuation was “hugely disrupting”. 

He also said that the school – which caters to 450 children aged 11-16 and is rated ‘Outstanding’ by Ofsted – has been targeted in a number of incidents. 

Users on social media commented that despite eliciting a major police response, the story has not been picked up by the mainstream media. 

MEND, a non-profit tackling Islamophobia, wrote on X: “Ask yourself what the reaction would be if 450 children at any other school were threatened this way. The quiet tells you something about whose safety is treated as a story and whose is treated as background noise.

“West Midlands Police logged it as ‘harassment’,” they added. “It should be investigated as a hate crime targeting Muslim children, especially as there had been other recent incidents against staff and the school.”

West Midlands police said: “Officers attended and were satisfied there wasn’t a credible threat. The bomb hoax and a related offence of harassment are now both being investigated by officers.”

Hate crimes against Muslims are at a record high across the UK and represent almost half of all religious hate crimes recorded. Between March 2024 and March 2025, there were 4,478 hate crimes directed against Muslims, up a fifth from the year before.