Day: March 30, 2017

Muslim prison chaplains: radicalisation threats or convenient scapegoats?

Gehad Quisay Muslim prison chaplains: radicalisation threats or convenient scapegoats? Date of publication: 30 March, 2017 Blog: Reports that the Westminster attacker converted to Islam in prison reopens the question on radicalisation in British prisons. Khalid Masood, a 52-year-old Muslim convert originally named Adrian Russell, killed five people and injured 50 […]

Islam, sharia and English law

The debate about sharia poses bigger questions about law and society by Rowan Williams / June 17, 2013  Published in July 2013 issue of Prospect Magazine Question to Archbishop Williams: Must we accommodate Islam or not, as Christians? Archbishop: Must we accommodate Islam or not as Christians? Must I love […]

Syrian rebels seize swathes of south as Islamic State retreats

 Reuters International MAR 30, 2017 –  FILE PHOTO: Free Syrian Army fighters gesture as Turkish military vehicles drive in the Syrian rebel-held town of al-Rai while heading towards the northern Syrian city of al-Bab, Syria January 9, 2017. To match Analysis MIDEAST-CRISIS/SYRIA-WAR REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi/File Photo(reuters_tickers) By Suleiman Al-Khalidi AMMAN (Reuters) […]

Othering Islam and Muslims in America

HATEM BAZIAN@hatembazian Published19 hours ago A figuring representing U.S. President Donald Trump as a warrior of the Crusades. The otherization of Muslims and Islam by Trump and his administration has awakened a sleeping civil society giant, a human decency guided by universal ethical and moral imperatives that soon will bring […]

Another Ahmadiyya shot Dead in Pakistan

Source: The Express Tribune Nobel laureate Abdul Salam’s cousin killed in Nankana Sahib Advoca­te Malik Saleem Latif was leader of Ahmadi commun­ity in Nankan­a Sahib. An advocate and local leader of Jamaat-e-Ahmadiya was gunned down as unidentified armed men opened fire at him in Nankana Sahib on Thursday morning. Advocate Malik Saleem Latif and […]