Don’t be misled by today’s unemployment figures – a hurricane of job losses is coming
We can reasonably expect the number of people in the UK out of work to rise to between three and four million – a far graver toll, at the upper […]
Shamima Begum: what the legal ruling about her return to the UK actually means
July 17, 20202 Author Devyani Prabhat Reader in Law, University of Bristol Disclosure statement Dr Devyani Prabhat received funding from the Economic and Social Research Council UK 2014-2017 for a project on British citizenship. Partners University of Bristol provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. The […]
PM says legal aid rules to be reviewed following Shamima Begum judgment
To Know more how you can benefit from the Muslim Times, go to our Homepage or About Us page NATIONAL LegalAidCredit: PA Wire/PA Images Boris Johnson has said ministers are examining the legal aid eligibility rules […]
UN chief: World ‘at the breaking point’ due to inequalities
Source: MSN BY CARA ANNA JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Saying “we are at the breaking point,” the U.N. secretary-general made a sweeping call Saturday to end the global inequalities that sparked […]
Exiled Iraqi journalist: ‘I am almost a member of Swiss society’
An Iraqi journalist who fled to Switzerland speaks about her former life in Baghdad and why her current life is sometimes isolating. This content was published on July 17, 2020 […]
Precious metal stablecoin plugs into gold frenzy
Banking & Fintech Several tokens already exist that use precious metals to stabilise their price. Keystone / Manjunath Kiran The price of gold and silver is rising in the face of […]
How Britain Carved Up the Middle East and Helped Create Saudi Arabia
November 2, 2016 This is an edited extract from Secret Affairs: Britain’s Collusion with Radical Islam by Mark Curtis The British strategy of colonial divide and rule, and reliance on […]
If we deny Shamima Begum her human rights, we should all fear for our own
Editorial: That Ms Begum was herself allegedly a voluntary activist in a vicious regime that routinely tortured and killed in medieval fashion doesn’t cancel her own human rights @IndyVoices 10 […]
We all have a responsibility to tell the truth about genocide
To diminish the reality of events does not help us, or future generations, writes Robert Fisk @indyvoices More than 8,000 Muslim Bosniaks were murdered during the Srebrenica massacre ( Getty ) Murder […]
Dreams – Portals to an Unknown World
Sabahat Ali DREAMS, VISIONS AND REVELATION 1st June 2020 Sabahat Ali Rajput, Missionary Artist-Rija Ahsan Covid-19 has left such a traumatic trail in its wake that it has hijacked our […]
How Religious is London?
Shahzad Ahmad – UK CONTEMPORARY AND SOCIAL ISSUES • UK 14th July 2020 Shahzad Ahmed, UK Paul Bickley, lead author of the report ‘Religious London’ is a Research Fellow at Theos, UK’s leading […]
IS bride can return to UK to challenge removal of British citizenship
Shamima Begum, one of three east London schoolgirls who travelled to Syria to join so-called Islamic State, should be allowed to return to the UK to challenge the removal of […]
Greece attempts to rally EU to impose ‘crippling’ sanctions on Turkey
Source: The Daily Sabah Greece has been attempting to rally the European Union to prepare “crippling” economic sanctions against neighboring Turkey if it goes ahead with its planned offshore gas […]
EU ministers chide Turkey over Haghia Sophia
Ankara’s decision to convert Haghia Sophia into a mosque has been met with disapproval across the bloc. EU chiefs have also been discussing China and Hong Kong during their […]
Switzerland exported half a billion francs worth of arms in six months
Swiss companies exported CHF501 million (around $530 million) in war materiel in the first half of the year, almost twice as much as the same period in 2019. July […]
New sanctions regime among push to boost protection for persecuted religious groups
A year on from the Bishop of Truro’s independent review of Christian persecution, a series of new measures have been introduced to protect vulnerable faith and belief groups around the […]
From DRC as a refugee to Belgium’s first black mayor, the story of Pierre Kompany
THEODORA AIDOO | Staff Writer FULL BIOCLOSE Email July 15, 2020 FULL BIO Theodora Aidoo is a young woman who is passionate about women-related issues. Her Love: To bring to fore the activities of women making a global impact. This stems from her journalism background from the Nigerian Institute of Journalism […]
A New Divan: Cultural dialogue between East and West 200 years after Goethe
In his “West-Eastern Divan” published 200 years ago, Goethe promoted the idea of cultural proximity between Orient and Occident. The festival “A New Divan” in Berlin aimed at revisiting his […]
Opinion: Consistency and routine: How Islam helps
10th July 2020 Jalees Ahmad, London With countries around the world easing lockdown, introducing leniencies to the rules and slowly coming out of quarantine, people have woken up to the reality of daily struggles getting back into routine. Many people who are starting to get back to work after spending […]
Genocide denial gains ground 25 years after Srebrenica massacre
A genocide survivor prays near the graves of his father and two brothers at the memorial centre near Srebrenica. Photograph: Dado Ruvić/Reuters Even as remains continue to be identified, denialism […]