Beyond Tinder: How Muslim millennials are looking for love
Some call it haram — or forbidden — but more Muslims than ever are turning to apps like Minder and Muzmatch to find romance. BY ABRAR AL-HEETI APRIL 10, 2019 […]
Record number of Muslims recognised by The Queen
Source: The International News LONDON: A record number of Muslims have been recognised by the Queen in the 2019 New Year’s Honours list including one of the highest number from […]
Towards European strategic autonomy
Apr 11,2019 – JORDAN TIMES By Volker Perthes BERLIN — How, and to what extent, can Europe rely on itself for its well-being, security and international influence? Global power shifts, […]
The Guardian view on Assange and extradition: say no to the US
Editorial The WikiLeaks founder must be held accountable for skipping bail. But extradition to America over this case would be wrong Thu 11 Apr 2019 Kristinn Hrafnsson, editor of […]
Julian Assange’s cyber-sins seem quaint in comparison to those of big tech
Julian Assange Simon Jenkins Forces more dangerous to public liberty than WikiLeaks are intruding on our lives. We need proper protection Thu 11 Apr 2019 ‘Julian Assange saw himself […]
Germany welcomes back priceless books lost in second world war
Rare manuscripts thought to have been looted from Bonn library by Belgian soldiers Kate Connolly in Berlin Thu 11 Apr 2019 One of the biggest returns of cultural […]
Switzerland just overturned a referendum – there’s no reason we can’t do the same
Please send your letters to letters@independent.co.uk Letters The Independent Voices Now that the circumstances have changed, we deserve the right to have our say ( Alamy Live News. ) With […]
Trump is stuck between a rock and a hard place when it comes to Julian Assange
Ed KrassensteinFort Myers, Florida Early this morning, news broke that WikiLeaks’ co-founder Julian Assange had been arrested by London’s Metropolitan Police Service at the Ecuadorian embassy. It was later announced […]
The Significance of Ramadan
Ramadan The holiest month for Muslims where they go hungry from dawn to dusk, but what is the true philosophy behind fasting? Introduction Every year, as the blessed month of […]
Essentials of Bosphorus tour: Turkish tea, simit on board ferry
If you are visiting Istanbul, you should at least for once experience commuting by a ferry and admire the beautiful view as you cross the Bosphorus, drink a hot cup […]
UK arrests WikiLeaks founder Assange after Ecuador scraps asylum
COMPILED FROM WIRE SERVICES ISTANBUL Published11.04.2019 In this file photo taken on May 19, 2017 WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange speaks on the balcony of the Embassy of Ecuador in London. […]
Report slams Waltham Forest Council for ‘wilfully ignoring extremist activity’
Wednesday, 10 April 2019 – Local People by YA Reporter – YA Reporter Walthamstow Town Hall. YA archive A FORMER counter-extremism co-ordinator for Waltham Forest Council is writing a national […]
Worshippers left saddened by vandalism to Dundee mosque
by Jake Keith April 9 2019, © DC Thomson Worshippers have been left shocked and saddened after a city mosque was broken into and vandalised in the early hours of […]
Steven Bishop admits bomb plot on Ahmadiyya place of worship in London
By 5Pillars – 9th April 2019 Steven Bishop, 41. [Image: Metropolitan Police] A man has admitted to planning a bomb attack on an Ahmadiyya place of worship in south […]
Merkel sees Brexit extension to early 2020 as possibility
Source: The Local EU Council president Donald Tusk’s office has floated the idea of a “flexible” extension of up to a year, with an option for London to leave earlier if it finds a way through, but there is no agreement on this. Ahead of talks between May and French […]
Spouses will no longer be able to contest a divorce following changes to the law
Source: CT At present, husbands and wives are able to challenge an application for divorce that has been initiated by their spouse. That will no longer be the case when the changes come into effect a few months from now in what is the most radical shake-up of British divorce […]
Playing with Fire: Talk of Shifting Kosovo’s Borders Sparks Concern
Twenty years after the end of NATO’s intervention in the Balkans, the relationship between Serbia and its former province of Kosovo remains tense. Senior figures are talking about shifting Kosovar borders, setting […]
The UK asylum system has created the perfect conditions for modern slavery to thrive
Legislation is a smokescreen, an avoidance strategy which means we avoid confronting how exploitation has been woven into the very fabric of society Alicia Kidd, Elizabeth A Faulkner, Lorena Arocha The […]
What was your most interesting ‘true dream’ ? And what was its Islamic interpretation?
Editor’s Note: Readers are encouraged to tell us their true dreams and its ‘coming into reality’. But please take this into consideration: (better tell us dreams […]
Interview with a Caliph: increasing numbers joining persecuted minority Muslim sect, as its leader reveals his secret talents
Gabriella Swerling, religious affairs editor 7 APRIL 2019 Increasing numbers of Muslims are joining a persecuted minority sect of Islam, its leader has revealed – among other disclosures – in an […]