London may be about to elect its first Muslim mayor. So what?
Source: The Washington Post By Adam Taylor As Londoners go to the polls on Thursday, Sadiq Khan is widely expected to win the election to become the city’s mayor. If he does, […]
London Mayor’s Race Exposes Ugly Faultlines in British Politics
Source: Time By Dan Stewart Londoners go to the polls Thursday to elect a new mayor, in a bitterly fought election that has laid bare tensions and divisions within British party politics. Polls show Labour’s Sadiq Khan, a former government minister,poised to defeat Conservative Party candidate Zac Goldsmith, the environmentalist scion […]
Muslim’s Labour Party Candidacy Shapes London Mayoral Race
Source: The New York Times By STEPHEN CASTLE LONDON — The son of a London bus driver, Sadiq Khan has had a remarkable rise into the upper echelons of British […]
The city with $248 Billion beneath its pavement
Source: BBC By Pádraig Belton 19 April 2016 Under London’s streets lies a hidden gold mine. It stretches across more than 300,000 square feet under the City, the finance quarter in the heart of Britain’s capital. There, beneath the pavement and commuters of Threadneedle Street, lies a maze of eight […]
A Drone May Have Struck A Passenger Jet For The First Time
Source: Huffington Post By Lee Moran Trends Editor, The Huffington Post British Airways pilots said their aircraft was hit by a drone while approaching London’s Heathrow Airport on Sunday afternoon. Police […]
Genetics of cancer tumours reveal possible treatment revolution
Source: Gulfnews London, New York: A landmark discovery into the genetic makeup of tumours has the potential to open a new front in the war on cancer, delivering potent therapies […]
Julian Assange is being ‘arbitrarily held’, UN panel to say
Source: BBC A UN panel will conclude Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is being “arbitrarily detained” in the UK, the Swedish foreign ministry has said. Mr Assange, 44, claimed asylum in London’s Ecuadorean embassy in 2012. He wants to avoid extradition to Sweden over a rape claim, which he denies. The […]
What Happened After A Blindfolded Muslim Asked London For Hugs
Source: Huffington Post From Prime Minister David Cameron questioning their ability to integrate into British society to facing an increasing number of Islamophobic attacks, Muslim women in the United Kingdom are finding that their personal choices and their very identities are becoming a subject for national debate. It’s no surprise, then, […]
Tying of pig’s head to Islamic school gates treated as hate crime
Source: The Guardian The tying of a severed pig’s head to the gates of an Islamic school is being treated by police as a hate crime. The head was found […]
Jewish and Muslim hate crimes soar in London
Source: Religion News Service CANTERBURY, England (RNS) Attacks on Jews and Muslims in London, including assault and harassment, have soared by more than 60 percent over the past year, police statistics […]
Home school families face potential investigation over ‘radicalisation risk’
Source: The Guardian Families who home-school their children could to come under investigation over fears the practice is used as a means of radicalisation, the government has confirmed. The education […]
Muslim Brotherhood review: a bad idea from the start
Source: The Guardian It did not even seem like a good idea at the time. British diplomats warned from the start, in April 2014, that David Cameron’s decision to conduct […]
#YouAintNoMuslimBruv: Passer-by’s shouted rebuke to London knifeman goes viral
Source: ABC news The hashtag #YouAintNoMuslimBruv has exploded on Twitter after a passer-by shouted the remark at a knife-wielding man who injured three people in a London Underground station. A […]
100 London Buses Drive Home Muslim Message: ‘United Against Extremism’
Source: Ahmadiyya Muslim Community One of Britain’s oldest Muslim communities, founded over a century ago as the peaceful renaissance of Islam, is launching a new campaign to counter extremist rhetoric […]
UK: ‘We can’t defeat ISIS unless we work together’: Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Leader
Source: swlondoner.co.uk south London Muslim youth leader has criticised the British press for not giving enough airtime to moderate Muslims countering the message of ISIS. Following the attacks in Paris last […]
UK: Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Tooting organizes 1st Peace Conference – A Report
Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Tooting Condemns the Paris terror attack and similar in Bamako, the event in Tooting Leisure Centre Hall which was themed “Peace” had been organised to share the […]
Newcastle Unites against PEGIDA
Reported by Nabeela Ali, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Thousands of people held counter demonstration against the UK branch of German far-right wing, anti-Islam political organization “Pegida” when Pegida held a demonstration […]
Nominating Karen Armstrong for Literature Nobel Prize
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Karen Armstrong FRSL (born 14 November 1944) is a British author and commentator known for her books on comparative religion. A […]
No Place for 'Honour Killing' in Islam -Ahmadiyya Muslim Point of View
PR News Wire: The gruesome murder of 25-year old pregnant Farzana Parveen on 27th May in Pakistan, by some 20 of her own close relations, including her two brothers and […]
No Place for ‘Honour Killing’ in Islam -Ahmadiyya Muslim Point of View
PR News Wire: The gruesome murder of 25-year old pregnant Farzana Parveen on 27th May in Pakistan, by some 20 of her own close relations, including her two brothers and […]