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By zakariavirk on April 25, 2017 ( Leave a comment )

UK: Halala Marriages and sexual exploitation of Muslim women?

http://blogs.tribune.com.pk/story/48843/of-halala-marriages-and-sexual-exploitation-of-muslim-women/ According to a BBC undercover investigation, some Muslim women in South Asian diasporic communities in England are facing exploitation, blackmail and sexual abuse via various online accounts. These accounts provide services for divorced women to fulfil the requirement of a so-called Halala marriage, in order to remarry their former spouse after they have been divorced through the […]

By Rafiq A. Tschannen on April 25, 2017 ( Leave a comment )

From aspiring stylist to extremist widow: one woman’s Syria story

By AFP – Apr 24,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Twenty-three-year old Islam Maytat from Morocco poses for a photo with her children Maria (left) and Abdullah in the Kurdish-majority city […]

By zakariavirk on April 24, 2017 ( Leave a comment )

Riz Ahmed makes TIME’s 100 most influental people list

Riz Ahmed’s made an impact on our lives and we have proof! TIME magazine has just announced its list for 100 most influential people in all aspects of culture and not only does our Riz MC make the cut in the Pioneers section, he’s on one of the covers of Time! […]

By rabyam on April 21, 2017 ( Leave a comment )

Early hip fracture surgery will save hundreds of lives

Source: BBC Hundreds of lives could be saved if patients with hip fractures were operated on in under 24 hours, a new study reveals. Researchers in Bristol found 8% more […]

By rabyam on April 20, 2017 ( Leave a comment )

Experts excited by brain ‘wonder-drug’

Source: BBC By James Gallagher Health and science reporter, BBC News website Image copyrightGETTY IMAGESImage captionThere is no drug that slows the pace of dementia Scientists hope they have found […]

By rabyam on April 20, 2017 ( Leave a comment )

Cornwall teen disciplined for ‘extreme hairstyle’

Source: BBC A teenager who shaved his head for a cancer charity has been removed from classes. Taylor Jones, 15, was told that his “extreme hairstyle” was inappropriate when he […]

By Rafiq A. Tschannen on April 18, 2017 ( Leave a comment )

Britain First ‘Invades’ Birmingham Islamic Bookshop

‘This whole bloody place is a disgrace.’ 17/04/2017 12:05 Chris York Senior Editor, Huffington Post UK Britain First has “invaded” an Islamic bookshop in Birmingham prompting localChristians, politicians and the police to spend Easter Sunday “uniting in peace”. Members of the far-right group filmed themselves in the store on Alum […]

By rabyam on April 18, 2017 ( Leave a comment )

Theresa May to seek general election on 8 June

Source: BBC UK Prime Minister Theresa May has announced plans to call a snap general election on 8 June. She said Britain needed certainty, stability and strong leadership following the […]

By rabyam on April 18, 2017 ( Leave a comment )

Gay marriage proposal to be debated by Kirk Assembly

Source: BBC By Reevel Alderson BBC Scotland’s social affairs correspondent Gay marriages may soon be able to take place in the Church of Scotland. A report to be debated at […]

By Rafiq A. Tschannen on April 18, 2017 ( Leave a comment )

Why has Theresa May called a general election and how will it work?

Theresa May has called the general election for June 8 Christopher Hope, chief political correspondent 18 APRIL 2017 • 1:06PM When will the general election be held? Theresa May said […]

By Rafiq A. Tschannen on April 17, 2017 ( Leave a comment )

Thousands of asylum seekers and migrants wrongly denied NHS healthcare

Exclusive: Cancer sufferers requiring urgent medical care erroneously turned away by NHS overseas departments amid crackdown on overseas patients accessing free healthcare May Bulman @maybulman Migrants with cancer and heart disease have been turned away from NHS hospitals, in a crackdown against overseas patients that has left vulnerable asylum seekers afraid of […]

By rabyam on April 13, 2017 ( Leave a comment )

I was blinded by my contact lens

Source: BBC By Claire Bates Image copyrightNEW CITIZENSHIP PROJECT When Irenie Ekkeshis’s eye started to itch she assumed it would soon settle down. It didn’t. Before long, she found herself […]

By Rafiq A. Tschannen on April 13, 2017 ( 1 Comment )

Blind loyalty to Trump is a special relationship Britain can’t afford

by Emily Thornberry, The Guardian UK foreign policy should be based on human rights and international law. That means putting some distance between us and an unpredictable White House ‘We should […]

By Zubair Khan on April 10, 2017 ( Leave a comment )

Muslim woman from viral EDL protest photo says she ‘wasn’t intimidated in the slightest’

Source: ET Saffiyah Khan at the EDL protest. PHOTO: TWITTER An image of an unfazed half-Pakistani, half-Bosnian woman standing her ground, smiling at an English Defence League protestor took social media by storm on Sunday. In an interview with BuzzFeed, the woman of the hour, Saffiyah Khan said she ended up […]

By Zubair Khan on April 9, 2017 ( Leave a comment )

It is pretty shameful !

Source: Daily Mail The Kremlin launched a furious attack on Boris Johnson yesterday after he cancelled a Moscow summit on the Syrian war. Russia accused the Foreign Secretary of ‘making up absurd excuses’ after he made way for Donald Trump to lead the diplomatic drive. And at home, opponents dubbed […]

By Rafiq A. Tschannen on April 8, 2017 ( Leave a comment )

Could Britain have sold sarin chemicals to Assad’s regime?

Source: The Guardian Campaigners point out that substances used to manufacture the nerve agent were exported to Damascus in the 80s Syrian chemical weapons being removed from the country on a Danish cargo ship in 2014. Photograph: Petros Karadjias/AP By Jamie Doward Evidence that the sarin nerve agent was used in […]

By rabyam on April 8, 2017 ( Leave a comment )

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