Last week the Crown Prosecution Service said that there is “insufficient evidence” to bring charges against British officials in the case of Abdelhakim Belhaj Kim Sengupta “They knew I was being tortured, I have no doubt of that,” said Abdelhakim Belhaj of MI6 agents who came to interrogate him while […]
Source.RT More than half of Britons polled believe Islam is incompatible with British values, according to a study carried out on behalf of a Muslim community organization. The polling firm ComRes asked 2,012 people over the age of 18 for their views. The study was carried out on behalf of the […]
express.co.uk: One in three said the religion promotes violence in the UK with 72 per cent saying most people in the UK have a negative view of Islam. Professional survey company ComRes questioned 2,012 people, chosen to be representative of the British adult population, on behalf of the Ahmadiyya Muslim […]
The Times: British police are teaching the Saudi Arabian regime to use high-tech detection skills despite accepting that they could “identify individuals who later go on to be tortured”. Senior MPs called last night for the suspension of the programme amid concerns about the human rights record of the Saudi […]
Source: The Guardian By Anonymous At 18 I turned my back on the cloistered isolation of my family’s faith and began a life where I was free to question ideas […]
The Big Questions is a faith and ethics television programme usually presented by Nicky Campbell. It is broadcast live on BBC Onebetween 10:00am and 11:00am on Sunday, replacing The Heaven […]
Source: BBC UK researchers say they have found a new way to tell if a heart attack is more severe and might cause lasting harm – by looking for bruising […]
It may not be a written text, more a collection of stories handed down by apostles, generation after generation, only later formed into a codex Robert Fisk @indyvoices Friday 3 June 2016 197 comments 420 So, Sir John Chilcot’s report is going to be “four times as long asWar and Peace”, is […]
Source: The Guardian BY Haroon Siddique and agency A Church of England vicar has been fined for a drunken brawl with police during which he swore at an officer and claimed to have diplomatic immunity through the Vatican. Gareth Jones punched, kicked, bit and spat at a police officer and paramedic who […]
Source: The Guardian By Harriet Sherwood Religion correspondent Muslims in the northern hemisphere face the most challenging Ramadan for more than 30 years, with long summer days creating the shortest possible […]
Source: The New York Times By ALAN COWELL LONDON — In these times of flux and challenge, when Britain’s post-imperial place in a globalized world has rarely been so minutely […]
theguardian — The Adoration of the Magi by Botticelli (1444/5-1510). ‘The huge decline in western Christianity has a much simpler root cause: the perceived claims of what people see as orthodox belief are, literally, incredible to the modern mind’, writes Fr Alec Mitchell. Photograph: Getty Images Your editorial (Imagine no […]
Source: The Guardian By Harriet Sherwood Religion correspondent The Church of England is facing a growing crisis of ageing clergy, with a quarter of its ministers aged over 60. Although the […]
BY CODI ROBERTSON, Wed, June 1, 2016 clarionproject.com Questions regarding belonging and citizenship are currentlyforefront in the minds of UK Muslim women after recent critical focus from Prime Minister David Cameron and former chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission Trevor Phillips. To help both ensure a successful integration and fight extremism, Citizens […]
DOMINIQUE MOISI The Globe and Mail Published Wednesday, Jun. 01, 2016 Dominique Moisi is a professor at L’Institut d’études politiques de Paris and visiting professor at King’s College, London. ————————————– “I feel so proud of my city,” my interlocutor said, referring to the election of Sadiq Khan as London’s first […]
Channel 5: Inside Britain’s Biggest Mosque and the Ahmadiyya Muslims who run it May 27, 2016 | by Rabwah Times | 2 https://player.vimeo.com/video/168283564?color=7aa74a&title=0&byline=0&portrait=0 Meera Syal narrates a documentary going behind the scenes at the Baitul Futuh mosque in Morden, south London, home to Britain’s 30,000-strong Ahmadiyya Muslim community. The film […]
By Giles Fraser, South London priest. Guardian columnist and Editorial Board. Visiting Professor at the LSE. Guardian: The so-called “masters of suspicion”, Nietzsche, Marx and Freud, all thought that religion would […]
Source: The Guardian Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor One of the leading counter-terror chiefs in the US warned against the blanket political denigration of Muslims, saying the integration of American Muslims […]
LONDON (Web Desk) – Queen Elizabeth-II of United Kingdom, the world’s oldest living monarch who marked her 90th birthday last month, has had a number of myths spring around her in […]
Source: Huffington Post Liaquat Ali Khan Founder, Legal Scholar Academy and Professor of Law, Washburn University School of Law The 18th century British colonists, the self-righteous Anglican males of the self-assessed superior civilization, upon arrival in the Mughul-Muslim India, wererepulsed by the sight of Hijras (transgenders) and baffled over why […]