Video: The Big Questions, Do We Misunderstand Islam?
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 […]
Cardiac ‘bruising’ may predict worse heart attack
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 […]
After the Chilcot report, we’ll hear the New Testament – the gospel according to Saint Tony
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 […]
Vicar fined for drunken brawl, punching a paramedic and a PC
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 […]
Challenging Ramadan ahead for UK Muslims due to long summer days
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 […]
Britain Is Losing Its Religion, or at Least Its Official One
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 […]
Humanism and morality have cast off religion
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 […]
C of E in ageing clergy crisis with 25% of ministers aged over 60
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 […]
UK Muslim Women Have Nowhere to Turn
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 […]
Why the election of London’s first Muslim mayor is a message of hope
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 […]
UK: Documentary inside Britian’s largest mosque
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 […]
The world is getting more religious, because the poor go for God
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 […]
US counter-terrorism chief criticizes anti-Muslim political rhetoric
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 […]
Is Queen Elizabeth from the lineage of the Spanish-Muslim descendants of the Holy Prophet (PBUH)?
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 […]
Transgender Dignity in Islam
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 […]
Why Britain’s Ahmadis are worried
Source: Economist THE murder of a shopkeeper in Glasgow on March 24th has drawn attention to Britain’s relatively small and unknown community of Muslims called the Ahmadiyya. Asad Shah, who ran a flourishing newsagent’s in Scotland’s second city, was one of about 30,000 Ahmadis in Britain. He was killed by […]
Sports, hidden assets challenge corruption fight
LONDON SUMMIT Sports, hidden assets challenge corruption fight MAY 12, 2016 – 21:03 In the wake of revelations of a huge offshore account network via the Panama Papers, world leaders met in London to discuss combating corruption (Keystone) At a summit where he signed an international agreement to fight corruption, […]
Muslims divide over how to respond to a sectarian killing
The murder of an Ahmadi Preparing for the worst May 21st 2016 | From the print edition THERE are few signs of life at the Stockwell Green mosque in south London at the moment. The gates are padlocked and the telephones have been disconnected. And some hope it will stay […]
Headstones smashed in ‘sickening antisemitic act’ at Jewish cemetery
Source: The Guardian By Josh Halliday North of England correspondent Vandals have destroyed 14 headstones at a Jewish cemetery in Manchester, in what police called a sickening act of antisemitism. The […]
UK: David Cameron warns Isil will be ‘happy’ with Brexit as Boris Johnson says PM’s deal is ‘biggest stitch up since the Bayeux Tapestry’
Telegraph: David Cameron and Boris Johnson have clashed on another day of intense day of campaigning for the EU referendum. While the PM warned that Isil terrorists would be “happy” if Britain voted for Brexit, the former London mayor discredited Mr Cameron’s EU negotiations as “meaningless”. Mr Cameron gave a “myth-busting” […]