Published time: 10 Dec, 2015 Britain’s Prime Minister Tony Blair (L) shakes hands with Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi near Gaddafi’s home town of Sirte May 29, 2007. © Leon Neal / Reuters Tony Blair will be grilled by MPs on Friday about his links to former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi […]
By Tim Hume, CNN London (CNN) A petition calling for Donald Trump to be banned from entering the UK has attracted more than a quarter of a million signatures — more […]
Source: BBC A petition calling for Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump to be barred from entering the UK has gathered more than 250,000 names, so MPs will have to consider […]
Source: BBC A petition calling for Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump to be barred from entering UK has passed 100,000, meaning MPs will have to consider debating the issue. The […]
Source: The Telegraph Britain is no longer a Christian country and should stop acting as if it is, a major inquiry into the place of religion in modern society has […]
Source: RT.com Modern Britain is no longer a Christian country, a report by the Commission on Religion and Belief in Public Life concludes. It calls on institutions to adapt to […]
The Guardian: Commission calls for number of bishops in House of Lords to be reduced and other public institutions to reflect more diverse and less religious country The most potent […]
theguardian: by Harriet Sherwood — Influential report urges end to religious assemblies and raises concern over segregation Schools should no longer face a legal requirement to provide daily acts of worship of a Christian character, under radical reforms being proposed by a top-level inquiry into the place of faith in […]
Voices Watching our Parliament’s grotesque debate on Syrian airstrikes last week (which had more to do with the destruction of Corbyn than the destruction of Isis), I do wonder what the future holds for Britain Robert Fisk @indyvoices Writer and researcher on radicalism and extremism, Montasser-al-De’emeh Getty Now that we’re all supposedly […]
Source: keighleynews.co.uk CHILDREN from a group representing the town’s young Ahmadiyya Muslims contributed to a scheme to boost the town’s tree cover. Youngsters from Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association Keighley joined other colleagues from across the region at the Guard House urban woodland site, off North Dean Road, last Sunday. (Nov 29) […]
AMs, teachers and community leaders will be at the event organised by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Association Source: walesonline.co.uk Muslims to gather in Cardiff for peace conference in wake of Paris attacks […]
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 […]
Source: BBC By Kara Segedin 3 December 2015 A beautiful new black-eyed satyr species has become the first butterfly named in honour of Sir David Attenborough. Attenborough’s Blackeyed-Satyr (Credit: Andrew […]
Source: The Guardian By Miqdaad Versi If military action were enough to destroy Isis, Sunni and Shia communities would support it. But there is no shortage of concerns – or alternatives On the fateful night when MPs voted to extend airstrikes over Syria, Shabana Mahmood, the Labour MP for Birmingham […]
Source: The Independent ‘Grabbing and snatching it was a private, illegal act which is justified by no law,’ says lawyer Will Grice @WillGrice The Koh-i-Noor stone in the Queen Mother’s crown A petition demanding the return of the Koh-i-Noor diamond has been filed in a Pakistan court, reports say. The […]
Source: The Irish Times Northern Ireland’s Catholic bishops have declared themselves “profoundly shocked and disturbed” by words used by a Belfast High Court judge in a landmark abortion ruling. Mr […]
Reuters International DEC 3, 2015 – 14:49 By Guy Faulconbridge and Andrew Osborn LONDON/MOSCOW (Reuters) – Britain joined U.S.-led air strikes against Islamic State in Syria on Thursday, but Vladimir Putin issued bitter new denunciations of Turkey for shooting down a Russian plane, demonstrating the limits to international solidarity. […]
LONDON, UK (PRWEB UK) 3 DECEMBER 2015 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 and literally drive home a message of peace. It follows the Paris atrocity and adds to a […]
Voices Is David Cameron planning to include al-Qaeda’s Jabhat al-Nusra in his group of ‘70,000 moderates?’ If he was, Nusra men are likely to prove very expensive ‘ground troops’ for the RAF and its two Tornados if they bomb Syria Robert Fisk Middle East Correspondent @indyvoices 14 comments The former wife […]
Source: BBC Electronic toy and educational material seller Vtech has confirmed that about five million customers were affected in the data theft reported on Friday. They are from all over […]