Today is World Hijab Day
Hijab for a day: Non-Muslim women who try the headscarf Source: BBC World Hijab Day calls on non-Muslim women to try out life under the traditional head scarf. Can it […]
Meet four of the 5,000 Brits who become Muslims each year
The Sun: EVERY year, more than 5,000 Brits convert to Islam. More than half of those who make the switch are white – and 75 per cent are women. But […]
The Top Peacemaker in the Science-Religion Wars: John Polkinghorne
Source: The Huffington Post By Karl Giberson, Ph.D: Karl Giberson runs the science and religion writing workshop at Gordon College Paul Wallace wrote recently in Religion Dispatches, in a piece […]
World Muslim Leader Calls on Muslims to Celebrate Life of Muhammad (saw) by Displaying his True Character
Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad says that marches and rallies serve no purpose. The World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat, Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, the Fifth Khalifa, has said that […]
Takbeer TV in serious trouble for “abusive” views
Source: Biz Asia UK by Lakh Baddhan 21st January 2013 19:23 @lbaddhan Lakh@bizasialive.com Takbeer TV has been put on notice by media regulator Ofcom for continuous breach of broadcasting rules including content that constituted abusive treatment of the Ahmadi community. Takbeer aired two programmes ‘Global Khatm-E-Nabuwat Movement’, broadcast on 9th June […]
MP apologises for Palestine comment
A Liberal Democrat MP facing disciplinary action after accusing “the Jews” of atrocities against Palestinians has issued a public apology for causing “unintended offence”. David Ward’s comments – posted on his website ahead of Holocaust Memorial Day – were condemned by party chiefs and sparked a furious backlash. Read more […]
UK announces 21 million pounds in new humanitarian aid for Syrian refugees
by Hana Namrouqa JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — The United Kingdom will provide £21 million in humanitarian assistance to Syrian refugees in Jordan and the region, British International Development Secretary Justine Greening announced on Saturday. The aid includes winter clothing, food and medicines for Syrian refugees, Greening told reporters at a […]
‘The Danger Is that Europe Will Fail’
Source. Spiegel. Read the full text of British Prime Minister David Cameron’s Wednesday speech on his country’s plan to hold a referendum on the future of its membership in the European Union. DPA The Union flag is draped behind that of the EU: “All this doesn’t make us somehow un-European.” […]
Fewer than one in four people think Islam is compatible with British life
Mail Online: Tim Shipman. ‘But let me tell you what’s really dangerous. It’s when people are treated differently because they hold a different religious belief. It’s when a country turns a blind eye towards that discrimination. Fewer than one in four British voters believes Islam is compatible with the British […]
Homeopathy is ‘rubbish’, says chief medical officer
Professor Dame Sally Davies said she was “perpetually surprised” homeopathy was provided on the NHS, and branded homeopaths “peddlers.” Read more
101-year-old British marathon man to retire
Indian-born British national Fauja Singh admitted age was finally catching up with him and he had decided not to compete after the Hong Kong Marathon on February 24, five weeks before his 102nd birthday on April 1. Read more
Prince Harry has ‘mental problem’,Taliban says
Source: TOI KABUL: Britain’s Prince Harry, who compared shooting insurgents in Afghanistan to playing video games, has probably developed a mental problem, the Taliban said on Tuesday. “There are 49 countries with their powerful military failing in the fight against the mujahideen, and now this prince comes and compares this […]
One country, a million societies: Facebook, broadband create social upheaval in UK
Russian TV: Communication technology is leading to a radical reorganization of UK society, says a major study. Traditional communities will become “less cohesive”, as virtual ones form in their place, […]
Air cadets rewrite their oath to remove God from pledge
theguardian: Jamie Doward and Ella Fraser-Thoms. Humanist association wins campaign to recognise many recruits are non-believers. One of the UK’s largest and most respected youth organisations will no longer compel its new members to take a religious oath. In a move that delighted the British Humanist Association (BHA), the Air […]
David Cameron and Europe Review of a speech not given
Source: Economist. DAVID CAMERON did not give a speech this morning in Amsterdam about British relations with the European Union. The developing mess in Algeria might have made it seem inappropriate: should the prime minister really be going on about the EU when Britons have been killed? But let’s review […]
‘Muslim Patrol’ vigilantes force London women to cover up
Source: TOI The men, who operate hooded calling themselves ‘Muslim Patrol’, have uploaded videos of their exploits on the YouTube, the Daily Mail reported. LODON: An Islamic vigilante group has been confronting people in a London suburb asking women to cover up and to give up alcohol claiming they were […]
Horsemeat-in-burgers scandal prompts food hygiene fears
Religious leaders have expressed concern at DNA from horses and pigs being found in frozen beefburgers. Jewish leaders warned such incidents must not happen again, while the Muslim Council of Britain said it was worried by the whole issue of misdescription of food. John Benjamin, the chief executive of the […]
Response of Dr. Tahir-ul-Qadri to Mubahala Challenge
Source: Al Islam Online archives, 1988. Courtesy: Rashid Ahmad Chaudhry, Press Secretary, London. Maulana Professor Tahirul Qadri, Quaid Tehrik Minhajul Quran announced that he has accepted the Mubahala challenge, but […]
London: Helicopter crashes into crane: two dead in Vauxhall rush hour accident
Two people died today after a helicopter crashed into the top of a fog-shrouded crane during rush-hour in Vauxhall, central London, a week after pilots were warned about the crane’s […]
My human rights wish-list
Huffingtonpost: In his superb article ‘A Human Rights Wish-list for 2013’, Jack Healey encouraged us to chose our own wish-list. I have taken up that suggestion. My 10-point wish-list is […]