UK David Cameron: Tories could wreck EU debt talks
David Cameron has warned European leaders that Conservative MPs could sabotage the creation of the eurozone bail-out fund if he does not get concessions in a new European Union treaty. […]
Britain to pay ‘hundreds of millions’ to disabled foreigners if UK loses court battle, Chris Grayling warns
Britain will have to be pay “hundreds of millions of pounds” in benefits to ‘economically inactive’ disabled foreigners, if it loses a historic court battle with the European Union, Welfare […]
Why is British public life dominated by men?
I don’t know when the breaking point came. Was it the 2010 election, in which the most prominent women on the national stage seemed to be the leaders’ wives? Was it a drip, drip, drip of Question Time panels featuring one woman alongside four men and a male presenter? Could […]
Polygamy in the Holy Qur’an
This is an article by Dr. Khaula Rehman published in spring 2010 volume of Muslim Sunrise. King Henry the VIII and his six wives A picture is worth a thousand […]
The Head of Ahmadiyyah Muslim Community sends a direct message to Pope Benedict
“I believe it is essential, that we urgently increase our efforts to save the world from this destruction. There is an urgent need for mankind to recognise its Creator as […]
Women in Britain are fed up
Women in Britain today are fed up and that really isn’t good news for the government. The economy is declining, yet the cost of living is rising. And it’s women who are feeling the pinch become tighter and tighter in the rise in household bills, food prices, and increases for those […]
UK: In their rush to save the economy, politicians forget about the people, and the gulf widens between rich and poor
Pensioners and parents are being forced into poverty. Who will be their champion? At the height of the American Civil War, Abraham Lincoln stood in a soldiers’ graveyard and promised […]
Female doctors set to outnumber male colleagues by 2017
Female doctors who have laid siege to the male bastion of the medical profession are poised to overtake their male counterparts in what a medical journal describes as a “giant leap for womankind”. Women have outnumbered men in medical schools for a decade and are set to become a majority […]
Islam, Charles Darwin and the denial of science
A growing number of biology and medical students are rejecting the very basis of their chosen subject in favour of creationism. A few years ago I had an operation to […]
Beckham visits abused kids in Manila: UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador
(AP) MANILA, Philippines — Away from fans’ prying eyes, David Beckham took time out from soccer to share his experiences and listen to Filipino children struggling to rebuild their broken lives. “It’s so important to have a dream,” Beckham told the former street children Friday at a UNICEF-supported shelter in […]
UK: Coronation Oath threatened by council prayers ruling, High Court told
The Coronation Oath would have to be abolished as part of the “far-reaching consequences” of a legal bid to stop councillors saying prayers before meetings, the High Court has been told. Lawyers also claim that local authorities would have to end their involvement with remembrance services while chaplains would not […]
Joan Smith: A woman’s place is off the pitch, is it?
Imagine the scene at the BBC. There they are, busily collecting nominations from sports editors for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award, when someone notices that most of the names belong to men. I mean, how on earth did that happen? Especially after they went out of their […]
Dr. Abdus Salam: Some Reminiscences
Dr. Abdus Salam: Some Reminiscences Courtesy: theartofmisinformation By: Imam B.A. Rafiq When I reached London in the early part of 1959 Dr. Abdus Salam lived in Putney, about a mile and […]
UK: Leveson Inquiry, ‘Daily Star had anti-Muslim agenda’
A former journalist at the Daily Star told the Leveson Inquiry into press standards that he received threats and may have had his phone hacked after he quit the paper […]
Iran: ‘Totally unacceptable behavior’
President Obama calls the occupation of the British Embassy in Teheran as a ‘totally unacceptable behavior’. I agree. But let us look at other ‘totally unacceptable behavior’ versus ‘absolutely acceptable behavior’: ‘Unacceptable’: Entering a diplomatic mission in protest. ‘Acceptable’: Embargo including cutting banking and airline relations, where first of all […]
Iran expels Britain’s ambassador to Tehran calling ‘death to England’
Iran erupted in a fresh frenzy of animosity towards its old imperial foe on Sunday as MPs chanting “death to England” voted to expel Britain’s ambassador to Tehran and threatened […]
Muslim medical students boycotting lectures on evolution… because it ‘clashes with the Koran’
Muslim students, including trainee doctors on one of Britain’s leading medical courses, are walking out of lectures on evolution claiming it conflicts with creationist ideas established in the Koran. Professors at University College London have expressed concern over the increasing number of biology students boycotting lectures on Darwinist […]
Christian worker loses her job after being ‘targeted’ by Islamic extremists
Source / Credit: The Telegraph By Jonathan Wynne-Jones, Religious Affairs Correspondent 7:30AM GMT 27 Nov 2011 A Christian worker has launched a landmark legal action after she lost her job […]
Margaret Thatcher knew that capitalism must deliver for the masses
Propping up failure – in the euro and elsewhere – is hardly the recipe for renewed prosperity. Friends of Lady Thatcher tend to deplore The Iron Lady, the new film about her starring Meryl Streep. They do so because they are upset at the portrayal of a still living person […]
Survey: Most patriotic Brits are Muslims
MUSLIMS are more patriotic than the average Brit, a survey has revealed. A massive 83 per cent of Muslims said they were proud to be British — compared with the […]