UKIP Candidate for Lancashire, Jack Sen, Suspended
Another day, another UKIP candidate makes the roll call of being suspended or thrown out of the Party. The list simply goes on from Rozanne Duncan, Jackie […]
Opinions
How we should honour the legacy of Sabeen Mahmud
Pakistan is a strange country – it’s generally perceived as a male dominated society where majority of the women are confined to their homes and […]
‘Outlawing’ Islamophobia misses the point: it’s about hate crimes.
The criticism directed at Ed Miliband’s pledge to tackle Islamophobia misses a crucial point: he was talking in the context of hate crimes. Miliband told […]
Apostasy from Islam in Britain – In God We Trust?
Apostasy can feel like a dirty word. Ex-Muslims who leave Islam often feel like outsiders, rebels, and without community. Naturally like any group ex-Muslims are […]
Scholar’s corner: The status of women in Islam
The status of women in Islam is arguably one of the most singlely debated issues that generates a considerable amount of debate from Muslims and […]
The Mumtaz Qadri case proves why Pakistan needs to change the debate on blasphemy
Islamabad’s High Court recently dropped terrorism charges against Mumtaz Qadri – the cold blooded murderer of Governor Salman Taseer. Although they maintained his death sentence […]
Muslim sex grooming? No, the Oxford case is more complex
One recommendation in a damning 133 page report into child sexual exploitation (CSE) in Oxfordshire risks undermining a catalogue of organisational indifference, a lack of […]
Where is the global support for Pakistan’s Shia community?
The recent murders of Shia community members in Pakistan has not drawn out the shock and horror that other recent atrocities such as Charlie Hebdo […]
Is Michel Houellebecq Islamophobic or merely playing devil’s advocate?
On January 7, Michel Houellebecq published Submission, a novel about the election of an Islamic political party to the French presidency in the near future. […]
Meet the Muslims who saved Jews from the Holocaust
As the unimaginable evil of the Holocaust brought a dark cloud over Europe, where indifference to Jewish suffering become commonplace, some resisted and stood up […]