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Pakistan's troubled house »

Protests in Karachi in support of the blasphemy laws

I did not know Salmaan Taseer personally. I did not even know much about the late Governor of Punjab's politics, except that he was a Pakistan People's Party stalwart who had been jailed and tortured during the dark period of General Zia-ul-Haq’s...

Wed 26 Jan 2011 by Mahvash Waqar | Read more »

Pakistan's blasphemy laws »

Unsurprisingly for a country whose population is over 95 per cent Muslim, Pakistan has some of the strictest anti-blasphemy laws in the world. The constitution entrenches Islam as the state religion, and includes strict provisions protecting Islamic tr...

Wed 26 Jan 2011 by Marcus Kernohan | Read more »

Islamic students challenge student loan plans »

The Federation of Student Islamic Societies (FOSIS) has criticised the government’s plan to introduce interest rates on student loans. Usury, or the charging of interest, is explicitly forbidden in the Koran and is considered unethical in the Is...

Wed 24 Nov 2010 by Jessica Abrahams | Read more »

A new generation of Isocs set national example »

  Islamic Societies in Edinburgh have pledged to challenge false perceptions of the religion in the capital after press reports comparing similar societies in London with terrorist groups.  Excerpts from a confidential document about the ...

Wed 10 Nov 2010 by Al Innes | Read more »

A debate to be had face-to-face »

Burka ban.

The niqab issue seems to have become a defining one, symbolic of Europe’s growing apprehension about the new ‘other’, namely Muslims. It is part of the new Muslim identity that some Muslim women in Europe are asserting in opposition t...

Wed 03 Feb 2010 by Gaffar Hussain | Read more »

Burqa ban »

Burka ban

A woman walks into an airport, she is clothed from head to foot, and her face is not visible due to her facial covering. What happens next? It entirely depends. If the woman in question is wearing bike leathers and a helmet then, as normal, somebody ...

Wed 03 Feb 2010 by Nigel Farage | Read more »

Veil ban: It's not you, it's me »

Reading the opinions of Nigel Farage MEP and Gaffur Hussain in this edition of the Journal, it would appear that the dominant reasoning behind proposals to ban the veil worn by Muslim women—either the niqab in its purely facial manifestation, or ...

Wed 03 Feb 2010 | Read more »

In need of attention »

Wootton Bassett's processions have become an iconic symbol of Britain's war dead

Since Islam4UK’s proposal to march through Wootton Bassett—dubbed ‘the most patriotic town in Britain’ for brief yet powerful ceremonies held for every repatriated British military casualty passing through from nearby RAF Lyne...

Wed 20 Jan 2010 by Iman Qureshi | Read more »

New mosque breaks mould with local English-speaking imams »

A new English-language mosque that opened earlier this year in the West End has been labelled a “beautiful example of a distinct European Muslim Identity” by an Edinburgh academic. Dr Christian Lange, of the Islamic Studies Department at t...

Wed 07 Oct 2009 by Olivia Dobbs | Read more »

British architects to redesign Mecca »

Al-Haram Mosque

Two of Britain’s most successful architects have been approached to redesign the holiest city in Islam, Mecca. Norman Foster and Zaha Hadid are two of 18 architects in line to take on the high profile, multi-billion pound redevelopment project f...

Tue 09 Dec 2008 by Sarah Clark | Read more »

A new multiculturalism »

Multiculturalism in the UK

In observing that "each man calls barbarism whatever is not his own practice," the 16th century French philosopher Michel de Montaigne was ahead of his time. Today, most of us feel ourselves to be a little more enlightened, and indeed, ever s...

Wed 26 Mar 2008 | Read more »

New guidance to universities on tackling extremism »

New guidelines issued to universities have advised higher education authorities to consider sharing information on violent Islamist speakers and ban them from addressing students.The advice came in an updated government document aimed at helping univer...

Fri 15 Feb 2008 by Helen Walker | Read more »

Afghan Student Journalist Faces Execution »

A student journalist in Afghanistan is facing public execution for distributing an article on women's rights in what is believed to be the first example of the death sentence being applied for an internet-based breach of national law. Sayed Parwez Kamb...

Fri 15 Feb 2008 | Read more »

Enough bating »

There can be little doubt that the conservative think tank, Policy Exchange timed the release of its report, The Hijacking of British Islam with exacting precision. With those perennial bad boys of international politics, the Saudis in town, tea cups w...

Mon 05 Nov 2007 by Chris Williams | Read more »

"Hate" literature found at Edinburgh mosque »

Edinburgh Central Mosque

The King Fahd Mosque attached to the Islamic Centre of Edinburgh (ICET) has been named as the only Mosque in Scotland to disseminate so-called "hate" literature. ICET, which is based close to the University of Edinburgh's George Square ca...

Mon 05 Nov 2007 by Paul Traynor | Read more »

Knowing your enemy »

The key to defeating terrorism is to understand it

Something odd is happening in the War on Terror. Although there have been apparent successes, the overall picture is by no means rosy. In the United States the media has turned on the architects of the war, President Bush and Vice-President Cheney, wit...

Mon 05 Nov 2007 by Phillip Knightley | Read more »

Can Europe handle 100 million muslims? »

Turkish secularist protests

“We have a problem with the integration of Muslims which raises the issue of Islam in Europe. To say it is not a problem is to hide from reality. If you let 100 million Turkish Muslims come in, what will come of it?” In asking this questi...

Mon 05 Nov 2007 | Read more »

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