An internal government document that has been circulating the White House, has revealed plans of the U.S. government to expand the so called “Muslim” Travel Ban, by including additional countries. The current ban as it stands includes restrictions on travel from five Muslim majority countries: Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria and Yemen. Venezuela and North Korea…
Sebastian Kurz, Austrian Chancellor and leader of the conservative Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP) has pulled off a remarkable political feat: having governed in a coalition with the far-right nationalists of the Freedom Party (FPÖ) since 2017, he has not only emerged unscathed from the rubble of his ÖVP-FPÖ government, which collapsed amidst a corruption scandal….
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the United State’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organisation, has released “a “Know Your Rights” set of community advisory guidelines, in light of American-Iranian tensions. The guidelines are directed at all those who may be impacted by the threat of war between the two countries, including Iranian-Americans, Syrian-Americans,…
The debate surrounding the London Bridge attack last week, in which two people were killed and three injured by 28 year old Usman Khan has taken on dimensions more nuanced that those which follow other acts of terrorism in the UK, since the wider question of role and potential of rehabilitation in society has come…
The Muslim Council of Britain, a national representative Muslim umbrella body with over 500 affiliated national, regional and local organisations, including mosques, charities and schools, has released research judging each major party’s manifesto against the priorities and concerns of their members from Muslim communities across the UK, which it articulated in its general elections policy platform report,…
