United Kingdom
The UK’s 2021Census recommendations on four new ethnic group ‘tick-boxes’ takes into account social and political context
The Office of National Statistics [The UK Statistics Authority] has released a white paper, ‘Help Shape Our Future”, which sets out its proposals for conducting the 2021 Census in England and Wales. One section of this specifically looks at the question of adding new tick-boxes of ethnicity, two of which are currently tick-boxes in the…
Vast scope of Islamophobia in the British press revealed by one man’s monitoring of newspapers
The Guardian profiles Miqdaad Versi, an assistant secretary general of the Muslim Council of Britain, who has been documenting the Islamophobia of the British press and lodging formal objections to them with the Independent Press Standards Organisation.
Muslim Council of Britain launches scheme to train women for leadership in mosques and community bodies
The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB), Britain’s leading Muslim organisation, has launched a scheme to train women for leadership in mosques and community bodies. The six-month scheme is currently being undertaken by twenty women, who are given one-to-one mentoring and visit “best-practice mosques”. They are also given public speaking training and training in media relations.
Amid concern about Anjem Choudary’s release from prison, Ed Husain writes that the discourse of the Labour leadership is fuelling Islamist extremism
Writing in The Telegraph, Ed Husain says that the case of Anjem Choudary, the Islamist hate preacher who is due to be released from jail next month, demonstrates that the West “still has no answer to the Islamist ideal of the Caliphate”. He goes onto suggest that the discourse of the Labour leadership is fuelling Islamist extremism.
As a divorce settlement is awarded for a non-legally recognised nikah, what does this ruling mean for UK marriage law?
Earlier this summer, the High Court ruled that the nikah of Nasreen Akhter and Mohammed Shabaz Khan fell within the scope of the 1973 Matrimonial Causes Act, and therefore that Akhter was entitled to a divorce settlement. Detailed analysis of the case and the ruling raises questions about the status of religious law in UK courts, whether there is a need to reform existing marriage laws, and about the protection of women in non-legally recognised marriages.