A teenager was jailed after being found guilty of possessing a terrorism-related explosives manual. Abdul Patel, 18, of east London, was said in court to be “ready, willing and able” to help terrorists. Judge Peter Rook sentenced him to six months in a Young Offenders Institution after rejecting mitigation for a suspended sentence.http://themuslimweekly.com/fullstoryview.aspx?NewsID=0F72DF0491032243C193A077&MENUID=HOMENEWS&DESCRIPTION=UK%20News
From now on, Muslims can be buried according to Islamic rite, facing Mecca, at the old Waldfriedhof in Darmstadt.
Pope Benedict has accepted an unprecedented call by Muslim scholars for dialogue between Christians and Islam, and invited them for meetings in Vatican City. “Without ignoring or downplaying our differences as Christians and Muslims, we can and therefore should look to what unites us, namely the belief in one God,” the Vatican wrote in a…
Those who lost relatives in the 2004 Madrid train bombings are planning to appeal the sentences and verdicts handed down from the trial. Dissatisfied with the court’s decision to acquit one suspect, and lessen the charges on three others, family members criticized the ruling as a shocking a slap in the face. Citing respect and…
Britain’s first Muslim minister Shahid Malik was stopped and searched by airport security officials in the United States yesterday, it has emerged. Mr Malik, appointed as minister for international development by Gordon Brown earlier this year, was prevented from boarding a UK-bound flight for 40 minutes at Washington’s Dulles airport on Sunday.
