The Royal Court Theatre in London presents a play that is being praised ‘a Muslim Bridget Jones’s Diary’. In Shades, the audience accompanies liberal Muslim Sabrina on her quest for Mr Right in London, joining her on an Islamic speed dating event and meeting her gay flat mates. She finally has to decide between the…
As the financial crisis in the United States worsens, the conservative principals of a small group of devout Muslims have helped to insulate them from economic suffering. Their renunciation of the interest-based economy kept them away from traditional mortgages and away from making investments in financial service companies, whose stocks have plummeted. Islamic finance, a…
A German al-Qaeda militant jailed for 18 years by a French court for plotting the 2002 suicide bombing of a Tunisian synagogue will appeal, his lawyer said. Christian Ganczarski, 44, a Polish-born convert to Islam, was sentenced late yesterday by a Paris court for the attack on the island of Djerba. “This verdict is wrong…
Robert Fowler and Louis Guay, two Canadian diplomats kidnapped in December in the West African nation of Niger, appear to be held by al-Qaeda in a newly-released video. The existence of the video was revealed in Mali. It appears to confirm that Fowler and Guay were taken across the border to Mali after being abducted…
A judge has ruled that 13 members of a group recently detained for alleged passport forgery, do not have any link to Islamic terror networks. Thirteen suspected members of an international crime gang, comprised of 10 Pakistanis, one Nigerian, one Indian, and one Briton, were among those taken into custody. “As of today, there is…
