The Government’s flagship counter-radicalisation strategy leads Muslims who grow beards to be labelled as terrorists and could be used to clamp down on anti-austerity and environmental campaigners, hundreds of academics have claimed in an open letter to The Independent. Wide-ranging powers brought in this month under the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act force teachers, social workers,…
Mosques all over the UK will open their doors to people of all faiths and none tonight during the “Iftar” meal at sunset on the 10th anniversary of the London 7/7 bombings. The “Peace Iftars”, which have already begun taking place, are a chance to “remember and pray for all victims of terrorism and stand…
Tributes are being paid to the president of Britain’s largest Muslim student society after he drowned in a freak swimming accident in Switzerland last weekend. Bashir Osman had headed up the Federation of Student Islamic Societies (FOSIS) since 2014, and had been visiting colleagues at a youth organisation for European Muslims. He had been swimming…
As Muslims around the world prepare to celebrate Eid, the end of the holy month of Ramadan, many are concerned that Islam is too often associated with negative images on TV and online. A new on demand TV service called Alchemiya is launching in the UK hoping to change perceptions and misconceptions of Islam. Alchemiya…
Muslims who travel to the Middle East for the “glamour” of jihad will become nothing more than “cannon fodder” for terrorists, David Cameron warns. The “sick and brutal reality” is that young men will be used as suicide bombers, while women who join the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant will face…
