Filmmakers were given eight months to document life at the East London Mosque in Whitechapel. Their aim was to capture the reality of life for Muslims who worship there, away from the news headlines about radicalisation. Key moments of Welcome to the Mosque were documented from the rituals of washing before Friday prayers to preparing Muslim couples…
The government’s “Prevent” counter-terrorism strategy is proving counter-productive, engulfing British Muslims further in the political rhetoric of the global “war on terror”. It has contributed to a growing moral panic between a British “us” and a Muslim “other”. A hostile attitude towards Islam and Muslims and a tendency to associate Islam with intolerance and extremism,…
A 22-year-old woman was arrested at Madrid’s Adolfo Suárez-Barajas Airport on Monday night, on suspicion that she was planning to fly to Turkey to join the militant group Islamic State (ISIS), Interior Ministry sources have told EL PAÍS. The woman is originally from a village in Huelva, in southern Spain, and had converted to Islam…
Spain’s National Court has convicted and sentenced 11 members of a recruitment network that sent militants to carry out attacks for al-Qaida-linked groups fighting in Syria. A court statement Friday said the group, members of the Jabhat al-Nusra organization, recruited the militants in Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta and in neighboring Morocco. The court…
Lighthearted ads that both aimed to promote the 2013 documentary “The Muslims Are Coming!” and tolerance toward American Muslims should start appearing in dozens of the city’s subway stations in the near future, following a district-court rulingon Wednesday that reversed a decision by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to reject the ads. Dean Obeidallah, one of…
