Scotland’s first Muslim youth development officer has called for changes to the intensive after-school system of teaching school children about Islam, amid fears that it leaves them with little time to integrate with their non-Muslim peers. Faisal Hussein, 27, last week took up the full-time role with the government-backed Scottish Islamic Foundation (SIF) and his…
Bradford’s ‘model mosque’ opened its doors to the public on Monday as part of the Connecting Cultures 2008 initiative. After being crowned as Britain’s Best Mosque last year, the Madni Jamia Masjid, in Thornbury, was selected to host the Our City Our Faith exhibition. The exhibition which took place on Monday and Tuesday will encourage…
A Muslim advisor has called for the extremists who “brainwashed” failed Exeter suicide bomber Nicky Reilly to be brought to justice. Muslim convert Reilly from Plymouth has admitted attempted murder at the Giraffe restaurant on 22 May. During the inquiry, police said he had been radicalised. Imam Dr Abdul-Jalil Sajid, from the Muslim Council for…
Psychologists in the Prison Service will try to ‘cure’ extremist Muslim inmates of their political beliefs with controversial therapies similar to those used to ‘de-programme’ members of religious cults. The experimental treatments are being developed by a special Extremism Unit set up by the Ministry of Justice in January last year, it has been reported….
While we’re addicted to oil, governments will put petroleum before feminism: “It’s the smell I remember. Shahnaz’s face – what was left of it – reeked of a day-old barbecue, left out in the rain. Her flesh was a mess of charred meat: her skin, the soft flesh of her cheeks, and the bones beneath…
