A group set up to advise the government on the concerns of young Muslims has written to the Prime Minister asking him to condemn the Israeli government’s attacks on Gaza as “violent extremism”. The Young Muslim Advisory Group, launched by Children’s Secretary Ed Balls last October, was set up to help the government tackle issues…
The Bush administration is holding preliminary discussions with the British government to potentially ship additional inmates to the U.K. from the Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba, according to a senior U.S. official. The discussions come as European countries, particularly Portugal and Germany, are displaying a greater willingness to assist Washington in addressing the status…
The time has come for Islam in the West to become Islam of the West, and put the last nine years of madness and suffering in the past, according to the president of the İslamic society of Britain (İSB). Zahoor Qureshi spoke alongside five other British Muslim representatives at Bahçeşehir University last week, saying their…
An extremist cleric, once described by a judge as Osama bin Laden’s right-hand man in Europe, is facing indefinite imprisonment in Britain. Abu Qatada, who has been out on bail amidst the UK government’s continuing efforts to deport him to his native Jordan, will appear in court today on accusations of planning to flee to…
Two thirds of newspaper stories in the UK portray British Muslims since 2000 as `a threat` or `problem,` according to new research. A forty-page report, entitled Images of Islam in the UK, showed that the press in the UK increasingly utilize negative and stereotypical imagery about Muslims. The authors, the Cardiff School of Journalism, Media…
