Ali Almanasfi, who was killed along with a US woman and third westerner, hoped to atone for a wrong by fighting with rebels. After five months fighting in Syria with the rebels, Ali Almanasfi’s luck finally ran out. On Wednesday the 22-year-old Briton took a wrong turn and drove into a government checkpoint near the…
The big story on most front pages this day was the fact that a white British Muslim convert pleaded guilty to charges of terrorism. He was the subject of a 2011 documentary made by his stepbrother and was said to have developed extremist views after he joined the Muslims Against Crusades group. He was arrested…
01 January 2012 Since the data of the UK Census 2011 was revealed last month, the public has been debating the increasing presence of British Muslim community. The data has revealed that the Muslim population in Britain has almost doubled in ten years so that Muslims make up 50 percent of the residents in…
30 August 2012 BBC has come under criticism due to its new TV comedy called Citizen Khan aired on BBC1. The comedy, which follows the life of a self-appointed “Muslim community leader” and his British-Pakistani family in Birmingham, received more than 700 complaints that it is stereotyping and insulting Islamic values. Ofcom, the independent regulator…
Yousuf, Ibraheem and Ieysaa bin-Suhayl (aged 13, 10 and 7 years respectively) from Cambridgeshire have been called by the English Chess Federation (ECF) to represent England in chess, at the European Union Youth Championships in Austria. The Championship commenced in Mureck on 31st July and end on 8th August 2012. During the completion the…
