A growing Muslim community is looking for a site for a mosque and cultural centre to replace the small, makeshift building currently used. At the moment worshippers in Wrexham use a portable building, which is part of the town’s Newi college. But it is unsuitable for women and children. The local Muslim association want a…
The failure of the Muslims to integrate with British society has left their children open to the lure of extremism, a top Islamic scholar has said. Farhan Nizami, the director of the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, which has links with Oxford University, accused British Muslim parents of keeping their children alienated from mainstream society,…
A leading Welch university will conduct a two-year study on Muslim children’s attitudes towards culture and religion, the Western Mail daily reported. “We are interested in that younger age group and how they reconcile their multiple identities, such as being Somali, Pakistani, or Yemeni, with being Muslim and Welsh and so on,” said Dr Sophie…
The head of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales risked a new clash with Muslims yesterday by questioning whether Turkey should be admitted to the European Union. Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor echoed Pope Benedict XVI in saying that the predominantly Muslim state was not culturally part of Europe.
There has been a mixed response inside and outside Muslim circles in Britain to Prime Minister Tony Blair’s call for educationists and the media to recognise the _true face’ of Islam, and for Muslims themselves to speak out against extremism. Mr Blair, as part of his _farewell tour’, was on the programme alongside senior academic…
