Friday January 18, 2008
Islam: The 26-year-old does not renounce his father, al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, but in an interview with The Associated Press, he said there is better way to defend Islam than al-Qaida’s militancy: Omar wants to be an “ambassador for peace” between Muslims and the West.
Tuesday January 15, 2008
Islam • Religion in the Workplace: Customer: “Had this been a copy of the Koran I am confident any Christian person would be happy to do her job, and for this to happen in a Marks & Spencer of all places beggars belief.”
Monday January 14, 2008
Islam: A majority of Britons believe that Muslims need to do more to integrate into society and want tighter restrictions on immigration, an opinion poll commissioned by The Sunday Telegraph shows.
Islam: The row over a proposal to broadcast the Muslim call to prayer [video] through a megaphone across part of Oxford has intensified as elders disclosed that they will seek planning permission to install a loudspeaker at the mosque later this year.
Islam: A bishop caused uproar last week by exposing ghettos of Islamist extremism. But Muslims everywhere are cutting themselves off from society in other, equally dangerous ways.
Islam: Do ‘no-go’ zones for non-Muslims exist in Britain, as the Bishop of Rochester claims? Olga Craig reports from some of Yorkshire’s Asian-dominated areas.
Saturday January 12, 2008
Islam: A Muslim girl who had refused her family’s wish to have an arranged marriage was murdered, a coroner ruled yesterday.
Friday January 11, 2008
Islam: Muslim representatives in Birmingham, U.K., yesterday criticised calls for more Christians, Sikhs and Hindus to move into predominantly Islamic inner city areas.
Thursday January 10, 2008
Islam: Shafilea Ahmed, 17, vanished in September 2003 and her body was found five months later in the River Kent near Sedgwick in Cumbria. She had been beaten by her mother and father, who also stole her £2,000 savings, and had fled her home in fear of being forced into an arranged marriage and left to live in Pakistan, the inquest into her death was told.
Wednesday January 9, 2008
Islam: Further evidence of the Islamification of the UK
Tuesday January 8, 2008
Islam: Her story is a reminder of the tensions that have put the Netherlands and other European countries on the front line, sending dozens of people threatened by Islamic extremists into hiding since 2004, when a Dutch film-maker was murdered on the street and his collaborator driven into exile.
Islam: There is a fair chance that the sort of comments that attract criticism, not only from the political establishment but also from the self-appointed spokesmen of the Muslim community are worth hearing.
Islam: Muslim leaders reacted angrily yesterday to a claim by the Bishop of Rochester that Islamic extremists have created “no-go” areas in many cities and a plea for mosques to desist from using amplifiers to broadcast calls to prayer.
Islam: Criticism was mounting yesterday over “scaremongering” comments by a senior Church of England bishop about how parts of Britain had become no-go areas for non-Muslims.
Monday January 7, 2008
Islam: Islamic extremism has turned some communities into no-go areas for people of a different faith or race, a Church of England bishop has said.
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