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The clocks go back in the UK

In the early hours of Sunday 25th October 2015 the clocks went back an hour as the UK reverted back to Greenwich Mean Time. As The Guardian explains …MP Robert Pearce who introduced a bill to the House...

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Carnage in Paris

There are no words which can express the horror and disgust everyone feels at the heinous crime committed in Paris yesterday. There are no words strong enough to denounce the mass murder of the...

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An Open Letter to the Prime Minister

Dear Prime Minister, I write to you through the media because I want you and the non-Muslim British nationals to hear from the Lahore-Ahmadi Muslims how Muslims see the current political situation....

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The Labour MPs who voted for Syria Bombings

As most people now know there will be another war. Yesterday evening MPs in the House of Commons voted in favour of carrying out airstrikes over Syria. The United Kingdom is a sovereign country which...

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MSNBC & CNN enter San Bernardino Suspects Apartment

From David A Graham in The Atlantic: On live national television, reporters sifted through the remains of the lives of Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik. They picked over children’s toys. They held...

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Pranksters Read Bible Passages to People, Telling Them It Was the Qur’an

A lot of people are arguing on television and in print media that the Holy Quran is just filled with violence and misogyny. American conservative Christians talk about the peaceful message of the Bible...

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Living According to the Teachings of Islam

The Associated Press seem to think that a woman living in accordance to the teachings of Islam was what took her to the path of radicalization and was the reason for her taking up arms. I have to...

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A Homosexuals View of Islam after Living Opposite a Mosque

Thomas Mauchline writing on Medium: The media stories about islam meant that I was genuinely a little nervous about moving in across the road to a mosque. What I have learnt in the four years since I...

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Welcome to Canada

Whilst European contries have been closing their borders to desperate Syrian refugees, Canada has welcomed them with a song sung by children. This should be familiar to Muslims as when the Holy Prophet...

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UK Mosques could be designed without minarets

John Bingham in The Telegraph: Mosques in the UK could be designed without minarets to look like “quintessentially English” places of worship, the former Conservative Party chairman Baroness Warsi has...

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Was Iraq Better With Saddam Hussein in Charge?

In a recent interview Rafael Edward Cruz (who calls himself “Ted”) an American politician currently running for 2016 Presidential Election remarked that Iraq was a much better place with Saddam Hussein...

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Livestream Platform May Have Been Compromised

Roberto Baldwin, on Engadget reports; Livestream is alerting customers that an “unauthorized person may have accessed our customer account database.” The streaming service goes on to say that customer...

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Halal Makeup Is the Beauty “Trend” to Pay Attention to

Theresa Avila on mic.com; Another label you may start finding on cosmetics these days? “Halal.” …curiosity about halal products seems to have risen over the past few years. Online searches for “halal...

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Fighting at meeting over status of Ahmadi

From The Guardian: A scuffle broke out on Tuesday between the two at a gathering of Pakistan’s Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) when the chairman, Mohammad Khan Sherani, called on the group to...

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Does The Holy Quran Advocate Violence

Rob Wallace and Lauren Effron from abc news; While some fundamentalist Muslims may declare they follow Muhammad’s instructions to “fight the infidels,” moderate scholars argue the infidels he was...

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Organ donation in Islam

This is an edited version of a speech given by Mrs Tahmina Aziz Firstly, a little bit about organ donation, as you most probably know, there are two types of organ donation: live donations, where one...

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The Muslims are coming

The following is an extract taken from Arun Kundnani’s book ‘The Muslims are coming’. To be classed as moderate, Muslims must forget what they know about Palestin, Iraq and Afghanistan and instead...

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Deaths Under The British Empire

From The Independent; A new YouGov poll has found the British public are generally proud of the British Empire and its colonial past.   YouGov found 44 per cent were proud of Britain’s history of...

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Evidence of Modern Astronomy in Ancient Babylon

From The New York Times: Ancient Babylon, situated in what is now Iraq, south of Baghdad, was a thriving metropolis, a center of trade and science. Early Babylonian mathematicians who lived between...

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France’s anti-terrorism laws leave Muslims in a state of fear

From The Verge: Marie isn’t the only one looking for answers. There has been a steady stream of similar stories in the French media since President François Hollande implemented a state of emergency...

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