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Muslim doctor and sister helped convict pro-Isis hate preachers on Oxford Street

From The Independent: A Muslim doctor and her sister have been praised for helping convict two pro-Isis hate preachers after challenging them and taking pictures of their propaganda to the police....

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Muslim women stopped from becoming Labour councillors

From the BBC News: Muslim Women’s Network UK demanded an inquiry into “systematic misogyny displayed by significant numbers of Muslim male local councillors”. “They don’t like women to be heard, to be...

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Anti-terror police question schoolboy for wearing pro-Palestine badge

Teenager referred by his teachers after trying to raise money to help Palestinian children From Matt Broomfield in the Independent; A schoolboy has been questioned by anti-terrorism police because he...

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Countering extremism

The Home Office minister for countering extremism attend a meeting this week to see what steps the Woking Borough Council has taken to counter extremism. Our President was invited to this meeting and...

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What Are the Real Motives of Groups Like ISIS

Analysis of every terrorist attack suggests that religion is a mask for the real intention of controlling resources and land It is a common belief that groups like ISIS are motivated by their radical...

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How video games perpetuate Muslim stereotypes

From Nicole Lee on engadget; “We are often just reduced to four or five stereotypes,” said Dr. Romana Ramzan, a game design lecturer at Glasgow Caledonian University in the UK. “It’s usually summed up...

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Killing a Child is Killing Humanity

I cannot find any words for what happened in Lahore nor for the pain that will last forever for the families who lost their children, their mothers, their wives and their daughters. Inna lillahi wa...

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French Minister Trashes Muslim Women With Anti-Black Slur

From alternet.org; Laurence Rossignol made the comments on Thursday in an interview with RMC radio and BFM TV, during which she slammed retailers who design products for Muslim women, such as hijabs,...

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Time shifts – The UK is on British Summer Time

It’s that time again In the early hours of Sunday 27th March 2016 the clocks went forward an hour as the UK converted to ‘British Summer Time’. This means that the evening will have more daylight, and...

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Picture Of The Day

Hagia Sophia Mosque, Istanbul in 1847

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Qadianis’ once again turn to our beliefs to save themselves

The video above is a Youtube video, in Urdu, of a question-answer session taken by the late Mirza Tahir Ahmad sahib, the previous khalifa of the Qadian jamaat. In the extract, he answers the question:...

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Latino Muslims mix religion & culture

By Ryan Schuessler in The Guardian; America’s only mosque founded specifically to be a place for Spanish-language programming for Latinos. Flores had just taken the shahada, the Islamic profession of...

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Lawyer Group Behind Spike in Blasphemy Cases in Pakistan

From Reuters A little-known alliance of hundreds of lawyers in Pakistan is behind the rise in prosecutions for blasphemy, a crime punishable by death that goes to the heart of an ideological clash...

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A Great Jihad is Coming

All able-bodied Muslims throughout the world commence a jihad on 6 June 2016 as Holy Quran Commanded: O you who believe, fasting is prescribed for you, as it was prescribed for those before you, so...

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I Just Wanted to Be Free’: The Radical Reverberations of Muhammad Ali

From Dave Zirin in The Nation When Dr. Martin Luther King came out against the war in Vietnam in 1967, he was criticized by the mainstream press and his own advisors who told him to not focus on...

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How to Fast for Ramadan in the Arctic, Where the Sun Doesn’t Set

Marya Hannun in The Atlantic This week, with the start of Ramadan, Muslims from Indonesia to Michigan began fasting from sunrise to sunset in observance of one of the religions’ primary holidays. But...

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The Death of The Prophet Jesus

What is the difference between Ahmadi and non-Ahmadi Muslims? The fundamental difference between Muslims belonging to the Ahmadiyya Anjuman Ishaat Islam and others relates to the death of the prophet...

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Ramadan Quran Study: Day One

Dr Zahid Aziz has been producing a series of studies during Ramadan since 2008. It has in those years been circulated via email to people and groups interested. This year we will be embedding the PDFs...

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Hazrat Ameer’s Ramadan ul Mubarak Message

O you who believe, fasting is prescribed for you, as it was prescribed for those before you, so that you may guard against evil. (2:183) Assalaam-o-Alaikum Wa Rakhmatullahi Wa Barakaato Hoo Dear...

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Ramadan Quran Study: Day Two

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