The Metropolitan Police Service has today launched an awareness campaign to protect British Muslims against Hajj fraud as the dates for Hajj 2012 approach. “With just under three months to go until this year’s Hajj [24 – 29 October], The Metropolitan Police Service [MPS] is working...
The local community website, Salford Online, covers The Co-operative Pharmacy’s extension of its meningococcal vaccination scheme for British Muslims preparing to undertake Hajj this year. From the local news site: “The Co-operative Pharmacy is extending its meningococcal vaccination scheme in...
The Independent today covers the story of three young Muslim chess players who, allegedly, were subjected to repeated abuse during a chess competition in Austria by the families of fellow competitors. From the Independent: “A gifted young English chess player was physically assaulted and his...
A curious debate on the BBC’s perceived leftie-liberal bias has been sparked by The Commentator on the back of its FOI request on the corporation’s consumption pattern of national dailies. It transpires the BBC purchases more copies of The Guardian newspaper than other titles, Daily Telegraph,...
The Pew Research Center has released a report on surveys conducted exploring the unity and diversity of the world’s Muslims looking at areas of doctrine, religious practice, religious commitment, and the boundaries of religious identity and religious practice. On the report’s aims and...
Local paper, Leicester Mercury, reports on ongoing protests against plans by the Al-Salaam Trust to convert a disused Scouts Hut into an Islamic community centre. The protests have attracted the attentions of the BNP with leader, Nick Griffin, travelling to Leicester to hijack local protests. From...
Saturday’s Daily Express included an uplifting reflection on Olympic memories by Tory peer Lord Michael Dobbs, in his Inside Politics page: “One of my most powerful memories of the Olympics had nothing to do with sport. I spotted one volunteer who was young, Muslim, her face creased with...
Stefan Schreiner, Professor of Religious Studies and Jewish Studies at Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen, Germany, contributes an article to Qantara unearthing the Islamic influence on Europe, and the fiction peddled by far right social movements on the ‘Judeo-Christian’ roots of...
The Sunderland Echo reports on the policing of a demonstration organized by the National Front against a mosque that was recently given planning approval. From the local paper: “Officers were stationed outside the Chester Road mosque for the remainder of the weekend and in the city centre where...
The Daily Mail reports on the conviction of ex-soldier, Simon Parkes, for racially aggravated criminal damage after he stuck a severed pig’s head on the doors of a mosque in Cheltenham and daubed its walls with racist graffiti. The incident occurred two years ago and Parkes was eventually...
