The Home Office published its 2013 Annual Report on the CONTEST counter-terrorism strategy yesterday outlining developments in the UK’s response to terrorist threats experienced last year and ongoing counter-terrorism activities. The report describes in its introduction the murder of Mohammed...
The Independent provides further coverage on the Law Society’s new practice note on shari’ah compliant wills. Last month, the Sunday Telegraph’s response to the publishing of the note was overdramatized when it incorrectly reported that the Law Society was ‘promoting’ shari’ah law and a...
In an appalling attempt at character assassination, the Daily Telegraph yesterday published an article suggesting that Dr Imran Waheed, a former senior representative of Hizb ut-Tahrir, is unsuited to his role as a psychiatrist because of past association with the group. In a lengthy piece the...
The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, Daily Mail, BBC News and ITV News all report on the US Senate Intelligence Committee’s majority decision to vote in favour of the declassification of the summary, findings and conclusions of its report on the CIA’s use of ‘enhanced interrogation...
The Daily Telegraph reports on the Government’s announcement of the introduction of shari’ah compliant student loans to mitigate the risk of Muslim students opting out of higher education because of the student loans required to pay for tuition fees. To ensure access to education and to prevent...
Fraser Nelson, the editor of The Spectator, writes in his column in the Daily Telegraph today about “British Muslims [being] truly among us” and that “the integration of Muslims can now be seen as one of the great success stories of modern Britain”. Nelson makes a comparison with the Dutch...
Third sector portal, civilsociety.co.uk, reports on the Charity Commission’s launch of a statutory inquiry into British Muslim charity, Al Fatiha Global, following a Sun front page story featuring one of the charity’s trustees posing with Syrian fighters. With much speculation on the presence...
The Sunderland Echo reports on arrests following an English Defence League demonstration in the city last weekend. In the latest protest against the Pakistan Islamic Centre, six men were arrested for disorder offences. Five have been released on bail pending further inquiries while another will...
BBC News reports on the release of a set of stamps of people born in 1914 as part of the World War 1 commemoration ceremonies that will be held throughout the year. Among the faces that will grace the stamps is Noor Inayat Khan, the British-Indian secret agent, who served during World War Two and...
West London news portal, Your Local Guardian, reports that Gatton Primary School is the only Islamic voluntary aided school in the UK to be rated as ‘outstanding’ across all five areas assessed by Ofsted. In an Ofsted inspection last month inspectors assessed the school for its overall...
