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Zaki Badawi, the UK media’s second favourite Islamic scholar after Omar Bakri, has been quoted in the media as saying that perhaps Muslim ladies should remove their hijabs, given the present volatile situation. I...

This is going to be a long and rambling post, but it was inspired by a number of blog pieces I read, an article I read in the London Guardian newspaper, and a programme...

The New York Times has published the story of Murat Kurnaz, a Turkish citizen born in Germany who was arrested in Pakistan not long after the 9/11 attacks, and handed over to the Americans...

CAIR recently launched a campaign to distribute copies of Yusuf Ali’s translation of the holy Qur’an to Americans for free in response to the Guantanamo desecration scandal. Their website reports that they have had...

A brother called Sohail just wrote to me and asked me to comment on a story about the Glasgow football (soccer) club Rangers producing a version of its shirt without the logo of its...

Today was a Bank Holiday, and I decided to go up to London to see an art exhibition at the Barbican. I went via the Moroccan Tagine in Golborne Road, W10, a place I...

So, last week the Kuwaiti parliament at last decided to grant women the vote. This is something the amir has been wanting to do for years, it seems, but those pesky parliamentarians kept stalling....

There have been reports that a young woman is facing imminent execution by firing squad in Yemen for the murder of her husband, which witnesses say was in fact carried out by her cousin...

Today I came up London to attend a demo against oppressive anti-terrorist laws organised by, among others, Stop Political Terror and the Free Babar Ahmad campaign. The demo started in Marble Arch and finished...

(Update 12th April: I posted this after seeing Ginny’s comment on it. I thought this was a recently posted article, but it actually dates from last October.) MWU has posted an article by one...

Yesterday a blog which was originally set up to defend Little Green Footballs from one of its critics reproduced an article from Reuters via Yahoo, American Muslim Author Wants to Shake Up Faith. The...

The Times Literary Supplement has a review this week of two books about the treatment of Muslims in Russian-occupied Uzbekistan and, later, Bulgaria, and what happens when you try to force “freedom” on a...

So, the Pope has passed away. It has to be said that this has been a long time in coming; speculation as to who would succeed him has been going on for years, and...

Following the great news that the butcher of Gujarat, Narendra Modi, was denied a visa to enter the USA because of his record as governor of Gujarat, the BBC now reports that he’s called...

The mosque in Worthing, a town on the English south coast, has been hit by an arson attack: The fire-bombers, according to members of the Worthing Islamic Society, broke in through the mosque’s back...

Given all the interest among the bloggers in the Mukhtar Mai/Bibi case, I thought you might all like to see this: Rape ruling in Pakistan suspended An Islamic court in Pakistan has suspended a...

The Islamic Human Rights Commission have issued the following alert, about a brother (who is a British citizen) who is facing extradition to Algeria from Italy (hat tip: MPAC UK). Emphases are mine. 23...

I’m rather puzzled by the reaction to Amina Wadud’s speech in Toronto last month. I’m not surprised, of course, that Muslim WakeUp (or Go To Sleep as our sister Umm Zaid memorably called it)...

The discussion of yesterday’s ruling on Shabina Begum’s jilbab has continued apace in both the media and the blogosphere today (given that the first morning papers to report the story would have been today’s)....

I posted here earlier (below insha Allah) about the ruling this morning that the school in Luton, England, which excluded Shabina Begum for insisting on wearing the Islamic jilbab to school violated her human...