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Alhamdu lillah, the BBC reports that Shabina Begum, the sister who was refused the right to wear her Islamic long gown (jilbab) to school, has won her case at the Court of Appeal, which...

Q-News magazine has a big feature on Malcolm X (Malik Shabazz) this month, including pieces by his assistant Benjamin Karim, and by Yuri Kochiyama, in whose arms he died in 1965. There's also a...

Visitors to Sunni Sister will have noticed the recent controversy over the unauthorised copying of a number of articles from Modern Muslima and various other websites run by Saraji Umm Zaid. Visitors to those...

There is an interview with Omar Bakri Mohammed on a website called Christianity Today, in which some bizarre claims are made about the status of the so-called “Magnificent 19”, i.e., the 9/11 hijackers. (One...

There is a report in today’s Evening Standard (London) about a pseudo-Islamic criminal gang operating in south London. The report by David Cohen, Revealed: Rise of the Muslim Boys, claims that the gang’s hallmark...

There’s recently been some heated discussion going on at Izzy Mo’s blog about the subject of inter-racial and inter-cultural Muslim marriages, which has produced another discussion over at Ginny’s blog. Ginny has recently posted...

It seems the head of the government schools inspectorate is unhappy with the state of faith schools, and in particular, Muslim schools, in that they do not teach citizenship adequately, it seems. The speech...

Aziz Poonawalla has opened nominations for the alt.muslim Brass Crescent awards (nominations here), for the best Muslim blogs and blogs about Islam. I’ve put in my nominations (and no, I’m not expecting nominations in...

This should, perhaps, be a lesson to those who asked us to declare our religion in the 2001 UK census, just so that an accurate figure for the numbers of British Muslims could be...

The BBC has published a report about a Muslim woman of Iraqi origin who was attacked in the street in Kilburn, London, on Sunday (5th Dec). They also have a picture of a man...

The topic of the recent events in Holland has recently come up on a New Muslims’ group I belong to, and this piece was posted to the forum by Rahma Bavelaar (you can read...

Saraji recently made two posts (here and here) about two issues which are actually related: first, the racism by which Muslims of “eastern” origin look down on Afro-American Muslims, and on people who attempt...

I found a translation of an article in the Polish magazine Rzeczpospolita (meaning Republic) on a blog belonging to a Norwegian called Bjorn Staerk. The article is about a conflict between two groups of...

MPACUK (Muslim Public Affairs Council, UK) have three articles in response to the annual repeat of the “moon fitna” at the beginning and end of Ramadan: When Exactly Was Your Eid? Do the Saudis...

I’m sure most of you have heard that an obscure Dutch film-maker, Theo Van Gogh, was murdered earlier this week. He was killed by a person of Dutch citizenship and Moroccan ancestry, who is...

There have been calls on various Muslim forums and blogs to sign an online petition against an anti-Islamic book written by one Craig Winn. I’d never heard of this guy until I found a...

I'm sure I'm not the only person wondering why the US has banned Yusuf Islam from entering their country. He is apparently on one of their "watch lists" and was denied entry on unspecified...

Following on from Saraji’s exposé of “Muslims for Bush” and the Hasan clan behind it a few weeks back, has anyone seen the grovelling “apology” for 9/11 posted on the “Free Muslim Coalition Against...

A few years ago a book was published called Ian Dallas: The Shaykh Who Has No Clothes, which purported to expose the leader of the Murabitun movement as a fraud. The author set up...

The argument between the Indian “Muslim feminist” Asra Q. Nomani and her local mosque committee in Morgantown, WV, has somehow made it onto the BBC’s news website: “US Muslim woman defies hardliners”. The pictures...