Turkey’s PM Ahmet Davutoglu has said the country’s new constitution will feature the principle of secularism. He said Turkey’s secular and democratic character was “not up for debate”. His comments came a day after a key member of the ruling AK party (AKP) called for secularism to be taken out of the constitution. Parliamentary speaker […]
Mahmoud Kaabeneh has two talismans that he hopes will help protect his home from Israel’s bulldozers. Hanging inside the one-room house the 37-year-old Bedouin Palestinian shares with his wife and four children is a framed verse by a Tunisian poet. “I will live here despite disease and enemies, like a hawk on top of the […]
The Bradford MP Naz Shah has stepped down as the parliamentary private secretary to the shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, over antisemitic Facebook posts. In a series of social media posts, Shah said Israel should “relocate to the US” and posted an article that likened Zionism to al-Qaida. Shah has since apologised, saying: “I deeply regret […]
Hafsa Kara-Mustapha says that the two main candidates for London mayor have concluded that they can treat Muslims with utter contempt because they know that Muslims have no collective strategy and will probably vote for them whatever they say. At a panel discussion on the turmoil in the Middle East a few years ago one […]
In Channel 4’s recent documentary, Muslims have come under the spotlight again, prompting a storm of controversy in which alleged opinions held by Muslims are cast to the wider public for scrutiny. Critics have accused Channel 4 of pushing the alarmist narrative that, exclusively, Muslims are alien in the west. Leading this documentary is Trevor […]
With the steady rise of Atheism and the general culture of Agnosticism spreading throughout the Western societies (which have the most Secular governments in the world) we look at at the origins of this development. Seeing as other governments of the world already follow the secular model of the West, we look at what this […]
The family of Sir Winston Churchill urged him to “fight against” the desire to convert to Islam, a newly discovered letter has revealed. The Prime Minister who led Britain to victory in World War Two was apparently so taken with Islam and the culture of the Orient that his family wrote to try and persuade […]
Following the terrorist attack in Brussels in which 35 people died questions have been raised regarding immigration, Islam and of course the war on terror. Tonight to discuss this we have Nizal Hussain and Abdus Samad.