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Is the Nicki Minaj mega music festival really that shocking?

Just a short journey from where the Prophet Muhammad (sall Allāhu ʿalayhi wa sallam) is laid to rest, a festival in which musicians from around the globe, including Nikki Minaj who is known for her...

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What Can YOU Do for Tuqa?

There are a few images in modern history which speak to our collective human shame. Of them is the photograph of the ‘napalm girl’ from the Vietnam war, or the mushroom cloud over Hiroshima, or images...

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Brexit: MPs reject Boris Johnson’s call for general election

Boris Johnson on Wednesday attempted to get a Bill passed under the Fixed Term Parliament Act to call a general election as early as 15 October as retaliation for the action of MPs. This attempt was...

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No Divine Right to Dictatorship

Peaceful protestors have taken to the streets for the second day across Egypt calling for Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to step down. Such protests are extremely rare in Egypt after the 2013 military coup,...

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Remembering Muhammad Al-Durrah: 19 years since martyrdom

30th September 2000, marks 19 years since 11-year-old Muhammad Al-Durrah was shot and brutally killed by Israeli soldiers. In images which despite the years have not lost any sense of shock, the young...

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Is Anti-Muslim Prejudice an Election Issue?

Last night saw the first election debate between Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn. Predictably, questions were asked about Brexit, the NHS, and the economy. On the issue of personal integrity, the...

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“Why I’m voting Labour”

Today is the day. The Great British electorate will go to the polls in what has been billed as the election of a generation. After six gruelling weeks kicked off with mocking Grenfell victims and...

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What YOU can do for the Muslims of India

“Allāh is your Protector, and He is the best of helpers.”[1] Troubling footage has spread across social media of unarmed women defiantly protecting a defenceless young man from assault by Indian police...

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China: 500,000 Muslim Uyghur Children sent to detention camps

More light has been shed on the continuing culture war being waged on the Uyghur Muslim population in China. Whilst the internment camps holding approximately one million ethnic Uyghurs are familiar,...

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How will your life end?

“Beware of a day when you will be returned to Allāh and every soul will be paid in full for what it did and no one will be wronged.” Death. The ultimate, universally accepted, inescapable truth. One...

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Families Frozen in Fear: Russian “criminals” advance towards Idlib

Over the past three months, Idlib province has been under sustained assault as the Assad regime retakes town after town. Supported by Russian airpower and re-enforced by Iranian militia, the attacks on...

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Is Ryanair Running Dry on Ideas?

The Chief Executive of Ryanair, Michael O’Leary, has once again made the headlines with his call to racially profile male Muslim travellers. O’Leary also described customers who fail to print out their...

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China’s Concentration Camps: Fear over Treatment of Uyghur Muslims as...

As the world is gripped with fear and the UK suffers its second fatality, some are looking to China for lessons learned on battling the coronavirus. China is a regime that is known for its treatment...

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COVID-19: A Time for Gratitude

Once upon a time…in a land far, far away…there was a tiny organism. It arose in a little-known area of the Orient…then spread like wildfire across the world. The rest, as they say, is history. The...

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Leaked dossier: Anti-Corbyn Labour officials worked to lose election to...

An internal Labour dossier titled ‘The work of the Labour Party’s Governance and Legal Unit in relation to antisemitism, 2014-2019’ has been leaked. It suggests that some Labour Party officials opposed...

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HSBC blocks donations to UK-registered charity providing vital aid to...

Banking giant HSBC has written to its customers to inform them that the bank will no longer process money transfers to Interpal, a vital and empowering charity that provides humanitarian and...

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India’s BJP leader: ‘Do not buy from Muslims’

A prominent member of India’s governing party, the BJP, has been filmed warning Indians against buying vegetables from Muslim vendors amid the nationwide COVID-19 lockdown. A defiant Suresh Tiwari,...

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Palestine: Activists win landmark Supreme Court ruling against UK Government

In a landmark case, the Supreme Court has ruled against the British government in its attempt to curb the pro-Palestinian Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement. This latest ruling marks the...

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US Customs seize 13-ton shipment of human hair, likely from China’s...

US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) last week seized a 13-ton shipment of beauty products, including weaves and other beauty accessories suspected to have been made from human hair. The shipment...

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Yemen: UK to resume arms sales to Saudi Arabia despite world’s worst...

The British Government announced last Tuesday it would resume its selling of lethal weapons to Saudi Arabia, who will use them in the Yemen conflict. The UK had temporarily ceased exporting weapons to...

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