A Pillar of Birmingham’s Muslims Dies Today
The Muslim Research and Development Foundation (MRDF) and the Islam21c team would like to express our condolences to the family and community of Dr Mohammed Naseem, may Allāh have mercy on him. This morning, at the age of 90, this servant of Allāh and leader of the Muslim community in Birmingham and the UK, met his Lord. Truly, to Allāh we belong and to Him we return. Dr Naseem was well known in Birmingham as the founding chairman of Birmingham Central Mosque. One of the particularly praiseworthy attributes that he has been described with was his passion for keeping unity…
Fear no one
Read this article by Yvonne Ridley on the Cage UK site here
Moazzam, Miranda and Prince Charles
Read this article on the blog, Coolnessofhind here.
Moazzam Begg – In his own words
Listen to Moazzam Begg's soundcloud of the day he was taken from his family.
PRESS RELEASE: Moazzam Begg Arrested for Uncovering Western Complicity in Rendition and Torture?
"Sometimes knowing too much can be a curse." This was the last Facebook post before Moazzam Begg, Outreach Director for CAGE, was arrested by West Midlands Police yesterday, in what will most certainly be one of their biggest PR disasters to date, in shā Allāh. Moazzam has been campaigning for years to highlight the breaches of human rights, due process and rule of law that have characterised many western governments since the War Terror began. As a result he has suffered much abuse and harassment by certain institutions within the Establishment, which he wrote about recently. Upon his arrest, CAGE…
Reflections on the Nicolas Anelka Saga
Abdul Salam Bilaal, more commonly known as Nicolas Anelka, sparked controversy at the end of last year after scoring two goals in a premier league football match. His celebration of said goals was making the 'Quenelle' gesture, which has been described as an inverted Nazi salute by many media outlets. The footballer will begin a hearing today where he may face a ban if found guilty of “abusive and/or indecent and/or insulting and/or improper” behaviour due to the connotations of the quenelle gesture. Whilst the quenelle is a gesture unfamiliar to a British audience there is of course a context…
ACTION ALERT: Oppose the UK Face-Veil Ban
Note; Islam21c and others are joining Claystone in their campaign against the proposed Face-Veil Ban in the UK. Join them too, read more about Claystone here The Proposed Law to ban the face Veil in England and Wales will be debated in parliament this Friday 28th February 2014. The MP who sponsored the bill is Phillip Hollobone, a backbench Tory MP who has gone out of his way to re-order proceedings so that this bill stands a strong chance of being read on the day. After the first reading of the bill in September 2013, there was the most sustained period of negative media…
ACTION ALERT: Incitement of Religious Hatred by Daily Mail’s Littlejohn
ACTION ALERT: INCITEMENT OF RELIGIOUS HATRED AND INFLAMMATORY REMARKS BY RICHARD LITTLEJOHN IN THE DAILY MAIL The image above was publish in an article today (18th February) in the Daily Mail and has caused outrage in the Muslim community. The article is replete with inaccuracies and seeks to stereotype Muslims as, extremist, terrorists and repeats the Islamophobic stereotypes of the likes of the EDL and other bigots. It incites hatred and in an atmosphere of growing hostility to Muslims and the rise of Islamophobia, such articles serve to deliberately stoke hatred and instigate violence against minorities. An extract of the…
The Central African Republic: The Companions of the Ditch
“By the sky containing great stars; And (by) the promised Day; And (by) the witness and what is witnessed; Cursed were the companions of the trench (Containing) the fire full of fuel; When they were sitting near it; And they, to what they were doing against the believers, were witnesses; And they resented them not except because they believed in Allāh, the Exalted in Might, the Praiseworthy; To whom belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth. And Allāh, over all things, is Witness. Indeed, those who have tortured the believing men and believing women and then have not…
Reclaiming our Revolution – March for Egypt
Since the ousting of President Mursi on July 3rd, the military have continued in their atrocious crimes against humanity with human rights violations, mass killings, arbitrary arrests and torture. Thousands of peaceful civilians have been killed and arrested, merely for expressing their rejection of the coup and calling for the reinstating of democracy in their country. Everything 25 January stood for is being threatened with the military dictatorship throwing Egypt back decades. We call for your attendance in response to the ongoing bloodshed in Egypt, the repression of their freedoms, the clear theft of our revolution by the deep state…