While many have commended him for his bravery, the reality is that he had no choice but to make this stand if he wanted to remain faithful to the principles of Islām...

Imam Shakeel Begg of Lewisham Mosque, London, recently lost his case for libel against the BBC. Firstly, I would like to say that I wish to express my support for Imam Shakeel. He is a model imam who works diligently ...

PREVENT is dying. We have reached a stage where there is widespread agreement that there are systemic problems with PREVENT. Its decline is to the extent that beneficiaries and proponents of the strategy acknowledge the need to change it.[1] It ...

On the 18th of September, 31-year-old father-of-two Mohammed Ali was sentenced to eight years in prison[1] for trying to buy ricin off of an undercover FBI agent on the Internet, inspired by the TV series Breaking Bad. This was following the ...

Is BBC’s Panorama Normalising Torture? On Monday 3 August, the BBC’s flagship current affairs programme Panorama broadcast Panorama: Fighting Terror with Torture.[1] The documentary looked at the CIA’s torture programme used on detainees during the War on Terror. I watched ...

Can we trust the judges? Introduction The alleged increase in the threat of terrorism has led to an erosion of civil liberties.[1] Successive British governments have implemented measures which infringe upon the most basic rights. What is the best method ...

A decade on from the 7/7 bombings the country is still feeling the effects of the impulsive reaction by the then Labour Government.  The PREVENT Strategy was claimed to be created in response to the 7 July 2005 attacks. The ...