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Athletes demand Israel’s UEFA suspension after killing of “Palestinian Pelé”
Global sportspeople have united in urging one of football's major governing bodies to stand for humanity, not hypocrisy.
UKIP says niqab is banned in Makkah on BBC
Many people may have been thankful that the usual idiotic demagoguery using Muslims as a political football had been noticeably absent in the general election campaign. That was, until UKIP opened their…
St George: more like a “radical Islamist” than an English nationalist!
In a delightful irony, if he were alive today the far right groups in the UK venerating him as a saint would reject him, call him a foreigner, and tell him to…
Egyptian troops accused of war crimes after leaked video of shooting detainees
Shocking footage has emerged showing Egyptian soldiers apparently executing prisoners in Sinai province and then staging the scene as a gun battle...
Remembering Darcus Howe & Ahmed Kathrada
Lewisham Mosque's Imam Shakeel Begg reflects on the lives of Ahmed Kathrada, a contemporary of Nelson Mandela, and Darcus Howe, a leading activist during the Black Panther Movement, and highlights the duty…
MPs say snap general election is to distract from expenses scandal – CPS to prosecute Tory MPs
Several MPs have claimed that the snap general election Theresa May has called for is a distraction from the Conservatives’ expenses scandal. Channel 4 News has reported that the Crown Prosecution Service…
Theresa May calls snap general election on 8th June
Theresa May has said she wants to hold a snap general election on 8 June, despite repeatedly claiming that she was against the idea of an early vote. In a surprise statement outside…