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2026 election reflection: time for strategic political engagement
Why British Muslims must move from reactive politics to long-term strategic engagement in a rapidly fragmenting Britain.
Police accused of ‘harassing’ world’s longest ambulance convoy
Humanitarian aid workers have spoken of their frustration at being subjected to repeated stops, detentions and police visits as they take part in what is being dubbed "the world’s longest ambulance convoy”.…
#Secularism – China bans baby names that are “too Islamic”
Officials in Xinjiang region, home to half of China’s Muslims, have confirmed that the government has banned “religious” baby names for Muslims, in an ongoing crackdown by the secular government against “religion”.
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…