Tag Archives: BIRMINGHAM

“Although many organisations are doing a great job in providing free food, the homeless need to be off the streets in this weather."

An example of a British Muslim parents' group standing up for their principles in the face of pressure

"Are we to believe that segregation for the non-Muslim ruling class is okay but it has a negative impact on Muslim children?"

...in the same week as a BBC investigation revealed shocking institutional failures surrounding an explosion in child-on-child sexual abuse in mixed schools across the country...

Al-Hijrah school did a service to the whole country by challenging Michael Wilshaw's "weaponised" Ofsted over misrepresenting the benign practice of separating boys and girls in a faith school...

The so-called "Trojan Horse" scandal which did much damage to thriving schools in Muslim-populated areas before being gradually and consistently exposed as a hoax continues to unravel with the latest set of disciplinary proceedings being thrown out of a tribunal this week...

A landmark legal challenge is currently being fought by the first person to be affected by the Education (Independent School Standards) Regulations 2014.[1] Tahir Alam is the first person to have been “banned from having any involvement with schools” by ...

The Politics of Hijāb The hijāb is a concept which goes beyond the sublunary. It connects to the spiritual by obliterating worldly expectations in favour of conformity to that which is most pleasing to Allāh, Most High. It is, for ...

In October this year, the University of Birmingham will showcase one of its greatest treasures – the recently discovered manuscripts of pages of the Qur’ān, thought to be the oldest in the world. For the Muslims, though it may be uplifting ...

All praise be to Allāh and may our salāh and salām be upon the Prophet (sall Allāhu ʿalayhi wa sallam). When I first read the news about the findings of what may be considered the world’s oldest manuscript of the ...