Review of the Year October 2014: Moazzam Begg released after terror charges dropped
On October 1, 2014 the former Guantanamo Bay detainee Moazzam Begg had seven terror charges against him dropped by the Crown Prosecution Service.
The charges...
Review of the Year Sep 2014: UK authorises military action against ISIS
On September 27, 2014 British warplanes were awaiting orders to launch missile attacks against Islamic State (IS) after Parliament backed military action in Iraq.
Six...
Review of the Year August 2014: UK Muslims condemn ISIS after Foley beheading
Following the apparent beheading in August of US journalist James Foley by a British jihadi Muslim organisations and prominent individuals underlined their opposition to...
Review of the Year July 2014: Gaza war and Muslim organisations targeted
In July 2014 tens of thousands of people joined a pro-Palestine/anti-Israel protest in London as a 12-hour ceasefire between Israel and Hamas was held...
Review of the Year June 2014: Trojan Hoax and ISIS declaration of Khilafah
On June 10 education watchdog Ofsted published a string of reports triggered by the so-called "Trojan Horse" letter alleging that there had been an...
Review of the Year May 2014: Mayor Lutfur Rahman beats the establishment
On May 24 Lutfur Rahman was re-elected mayor of Tower Hamlets after a bitter campaign during which much of the media and political establishment...
Review of the Year April 2014: Happy Muslims divide opinion
In April 2014 British Muslims – some quite prominent – took part in a music video which showed that Muslims could be happy.
The video,...
Four Years After Mavi Marmara – A War Crime But No Justice
Laura Stuart recounts her experience of when Israeli forces attacked the Mavi Maramara.
Four and a half years on from the attack on the Freedom...
Harassed in Egypt, stripped of UK citizenship and exiled to Pakistan
This is a letter written by a British-born Muslim who was stripped of his citizenship along with his father and two brothers for alleged...
Review of the Year March 2014: Moazzam Begg charged & Egypt crackdown
British Muslim news in March 2014 was once again dominated by the arrest of former Guantanamo Bay detainee and Outreach Director of advocacy group...
