The need for grassroots Muslim activism
Waris Ali, who was cleared of terror charges in a high-profile trial in 2008, reflects on his experiences conducting grassroots activism with the Save...
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...
Yemen’s Houthis and their rise to power
Journalist Yousef Mawry reports from Sana’a on the rise of the Houthis, and the real possibility that Yemen may become a new Iraq or Syria.
The...
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...
Beyond the Muslim identity crisis
Will Muslims remain prisoners of the Islamophobic narrative or can we reclaim our collective Muslim story? Could this missing Muslim narrative have revolutionary consequences...
Review of the Year Nov 2015: MPs vote to bomb Syria and ISIS attacks...
Muslim news in November 2015 was dominated by Parliament's decision to bomb ISIS in Syria and the Paris atrocities.
In November British MPs voted by...
Iran v America: Who won?
The military confrontation between Iran and the United States has been dominating the headlines over the past few days. But now that de-escalation seems...
Mahdi Hashi’s father: My son should face terror charges in the UK
Mahdi Hashi is a 23 year old British Somali who is awaiting a high-profile terrorism trial in the United States. He stands accused of...
Ariel Sharon: Hammer of the Arabs
The former Israeli military commander and prime minister Ariel Sharon died today after spending the last eight years in a coma. Loved by Israelis...
My encounter with a Roman who followed the Vedas
Ghulam Esposito Haydar from New Muslim Network describes his encounter with a devout follower of the Hindu holy scripture Vedas at a dawah stall in Manchester.
One Saturday afternoon,...
