Review of the Year: January 2014 – Syria and Maajid “Donkey” Nawaz
Over the course of this month 5Pillarz will be recapping the biggest Muslim news stories at home and abroad as well as providing comment...
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...
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...
The top international Muslim stories of 2018
2018 was another challenging year for Muslims worldwide with China effectively putting hundreds of thousands of Muslims in concentration camps and Hindu mobs lynching...
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...
Charlie Hebdo: A publication which repeatedly insulted the Prophet
The French magazine Charlie Hebdo's staple is to be provocative - poking fun at popes, presidents as well as the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh).
The satirical...
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...
Crowdfunding campaign launched for banned school governor in Trojan Horse plot
A crowdfunding campaign has been launched to raise the legal funds for a school governor who will be challenging a ban imposed on him...
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...
VIDEO: This is how America weaponised the world
An insightful video by data scientist, Will Geary, showing how the United States has been arming the world since 1950.
