Saudi Arabia must take responsibility for the hajj stampede disaster
Prominent Arab journalist Abdel Bari Atwan says Saudi Arabia and its apologists must stop making pathetic and scarcely believable excuses for the hajj stampede...
To combat Islamophobia we need to engage with wider society
Ahmed Makda, a volunteer for the Muslim advocacy group MEND, says that the only way to combat the rising tide of Islamophobia is to...
A response to Simon Danczuk’s dog-whistle politics on “Bangladeshi extremists”
Kasim Javed responds to his local MP's unsubstantiated claims that "extremists" from Bangladesh could be flooding Britain.
On 26th May 2016, Rochdale’s MP Simon Danczuk,...
Saudi Arabia and Iran trade insults and threats
Veteran Arab journalist Abdel Bari Atwan reports on the dangerous verbal escalation between two of the Middle East's most powerful and influential countries, Saudi...
Arabs are right to celebrate Arab Idol win
Like tens of millions of other Arabs, Amani Ali watched Mohammad Assef from Gaza winning the Arab Idol competition on TV last night. And...
Why I started a hunger strike for Shaker Aamer
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Margaret Owen is an 81-year-old grandmother, and she explains why she started...
Western media’s disproportionate coverage of “terrorism”
German freelance journalist, Emran Feroz argues that the media coverage of the Boston bombing and other terrorist attacks in the West are intentionally disproportionate...
Al-Sisi’s appalling mistakes may destroy Egypt
Egypt’s de facto ruler, General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, has made a catastrophic mistake, greater than all the mistakes made by President Mohammed Morsi which...
Lutfur Rahman’s re-election shows that Bangladeshis aren’t pushovers!
Dr Muhammad Ahmedullah, a commentator on Bangledeshi politics, shares his thoughts on the re-election of Lutfur Rahman as the mayor of Tower Hamlets and...
Honour killings: Propaganda or civilisational crisis?
Zafer Iqbal says that honour killings have nothing to do with Islam but honour most certainly does.
The recent stoning to death of a pregnant...
