At least 248 dead after floods and landslides devastate Indonesia’s Sumatra Island
Rescue workers in Indonesia struggled to reach victims in several devastated areas that were hit by an earthquake and floods, as authorities confirmed a...
London primary school apologises for extremism survey
A London primary school which handed out questionnaires to kids which seemed to profile them for extremism has apologised for any distress caused and...
Israeli airstrikes kill 700 in Gaza: Health Ministry
More than 700 Palestinians have been killed and over 900 injured in Israeli airstrikes since Tuesday, Gaza’s Health Ministry has reported.
The ministry spokesman, Khalil...
Munir Farooqi: the Muslim da’ee who died behind bars
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WATCH: 5Pillars attended the janazah of Manchester Muslim da’ee Munir Farooqi on Wednesday, September 30. Farooqi spent 17 years behind bars following his conviction...
VIDEO: Maulana Tariq Jameel’s heartbreaking dua for Junaid Jamshed
Video footage of prominent Pakistani scholar Maulana Tariq Jameel making a heart-wrenching dua for the deceased nasheed artist Junaid Jamshed who died in a...
Charlie Hebdo: Beyond Secular Ideology
The Charlie Hebdo incident and the subsequent discussion around terrorism has to be understood from the perspective of those who are spearheading it, writes Ali...
Rotherham, race and “white” paedophilia
Blogger Abdullah Noorrudeen questions why the race of paedophiles is selectively ignored whenever the perpetrators are white?
Nothing scorches the mind more than the...
Britain’s first Muslim judge Khurshid Drabu dies aged 72
One of the founding members of the Muslim Council of Britain and the UK's first Muslim judge, Khurshid Drabu, has passed away at the...
IN PICTURES: Iran’s assassinated leader Ayatollah Khamenei buried in Mashhad
Huge crowds gathered in Mashhad, Iran, to attend the burial ceremony for the assassinated Iranian Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was murdered in a...
Melanie Phillips says Islamophobia is a fiction invented to silence criticism of Islamism
The right-wing columnist Melanie Phillips has described Islamophobia as a fiction invented by Muslims to shut down criticism of "Islamism" and the antisemitism "pouring out" of...
