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The Prophet, peace be upon him, prayed for pardon for his people, and received the reply: ‘I have forgiven them all but acts of oppression, for I shall exact recompense for the one who is wronged, from his oppressor.’ — Tirmidhi, Iman, 59.

Recent months have seen a sudden upsurge in devotion to the Christian faith amongst followers of the British National Party (BNP) and the English Defence League (EDL). In June the BNP chimed against the Islamic colonisation of Britain, seen in the widespread conversion of churches throughout the land: the Central Mosque of Brent; the former [...]

I will make no secret of the fact that I begin this in a low mood, with a cloud of melancholy descending on me. I have been off work with a viral infection for the past few days, so I suppose a weakness of spirit is only to be expected, but it is not that. [...]

I was so incredibly grateful to the poor Bengali community who, in their island of red brick terraces nestled between smart office blocks and towering skyscrapers, established that little mosque on the edge of the City. I am travelling to that unfamiliar quarter of Capitalist fame every day this week for training on developing .NET [...]

Quote: “I am rather getting tired of the deafening silence of an immense majority of British Muslims when it comes to condemning terrorism.” Deafening silence? What, do we each run newspapers that have a daily circulation of 7,800,000 like The Sun? Or do we have access to an audience like BBC Radio 1 (9.8 million [...]

Here is a quote from the reviews section for a Windows Vista sidebar gadget called “Prayer Times” on the Windows Live website: “Dear Microsoft I like many of your products, but posting junk like this on your gadgets page, which is probably one of the first things people are going to play with when they [...]

When I embraced Islam in 1998, one of the first pieces of advice I received from Muslim friends was to learn the names of three people and then stay away from them. They were Abu Hamza, Omar Bakri and Abdullah Faisal. A few months later I received an angry email from my father, demanding to [...]

“This country has gone over the top with political correctness. We as a society feel that Muslims have to have attention otherwise we are not being fair to them. Muslims have protested outsite churches making remarks about Jesus. Could a Christian abuse Muhammed outside a Mosque, without being arrested? NO” – Mr Holden, Northern Ireland [...]

There is a section on the BBC News website called “The Editors”. Last Thursday Matt Morris published an interesting commentary entitled, “Too many Muslim stories?” Well, as you know I have an opinion on this, and so I submitted a polite, quite reasonable comment, questioning why the veil story occupied the headlines on BBC Online [...]

Writing in The Guardian, Wednesday 16 August with a column entitled, The venomous media voices who think no Muslim is worth talking to I feel she makes some good points and has identified some real issues. It seems to me that she is one Commentator who has actually engaged with the British community and knows [...]

Meeting Muslims who used to be priests is quite an interesting experience. When they speak I can’t help thinking they should be wearing a dog-collar, not because I know what they used to do, but because of the way they speak. Popping into the mosque on Saturday to do my midday prayer after a day [...]

Who speaks for the Muslims? That’s the question being asked throughout the Media and all over the internet. Well certainly not the Media. But MCB? MAB? Our imams? I don’t know. Who speaks for me? Nobody speaks for me. This is the question on the tongues of the chattering classes, but I don’t think any [...]