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Britain is on a dangerous drinking binge which is claiming lives and causing increasing damage to adults and children. Hospital admissions related to excessive drinking have more than doubled in the past 10 years and those involving under-16s have risen by a third. http://news.independent.co.uk/health/article2714171.ece

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 [...]

My name is Timothy Bowes, an English Muslim working for my local NHS Primary Care Trust. It is the last week of our month of fasting, known as Ramadan. I arose at five o’clock this morning for breakfast before the start of fasting. Today it was Heinz Baked Beans on Toast. We have not had [...]

Ever since three tube trains and a bus were blown up in London last year, various commentators within the British media have begun to repeat the notion that multi-culturalism has had its day. Political correctness is so ‘year before last‘ and racism is back in fashion. It seems that when a criminal act is perpetrated [...]

The Friday prayer is meant to be a joyous event in the Muslim week, something which we are all obliged to attend as one of our religious duties. So why do I leave feeling so irritated, so unrefreshed? It is alienation. More precisely it is the use of language. Ours is a diverse community: while [...]

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 [...]

In the community in which I live I could not say that there is a problem of extremism amongst the Muslim youth. Not ‘Islamic Extremism’ in any case – jahil extremism maybe. In this community, our concerns are with drug use, alcohol consumption and anti-social behaviour. A friend tells me that some young Muslims are [...]