As if they ever needed one? The Gaza conflict has caused fury among British Muslims and could provoke extremism in this country, Muslim leaders have warned Gordon Brown. Who'd have thought that? Personally, I don't think Moslems need much of a reason for getting all uppity - seeing how they've been behaving that way for 1300 years or so - but you can always rely on Moslem "leaders" ...

Anger within Britain's Muslim communities over the Gaza conflict has reached "acute levels of intensity" that could have repercussions for national security, leading Muslims will warn Gordon Brown today. In a letter to the prime minister, representatives of Muslim organisations will say the Israeli government's use of "disproportionate force" to combat threats to its security has "revive...

Mary Honeyball makes an interesting comment about the women in Palestine, no matter what your feelings on the Israel/Palestine situation. [U]nder the Islamic fundamentalist Hamas personal issues such as marriage and divorce are adjudicated under Sharia law, which discriminates against women; a Muslim man can marry more than one woman and a son receives double the inheritance given to a daughter. M...

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This is a guest post by Alexander Hitchens On Monday, Asghar Bukhari’s MPACuk ran an article entitled Gaza’s Murderers have Iman, Muslims Don’t.  In this piece the author urges Muslims ‘stop being “Muslim” in name…and prove you’re a Muslim by partaking in Jihad’.  The reader is told that by only protesting and giving money to Palesti...

MI5 has faced a series of criticisms about the way it has tackled the threat posed to Britain by homegrown Muslim extremists.

From Aktualne/Czech News Prague - Twenty years following the fall of communism the Czech Republic is at EU's helm. But for years the EU member states cannot decide what form the constitutional treaty should take. Cardinal Miloslav Vlk, the head of the Czech Roman Catholic Church, is adamant that behind the failure to adopt the euro-treaty is the absence of what Europe feels natural about - Ch...

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The Young Muslim Advisory Group (YMAG) has warned Gordon Brown that if he doesn't condemn the killing of civillians in Gaza as an "act of state terrorism", the government will jeopardise its initiative to prevent violent extremism at home. The YMAG was launched in October last year by the Government to voice the views and opinions of young Muslims in four key areas identified by the Governmen...

Comment is Free carries an excellent piece by Sunny Hundal of Pickled Politics and Liberal Conspiracy. He went to Saturday’s London demo ‘to express solidarity with Palestinians and express my anger at Israel’s bombings’. He argues that British Muslim organisations let down the Palestinian cause ‘by constantly bringing religion into a dispute essentially about la...