CAIRO: For decades people have been aspiring to be anything but themselves. In my native Britain, pop into a pharmacy at this time of year and you will notice that half the shop is dedicated to fake tan, tinted moisturizer and sunscreen. Granted, (...)
Some three-quarters of all European flights have been grounded for days. It’s a bit like Azkaban over here, although that probably has more to do with the approach of the British General Election. If you believe the mainstream press then the lack (...)
For decades people have been aspiring to be anything but themselves. In my native Britain, pop into a pharmacy at this time of year and you will notice that half the shop is dedicated to fake tan, tinted moisturizer and sunscreen. Granted, the last (...)
United Kingdom's Channel 4 last week aired a program about the Muslim takeover of Britain. I should have known that Dispatches: Britain’s Islamic Republic would be just another opportunity for one of our channels to showcase the anti-Muslim talent (...)
BIRMINGHAM: The Robin Hood Tax campaign that was launched this February in the United Kingdom is gaining momentum after it met with Members of Parliament (MPs) for a briefing.
The Robin Hood Tax proposal is named after the iconic British legend, (...)
After the republishing of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in 2008, the Politiken newspaper has issued an apology to those who were offended by the cartoons.
The apology was issued after a lengthy request by several Muslim groups, headed by a (...)
A French council has filed a complaint against a fast food chain that uses only halal meat in its burgers.
The mayor of a town called Roubaix in northern France described the choice of meat at the fast food chain, called Quick, as (...)
BIRMINGHAM: Jonathan Evans, head of MI5 could be complicit and ultimately responsible for the torture of UK resident Binyam Mohamed, according to his lawyers.
According to Binyam’s lawyer Clive Stafford Smith, senior government officials are (...)
As a regular visitor to the land of the Pharaohs and having lived there for about a year, I often feel that Egypt is my second home. Well, due to some complicated genetics, maybe my fourth home. My point is that Cairo was not the place I expected I (...)
BIRMINGHAM: Students at Durham University in England held a demonstration on 9 February after the British National Union of Students intervened with the students’ plan to invite two representatives of the British National Party (BNP), Chris (...)
A refreshing and playful universe away from mainstream music, the new Smile video is a clever and inspirational three minute massage for the soul. The brainchild of Leano, the London-based rapper-poet who brought together fifteen different animators (...)
For decades people have been aspiring to be anything but themselves. In my native Britain, pop into a pharmacy at this time of year and you will notice that half the shop is dedicated to fake tan, tinted moisturizer and sunscreen. Granted, the last (...)
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair appeared in an interview last week announcing that he would still have gone to war if he had known that there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
Mr Blair appeared on the BBC program Fern Britton (...)
MANCHESTER: A British court issued an arrest warrant for Tzipi Livni, Israel’s former foreign minister on Saturday. The warrant was later revoked when it emerged that the head of the opposition Kadima party had canceled a planned visit to the (...)
As girls growing up with Disney-promises of our very own Prince Charmings, it is understandably hard for us to accept it when someone who resembles Shrek tends to be the type of reality that we are faced with. This disillusionment all stems from the (...)
Ever since the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, but more specifically since the bombing of the London Underground trains in 2005, the British police and state have stepped up the search for ‘home-grown’ terrorists.
Apart from the fact (...)
MANCHESTER: Baroness Sayeeda Warsi was attacked with eggs on November 30 while doing a circuit of the English town Luton, just outside London.
The protesters, who were all male, accused Baroness Warsi of not being a proper Muslim and said that (...)
MANCHESTER: The British Chief Rabbi, Lord Sacks, has called on Muslims to accept being a minority in Britain and to learn to separate religion from power.
Lord Sacks added that neither Muslims nor Christians had the benefit of learning this (...)
MANCHESTER: Baha Mousa was an Iraqi hotel receptionist who was killed by the British army in 2003.
Mousa, 26, was arrested on 14 September 2003 and taken to a British base. Only two days later, he was found dead, having suffered some 90 or more (...)
Barrie Osborne, producer of “The Matrix” and the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy is set to create a biopic of the Messenger of Islam, Prophet Mohamed (pbuh). Although there has been some skepticism about this venture, both here in the UK and across the (...)
MANCHESTER: On November 5 this year the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) talked about the Muslim role in the British Armed Forces in a report entitled Remembering the Brave: The Muslim Contribution to Britain’s Armed Forces.
The popular Muslim (...)
Most women I know have no problem being placed behind the men in a mosque, not because they use the chance to husband-shop, (although I know some women do seize that particular ‘opportunity’) but because it is the more appealing option compared (...)
Following the unprecedented hype surrounding the appearance of Nick Griffin, leader of the British National Party (BNP) on the political program Question Time, the United Kingdom is buzzing, as is much of Europe. Everyone is discussing how Griffin (...)
Geert Wilders, for those of us who are fortunate enough not to have come across this lovely character, is a Dutch Member of Parliament who shot into the international limelight in 2008 due to the release of his film Fitna which criticizes Islam (...)
MANCHESTER: A number of Greenpeace protesters scaled the British Houses of Parliament in London on Sunday in an effort to greet Members of Parliament (MPs) returning to work from their summer break the following day with a message to do more to (...)