Muslims in Britain
Mosques Across the Country Open Doors for Life Saving Training
Press Release 26 September 2016 On Saturday 24th September, mosques across the UK opened their doors to thousands of people as part of the British Islamic Medical Association’s (BIMA) Lifesavers project. This collaboration with the British Heart Foundation (BHF) and … read more
News
Wooing Netanyahu to gain high office
The Washington Post reports, ‘Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu behind closed doors here on Sunday. Trump’s meeting at Trump Tower lasted more than an hour, Israeli officials said. Clinton and … read more
Biographies
Hassan Zewail, Nobel prizewinner
Warren S. Warren of Duke University remembers Ahmed Hassan Zewail (1946-2016) in an obituary published in Nature, September 2016. That the first science Nobel prizewinner from the Arabic-speaking world, Ahmed Hassan Zewail, pioneer of ultrafast chemistry, was also a diplomat … read more
Ideas
Pope Francis & Francis of Assisi
Paul Vallely in thecairoreview.com When Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected the bishop of Rome in 2013, he took the name Francis. He was the first man to do so in the two-thousand-year history of the papacy. He was the first, … read more
Featured Videos
Riding the Tiger
Wide-ranging and erudite discourse by Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad (Dr Tim Winter) at the Cambridge Muslim College with critiques of the Enlightenment and a lament on modern times. The talk provides invaluable insights on dissenting voices within the European philosophical tradition … read more
Events
The Child Abuse Enquiry
Beatrix Campbell in the Guardian, ‘Lowell Goddard has told us what we know – that sexual crimes against children are too big, too tolerated and altogether too much. Goddard, the New Zealand judge who resigned from the inquiry into historical … read more
Announcements
Religious Architectures’ Futures
From http://www.baronesswarsifoundation.org/ Baroness Warsi’s Initiative We’re back on the road again! On 13 September, our ‘Modern Places of Worship’ debate series will make its second stop in Woking. As home to the Shah Jahan, the UK’s first purpose-built mosque, we … read more
Surveillance State
UK’s undercover agents
Philip Oltermann in the Guardian, ‘The German government has written to the British Home Office asking for the Pitchford inquiry into undercover policing to be extended to covert operations by British police in Germany. The inquiry, which was set up … read more
