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Birmingham Central Mosque chairman passes away

Dr Mohammed Naseem, the founder and chairman of Birmingham Central Mosque, has passed away aged 90 at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham. Dr Naseem was one of the most outspoken and sometimes controversial leaders of the British Muslim community over many decades. In a statement The Muslim Council of Britain ...

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Man guilty of beheading girlfriend

A man who beheaded his teenage girlfriend with a kitchen knife has been found guilty of her murder. Pizza delivery driver Aras Hussein decapitated 18-year-old student Reema Ramzan at his flat in Sheffield in June before stabbing himself in the chest. The 21-year-old was jailed for life at Sheffield Crown ...

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Racist EDL protests outside Regent’s Park mosque

LONDON: Members of the racist English Defence League (EDL) staged a protest outside Regent’s Park Mosque here during Jummah prayers, attempting to spark confrontation between the worshippers and the EDL but the Metropolitan police intervened to stop the break out of violence. Dozens of EDL members arrived outside London’s historic ...

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What is the Islamic view of happiness?

The making of the Happy British Muslims video is not as worrying as some are making it out to be. But what is extremely worrying is lack of depth demonstrated by a large part of the Islamic community’s reaction to the video, the extent of which is deeply disturbing, writes João ...

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