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Written by Zainab Rahim, joint Editor-in-Chief of The Platform.   If Aronofsky’s Noah met the Qur’anic Noah they probably wouldn’t recognise each other  WARNING: Contains Spoilers Mass human outrage is no stranger to our 21st-the-pope’s-on-Twitter-and-Russell-Crowe-is-irritating-him century. And there’s no better way to earn your Hollywood director stamp of approval than by interpreting ...

Five Muslim community workers have accused MI5 of waging a campaign of blackmail and harassment in an attempt to recruit them as informants. The men claim they were given a choice of working for the Security Service or face detention and harassment in the UK and overseas. They have made ...

France’s far-right National Front leader said her party would prevent schools from providing non-pork alternatives to Muslim pupils. Marine Le Pen said on Friday that pupils would have to “eat pork or starve” in the 11 towns the National Front won in local elections, stating that such arrangements were a ...

In its basement sanctuary, the boxing ring is, like the altar inside the church above it, sacred. Within its four roped corners, fighters wash away their past, submit to the present and come clean in the truth of battle where there can only be one winner and one loser. Tucked ...

A French Muslim man has rejected accusations by the French government that he has four wives, insisting that he has only one wife and several mistresses. A French muslim man accused by the government of practicing polygamy insisted on Monday that he had only one wife and several mistresses, and ...

As a charity bids to boost feminism among Muslim women,  Shelina Janmohamed asks why British female Muslims would want to join a feminist movement born in the West, which asks women of faith to leave their religion at the door. Everyone loves Malala Yousufzai, right? Fearless, inspiring and courageous, she is the ...