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25 April 2008


Latest issue of The Muslim News newspaper (Friday 25 April) discusses issue of anti terror policy which has miserably failed; exclusive interview with Home Secretary on wide ranging issues on anti terror legislations and impact on Muslims; more of stop and search examples; BNP using Islamophobia to get votes: international news on Turkey, Pakistan, Iraq etc; and not forgetting the WINNERS of the eighth The Muslim News for Excellence in pictures (hard copy only currently)… and a lot more… read on…..

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Editorial

http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=3475

Developing a new kind of counter-terrorist policing

If the Government wants its anti-terrorism policy to succeed, it should look afresh at its failed strategy.



Interview

Anti terror legislations not aimed at Muslims, but at terrorists

Editor of The Muslim News, Ahmed J Versi, in an exclusive interview with Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith MP, on April 15, at her office, discusses wide ranging issues on anti terror legislations and impact on Muslims.


Comment

http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=3472

Turkey: Democracy without democrats
By Elif Aydýn
While the Turks are not averse to adopting foreign words into their language, merely altering the phonetics to suit the vowel harmony rules of Turkish, there’s one foreign phrase with which Prime Minister, Tayyip Erdoðan, and those in the Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkýnma Partisi - AKP) whose political histories predate the party will be more than familiar; déjà vu.

http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=3488
Pakistan: ‘We shall see’
By S Khan
We shall see/Certainly we too shall see/The promised day /Written in eternal ink/When the looming mountains of tyranny and oppression/ Evanesce like fluff/And beneath our feet we the oppressed/Feel the earth tremble and throb.
The interplay of lyricism and revolutionary passion characterising his work is one reason why Faiz Ahmad Faiz (1911-1984) is widely recognised as one of the twentieth century’s greatest Urdu poets. His fearless indictment of injustice and oppression provides a standing rebuke to the various dictators who have periodically usurped power in Pakistan. During the past year, as the country faced a deep-seated political crisis triggered by an army general’s refusal to cede power, one poem in particular, ‘We Shall See’ (Hum dekheyn gey), has assumed the status of a signature tune. From its initial recital in the lawyers’ demonstrations last spring, the poem has become a fixture on banners, placards, newspaper headlines, media shows, and election rallies.

http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=3473

Shelina’s blog - The Muslim world is larger than we think
By Shelina Zahra Janmohamed
The Muslim world is made up of more than just people from the Middle East and the Subcontinent, says Shelina Zahra Janmohamed, and drawing on our wider heritage and perspectives could help us address the pressing questions of Islam and modernity


Home news

http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=3463

Showcasing Muslim and non-Muslim success
By Anealla Safdar and Abdul Adil
As Muslim guests from all walks of life arrived at the Grosvenor House Hotel on Park Lane in Mayfair on March 25, they were able to leave more than just their coats and bags at the cloak room. On entering the eighth The Muslim News Awards for Excellence, they could also shed their permanent ‘Muslim in a Western world’ exterior, and really enjoy celebrating one another’s achievements. For the next four hours, they did not have to explain why women wear the hijab, they did not have to defend Prophet Muhammad’s (pbuh) honour, they did not have to justify their sympathy and sadness for the atrocities committed in the Middle East. No, they were there to enjoy a truly inspiring, motivational, proud yet humbling experience.

http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=3464
Church of England Synod member calls for banning of new mosques
By Zainab Hemani
Alison Ruoff, a member of the General Synod, the Church of England’s parliament, has asked for a stop to mosques being built in Britain. “We are constantly building new mosques, which are paid for by the money that comes from the oil states,” she claimed in an interview with Premier Christian Radio.

http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=3467
Muslim police officers face obstacles in promotion
By Nabeelah Jaffer

Superintendent Babu pointed out the NAMP’s belief that the security vetting system “is putting obstacles” in the way of the recruitment and promotion of officers who belonged to an ethnic or religious minority. “This is because verification of an officer’s history in countries such as Pakistan takes longer to complete and may not be verified to the satisfaction of UK and wider world security services.” This in turn, Babu argued, caused “low morale”, and prevented the officers who would be the most useful from applying for specialist and counter-terrorism roles.


http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=3494

Muslim BBC journalist held down by six officers
By Elham Asaad Buaras
A Muslim journalist was held to the ground by police officers after his radio equipment was mistaken for an explosive device.

http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=3490

BNP ditches anti-Semitic past in favour of Islamophobic campaign
By Elham Asaad Buaras
The British National Party’s (BNP) relentless push for a maiden seat in the London Assembly has been seen in its latest efforts to reject its anti-Semitic past. Acting on a seemingly historical friction between Jewish and Muslim communities, the Party has used a photograph of Epping Forest Councillor, Patricia Richardson, to win over Jewish constituents in North London boroughs.

http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=3495
Muslim teens attacked in Burnley school
By Elham Asaad Buaras
The uncle of a Burnley teen assaulted inside school premises by intruders has branded the incident “deplorable”.

http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=3465
Nagdi appointed Deputy Lord-Lieutenant
By Ala Abbas
Chairman of The Muslim Burial Council of Leicestershire (MBCOL), Suleman Nagdi, has been appointed to the post of Her Majesty’s Deputy Lord-Lieutenant (DL) for Leicestershire.

http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=3468
UK Universities twinning with Palestinian ones
By Nabeelah Jaffer
University College London’s Student’s Union carried through a successful motion to twin with two secular Palestinian Universities, Al-Quds University in the West Bank, and Al-Azhar University in Gaza.

http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=3466
Muslim leaders discuss the taboo of drugs
By Elham Asaad Buaras
Imam Haroon Rashid Patel and Rabbi Aryeh Sufrin, welcomed over 40 Imams, Muslim community leaders and Redbridge councillors to an open forum in Ilford on March 31. The issue of drug misuse and addiction within the Muslim and Asian communities was discussed in an open and frank forum.

http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=3489

Oxford adhan plan causes row
By Zainab Hemani
A huge controversy has developed over the new Oxford Central Mosque’s application for permission from the local council to make a call to prayer (adhan) three times a day. The adhan would be transmitted from the minaret of the mosque through the loudspeakers.

http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=3469

Muslims disproportionately represented in prisons
By Elham Asaad Buaras
The disproportionate figure of Muslim prisoners in England and Wales was highlighted last month when Justice Secretary, Jack Straw, revealed Muslims are nearly four times more likely to be imprisoned compared with the rest of the population.

http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=3483
Teachers' union against faith schools
By Zainab Hemani and Elham Asaad Buaras
Secular groups have slammed proposals by the National Union of Teachers (NUT) which suggested children in state schools should receive “religious instruction” by preachers as part of a revamp of faith in education.

http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=3484
Faith schools breach admission rules
By Zainab Hemani
One in six of the 570 state schools have neglected admission rules according Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF), Ed Balls, who stated the findings of research carried out in Manchester, Northants and Barnet. Balls said most of these schools were either Church of England, Roman Catholic or Jewish.

http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=3491
BNP is racist, says former member
By Zainab Hemani
A Welsh British National Party (BNP) councillor said he was forced to resign from the Party after stating that he was disgusted at the racist remarks made by the BNP towards Muslims.

http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=3470
MP calls for halt on restaurant raids
By Elham Asaad Buaras
Labour MP Keith Vaz has called for a halt on immigration raids being carried out on South Asian restaurants. Vaz, MP for Leicester East, said the raids were having a destructive effect on Britain’s catering industry and “threaten the country's position as the cuisine capital of Europe.”

http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=3496
Homosexual relationship storybooks withdrawn
By Elham Asaad Buaras
Storybooks on homosexual relationships have been withdrawn from two Bristol primary schools following objections from parents.

http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=3502

Catholic bishop criticises gay ‘conspiracy’
A senior Roman Catholic bishop has accused homosexual campaigners of a “huge and well-orchestrated conspiracy” against Christian values.


http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=3480

Muslim inmates not treated well by guards
By Elham Asaad Buaras
Prison guards are “insufficiently trained” to battle radicalisation in prisons without isolating mainstream Muslims according to a leading civil servant.


International News


http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=3481

International outrage over anti Islamic film
By Nabeelah Jaffer
Right wing Dutch politician Geert Wilders’ new anti-Islamic film, ‘Fitna’, has caused international controversy, and has led the Dutch Government to raise its national terrorist threat level from ‘limited’ to ‘substantial’ as a result of concern for its economic interests and fear for the safety of Dutch citizens abroad. Muslims across the world have condemned the film.

http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=3482

Iraq wracked by death and despair 5 years after invasion
By Fatema G Valji
In 2003, allegedly to disarm Iraq of weapons of mass destruction, the US and Coalition forces launched a war to bomb Saddam Hussein into oblivion, topple the Ba’athist regime and instate a new era of “liberty and peace.”

http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=3497

Harassed at the request of Israeli security
By Elham Asaad Buaras
A South African Muslim told The Muslim News he and his relatives were left embarrassed and angry after being “harassed” by police in Johannesburg’s airport at the request of security personnel from an Israeli airline.

http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=3498

International News in Brief



Regular columns

http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=3485

Book Review - Qur’an in contemporary scholarship
The Qur’an: The Basics, by Massimo Campanini, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. pp 157. 2007. HB.

http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=3492

Environment
By Ala Abbas
UN warns of a ‘new face of hunger’
An emerging global food crisis has this month seen the UN and British Government call for urgent action on “soaring” food prices that have fueled food riots worldwide

http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=3493
Science and Health
UK creates first human hybrid embryo

The controversy surrounding the creation of human-hybrid embryos has been hotly debated in the British press in recent weeks.


http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=3486

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