By YVONNE RIDLEY IT’S a question I’ve often asked myself but her ineffective initiatives and weak sound bites have largely been so insignificant that most of us choose to ignore her. Her Westminster life began to take off when she joined a group of largely other dodgy-looking boilers who were given the unlikely soubriquet of [...]
By YOUSEF DRUMMOND THE Muslim Ummah today is dazed and confused about the true meaning of Jihad. We have strayed away from the essential verses of the Qu’ran, the only guide that Allah (SWT) has revealed to the Prophet Muhammad (p.b.u.h.) that explains its true nature. Nonetheless, we, as Muslims, must reclaim its true meaning [...]
By YOUSEF DRUMMOND RIGHT-wing Dutch parliamentarian and politician Geert Wilders is experiencing an uneasy relationship with his fellow European counterparts who say his incendiary rhetoric about Islam is fanning the flames of resentment among its Muslim inhabitants who reside uneasily in an increasing secular European society. Mr. Wilders disagrees vehemently with his European counterparts [...]
By YVONNE RIDLEY I'VE never been a huge flag-waving fan of the Union Jack because to me it was largely a symbol of the old British Empire and all the bad things it once represented in terms of occupation, slavery, tyranny and imperialistic wars. 1966 changed my view to a certain extent when 'we' won [...]
By YOUSEF DRUMMOND ABOUT a month ago a Muslim brother convinced me to see a film called “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”. Quite frankly, I didn’t want to see the film because I associated it with others that are usually devoid of historical or social value. Besides, any adherent to a religious faith that tries [...]
By YVONNE RIDLEY THE last 24 hours have probably been the blackest since the Viva Palestina convoy set off from London. Yesterday the convoy members became the target of an orchestrated wave of violence first started by Egyptian police and then culminating in vicious attacks by unknown thugs. The end result was a number of peace activists whose [...]
