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Muslims must ignore hate speech | Inayat Bunglawala

Anwar al-Aulaqi is trying to spread violence in the wake of the Fort Hood shootings. True scholars preach a different message Nidal Hasan is a hero ... Nidal opened fire on soldiers who were on their way to be deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. How can ...

From INAYAT BUNGLAWALA, Comment Is Free,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Al-Qaeda,  Nidal Malik Hasan,  National Geographic,  Federal Bureau of Investigation

Honour our Muslim soldiers | Inayat Bunglawala

Hundreds of thousands of Muslims fought for Britain in the first world war. We must remember them and mark their contribution The Punjabi Musselman [Muslim] was regarded as the backbone of the old Indian army, and constituted about a third of the ...

From INAYAT BUNGLAWALA, Guardian Unlimited,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Abdul Ali

Stand tall against the extremists

Back in March 2009 a small group of fewer than 20 thugs from al-Muhajiroun staged a deliberately provocative publicity stunt in Luton by demonstrating and holding up some offensive placards at a parade for soldiers returning from their tour of duty in ...

From INAYAT BUNGLAWALA, Comment Is Free,  21 Oct 2009

Related Topics: House of Commons

Geert Wilders, the 'pre-criminal'

Tomorrow's planned visit to the UK by the far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders follows an appeal that overturned a banning order issued by then home secretary Jacqui Smith earlier this year. It marks a humiliating defeat for the Home Office, who ...

From INAYAT BUNGLAWALA, Guardian Unlimited,  15 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Home Office,  Geert Wilders,  Jacqui Smith,  BBC,  Louis Farrakhan

Gay Muslims need support

Some religious communities are not reciprocating the tolerance and respect they insist on from others when it comes to gay rights, particularly in Muslim and some Christian communities. That seemed to be the bleak message at the heart of To Be Straight ...

From INAYAT BUNGLAWALA, Guardian Unlimited,  5 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Nelson Mandela,  Peter Tatchell,  Michael Collins (politician)

A committee against Islamophobia

Thanks to Danish for the link. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2009/aug/27/islamophobia-committee Last month I wrote on Cif about a worrying incident in Loughton, Essex, in which Noor Ramjanally – a local Muslim figure involved in ...

From INAYAT BUNGLAWALA - GUADIAN.CO.UK, RichardDawkins.net,  28 Aug 2009

Related Topics: Simon Williams

Don't demonise sharia courts

Those who, in this country, are in dispute as to their respective rights are free to subject that dispute to the mediation of a chosen person, or to agree that the dispute shall be resolved by a chosen arbitrator or arbitrators. There is no reason why ...

From INAYAT BUNGLAWALA, Comment Is Free,  30 Jun 2009

Related Topics: Wikipedia

Minab: community initiative, or quango?

Minab is a joint initiative of four founding organisations, the Muslim Council of Britain, British Muslim Forum, Muslim Association of Britain and the al-Khoei Foundation and is meant to be a self-regulatory body. Its professed main role is to promote ...

From INAYAT BUNGLAWALA, Comment Is Free,  15 May 2009

Deporting these students shames us

The Home Office announced last night that nine of the 12 men – mainly Pakistani students – arrested in dramatic circumstances two weeks ago following terror raids in Greater Manchester, Liverpool and Lancashire are now to be handed over to the UK ...

From INAYAT BUNGLAWALA, Comment Is Free,  22 Apr 2009

Related Topics: Home Office,  UK Border Agency,  Gordon Brown,  BBC

Reaching for the stars

An image of the Sombrero galaxy from the Hubble telescope. Photograph: AP/Nasa Next year marks the 20th anniversary of the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope. The Hubble telescope was the source of a fair bit of mirth when it was first launched and ...

From INAYAT BUNGLAWALA, Comment Is Free,  5 Apr 2009

Related Topics: Michael Dukakis,  Edwin Hubble,  Paul Davies,  Stephen Hawking

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