News: Many shoppers were determined to bag a bargain, regardless of what it was. Louise Haggerty, a hairdresser and waitress, shopping at 1am at a Sainsbury's in north-east London, said: "I got a Dyson but I don't even know if I want it. I just picked it up." The 56-year-old said she had wanted a new flatscreen TV, "but so many people pushed in the queue, we didn't have a…

News A few months ago, the UK government schools inspection body, Ofsted, carried out much publicised school inspections in Birmingham as part of the so called ‘Trojan horse' affair. After much hysteria, the findings focussed not on the academic attainment of the children, but on the mainstream Islamic practices in these schools which have an overwhelming number of students from Muslim homes. Trips to Umrah, adhan (Muslim call to prayer),…

News: On the 7th of November, 2014, the Malaysian Court of Appeal reversed the Islamic law banning cross-dressing for Muslim transgenders. One of the judges who presided over the appeal case, judge Hishamuddin Yunus was quoted by AFP as saying that: "It (banning cross-dressing) has the effect of denying the appellants and other sufferers of GID (gender identify disorder) to move freely in public places... This is degrading, oppressive and…

Within the so-called National Dialogue initiated by President al-Bashir at the beginning of this year, through a presidential decree, national committees for community dialogue were formed to complement the comprehensive National Dialogue. The chairwoman of the Community Forces Committee in the community dialogue committees of the Sudanese Center for Media Services, Tabita Boutros...