Baroness Sayeeda Warsi knows how to make a dashing entrance. As the first Muslim woman of Pakistani decent to serve in the British cabinet, she strolled...
The Guardian is currently running a project on the experiences of Muslims in Britain. They asked the British members of the MuslimMatters team to respond as...
By Matthew Smith Matthew Smith, also known as Yusuf, is a veteran U.K based blogger. He blogs at Indigo Jo Blogs- Blogistan where this article was...
By Sajda Khan (Twitter: @Sajda__Khan) Why has Britain become so obsessed with an item of clothing known as the niqab worn by a minority of women?...
Part Two [Part One of this debate can be viewed here] Although the pseudo-controversy surrounding the niqāb is at the vanguard of the tabloid agenda, we...
Part One Once again a ‘piece of cloth’ (Niqab) has dominated our newspaper headlines and discussions on the internet. On Monday, Liberal Democrat Home Office minister...
Panorama goes undercover to investigate what is really happening in Britain’s Sharia Councils – Islamic religious courts. Some women reveal they have suffered domestic violence ignored...
By Nabil Ahmed Just when we thought Muslims had passed the days of negative, terrorism-attached attention, it feels as though they never left. Repeated cases of...
For the past four days I had been working on the following article, which I intended to post yesterday evening. However, I then heard about the...
The BBC show Panorama, through secret filming, has found that Shari’ah courts are not helping women in domestic violent situations. The Telegraph states: “85 councils operating...