The Disgraceful Face of Political Expediency Between the UK & Syria

February 26, 2012 Article

Much has been said and reported on the ‘deals in the desert’ that were done by the previous Government to bring the unhinged Gaddafi back into the ‘mainstream of the international community.’ The deal was that Gaddafi and Libya would have trade sanctions lifted and a rehabilitation of their ‘image’ in the UK and Europe. Read More

Militant Secularists & Faith

February 19, 2012 Article

Baroness Warsi has again spoken about something which has not been spoken about in the public sphere. The issue of faith in the public arena and where policy making and policy shaping may be involved with faith. For those who will feel that faith and politics / public policy should not mix, I am afraid Read More

Recriminations in Libya are Starting

August 27, 2011 Article

So here we go! The recriminations post a Qadaffi era are starting with news flashes showing the decomposing bodies of Qadaffi supporters who have been summarily executed. Everyone it seems, has a pistol or an AK47 in Tripoli and everyone has a grievance, many legitimately, since the brutal dictator affected the lives of all Libyans. Read More

The Arab Spring into the Arab Summer

August 25, 2011 Article

Qadafi and his disgraceful regime are finally at an end after four decades of control on the lives of every Libyan. The man who re-invented himself after Lockerbie and who survived the 1986 attempt to kill him using a joint British and US air raid, is finally dislodged. I remember the news stories on the Read More

Launch of MAMA (Measuring ant-Muslim Attacks) Software

August 8, 2011 Article

The time has finally come! Since 9/11 and 7/7 successive European and US Governments have rightly focussed on countering Al Qaeda and terrorist attacks in Europe and the US. However, the continued focus has missed out on the rising tide of anti-Muslim hate crime that has been taking place and which has not been properly Read More

Going to War Has Cost Everyone Dearly

July 21, 2010 Article

Yesterday at the Chilcot enquiry (which has been set up to find out the lessons learnt from the Iraq conflict), the walls resounded to a withering and devastating testimony from the former head of MI5 – the internally (UK) focussed security service. Eliza Manningham-Buller told the Chilcot inquiry that civil servants were frightened to speak Read More

Touching on the Illogical?

July 19, 2010 Article

We have all heard the same phrases in one way or another. ‘I have black friends down the road and we have nothing against them. But the family down the road do not fit with our area. They are………different.’ It is funny how this statement seems to have the same meaning generation after generation yet, Read More

Responding to those who conveniently hide their hatred of anything Muslim

July 18, 2010 Article

Recently, we (www.faith-matters.org) launched a booklet on the Righteous Muslims which looked at the history of those people deemed to be Righteous by Yad Vashem and who had saved Jews and others from death by their actions. They did this without the promise of money, personal gain or through external pressure applied to them. They Read More

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