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Hadiya Masieh: How 7 July bombings made me question my beliefs

On Tuesday, the eve of the fifth anniversary of the 7 July bombings when 52 people died at the hands …
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Islam and fashion

In a first floor classroom in the Hackney campus of the 

Luton and multiculturalism

Pastor Terry Jones and Taimour Abdulwahab al-Abdaly: two men espousing vile …
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What we Muslims can learn from converts

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Hadiya Masieh: How 7 July bombings made me question my beliefs

Published 4th July 2010

On Tuesday, the eve of the fifth anniversary of the 7 July bombings when 52 people died at the hands of Islamist terrorists, 100 orthodox Jewish and devout Muslim women will come together to try to foster closer ties between the two communities.

The women will …
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Muslim Schoolgirls show that faith and fashion are not incompatible

The Guardian 21st July 2010

In a first floor classroom in the Hackney campus of the London School of Fashion a small group of young schoolgirls are wrapping clothes on to tailor’s dummies. They are using conventional clothes in unconventional ways – turning ties into belts and baggy T-shirts into …
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review of reza aslan’s how to win a cosmic war

this was published in the guardian on june 13

The former classroom assistant speaks softly, in a voice that betrays his Yorkshire childhood. He wears an olive jacket, and a red and white chequered scarf around his head, as he looks into the lens of the video camera and says: …
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An Israeli mother, a Palestinian son

this is a piece I wrote for this Sunday’s Observer May 11 2009

It is a friendship as remarkable as it is unlikely: Robi Damelin is a 65-year-old Jewish grandmother whose son, David, served in the Israeli army; Ali Abu Awwad, 37, is a former Palestinian revolutionary who joined the …
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how to tell i’m not a terrorist

this is from the guardian 25th april 2009

So it turns out that the 12 Muslims arrested two weeks ago – you know, the ones who, according to ­Gordon Brown, were planning a “very big terrorist plot” – were ­doing nothing of the sort. The ­arrests and subsequent release highlight …
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bad news- the bnp says I don’t exist

Apparently, I do not exist. This naturally comes as something of a blow as I had a few plans for the weekend which will now need to be cancelled on account of my non-existence. According to the BNP leader Nick Griffin, black Britons and Asian Britons “do not exist”. For …
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