Islam – Displaced Indian Muslims seek help to return home
Reuters – AHMEDABAD, India (Reuters) – Five years after their loved ones were brutally killed and they were forced to flee, thousands of Muslim victims of one of India’s worst religious riots have pleaded for help to return home. About 23,000 Muslims fled
Indonesia, Pakistan Say Muslims Must Unite
Associated Press – JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Muslim nations must work together to end spiraling bloodshed in the Middle East, the leaders of Indonesia and Pakistan said Wednesday, as they sought to counterbalance U.S. influence in the region. Pakistan’s President Gen
Plots and paranoia are mainstream views for Muslims of Sparkbrook
Times Online – To wander the streets of Sparkbrook yesterday, from shabby corner shop to proud, white-domed mosque, was to enter a world where conspiracy theories are the breath of life. Many ordinary Muslims did not believe that Wednesday s arrests were an act to
Government “picks on Muslims”
Channel 4 News – West Midlands Police said they’d completed searches and recovered exhibits from six addresses raided this week – and had asked for warrants to enter another three properties. Nine men were arrested on Wednesday, but police only began to question them
Muslims now fear backlash of racial attacks
IC Coventry – THE arrest of nine people on suspicion of terrorism and their detention in Coventry has caused concern among Muslims in the city, according to community leaders. Mohammed Shabir, executive director of the Muslim Resource Centre in Red Lane, Foleshill
Muslims ‘being persecuted’ in Brum
Birmingham Post – Muslim communities in Birmingham are feeling picked on and persecuted following the latest high-profile anti-terror raids in the city. That was the view of residents, traders and community leaders who fear that if the arrests made during Wednesday’s