Integration
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Sarah Khan, London A close friend of mine once recounted to me an action she saw made by a wise person. This spiritual leader took a thread of black and a thread of white. He wound them together so they criss-crossed, becoming intertwined. This, he explained gently, was the path of life. The black represented
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By Sarah Khan, London, UK Nowadays I often feel that I’m standing in a constantly moving pool of quicksand. There are clear seismic shifts in the ground upon which I stand and often they are caused by events entirely unconnected to me and they reverberate through my life as a direct result of my faith.
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By Laiqa Ahmad Bhatti, Slough, UK Brutality begins at home. It is quite true that some aspect of the recent terror attacks may stem from their home lives as Yasmin Alibhai-Brown has mentioned in her article in the Daily Mail today (24th March). However, just like the terrorists have nothing to do with Islam, neither
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By Navida Sayed In recent days there has been a lot of talk about a suggestion published in a document about counter terrorism that the hijab contributes to passive terrorism. The document is a US Air Force White Paper entitled “Countering Violent Extremism, Scientific Methods and Strategies” with contributions by several academics; it was originally published in 2011
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Source: Flickr Tooba Khokhar, Cambridge A lot of the time when I tell people that my Hijab liberates me, they nod indulgently, their expression a little doubtful, whilst they kindly explain ‘no darling, liberation means being free!’ Our interactions, almost inevitably, drift towards an impassé. We might be saying the same word: ‘liberation’, but in
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Ayesha Malik, Surrey These have been troubling times for adherents of the Islamic faith with the rising tide of extremism along with an increasing number of Muslim scholars and clerics attempting to monopolise a singular path to salvation. Most Muslim-majority countries have adopted constitutional clauses mandating that all
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Maleeha Mansur, London In medicine, we are always taught that in making decisions about a patient, they should be involved and consulted with the ultimate choice lying with them, for all patients have capacity unless proven otherwise. So when I read about the Prime Minister’s recent intention of imposing English lessons on Muslim women, abolishing
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