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Bodyguard’s season finale was a really tense affair, with a lot of great twists and turns right to the bitter end. Finally, we had a BBC drama that didn’t depict a Muslim woman (Nadia) as a weak, subjugated woman, living…
A few weeks ago, a group of campaigners and activists met with Amanda Spielman, the Chief Inspector of Schools, to discuss the hijab, which is part of school uniform policy for one in five primary schools in the UK. Following…
Aisha Ali-Khan has caused controversy by suggesting that hijabs should be banned in primary schools. In this article, she responds to some of her critics’ questions. Do you want to ban the hijab? No, absolutely not. I believe that everyone…
This week, it emerged that an outspoken, fiery local councillor Amina Lone had been deselected by her political party from the forthcoming local elections in Manchester. For some this would not have come as a surprise. For the past year…
Amir Khan’s Twitter announcement that his marriage was over was shocking enough. But then he followed it up with a series of ever more bizarre, disturbing and downright scandalous tweets in which he accused his now estranged wife, Faryal Makhdoom,…
Last week a good friend of mine shared a tweet to our private Facebook group. The tweet, ‘How to find out if she’s a virgin’ was posted by a ‘sheikh’ in support of his ‘Game of Marriage’ course, a free…
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