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British Muslims urged to boycott Israeli dates during Ramadan

by RAINman on 05. Aug, 2010 in Newsletter Links

New protest at occupation of Palestinian territories, as Israeli ambassador counters with ‘two-date solution’ pun

Haroon Siddique
guardian.co.uk – 4 August 2010
British Muslims are being urged to boycott Israeli dates when breaking their fast during Ramadan in protest at the continued occupation of the Palestinian territories.
Campaign organisers Friends of Al Aqsa hope the boycott [...]

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Iraq war ‘triggered UK bomb plots’

by RAINman on 21. Jul, 2010 in Newsletter Links

Aljazeera  - July 20, 2010
Britain’s support for the war in Iraq was connected to a series of deadly bombings in London and sparked a rise in domestic attack plots that “swamped” security services, a former intelligence chief has said.
Eliza Manningham-Buller, director of the MI5 between 2002 and 2007, told a public inquiry in London on Tuesday [...]

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Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: British Muslims are running out of friends

by RAINman on 09. Mar, 2010 in Opinion

The establishment has surpassed its previous disgraceful record in its attitudes to Islam
Independent - 8 March 2010

I am but Muslim lite, a non-conformist believer who will not be told what and how by sanctimonious religious sentinels for whom religion is a long list of rules to be obeyed by bovine followers. Readers know I am often [...]

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