It’s not easy being awake - being aware of the suffering around us. You have to stand up to the evils you see inside of yourself and to all those evils around you that you see in your daily life. Not only that, you often have to take the slings and arrows of the very people you try to defend.

Since 23 January 2008, we have witnessed the extraordinary spectacle of a mass breakout by Palestinians from their Gaza prison, a breakout made possible by Hamas blowing up stretches of the Israeli-built border wall between Gaza and Egypt, near Rafah, and bulldozing other stretches of it.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, has called on the US and its allies to "apologize" to Iran for accusing it of seeking nuclear weapons, a day after the UN nuclear watchdog released its latest report on Iran's atomic programme. Ahmadinejad said on Saturday the report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) vindicated Iran.

FILM SCREENING & DEBATE WITH SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKERS IN BEESTON, LEEDS, SUNDAY 9TH MARCH.

Extra-judicial detention, the nature of the threat of terrorism and the effect of alienating communities will be debated.

British government officials expressed embarrassment and anger at Washington last night after they were forced to admit that US rendition flights carrying terror suspects for secret interrogation had twice landed on British soil.

No, there isn’t a typo in the title - this is exactly what we Muslims have started to do. There are little girls being raped. There are children being shot in the head on their way to school. There are pregnant women being forced to give birth at checkpoints. And the Muslims do nothing.

The battle over the Iraq dossier draft has followed a familiar pattern of Whitehall attempts to block freedom of information requests. When a researcher first applied to the Foreign Office for the release of the draft dossier, it turned the request down.

The Muslim Public Affairs Committee welcome the comments by David Cameron about criminalising forced marriages. Tough measures are needed to stamp out such a backward concept from our society. Forced marriage has nothing to do with Islam - indeed it is unIslamic and condemned by the authentic teachings of Islam.