I am tired of the media’s shoddy reporting on how ‘repressed’ Muslim women are ever since the Archbishops comments and I am amused by their demonisation of Sharia law with respect to women. I am a Muslim woman who lives by the Sharia law and this law gave me the right to inherit, the right to vote, the right to divorce, the right to marry whom I please centuries before women’s rights groups, in the West, such as the suffragettes started campaigning for women’s rights.

As a Liberal Democrat MP John Hemming represents the constituency Yardley in Birmingham. Mr Hemming joins MPACUK to discuss issues such as Islamophobia, the media’s attitude toward Muslims, lobbying, the occupation of Palestine, the invasion of Afghanistan amongst other controversial topics. From MPACUK, sisters Tasneem and Abida invite John Hemming to talk about the issues affecting Muslims in Britain today, and what Muslims could and can be doing today to tackle these issues that surround us.

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The convictions of five young Muslim men jailed over extremist literature have been quashed by the Appeal Court. Freeing the men, the Lord Chief Justice said there was no proof of terrorist intent. The lawyer for one said they had been jailed for a "thought crime".A jury convicted them in 2007 after hearing the men, of Bradford University and Ilford, London, became obsessed with jihadi websites and literature.

Last week MPACUK's Asghar Bukhari was invited on to BBC Radio 2's Jeremy Vine Show to discuss the Archbishop of Canterbury's comments regarding Sharia law. Listen to the podcast here:

After watching a televised debate between Asghar Bukhari of MPACUK and Douglas Murray of the Centre for Social Cohesion, a blogger wrote to us with his analysis about the Centre for Social Cohesion.  Here's what he had to say:

In his controversial new book, Nick Davies argues that shadowy intelligence agencies are pumping out black propaganda to manipulate public opinion – and that the media simply swallow it wholesale.  On the morning of 9 February 2004, The New York Times carried an exclusive and alarming story. The paper's Baghdad correspondent, Dexter Filkins, reported..