MPACUK is rapidly expanding, and the open day on 16th July also marks the official launch of the MPACUK Ilford branch. Join us for a lively discussion about how British Muslims can empower ourselves, and see how you can personally help defend the Ummah.

This is a defining moment in our relationship with Israel for all Americans of whatever faith. Just as we need to make clear to our own government that its human rights violations in Guantanamo and Iraq are unacceptable, so we need to communicate to the Israeli people that the mass punishment of a million people for the acts of a few is as unacceptable when it comes from a democratic society as when it comes from the willful oppression of entrenched authoritarian dictators.

He owns a villa in Herzliya Pituah, an exclusive suburb of Tel Aviv in Israel. He has acted as a fundraiser for Ehud Barak, the Israeli Prime Minister, and maintains a close relationship with him. His son Daniel worked for the Israeli Justice Minister Yossi Beilin, to whom Levy contributed campaign funds. Lord Levy tonight launched an extraordinary attack on the Metropolitan police, accusing Scotland Yard of provoking a "media circus" with an "unnecessary, disproportionate and ... theatrical" arrest in the "cash-for-honours" saga.

The message was scrawled in chalk on a brick wall in a slum outside Bandra station, just 50 metres from where the first bomb went off in a packed commuter train on Tuesday. "We condemn the ones who did a terrorist bomb here," it said in English. "The culprits should be hanged to death." It was a message from the wrong side of the tracks. As the death toll from the Mumbai bombings was confirmed at more than 200 yesterday, suspicions about who was responsible centred on Islamic militants.

Leading UN agencies are issuing increasingly dramatic warnings about the humanitarian situation in Gaza, where Israeli forces continue their search for a captured soldier, Gilad Shalit. There have also been numerous expressions of international public dismay. But effective inter-governmental action to end the crisis is so far lacking, due largely to deadlock within the UN security council.

There have been numerous reports and details from ex-detainees of allegations of abuse and torture at the hands of the US military and interrogators. Tarek Dergoul, who spent significant time with two of the deceased, provides the first in depth insight into their time in Guantanamo.

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Are these words to define the next generation of Muslims in the UK and worldwide?

Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt has apologised to people with learning disabilities abused whilst in the care of Cornwall Partnership NHS Trust. She was responding to a report last week that raised serious concerns about treatment of people in some care homes. The apology came as one family at the centre of the allegations was told there would be a new inquiry into what happened to their son, Ryan Blakey.

A few months ago, Abir Al-Janabi was just another 14-year-old Iraqi girl in a small town called Al-Mahmudiyah, south of Baghdad. Both of her parents are from the Al-Janabi tribe, one of the biggest tribes with Sunni and Shia branches. Omar Al-Janabi, a neighbor and relative, was informed by Abir's mother that the young girl was being harassed by U.S. soldiers stationed in a nearby checkpoint.