PSC has alhamdulillah organised a Demo against the Prime Minister of the only Apartheid state in the world today. Israel. We urge all lovers of freedom, justice and Palestine to come down to this demonstration with your friends, family, co-workers tomorrow.

Muslim women do not think they are conditioned to accept second-class status or view themselves as oppressed, according to a survey released Tuesday by The Gallup Organization. According to the poll, conducted in 2005, a strong majority of Muslim women believe they should have the right to vote without influence, work outside the home and serve in the highest levels of government. In more than 8,000 face-to-face interviews conducted in eight predominantly Muslim countries, the survey found that many women in the Muslim world did not see sex issues as a priority because other issues were more pressing.

Sometimes its best to let pictures do all the talking.

This is the frontpage of a couple leading British newspapers from last week, when two Muslims were arrested by police on terrorism charges following a massive raid during which one of the men is shot

Just as I've made my way back to Maryland, getting ready to post about how the rest of my trip went, and my stint on Democracy Now this morning, I learned that 10 Palestinians have been by Israeli shelling in northern Gaza as they were picnicking on the beach. 3 of them were children-two under the age of two. And their mother. And forty others wounded. We called my Aunt, who works with the al-Awda hospital in northern Gaza. She was hysterical, and this is a woman who seldom loses her grip.

The US and its allies have hailed the killing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, as a major victory in the fight against terror. George Bush, the US president, said on Thursday that al-Zarqawi's death in a US airstrike on a village north of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, was a "severe blow" to the al-Qaeda network.

The BBC reports that a Respect party activist is calling on Muslims to end cooperation with the police. The call was put out by none other than the brave and well loved Sister Yvonne Ridley.

Being Muslims ourselves we can honestly understand the frustrations within the community.

Only a few days ago we broke the news about a terror raid in East London during which a young Muslim boy of Bangladeshi origin was shot, (thankfully not fatally and please join us in praying for his speedy recovery). However we predicted at the time it was most likely a false arrest. It seems now, as information slowly leaks out that the intelligence was wrong.

How does a nation such as the US try to establish World peace? By funding Somali warlords to prolong even further long-standing anarchy in one of Africa's most politically unstable nations. For over a decade now, there has been no central government in place in war-torn Somalia...

“Why do they hate us?” So stunned Americans asked, after 9/11, when we learned that across the Arab world, many were saying, “The Americans had it coming.”

For a textbook example of why we are hated, consider Gaza and the West Bank. There, a brutal Israeli/U.S.-led cutoff in aid has been imposed on the Palestinians for voting the wrong way in a free election.

Since Hiroshima and Nagasaki the presumption has been that war can get no worse. The world has been spared a second nuclear war, so this presumption has a measure of truth. But the planning for major war has grown more alarming in all manner of ways — proliferation certainly but, not least, in the relatively recent statements of the US, Russia, the UK and France who, signaling a momentous shift in military doctrine, say that they are prepared to use their nuclear weapons for war fighting and not just for deterrence, as during the Cold War.