By Martin Weightman. Martin has worked in the field of human rights for more than 40 years. He is the Director of the All Faiths Network, an interfaith group based in the UK. He is also on the Advisory Board of an African development organisation as their interfaith and human rights advisor. He was the European Human Rights…
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An Interfaith event was held at Noor Mosque, Crawley, organised by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Elder’s Association. The local mayor, Bishop of Horsham, Sikh, Hindu and Muslim speakers talked about the value of interfaith and different projects that were being carried out. Awards were also given to the speakers and some of the attendees. Director of…
Writing in the Guardian last month, Miqdaad Versi highlighted both the dangerous linking of terrorism with relgion, chiefly Islam, in the press, and the frightening way in which such false claims are then propagated through social media. The most recent example was the Daily Express headline ‘Terror in Spain: Gunman screaming ‘Allahu Akbar’ opens fire in…
A YouGov poll on attitudes to the causes of Islamic and Christian terrorism shows a significant differences of views between younger and older respondents. While “religious views” is thought to be the main cause of terrorist acts, in neither Christian or Islamic cases is terrorism thought to reveal anything about the faith. Asked “Generally speaking,…
On 5th December 2016, 16 fully armed policemen and 12 plain clothed officers in three police vehicles forcefully entered the Tahrik Jadid (an administrative body of the Ahmadiyya community overseeing overseas missions, building mosques, and publishing literature and the Holy Quran in various languages) compound in Rabwah, Pakistan. Cases have been filed against the 4…
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed the so-called “Yarovaya package” of laws which substantially toughen criminal accountability for a number of crimes and introduce new forms of violations of law, including “failure to report a crime”. The package also forbids unregistered organizations [chiefly religious groups] to engage in missionary activity, while any missionary activity by…
The majority of people promoting “jihad” online are using political rather than religious arguments, according to a study by two UAE-based think-tanks. The report, by the Abu Dhabi-based Future Centre and the al-Mesbar Centre in Dubai, was released as a video called “How a Terrorist Thinks”. The study analysed 45,000 Arabic-language Twitter posts by individuals…
Forum18 reports that in latest cases in Russia against Sunni Muslims who read the works of the late Turkish theologian Said Nursi, eight individuals are known to be facing charges in separate criminal investigations in four different cities. Three of these four cases involve suspects who have previously been convicted of similar “extremism” offences within…
An international seminar on the life and ways of Prophet Mohammed condemned terrorism and declared that Islam has no room for any terrorist activities. “Islam is the religion of peace, fraternity, tolerance, mutual respect and patriotism,” said eminent scholars from across the country at the three-day international seminar that was inaugurated on Sunday at Al…
