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British Museum exhibit offers visitors a chance to experience Muslim pilgrimage

Qaisra Khan and I are standing in the Round Reading Room of the world-renowned British Museum in London.

Around us people are busy installing historic artefacts from the Muslim world relating to the haj, the pilgrimage to Mecca – a principal religious obligation of adult Muslims.

Time to turn around worrisome trends in Pakistan

Once again the viciousness that haunts Muslim communities has manifested itself in the form of a brutal assassination of the Pakistani Provincial Governor Salman Taseer last week.

New, independent media empowering women

All too often, it seems that it’s a man’s world, especially in the Middle East.

Muslim culture, British identity

The Chairman of the Conservative Muslim Forum, Lord Altaf Sheikh urged the British Muslim community to join the armed forces and police in order to promote tolerance and mutual respect between Muslims and non-Muslims in Britain last month.

My not-so-kosher Hanukkah

This year I found myself the co-host of a not-so-kosher Hanukkah. What is a not-so-kosher Hanukkah? You will understand once you have read my story.
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