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Latest issue of The Muslim News newspaper. Editorial on the urgency and importance of reviewing Schedule 7 anti terror law. Aid is more often than not politicised even by some charities. The article is on politicisation of aid to Somalia. A Qaddafi opponent sues British Govt over his rendition to torture and a MI6 used Qaddafi spy to spy on British mosques. Once again huge number of stories on Islamophobia and Islamophobic attacks in UK, US and Europe. The govts have to do something to ensure its Muslim citizens are not discriminated and provide protection. A critique on the PLO's application to the UN for statehood. Over a thousand people killed in India, Pakistan and Afghanistan in September. And a lot more……

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Editorial

http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=5571

Schedule 7 terror law should be reviewed

For the first time the Home Office has published a breakdown of ethnicity in its latest statistics on the use of Schedule 7. It confirms that non-whites have been disproportionately stopped and searched at UK ports. More than half, 55 per cent, of those stopped and searched were non-whites, hugely disproportionate to their proportion of the country's population – 8 per cent. The proportion of non-white was even higher, 84 per cent, for those detained for more than an hour.

http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=5572

Another tyrant gone

As we go to print, we have received news of the killing of Colonel Muammar Qaddafi in his city of birth, Sirte.

Politicisation of aid in Somalia

By Abdurahman Sharif

The recent drought that has hit the Horn of Africa has put media attention once again on Somalia, which has faced one of its worst famines in 60 years. In South Somalia alone, famine has been declared in six out of the eight regions.

Home news

http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=5534

Dawkins attack on Muslim schools is hateful and arrogant, says AMS

By Elham Asaad Buaras

Chair of the Association of Muslim Schools (AMS) has condemned Professor Richard Dawkins for his "hateful and arrogant" attack on Muslim faith schools.

http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=5535

Call for public inquiry into policing of EDL rally

By Elham Asaad Buaras

A group of anti-fascist protesters are calling for a public inquiry into the policing of last year's English Defence League (EDL) rally in Bolton, Lancashire.

http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=5536

Dizaei suspended from Met hours after claiming reinstatement

By Elham Asaad Buaras

Ex-police commander Ali Dizaei has been suspended from Scotland Yard, just hours after he announced he had won his appeal against his dismissal.

http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=5537

Unicef slams jailing of under 18's caught up in riots

By Elham Asaad Buaras

Unicef has criticised the UK judicial system for imprisoning children allegedly involved in the August riots and warned that that the UK could be in breach of their UN obligations to children's rights.

http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=5559

Six members of Palestinian family perish in London house fire

By Elham Asaad Buaras

A seriously burned father flung himself into the inferno that engulfed his house in a frantic effort to save his wife and children.

Human Rights

http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=5526

Hooding prisoners 'unlawful,' court rules

By Hamed Chapman

The Government has been found guilty of unlawfully condoning the hooding of prisoners in its guidance to intelligence officers and service personnel.

http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=5527

Qaddafi opponent sues British Govt over his rendition to torture

By Elham Asaad Buaras

An opponent of Colonel Qaddafi's regime, who was rendered along with his wife and four young children to Libya by British security services in 2004, began legal action against MI5, MI6, the Attorney General, the Foreign Office and the Home Office on October 7.

http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=5528

MSP calls for review of Schedule 7 stop and search

By Hamed Chapman

Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) Humza Yousaf has renewed calls for a review into airport security measures particularly Schedule 7 powers, after the release of the latest terrorism statistics by the Home Office this month.

http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=5555

More arrested on terror related offenses

By Aishah Ali

Six men and a woman were arrested on September 19 in a series of anti-terror raids in Birmingham.

http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=5553

MI6 planted Qaddafi spy inside British mosques

By Elham Asaad Buaras

Britain's secret intelligence service planted a spy working for the Qaddafi regime inside mosques in England, secret files recovered by Human Rights Watch (HRW) revealed.

http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=5556

Over 30k sign petition urging Govt to stop Babar's extradition

By Elham Asaad Buaras

More than 30,000 people have signed the e-petition urging the UK Government to stop the extradition of British detainee Babar Ahmad to the US and put him on trial in the UK instead. It is currently the highest ranked e-petition about a single person.

http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=5554

Palestine campaigner wrongfully arrested awaits police apology

By Elham Asaad Buaras

A 64 year-old university lecturer who was wrongfully arrested and injured by police after taking part in a pro-Palestine campaign said he is "disappointed" in the "dishonest" reaction of Lothian and Borders Police to ruling by the Police Complaints Commission Scotland (PCCS).

Islamophobia

http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=5541

Dudley Mosque planning permission refused again

By Aishah Ali

The struggle for building a new multi-million pound mosque in Hall Street, Dudley, continues after Dudley Council rejected the latest plans on September 19. Councillor Geoff Southall slammed the design as "characterless" and an "alien-feature" and said, "It does not sit comfortably on the landscape like the iconic castle does."

http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=5542

USA: 34 Muslim shuttle-bus drivers in prayer dispute

34 Muslim shuttle-bus drivers in Seattle-Tacoma International Airport have been indefinitely suspended by their employer, the Hertz Rent-A-Car company. The drivers, all Somali-born Muslims, were suspended on Sept 30 for taking prayer breaks without clocking out first.

http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=5543

USA: Muslim woman removed from USA plane sues

A Muslim woman who was removed from a plane in San Diego last spring sued Southwest Airlines on October 6, alleging she was discriminated against because she was wearing an Islamic head covering.

http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=5544

USA: Army veteran in bogus-bomb case gets 5 years

An Illinois army veteran who wore a fake bomb during a standoff that followed a phone call to a mosque in which he threatened to "start an apocalypse" was sentenced to 5 years in prison on September 23.

http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=5545

USA: Court to adapt to accommodate hijab

A Muslim woman who was arrested in 2008 after refusing to remove her hijab in a Douglasville courtroom has received a settlement from the city on October 6.

http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=5546

Peer condemned for accusing Pakistanis and Bangladeshis having more kids to claim benefits

By Elham Asaad Buaras

Pakistanis and Bangladeshis have more children to claim benefits, claimed Indian born peer in a debate. Bethnal Green and Bow Labour MP Rushanara Ali condemned Flather, calling her analysis "distasteful" and "factually incorrect."

http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=5547

Muslim mum abused by schoolchildren

By Elham Asaad Buaras

A mum says she is being subjected to Islamophobic abuse each day as she walks her three young children home from school by pupils who jeer at her from a passing school bus.

http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=554

'Highly offensive Islamophobic' graffiti sprayed on Milton Keynes mosques

By Elham Asaad Buaras

Police have opened an investigation into three acts of "religiously aggravated" vandalism in and around two mosques in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire.

http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=5551

Southend councillor suspended for EDL links

By Elham Asaad Buaras

A Southend councillor has been suspended from the Conservative Party after receiving praise for his support of an English Defence League (EDL) march in London.

http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=5563

Brief Europe

http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=5564

Brief UK

World News

http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=5529

TUC calls for ending persecution of Bahraini workers

By Aliya Al-Yassin

Human rights activists are calling for the immediate release of opposition leader, Hassan Mushaima, 63, who was sentenced to lifetime imprisonment in June.

http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=5531

Over 1300 killed in India, Pakistan and Afghanistan by violence

By Abdullah Khan in Islamabad

The political conflicts continued to breed violence in three South Asian states, Afghanistan, India, and Pakistan. As many as 1348 people were killed and more than 900 injured in 353 different incidents during September.

http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=5532

Six Muslims convicted of reading Nursi's works in Russia

Six readers of the works of the late Turkish Muslim mufassir (commentator of the Qur'an) and theologian Bediuzzaman Said Nursi (died 1960) were convicted at a two-hour trial on October 11 in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia,

http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=5533

Drone attacks fall as Petraeus takes charge of CIA

By Abdullah Khan in Islamabad

The CIA carried out four drone attacks in Pakistan's tribal areas killing as many as 22 people during September.

http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=5565

Brief Palestine

Comment

http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=5530

Was this Black September II for the PLO?

By Daud Abdullah

One question lingers after September's drama at the United Nations (UN): what next for the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO)? As things stand, the PLO does not control all areas of the proposed Palestinian state and, if eventually successful, its bid for membership of the UN would leave Israel in occupation of an independent, sovereign state. By looking for a state on only 20% of historic Palestine (and even that much is doubtful), the PLO legitimises the partition of Palestine. In doing so it has abandoned its raison d'être; the liberation of Palestine.

Eid Messages

http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=5538

Eid message from Rt Hon Ed Miliband (Opposition Leader)

http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=5539

Eid message from Nicola Sturgeon, MSP (Deputy First Minister of Scotland)

http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=5540

Eid Message from Rt Hon Carwyn Jones AM (First Minister of Wales)

Regular columns

http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=5549

Legal Corner: Deaf diplomat loses discrimination claim against FCO

By Sharmin Pirbhai (Employment Law Specialist)

In Cordell v Foreign & Commonwealth Office (0016/11), the Employment Appeals Tribunal has held that the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) did not directly discriminate against a deaf senior diplomat under the Disability Discrimination Act 1995, nor breach its duty to make reasonable adjustments, when it withdrew an offer of a post in Kazakhstan because of the cost of providing English lip speaker support for her.

http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=5557

Health and Science

By Rachel Kayani

Ultrasound can help to treat fractures

Doctors in Glasgow are using Ultrasound treatment to speed up the recovery for patients with broken bones.

http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=5558

Environment: Desalination: A shaky future for potable water

By Sarah Marshall, University of South Florida

Florida is known for its extensive Floridan Aquifer as well as the sinkholes that come with over-pumping it.

http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=5550

Book Review: Story of Queen Victoria and her Muslim aide

By Muhammad Khan

Victoria and Abdul: The True Story of the Queen's Closest Confidant. By Shrabani Basu. Stroud, Gloucestershire: The History Press. pp224. 2010. HB. £18.99

http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=5552

Poets' Corner: Bahrain

http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=5560

Sport: UK's largest female only futsal tournament

By Anisa Tirmizi and Ayesha Abdeen

Spirits were high on the morning of October 16, as thirteen teams from across the UK entered through the doors of the Birmingham International Futsal arena, hearts racing... rearing to go! They were going to be competing in the MWSF Futsal Festival – the UK's largest exclusively female futsal tournament, organised by the Muslim Women's Sport Foundation (MWSF) supported by the FA and Kick It Out

http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=5561

Sport: City goes to the top

By Zeeshan Akhtar

Steven Gerrard scored on his return to Liverpool but Man United did not admit surrender in a 1-1 draw at Anfield. Kenny Dalglish restored his captain to the starting line-up for the first time in seven months and he was rewarded with a 68th minute opener from a free kick in front of the Kop.

http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=5562

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