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Sarajevo blog: Day 3 Emdad Rahman TODAY WE MET three families who have benefitted from receiving cows which have greatly helped them generate an income to support themselves. We were welcomed with open arms at each locality and afforded the ...

Sarajevo blog: Day 2 Emdad Rahman AN EARLY START to a productive day began with Fajr prayers at Ferhadija Masjid. With a strong and steaming hot Bosanska Kafa we were set for the day ahead, which involved meetings with various ...

Sarajevo blog: Day 1 Emdad Rahman WE ARE WITH the Bosnia Trust this weekend and will be spending the next few days delivering and surveying projects which we are supporting. We have spent Thursday travelling to our destination after a ...

THERE CAN’T BE many Councils in the UK which have banned charities from using their local parks – but Tower Hamlets Council is one of them, with officers’ reasoning only being discovered after Freedom of Information Requests. The Big Ride, ...

A YOUNG, WHITE Norwegian citizen has been charged with murder in the aftermath of a shooting incident at the Al-Noor Islamic Centre in the town of Baerum, on the outskirts of the capital, Oslo. No one was killed when the ...

THE WORLD is holding its breath as India continues to take steps to bring the state of Kashmir – the only Muslim majority state in India – more closely under its direct control. Most Muslim-majority states became part of Pakistan ...

TOWER HAMLETS COUNCIL has been found out refusing to host a charity event organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) – on the grounds that it might be construed as anti-semitic. An article in The Guardian today has revealed that ...

INDIAN PRIME MINISTER Narendra Modi has tweeted his delight at the decision of the India Parliament to criminalise the “triple talaq” divorce allowed in the Muslim religion. In 2017 the Indian Supreme Court declared the triple talaq was unconstitutional. A ...

SWATHES OF South Asia are suffering from heavy monsoon rains which have caused flash floods, standing floods and landslips. The death toll is already at 300, with tens of thousands more displaced. Over 1.5 million people are thought to have ...

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