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  • 6 Oct 2009
    Gay Muslims need support, says leading commentator

    The Muslim commentator Inayat Bunglawala has called on the Muslim community to be more supportive of its gay and lesbian members. He suggested that "Muslim and some Christian communities" were not showing "respect and tolerance".

  • 23 Sep 2009
    Hotel owners accused of religiously abusing guest

    A Christian couple have been charged with breaching public order after alleged verbal abuse of a guest in their hotel on account of her Muslim faith and religious dress. The nature of the incident remains unclear.

  • 22 Sep 2009
    Christians and Muslims both face repression in Azerbaijan

    The authorities in Azerbaijan are facing allegations of abuse and repression towards both Muslim and Christian worshipers. A major Sunni mosque has been closed down while Baptists have accused the police of intimidation and violence.

  • 22 Sep 2009
    Hearing delayed into teacher accused of classroom racism

    A hearing into allegations that a teacher promoted racist views in the classroom has been delayed after police cited fears of violence. Adam Walker is accused of promoting hostility to asylum-seekers, gay people and Muslims.

  • 7 Sep 2009
    Swiss Christians and Jews join Muslim opposition to minaret ban

    The Swiss Council of Religions, which groups Jewish, Christian and Muslim leaders, has rejected a call for the country to ban the construction of minarets at mosques.

  • 20 Aug 2009
    Where to get an Islamic Mortgage

    The Islamic mortgage is actually known as a "Home Purchase Plan". This is intentional and a reflection of the fact that no interest is charged on an Islamic mortgage.

  • 3 Jul 2009
    Lutheran world leader calls for an end to Islamophobia

    Renounce Islamophobia, the general secretary of the Lutheran World Federation has urged world religious leaders at an inter-religious congress held in Kazakhstan.

  • 7 Apr 2009
    Obama says USA is not and will never be 'at war with Islam'

    US President Barack Obama has used his visit to Turkey to emphasise that the US is not and will never be involved in a 'war on Islam', and that he wants cooperation not conflict between civilisations.

  • 16 Mar 2009
    Freedom, responsibility, respect…and Islam

    It is possible to create an alternative discourse on Muslim approaches to free speech, by re-reading aspects of Islamic teachings, says Dilwar Hussain, responding to issues raised by the Convention on Modern Liberty.

  • 22 Jul 2008
    Pakistan court says the forced conversion of two kidnapped girls is legal

    A Christian father in Pakistan is trying without success to gain custody through the courts of his two pre-teen daughters who were kidnapped and made to convert to Islam. Shock has been expressed at the court's reaction.