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Forced marriages disgrace Islam

  • 27 March 2008
  • 22 comments

The first step to dealing with honour killings in the UK is to criminalise forced marriage.

What is going on at the British Council?

  • 13 March 2008
  • 1 comment

The idea that culture is best promoted by organising effete tours of writers and artists has passed

The real lesson of Easter Island

  • 28 February 2008
  • 4 comments

Ancient cultures provide societies responsible for devastating climate change with a contemporary means of guilt replacement

The archbishop, sharia and gay rights

  • 14 February 2008
  • 13 comments

On the issue of equality it is not just the sharia that needs reform, but all monotheistic faiths

Will you marry me - temporarily?

  • 07 February 2008
  • 11 comments

This year, the Iranian interior ministry has launched a huge campaign to encourage the country's frustrated youth to seek sexual fulfilment in muta marriages

Don't put your girl in TV, Mrs Worthington

  • 24 January 2008
  • 1 comment

Behind the sparkle and allure of broadcasting, a new kind of slave trade is developing

A common heritage for global peace

  • 06 December 2007
  • 6 comments

It is just not good enough to say that love of God will conquer all differences and usher in peace and harmony all around

Muslims have a sense of humour

  • 11 October 2007
  • 3 comments

In Britain we've had gay sitcoms, black sitcoms and even a couple of Indian sitcoms but Muslim sitcoms?

Lifting the veil on the Islamic catwalk

  • 27 September 2007
  • 8 comments

Our own Shazia Mirza has become an icon of Islamic fashion thanks to a style that combines fashion, religion, politics and aesthetics to signal a new Islamic cosmopolitanism

British citizens of history

  • 13 September 2007
  • 3 comments

Jack Straw's green paper The Governance of Britain, published in July, has provided the best laugh I've had in years

Fidel Castro

The last revolutionary

The last revolutionary

Steve Richards

On Tory policy

Our future in their hands

James Macintyre

Miliband's dilemma

Brussels is back with a vengeance

Will Self

On Oscar Wilde

Where the Wilde things are

Science

Religion and Darwin

Since the dawn  of time

Film review

Bright Star

Bright Star (PG)

Books

Paul Auster

Invisible

Interview

Alain de Botton

The Books Interview: Alain de Botton

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