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Koran and Country - Radio 4

[size=18]How Islam Got Political[/size]
[size=14]An Analysis Special[/size]

[b]Radio 4

Thursday, 10 November

20:00 GMT[/b]

Frank Gardner, the BBC's Security Correspondent, traces the rise of political Islam in Britain and around the world.

From the political Islamic movement founded in colonial India by Syed Abul Ala Mawdudi to the Muslim Brotherhood and al Qaeda, this special edition of Analysis traces the history of mainstream and radical political Islam.

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Mosque Appeal

My local mosque (in Smethwick, Birmingham) is building a bigger mosque which would accomodate the whole community without people having to pray in the car park etc. It will have several classrooms, a library, facilities for sisters, a funeral service etc.

There will be an appeal on digital channel DM (841) from about 2 or 3 today.

Please tune in and donate what you can.

Thankyou.

Hidden Civilisation - Channel 4

[size=18]Paradise Found [/size]

[b]7:05pm - 9:05pm

Tonight

Channel 4[/b]

The incredible art and architecture of the Muslim world is brought to our screens by presenter and critic Waldemar Januszczak. Travelling across Central Asia and the Middle East, he's intent on showing us the depth of culture and spectacle that we rarely, if ever, get to see. Inseparable from the artistry, too, are the artists and we're introduced to people whose lives are spent fashioning beautiful objects and buildings.

The Psychology of the Suicide Bomber

Did anyone watch this on BBC2 just now?

It was very interesting. It very clearly divorces suicide bombing from any religion, unlike other documentaries about the subject.

I did make my own notes, but this is what the Horizon webpage says about it.

[size=18]The 7/7 Bombers – A Psychological Investigation[/size]

[size=16]What makes someone want to blow themselves – and others - up?[/size]

On 7 July 2005 Britain experienced its first ever suicide attack. Four bombs exploded in central London, killing 52 people and injuring over 700.

Kashmir Earthquake

[size=18]Hundreds killed in Kashmir quake [/size]

Pakistan says more than 1,000 people may have died in a powerful quake that also hit north India and Afghanistan.

The quake in Kashmir had a magnitude of at least 7.6. The epicentre was 80km (50 miles) north-east of Islamabad.

Pakistan's interior ministry said several villages had been wiped out. Sixty people are so far confirmed dead in Indian-administered Kashmir.

Rescuers are trying to reach dozens of residents feared trapped in collapsed buildings in Islamabad.

Syria

[size=18] US 'aiming at Syria regime change'[/size]

Israel predicted yesterday that America would impose fresh sanctions on Syria in an attempt to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad.

Shaul Mofaz, the defence minister, said he believed sanctions would follow publication of a United Nations report expected to implicate senior Syrian officials in the murder of Rafik al-Hariri, the former Lebanese prime minister.

emel

[size=18]Muslim glossy goes mainstream to break down cultural borders[/size]
[b]By Will Pavia[/b]

IT IS shiny, there is a moody looking musician on the cover, and it rests beneath a rank of fashion magazines, but inside is something slightly different — this is Britain’s first glossy Muslim lifestyle monthly.

The magazine emel — the name references the initials ML, for Muslim Life, and an Arabic word meaning aspiration — has been running as a quarterly for two years.

Yesterday, in Borders bookstore on the Charing Cross Road, it officially went mainstream.

7/7 Bomber Widow

[size=18]Widow of bomber 'abhors' attack[/size]
[b]
The widow of 7 July bomber Germaine Lindsay has spoken publicly for the first time, condemning his attack on a Tube train that killed 26 people.[/b]

Samantha Lewthwaite, 21, who has since given birth to a daughter by Lindsay, told the Sun she "abhorred" his attack.

She said she wanted to remember the man she loved, but added: "The day will come when I'll have to tell [our children] what he did."

Trips to radical mosques had "poisoned" her husband's mind, Ms Lewthwaite said.

The couple had married in 2002, before moving from Hudd

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