Over 1.5 million Muslims live in the UK, many in poor socioeconomic circumstances and facing social exclusion and discrimination, yet there is a paucity of research on Muslim mental health, in particular on adolescents. This study investigates whether psychological distress is greater in Muslim adolescents in comparison with their non-Muslim counterparts and whether distress is associated with level of ‘Westernisation’, sense of ‘Britishness’ and perceived discrimination.

Women Liberation

I find Islam to be liberating not oppressive: women are partners.

Assalamu assalaikum,

What do you think of widowers who remarry after their wives have died simply because they don't want to get their hands out their pockets and raise their kids. They think its a womans job, i can't or i won't do it?

I bring this up because it often occurs within my community, and its happened twice under severe circumstances, and quite recently. In both cases the women were very young and terminally ill with cancer, leaving behind very young children, infants.

Considering the government fully support single parents and widows/widowers in this country, it's not as if these men couldn't remain at home and raise their infants or older kids alone.

A women who stabbed her husband to death in a row over what to watch on TV was jailed for ten years Dec 6

Leonora Sinclair, 50, repeatedly stabbed husband Lloyd in his leg after he refused to forfeit watching football to let her watch Harry Hill's TV Burp, the court heard.

Mr Sinclair, who was a deacon at the Ministry of Praise in Tottenham, north London, was found by paramedics bleeding heavily at the family home in Enfield, north London, on January 15.

http://voice-online.co.uk/article/woman-who-killed-husband-over-tv-show-...

The battle of Karbala (10th Muharram 61AH) was when the Prophet beloved grandson, the leader of the youth of paradise, Imam Hussain (as), was martyred in the name of Islam and the truth.

In the scorching sun in the desert of modern day Iraq, Imam Hussain (as) army outnumbered by Yazid's military and also very thirsty as the opposition had blocked them from the water. Yet they continued fighting until their lives were taken in the name of Islam.

Anti-police sentiment was a significant factor in the summer riots in cities across England, according to a major study on the causes of the unrest.

The study by London School of Economics and the Guardian newspaper involved interviews with 270 rioters.

Of those interviewed, 85% cited anger at policing practices as a key factor in why the violence happened.

Four consecutive nights of looting and arson in August left five people dead and more than 4,000 suspects arrested.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/9655089.stm

[FONT=verdana][COLOR=#333333][B][U][COLOR=#333333]The Fast of ‘Ashura (The 10th of Muharram) is on Tuesday (6th Dec)[/COLOR][/U][/B][COLOR=#333333]

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The blessed day of Ashura (10th of Muharram) will be on Tuesday (6th Dec) in the UK. It is recommended to fast a day before or a day after the day of Ashura as well so that we can be different from the Jews who fast only on the day of Ashura.

[B]So we can fast: [COLOR=#ff0000]Monday the 5th of December (9th of Muharram) & Tuesday 6th of Dec (10th of Muharram) [/COLOR]or [COLOR=#ff0000]

[/COLOR][COLOR=#ff0000]Tues 6th of December (10th of Muharram) & Wednesday 7th of December (11th of Muharram).[/COLOR][COLOR=#ff0000]
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Asalaamu Alaikum,

I wanted to share a very simple website I made recently ([I]link at the bottom[/I]). It's basically a [B]google powered search engine[/B], the difference is, when you search for something, [B]it filters out Anti-islamic/misleading websites[/B].

People who are new to Islam or those with little knowledge would try searching for answers, only to be spammed by Islamophobic websites, some unfortunatly buy into this and are mislead. Even those who are knowledgeable, end up being fustrated by having to go through alot decieving sites.

For example,[COLOR=#ff0000] if you go on google and type "Taqiyya", you get this on the first page[/COLOR] ([I]jazakhallah to the brother who made this screenshot[/I]) -

[IMG]http://img600.imageshack.us/img600/3370/39133206.png[/IMG]

Most Brits think it's an activity best learned behind closed doors.
But an enterprising Swedish schoolmistress thinks otherwise.
Ylva-Maria Thompson has opened the world's first international sex school to teach its students how to be better lovers.
The Austrian International Sex School in Vienna offers 'hands on' lessons in seduction for £1,400 a term.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2068218/Vienna-sex-school-opens-...

Officers will hand out the rock sweets, which bear the messages ‘Quiet Please’ and ‘Shush’ to drinkers

Police have bought 10,000 sweets to hand out to students to remind them to be quiet when they come home from a night out.

Officers will hand the rock sweets, which bear the messages ‘Quiet Please’ and ‘Shush’, to drinkers in Durham.

These will be reserved for busy nights in the city and handed out when officers feel revellers need a reminder to keep the noise down as they make their way home.

The idea follows complaints about rowdy students in residential areas.

Late-night noise is a genuine issue for a number of our residents and we hope that this initiative will make a difference.