David Cameron has criticised "state multiculturalism" in his first speech as prime minister on radicalisation and the causes of terrorism.

At a security conference in Munich, he argued the UK needed a stronger national identity to prevent people turning to all kinds of extremism.

He also signalled a tougher stance on groups promoting Islamist extremism.

The speech angered some Muslim groups, while others queried its timing amid an English Defence League rally in the UK.

Read more @ BBC News

Either that, or he is jumping on what he considers to be an "easy" political bandwaggon.

Salaam

Since the month eof Rabbi ul Awwal has started we will see many Mawlid gatherings across the country.

Now do you take part in Milaad/Mawlid gatherings?

Do you attend em at the masjids or have your own gatherings at home?

Or do you agree with milaad but dont really take part in any mawlid gatherings?

Or do you simply think its all wrong and stay away from them!

Note: Keep this topic sectarian free, no accusations pls. Lets see if we can discuss this without abuse an dfallouts!

For all you people out there who were always wondering what is the official fatwa on Basant, watch on.

Even if you cannot understand the arabic, you should listen as you may benefit from the barakah of the fatwa.

[video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbU0elNVg3c]

Courtesy of someone on Tribune.

or anywhere else in the UK.

http://www.police.uk.

You may need to be patient though, apparently the site is hugely popular and became clogged today.

The stats say that if you live on Glovers Court in Preston, you should be worried.

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/38005_Jordans_King_Fires_Govern…

1 in 10 Britons Will Be Muslim

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One in ten Britons will be Muslim within the next two decades. So says the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life.

There will be some wriggling on seats about this demographic projection. But what there won't be is enough serious consideration of how secular Britain must meet Islam half-way in the UK.

What do I mean by this?

Let me start by saying that I grew up in Britain's most Islamic city.

And my experiences in Bradford were one of the reason why I spent many months in my twenties travelling through parts of the Muslim world. Some of the warmest welcomes I have ever received by strangers were in Iranian cities like Teheran and Isfahan and Pakistani cities like Quetta, Multan and Lahore.

Subsequently, I became a journalist and returned to spend several months in Pakistan, as well as travelling widely in Afghanistan, Iraq and a number of Arab states.

I spent two months in Kuwait in 2003. But here's the thing. By 2030 there will be more Muslims in Britain than there are in Kuwait. The UK, still a global power in the western world, is poised to become a major player in the wider Islamic world by dint of its multi-million-strong Muslim population.

But is Britain getting its head around this? Or are many non-Muslim Britons failing to engage with what Islam requires.

As Baroness Warsi said last week, it is not helpful to divide Britain's Muslim population into radical and moderate camps.

On average all Muslims, up to a point, share a particular worldview. It is more conservative, for instance, on questions surrounding family life, than many non-Muslims would appreciate.

And, in many respects, an infusion of cultural values which put old-fashioned ideas of decency front and centre may not be a bad thing in a country where, as Family Affairs has noted before, family life has been dissolved by the unforeseen consequences of a well-meaning welfare state.

It is up to us, non-Muslims, to show more interest in a faith which means so much to its adherents.

On one level this is a personal choice. My contacts with devout Muslims have made me consider my own Catholic faith in a fresh light. I have taken Lent more seriously after talking to one Muslim about the fasting and abstinence demanded by Ramadan.

But on another level British society needs to reflect the growth in British Islam.

Watch TV and wait for the evidence of British Islam - it is virtually invisible. Or, at least, it projects a particular kind of progressive or regressive Islam.

You will know Islam is being taken seriously when, by 2030, there is a commercial for soap powder featuring a woman in a hijab.

Mufti Says website has now created their own magazine!

http://www.muftisays.com/mag/

Revival needs to do more!

[quote="BBC News"]Climber found reading map after 1,000ft fall

A climber who fell 1,000ft (305m) down a mountain and survived was found by his rescuers standing up reading a map.

Adam Potter, 36, lost his footing at the summit of Sgurr Choinnich Mor near Ben Nevis and plummeted down the near-vertical eastern slope.

Lt Tim Barker, from the helicopter rescue crew, said: "It seemed impossible... he must have literally glanced off the outcrops as he fell."

He said Mr Potter, from Glasgow, was shaking from "extreme emotional shock".[/quote]