On Friday, the European Court of Human Rights made its final decision that British citizens Babar Ahmad and Syed Talha Ahsan were to be extradited to the United States.

Babar Ahmad responded by indicating that his case had "exposed the fallacy...

Today marks the eleventh anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Eleven years ago, on this very day, al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked planes and flew them into buildings on American soil. Over 2,000 people in New York, Washington D.C and Pennsylvania died and many were injured. The attacks marked a moment in modern...

Meet 32 year old British citizen, Talha Ahsan. Talha is a first class honours graduate, poet and writer and suffers from Aspergers Syndrome. He is one of Britain's longest-serving alleged terror detainees who has served the equivalent of a 12 year sentence at high security prisons, without a...

Last week, prominent Muslim commentator Mehdi Hasan argued that fear-mongering and negative stereotyping of Muslims in public life has spun out of control. He outlined the racial abuse he encountered in trying to be a voice to a voiceless community and argued that "You can now...

The Federation of Student Islamic Societies (FOSIS), the umbrella organisation for student UK Islamic Societies, has been singled out on a number of occassions as an organisation which "are training the violent extremists of tomorrow."

I have previously argued that groups like FOSIS...

Meet Moira Jilani. She is the wife of Ziad Jilani who was shot and killed by Israeli border police in East Jerusalem on 11 June 2010.

Almost two years later and Moira Jilani and her three daughters, Hannah, 19, Mirage, 17, and Yasmin 10,...

The recent success of George Galloway's victory in Bradford West shocked the mainstream political spectrum when he won the vote of the Bradford community by an overwhelming majority.

As the analysis emerged after his victory, what was clear was that the three mainstream political parties...

Last week, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that six alleged terror suspects could face extradition to the United States. While extensive media coverage have been given to Abu Hamza, who has been convicted of soliciting to murder and stirring up racial hatred and jailed...

Monday marked the ninth anniversary of the Iraq war. On 19 March 2003, the United States and United Kingdom led an invasion into Iraq claiming that the Iraqi government, headed by Saddam Hussein, possessed weapons of mass destruction that posed a threat to the national security of their...

On Monday night, Channel 4 screened a documentary entitled Proud and Prejudiced. The show aimed at portraying the two forms of extremism: 'right-wing' extremism and 'Islamist' extremism. Such extremism is currently a threat to British National Security and has been dominating the media in Britain. To add to...

In recent months there has been considerable debate both in the media and in government, of university Islamic societies being "conveyor belts" for extremism and terrorism.

The Federation of Student Islamic Societies (FOSIS), the umbrella organisation for student Islamic societies, has been particularly singled out as an organisation...