Muslim youth protect Christians celebrating Christmas

Strength, they say, is in Unity

This is what prompted more than 200 Muslim youth volunteers to have singled themselves out to protect Christians during this year’s Christmas celebration. The…

Woman banned from football grounds for ripping up the Holy Quran

The Independent is reporting that;

A woman who ripped up the pages of a Koran at Birmingham’s St Andrew’s stadium has been banned from every football ground in England and Wales for three…

Crash Course: History of Early Islam

Stop asking Muslims to condemn terrorism. It’s bigoted and Islamophobic

There’s a certain ritual that each and every one of the world’s billion-plus Muslims, especially those living in Western countries, is expected to go through immediately following any incident of violence…

The criminalisation of Islam in the British media

Professor Paul Baker of Lancaster University carried out a unique research entitled, ‘The Representation of Islam and Muslims in the UK Press 1998–2009’. Along with three other academics, Professor Baker embarked on a rigorous study that…

Pakistan….Peshawar

Photo credit: Reuters/Khuram Parvez

Earlier this week, millions of people looked on in horror as the news filtered in of the devastating attack by the Pakistan Taliban on a school in Peshawar. 132 students were killed in an attack which specifically targeted as many…

4 Million people will spend Christmas alone

7% of people will be alone this Christmas day-and HALF A MILLION of the elderly will be on their own

Torture Report Scandal — How the CIA could learn from Islam

I am often discouraged from writing political posts here on the virtualmosque and I can understand why. Issues can often be extremely complex and more often than not we do not have the complete picture of something to make a…

Welcome to 4.0

We’ve made changes

As you have all noticed by now we have changed the design of our site. When we started way back in 2006 the singular aim of the site was to be a place from where we could broadcast our Friday prayers live each week which back then was a complex…

‘Free a neck’ for a better life

This article is from the ‘The Better Life’ magazine Nov 2014 issue

Decapitation is separating the head from the body. Beheading is intentional decapitation with an axe, sword, knife, wire, or by a guillotine. From 1351 until it was abolished in…