by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jul 3, 2013 | Media
London, Asharq Al-Awsat—British national television network Channel 4 has announced that it will provide live broadcasts of the Islamic call to prayer, or adhan, at roughly 3 a.m. every morning of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, the first such move by a mainstream...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 27, 2013 | Opinion
The heinous crime that took place in the London suburb of Woolwich in broad daylight last week cannot be justified or excused, and most certainly Islam and Muslims should not be held responsible for it. The ugly sight of a young British soldier’s body on the side of a...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 26, 2013 | World
Nairobi, AP—A suspect in the savage killing of a British soldier on a London street was arrested in Kenya in 2010 near the East African country’s border with Somalia, an anti-terrorism police official said Sunday. Michael Adebolajo was believed to have been...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 26, 2013 | World
Paris, AP—A French soldier was stabbed in the throat in a busy commercial district outside Paris on Saturday, and the government said it was trying to determine if there were any links to the brutal killing of a British soldier by suspected Islamic extremists. French...
by Mshari Al-Zaydi | May 25, 2013 | Opinion
British Prime Minister David Cameron was right to describe the brutal murder of a British soldier committed by a radical Muslim of African descent as a “betrayal of Islam.” One of the perpetrators of London’s so-called “machete attack” appeared in a video...
