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There is a God after all... | Print |  Email
A Christian activist who tried to charge the BBC's Director General and the producer of Jerry Springer the Opera with blasphemy is facing bankruptcy. The High Court ruled last December that Stephen Green, who is the National Director of the prayer and lobby group Christian Voice, could not prosecute the Director General of the BBC, and Jonathan Thoday of Avalon over the BBC2 broadcast of Jerry Springer the Opera and its subsequent theatre tour. The Court ordered costs against him, as reported in a press release from Christian Voice
 
Is Mugabe the real problem in Zimbabwe? | Print |  Email
We are deluding ourselves if we think that getting rid of one mad, old tyrant will stop the barbarism, writes Matthew Parris in The Times
 
Mugabe's secret war - in Britain | Print |  Email
Agents of Robert Mugabe's regime are harassing and intimidating Zimbabwean dissidents in Britain in an attempt to silence his political rivals and disrupt vital fundraising for Morgan Tsvangirai's opposition Movement for Democratic Change, reports The Independent
 
Young can become addicted to extremism | Print |  Email
Islamic extremism should be regarded as a potential addiction for vulnerable young people in the same way as alcohol, drugs or gambling, according to Scotland's counter-terrorism co-ordinator, reports LUCY ADAMS, Chief Reporter of The Herald
 
Across Zimbabwe, red rags signify a nation in mourning | Print |  Email

Red rags have been tied around lamp posts that don't light and hung from bus shelters. Giant V-signs have been painted over the pot-holed thoroughfares. Bulawayo, the opposition stronghold, awakes today to find it has been painted red. As Zimbabweans turn out to vote in a one-man election, a final message of defiance was being daubed overnight on the only public space available to the opposition: the roads. Report By Daniel Howden in Mpopoma township, Matabeleland for The Independent

 
Bid to make Orange Order pay traffic costs of march | Print |  Email
In a landmark hearing, which may be closed to the public, the authorities in Glasgow will today issue the Orange Order with an ultimatum - either pay the £12,000 required to close roads and maintain public safety or face the bill after the work is carried out. The organisation, which would be sued if it failed to pay, may take legal action itself if the costs are imposed, claiming an infringement to its human rights, reports GERRY BRAIDEN in The Herald
 
A place to learn about Islam and much more besides | Print |  Email
Muslims like me who are seen by some as having given up fundamental aspects of our religion by abandoning hijab, can insist until we're blue in the face that Islam does guarantee rights for women. We will be disregarded and will have no real impact. But Al-Meezan and organisations like it may offer a platform through which to address such issues, writes LAMIA QAZI in The Herald
 
The dilemmas that force us to compromise our morals | Print |  Email
We often complain that politicians don't act out of pure principle, but as David Davis has discovered, we don't believe them when they claim they do so anyway. But a more troubling question is just how sensible, and moral, it is to make decisions on a basis of pure principle, writes JULIAN BAGGINI in The Herald
 
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