Wednesday is an important day for Muslim faithful around the world. They will be celebrating Eid ul-Fitr, the breaking of the fast to mark the end of the fasting month of Ramadan. For 30 days, starting this year on July 9, Muslims fast from dawn to dusk, and abstain from smoking, swearing and sex. But Read more
If inter-faith gestures — gimmicks though they might be — help reduce tensions, then let’s have more of them. Such was the media hype that anyone even sleep-walking through Britain last week couldn’t have failed to notice the news of the country’s “first female Muslim Cabinet Minister”, Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, launching a spirited defence of Read more