A company claims to have launched the UK’s first sharia-compliant prepaid MasterCard.
The Cordoba Gold MasterCard does not charge or receive interest as this is in direct conflict with sharia Law.
The company also donates at least 10% of its profits to registered charities in the UK and abroad.
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A company spokesman said: “Because this is a prepaid [...]
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Sharia-compliant card launched
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Bailed terror suspect goes on run
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A man who is out on bail for terror charges is understood to have gone on the run from police.
The man, 24, who is due to face trial later this year, is accused of conspiracy to cause explosions and conspiracy to murder.
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IRAQI IS SENT TO JAIL FOR SEXUAL ATTACKS
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A Failed Iraqi asylum seeker has been jailed after sexually assaulting two women.Adbulghafar Nabi groped a female student and wrestled her to the ground outside a halls of residence after she rejected his advances.
Just hours before, Nabi had touched another woman in a lift and followed her to her car.
Nabi, who pleaded guilty to [...]
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Mayor in “Muslims cause mayhem with explosives” row
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A Tory town council mayor has sparked an outcry after saying Muslims “cause mayhem with explosives”.
Tory Mirfield mayor Robert Bennett made the remarks in an email to the town council clerk. Today his comments were branded as unacceptable and disgraceful by his party.
The email, passed to the Yorkshire Evening Post, follows a request by the [...]
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Father claims teacher at Birmingham mosque hit his son
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[This will be a hot potato for police, I hear crys of racism and respecting muslim beliefs already-ed]
THE family of a 10-year-old boy have lodged an official complaint with the police after claiming their son was slapped for misbehaving and ordered out of a city mosque where he was at a religious education class.
Mohammed Yasir [...]
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Fifth 21/7 London bomber jailed
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The last of five would-be bombers to target London on 21 July 2005 has been jailed for 33 years after admitting conspiracy to cause explosions.
Earlier this year a jury was unable to reach a verdict when Manfo Kwaku Asiedu went on trial accused of conspiracy to murder. That charge has been dropped.
The judge recommended Asiedu, [...]
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Suspect ‘dubbed himself Osama bin London’
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An Islamic leader who called himself “Osama Bin London” groomed and corrupted young Muslims - including the 21/7 bombers - at terror training camps across Britain, a court has heard.
Mohammed Hamid told his followers the 52 deaths in the July 7 attacks on London were “not even breakfast to me”, the jury was told.
Hamid organised [...]
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Saudi money suppresses free speech in UK
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Whether we like it or not, it is an indisputable fact that “money talks” and if you have pockets as deep as those of the oil rich Saudis money doesn’t just talk, it shouts and loudly. It shouts so loudly and forcefully that many British journalists, editors and publishers of international repute cower in terror [...]
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Muslim ‘peace’ adverts launched
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[Now that will not deter attacks-ed]
An advertising campaign promoting British Muslims as integrated citizens who reject extremism has been launched.
Islam is Peace - formed after the bombings in London in July 2005 - has initially placed adverts on the capital’s buses and Underground trains.
They show a range of Muslims - including a policewoman, a Scout [...]
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Muslim Dentist ‘told patient to wear scarf’
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A MUSLIM dentist told a woman she would have to wear an Islamic headscarf if she wanted to be accepted as an NHS patient, it is alleged.
Omer Butt, 31, of Sheepfoot Lane, Prestwich, is said to have told the patient that unless she covered her head she would have to find another practice.
Mr Butt has [...]
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Row as village stages mock bikini Muslim parade
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A row has broken out over a carnival parade after a group’s act has been deemed “disgusting and offensive” to Muslims.
The procession included a 17-strong group of men and women called “The Page Three Beauties from the Ramalama Ding Dong Times”.
They dressed in Muslim style burkas and carried a banner saying “Join the Kernow Mosk [...]
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Subway goes hala
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SANDWICH chain Subway is to open two Halal-only stores in Manchester.
The shops in Cheetham Hill and Levenshulme, expected to open next month, will serve exclusively Halal meat in line with Muslim dietary rules.
Subway already has a successful Halal store in Walthamstow, London, and the company is planning to open seven in Greater Manchester and West [...]
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Cleric ‘not preaching’ to inmates
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The lawyer for a Muslim preacher fighting extradition from the UK has denied her client has been preaching hate to fellow inmates.
Abu Qatada, who once preached at the Finsbury Park mosque in north London, is being held at a specialist unit at Long Lartin jail in Worcestershire.
A prison union has said he could be radicalising [...]
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Four guilty over terror material
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Three students and a schoolboy have been found guilty of possessing material for terrorist purposes.
Prosecutors had said the internet propaganda was designed to encourage Islamic terrorist martyrdom.
Schoolboy Mohammed Irfan Raja, now 18, and Bradford University students Aitzaz Zafar, 20, Usman Ahmed Malik, 21 and Akbar Butt, 20, were all convicted.
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Four men jailed over cartoon demo
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Four men have been jailed for their part in protests outside the Danish embassy in London, against cartoons satirising the Prophet Muhammad.
Mizanur Rahman, 24, Umran Javed, 27, and Abdul Muhid, 24, were each jailed for six years for soliciting to murder after telling a crowd to bomb the UK.
A fourth man, Abdul Saleem, [...]
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Jail for man who spat at woman
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[When in doubt cry racism-ed]
AN ASIAN man who assaulted a young woman during a week of violent clashes outside a Muslim-owned dairy was sentenced to three months in jail.
But Nadeem Hussein, 24, of St Paul’s Road, Slough, was given a suspended sentence after pleading guilty to the attack on 18-year-old Nicola Pegg in Windsor last [...]
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UK al-Qaeda cell members jailed
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Seven men have been jailed for up to 26 years over an al-Qaeda-linked plot to kill thousands in the UK and US.
Woolwich Crown Court heard they were in a “sleeper cell” led by Dhiren Barot, who is already serving a life sentence.
Barot planned attacks including blowing apart a London Underground tunnel and bombings [...]
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Man killed ‘over religious talk’
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A young Muslim convert stabbed a man to death for talking about religion, the Old Bailey has heard.
Painter and decorator Michael McKenzie, 40, was attacked in Peckham, south London, in April last year.
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Another British soldier dies in Afghanistan
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A British soldier has been killed in southern Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence said.
Next of kin have been informed, a spokeswoman said.
A spokesman from Nato’s International Security Assistance Force said earlier that a coalition soldier died “during an engagement with enemy fighters” in the region.
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CLITHEROE votes to change a church to a mosque
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On a chill night this winter, this pristine town adjacent to royal estates in some of England’s most untouched countryside gave permission for a former Christian church to become a mosque.
The narrow vote by the municipal authorities marked the end of a bitter struggle by the tiny Muslim population to establish a place of worship, [...]
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