Salaam Scotland film festival

Films from across the world will be showing this weekend as part of Salaam Scotland. Full line up: Check out trailers: Le Grand Voyage Fighter Deen Tight The Imam and the Pastor Synopses of the films here

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Salaam Scotland film synopses

Below are brief synopses of the films showing as part of the Salaam Scotland film festival. To see the listings and trailers themselves, go here. BBQ Muslims In this short comedy, two Canadian Muslim brothers are sleeping in their home when the barbecue in the backyard explodes. They are immediately suspected of being dangerous Middle [...]

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One day to avoid Christmas postal shutdown!

If you haven’t bought your calendar for next year yet, do so by 12pm tomorrow and we’ll have SIF’s 2010 calendar dispatched to you straight away. It’s the last posting day before the Christmas shutdown. We’re immensely proud of the work, and are grateful to all the artists and photographers who contributed to it. You [...]

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Welsh Defence League engage in Nazi salutes and burn anti-Nazi flag

They denied being fascists ahead of their first Welsh march – but at yesterday’s Welsh Defence League protest against Islamic extremism onlookers were confronted with scenes of jeering men giving Nazi salutes. It was the first time the newly-formed group have been out on the streets in Wales.

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A disabled society

Something powerful, beautiful and truly unique took place in Glasgow this week.  As a disabled person, this was of the few times where I felt like a complete and full part of the Muslim community. It seemed as if people saw through my wheelchair and my disability to the person.  No longer did I feel [...]

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Madjid Bougherra

He’s 6 foot 3 and he’s got a tan, He doesnae eat at Ramadan, Madjid Bougherra the Rangers centre half Posted by admin

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Should jummuah khutbas be in English?

Shaykh Amer Jamil will recommend this week that the talk preceding the Friday sermon needs to be relevant to the issues facing youth and delivered in English (since the youth are the majority of the community and their needs should take priority). But some think this can go further so that the khutba itself is [...]

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New mosque in Rutherglen

I had the honour of attending and speaking at the opening of Minhaj-ul-Quran International’s new centre in Rutherglen yesterday. It’s just behind the shopping centre, so there’s no excuse for being out shopping there and missing prayers again. It’s an existing building which has been very impressively redone from the inside. At the centre of [...]

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There is an ‘eye for an eye’ going on and it is making the whole world blind

Today’s vigil for Gaza in Glasgow’s George Square was unbelievably well attended. Hundreds came at just 24 hours notice in a remarkable mobilisation. The strength of feeling amongst people about this is as strong as anything I’ve seen since the Jenin massacre in 2002 – even more so than with Lebanon a couple of years [...]

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Islamic New Year

Everyone knows that very soon the year 2008 will finish and the year 2009 will start but how many of us know that in a few days (around the 28th dec) the new Islamic year will enter – the year 1430?

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