17
May
2007
This week’s panel is joined by freelance journalist Naima Bouteldja to discuss the Presidential elections in France and the impact of Nicolas Sarkozy’s victory. In addition we discuss the chaos gripping Pakistan with explosions and riots taking place in Peshawar and Karachi. Finally, we’ll be discussing that secret memo.
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9
May
2007
In this weeks podcast Osama, Noman and Humza discuss the impact of local elections in the UK and specifically the end of Labour domination in Scotland at the hands of the SNP. In addition, the crew looks at Blair’s legacy as he seems to be on his way out, will it be Iraq or Stormont? Finally, we discuss the plight of kidnapped BBC journalist Alan Johnston.
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28
February
2007
Today the panel discuss the MCB’s report ‘Towards Greater Understanding - meeting the needs of Muslim pupils in state schools, Information & Guidance for Schools’, which provides guidance to schools in regards to the needs of Muslim pupils. he report has been welcomed by the National Headteacher’s Union but has come up for much criticism from sections of the media claiming that Muslims are demanding how ‘our’ schools should be run. Tahir Alam joins our guests for this interesting discussion.
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22
February
2007
In this weeks podcast the panel discuss the acquittal of 4 British Soldiers accused of abusing Iraqi prisoners, the BBC Poll that gives much needed hope after it revealed that a majority of people do not think there is an inherent conflict between Islam and the West and finally we analyse the UNICEF Report on Child Wellbeing in Industrialized Nations, and reflect on why the UK came bottom of the list.
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14
February
2007
The iWitness team is joined by Dr Daud Abdullah, a senior researcher with the Palestine Return Centre, who together discuss the Mecca agreement reached between Hamas and Fatah, the excavation work taking place near the Al Aqsa Mosque, the claim that the UK is a police state for Muslims, the growing tension between the US and Iran and finally find out who took a rather un-ethical trip to the gym this week…..
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6
February
2007
On this weeks podcast the panel is joined by Ann from Scotland Against Criminalising Communities who speaks about her close relationship with some of the men under control orders and tells us the devestating effects it is having on them and their families. In addition, we discuss the arrest of nine Muslims in Birmingham who allegedly plotted to kindap a Muslim soldier and behaead him and finally we talk about a Commons committee’s findings that the international communitiy’s freeze on aid to the Hamas Government might be driving them into the arms of Iran.
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6
February
2007
On this weeks podcast the panel is joined by Ann from Scotland Against Criminalising Communities who speaks about her close relationship with some of the men under control orders and tells us the devestating effects it is having on them and their families. In addition, we discuss the arrest of nine Muslims in Birmingham who allegedly plotted to kindap a Muslim soldier and behaead him and finally we talk about a Commons committee’s findings that the international communitiy’s freeze on aid to the Hamas Government might be driving them into the arms of Iran.
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1
February
2007
We’re only just into February and it already seems 2007 is going to be more difficult a year than 2006 for Muslims. The panel discuss The Policy Echange report that ‘warned’ against politicised Muslims, David Cameron’s speech in which he criticised some Muslim groups for being mirror-images of the BNP and finally a word or two on Iraqi death squads.
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23
January
2007
This week the iWitness News is joined by Mick Napier, from the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign, who discusses the upcoming Holocaust Memorial Day and how those opposed to Zionism should ‘commemorate’ it, in addition our panellists discuss the growing trend of anti-Muslim stories being leaked by the police, how American bombs are being used to destroy Madrassas in Pakistan and the statement from a senior Government minister that schools with a large ethnic population may be a security threat…you heard it here first.
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16
January
2007
This week’s panelists discuss extremism in Mosques, following the Dispatches programme ‘Undercover Mosque’, they also examine George Bush’s new strategy in Iraq, the claim by senior Government advisors that living at home with a non-English speaking mum could be bad for you and ask yourself, do you know the difference between Sunnis and Shiite? If so then you’re doing better than most politicians!
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