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iWitness News 15th 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.

Iwitness News 08th 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.

iWitness News 27.02.07

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.

iWitness News 20.02.07

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.

iWitness News 14.02.07

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…..

iWitness News 07.02.2007

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.

iWitness News 06.02.2007

iWitness News 01.02.07

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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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.

iWitness News 16.01.07

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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iWitness News 02.01.07

The iWitness News podcast gets off to a great start in 2007. The usual panel is joined over the phone by Anas Al Tikriti and together look over the big stories of 2006 including: Saddam’s execution, the Lebanon-Israel war, Hamas’s election victory, the Forrest Gate terror raid, the Muhammad (pbuh) cartoons crisis and so much more including a look forward to 2007. We apologise for the poor quality of sound of this week’s podcast this is due to a technical error, normal quality will resume from next week onwards.

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This weeks panels explores the inter-factional fighting between Hamas and Fatah which threatens to throw Gaza into civil war, we discuss the motives behind President Abbas’s call for early elections in Palestine and look at what might have been Tony Blair’s worst week in office which culminated in him becoming the first ever serving British Prime to be questioned by the Police…

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As well as giving their own usual and unique views and perspectives on what’s happening in the world, this week the iWitness team is joined over the phone by the esteemed Dr Norman Finkelstein, a respected American scholar, who discuss the exploitation of the Holocaust by Israel and its supporters, the obstacles to peace in the Middle East and hear what he has to say about ‘the repugnant, repulsive Tony Blair’. Not to be missed!

iWitness News 05.12.06

This weeks edition explores the High Court’s decision to extradite Babar Ahmed to the US, the panel also discuss the Government’s plans to replace trident, torture flights, how a trip to New Zealand almost ended in arrest for the former Israeli Chief of Staff, the controversy of the Muslim Congressman taking his oath on the Quran and finally how converting to Islam might help you become a record-breaking athlete.

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This week’s iWitness News brings you the major international, national and local news stories over the last week. The panel are joined over the phone by the Palestinian Academic Dr Azzam Tamimi this week they discuss: the Gaza ceasefire, the assassination of Pierre Gemayel in Lebanon, the death of Alexander Litvinenko, the Popes visit to Turkey, Dr John Reid’s amazing confession regarding British Foreign Policy and finally… have you heard about the one about the Muslim and the swan? Listen to find out more!

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iwitness News 22/11/06

In this weeks segment panelists discuss the rise in Islamaphobia, Palestinians acting as Human Sheilds, the American soldier sentenced to life after the brutal rape and murder of an Iraqi girl and her family and also the launch of Al Jazeera English and what this means for worldwide media and its consumers.

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