Day: December 25, 2018

    It’s Christmas time and so it hasn’t taken long for a national newspaper to run a feature implying British Muslims are poorly integrated for refusing to celebrate a Christian holiday. The irony of this pernicious Islamophobia, feebly hiding behind the banner of defending the Judeo-Christian values of our country, is that it is bereft of any meaningful understanding of Islam. You see, the thing is, Muslims love Jesus. In fact, the Prophet Muhammad said: The dearest person to me in friendship and in love, in this world and the next is Jesus, the son of Mary. It may come as a surprise to many to learn that Jesus is mentioned in the Quran over 100 times, while the Prophet Muhammad, by contrast, is mentioned just five times. Described as the best woman ever to have set...

    Meghan Markle and Kate Middleton looked like best mates as they arrived at the Royal Family's Christmas Day church service amid claims of a growing rift between them. The pair were all smiles and chatted as they walked shoulder-to-shoulder, along with their husbands, in front of an adoring crowd of hundreds. All eyes were on pregnant Meghan, 37, and Kate, 36, as they made one of their first public appearances together since the claims of a fallout emerged. It is Meghan's first Christmas as a member of the Royal Family, and the last before she becomes a mum for the first time. Well-wishers shouted Merry Christmas as the group passed by. The time-honoured tradition was led once again by the 92-year-old Queen at the church in the grounds of her private Norfolk count...