The Australian is running with the story today that a new $8 million dollar National Centre of Excellence for Islamic Studies is being established as part of a government attempt to confront ‘extremism’. From next year, university students at Melbourne, Griffith and Western Sydney will be offered accredited courses ranging from Muslim theology to art... Read More

It seems the mysterious “Sheikh Haron”, who rose to prominence after sending letters to the family of a dead Australian soldier, is someone [pdf] called Ayatollah Manteghi Boroujerdi. Sheikh Haron is Ayatollah Manteghi Boroujerdi. He was born in Boroujerd. He is the son of Muslim cleric Sheikh Mohammad Hossein Manteghi Boroujerdi who was the student... Read More

The 13-year-old founder, editor and publisher of MG Magazine, Yasmine El-Safy, has competition now. Muslim Girl Magazine is threatening to upstage her modest attempt with its glossy, Americana covers. The editor-in-chief is Ausma Khan, who believes the magazine challenges negative media perceptions “by telling the stories of Muslim teens who are proud to be American... Read More

Yesterday, Channel Four’s (UK) Dispatches program featured a documentary called Undercover Mosque. A Dispatches reporter attends mosques run by organisations whose public faces are presented as moderate and finds preachers condemning integration into British society, condemning democracy and praising the Taliban for killing British soldiers. The result is a fifty minute documentary (video below) which... Read More