Tony Blair’s sister-in-law announced her conversion to Islam last weekend. Journalist Lauren Booth embraced the faith after what she describes as a ‘holy experience’ in Iran.    She is just one of a growing number of modern British career women to do so. Here, writer EVE AHMED, who was raised as a Muslim before rejecting the faith, explores the …

Morally bankrupt U.S. media buries facts that counter the case for war. By MUHAMMAD SAHIMI   Supporters of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad rejoiced over the cable in which a British official opined that he had actually won the rigged June 2009 presidential election. They could not see the irony in taking the opinion of an official of a foreign government that their president routinely …

  Is the realisation finally dawning in Ramallah, Tel Aviv and Washington that the peace process is dead? (Photo Warrick Page/Getty) Future historians will no doubt argue over the precise moment when the Arab-Israeli peace process died, when the last glimmer of hope for a two-state solution was irrevocably extinguished. When all is said and done, and the forensics have …

DOES SHARIA ACCOMMODATES THIS MODERN DAY BLASPHEMY LAWS. THERE WERE AND ARE VERY MANY ILLITERATE, EDUCATED AND HIGHLY EDUCATED MEN AND WOMEN WHO HAVE SAID AND ARE SAYING HIGHLY DEFAMATORY AND INFLAMMATORY THINGS ABOUT ALLAH AND HIS PROPHET. DANTE IN HIS SO CALLED CLASSICAL WORK " INFERNO" CONSIGNED OUR BELOVED PROPHET TO HELL IN AGONIZING WORDS. MODERN DAY TELEVANGELISTS, WRITERS …

Truth in Chains, By CHRIS FLOYD Well, they got him at last. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, the target of several of the world’s most powerful governments, turned himself into British authorities today and is now at the mercy of state authorities who have already shown their wolfish – and lawless – desire to destroy him and his organization. It has been, …