Is there something rotten in the University of Nottingham?

Terrorism arrests provoke outrage on Nottingham campus
Elham Asaad Buaras
London, The Muslim News OnLine
23/05/08
The arrest of an academic and a student from the University of Nottingham for the possession of extremist material has provoked outrage on the campus after it was revealed the apparent offence concerned downloading information for a PhD, The Muslim News has learnt.
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The Friday Tea Time Blog

Salaams, nitha midhikidh, xucuru-cariri and om swastyastu, and welcome (back) to that time of the week when my sweet wife beats a swift retreat to her Mother’s complete with children, to eat. Hence, the hour is here where I can home-in on my own reflections and consider in peace my lone direction as part of [...]

The scrapbook is working, I think

Things seem to be going well, all of a sudden. The Scrapbook, which aims to provide the data for analysis and from which the AMS narrative will eventually emerge, insha Allah, has started to gel. I thinking it was narrowing the narrative focus to conversion as well as finding a format – primarily through building the new [...]

Bombing an Exeter shopping centre, and other news

‘Recent convert to Islam’ is arrested after bomb explosion in restaurant
Alexi Mostrous, Times
A Muslim convert with a history of mental illness who was “preyed upon and radicalised” injured himself yesterday after a device he was carrying exploded in a busy shopping centre in Exeter. Nicky Reilly, 22, received serious facial injuries after the device went [...]