Met chief in race storm gave advice on 7/7 film ‘off record’
Daily Mail
The director of a controversial film about a Muslim police officer who faces racism at Scotland Yard today told how he was helped by a senior officer involved in a real-life race battle with the Met. Shoot On Sight, set in the aftermath of the 7/7 attacks, tells the story of Tariq Ali – a senior officer who is discriminated against by his colleagues in the Met after an innocent Muslim man is killed by police on the London Underground.
Mary Magdalene’s modern legacy
Tracy Quan, Guardian CiF
Today, on Mary Magdalene’s feast day, worshipers march through the French town of St-Maximin-la-Ste-Baume paying homage to her relics. How did her skull end up in Provence? After sailing to Marseilles and preaching the gospel here, Mary spent her final days in a mountaintop cave, according to legend. Despite the medieval origins of her cult, there’s something about Mary, patron saint of fallen women, that makes her profoundly relevant today.
Call at Lambeth for gay bishop to resign post
Riazat Butt, Guardian
Hostilities over the Rt Rev Gene Robinson resumed yesterday in Canterbury, as an African primate urged the gay bishop of New Hampshire to resign and save the Anglican Communion. The Rt Rev Daniel Deng, Archbishop of Sudan, and African colleagues accused the US Episcopal church of exposing Anglicans to ridicule, and issued a rejection of homosexual practice. “This has not only caused deep divisions within the communion, but it has seriously harmed the church’s witness in Africa…”
“Islamic thinkers”: does the BNP have a point…??? (Walls Come Tumbling Down)
Headmistress clamps down on fake tan (Aislinn Simpson, Telegraph)
Arrest of Radovan Karadžic a major step towards justice (Amnesty International)
The only ‘proper’ Muslim is a non-political one (Islamophobia Watch)
Islamophobe joins team Boris (Islamophobia Watch)
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