News: Six independent Muslim schools in London's East End must make urgent changes or be forced to close, the education secretary, Nicky Morgan, said after Ofsted inspectors last week faulted them for failing to promote "British values". In a letter to the Education Secretary, the Head of Ofsted, Sir Michael Wilshaw, wrote that the pupils' "physical and educational welfare is at serious risk" and that all the schools "focused too…

News All throughout the major headlines is the news of the grand jury's decision not to indict Darren Wilson, a Ferguson, Missouri police officer who shot and killed the unarmed African-American teenager Michael Brown about three months ago. This verdict unleashed fury and disbelief of the judicial system in African American communities all throughout the United States. A fresh wave of violence hit the streets of American cities by some…

News: On the 7th of November, 2014, the Malaysian Court of Appeal reversed the Islamic law banning cross-dressing for Muslim transgenders. One of the judges who presided over the appeal case, judge Hishamuddin Yunus was quoted by AFP as saying that: "It (banning cross-dressing) has the effect of denying the appellants and other sufferers of GID (gender identify disorder) to move freely in public places... This is degrading, oppressive and…

News On the 7th November, the Bangkok-based advocacy group Fortify Rights published a briefing that stated that Myanmar authorities were complicit in the trafficking and smuggling of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar's Rakhine state. They described state security forces extracting payments from Rohingya fleeing the persecution of their regime, or from traffickers operating boats offshore in exchange for passage out to sea. There are even reports of Myanmar naval boats escorting…