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In the Foreign Affairs Committee report, MPs conclude that the phrase 'political Islam' is vague; has no universally-accepted meaning, and includes a very wide variety of groups.
The FCO (Foreign and Commonwealth Office) uses the term to describe both groups that embrace "democratic principles and liberal values" and groups that instead hold "intolerant, extremist views". The Committee believes it is inappropriate to place these two types of Islamism within one single category.
Four Islamic schools ordered to close following fears over extremism or pupil safety continue to operate because the Government is powerless to shut them down, the Daily Mail can reveal.
One allegedly taught girls that men can beat their wives. Another distributed leaflets saying music is an ‘act of the devil’.
They could continue operating for months, if not years, after launching legal appeals against closure. The four fee-paying independent establishments include a girls’ boarding school, Jamia al-Hudaa in Nottingham, that was ordered to close last month after Ofsted found books in the library by individuals banned from entering Britain.
A husband and wife who spoke out against the adoption of their foster children by a gay couple have been told that they cannot adopt the children themselves because of their “concerning” views about same-sex parents.
The unnamed Christian couple applied to adopt the youngsters two days after hearing that two men were being lined up as prospective parents. They said that children needed a mother and a father.
A couple have been blocked from adopting their two foster children after expressing concerns about them being raised by a gay couple.
The husband and wife, who have not been named, have looked after the young children since the early part of this year.
Nissan Hussain, 50, who took part in a Channel 4 documentary about the mistreatment of Muslim converts, suffered a brutal assault last year by two men.
Mr Hussain suffered a smashed kneecap and a broken hand in the attack which was captured on CCTV.
The father-of-six, who converted to Christianity 20 years ago, had been planning on leaving his home town of Bradford in west Yorkshire but armed police arrived on November, 3 as Mr Hussain had already started packing the family’s possessions, and moved him to a safe place.
The Archbishop of Canterbury joined calls for Theresa May to admonish newspapers that attacked the three judges who ruled Parliament must vote on triggering Article 50.
Justin Welby said he was "horrified" at the "trolling" on the Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd, the lord chief justice, Sir Terence Etherton, the master of the rolls and Lord Justice Sales, the lord justice of appeal.
A husband and wife have been prevented from trying to adopt their two young foster children after the couple said a child needed a “mummy and daddy” rather than gay parents.
Social services said it would not consider the couple’s request to adopt the children because they had aired “concerning” opinions about the possibility of a same-sex couple being chosen as the adoptive parents instead.
A terminally ill boy should be moved to a palliative care regime proposed by specialists despite his parents' objections, a judge has ruled.
The Family Division of the High Court said the boy should receive care to minimise suffering in his final months.
He was diagnosed with bone cancer in 2012. His parents had argued that doctors could still treat his symptoms.
At work, everyone thought I’d lost the plot.
My colleagues at the local newspaper where I was a reporter in York cried with laughter — until they realised I was serious.
Then they said: ‘You’re doing what?’
My father was even more appalled. ‘You’re throwing your career away!’ he raged.
A recent study looking at the effectiveness of a male contraceptive injection was abandoned after the men taking part reported increased incidences of acne (nearly half), mood disorders (over a fifth) and raised libido (over a third). In fact, there were 320 men in the study – and a total of 1,491 adverse events were reported. For those overseeing the trial these side effects were viewed as being more significant than the fact that the contraceptive injection appeared to work well in reducing the production of sperm – and the evidence does appear to support their concerns?