Jenny Taylor

A different poverty

by - 16th December 2009

In a dusty old chapel behind the Civil Lines in Delhi, prayers of thanksgiving will be said at noon today by three Indian priests for a planning decision a long way away - in Westminster.

They – and we, for I am their guest - will give thanks for the fight to save St Mark’s Church, North Audley Street, Mayfair in the Parish of Charing Cross, West London.

What is the Tablighi Jamaat?

by - 8th September 2009

The GuardianThe problem with this sect is not that it proselytises, but it seems to have so little contact with the outside world.

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British Islam: re-made in our image

by - 5th August 2009

Hopes of a British Islam may be closer to being realized than people think. And it’s not good news.

I turned up unannounced last week at the Dewsbury markaz – so-called European headquarters of the Tablighi Jama’at, in its unlikely green and rolling Yorkshire milltown setting. 

Government fails Muslim women over marriage rights

by - 5th August 2009

Neil AddisonNearly 3,000 mosques could be breaking law over marriage registration’.

The price of disengagement

by - 14th July 2009

A wave of church bombings puts Christians on the frontline in Iraq.

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