On 4th April 2015, Abul Taher, a reporter with the Mail on Sunday newspaper contacted Dr Abdul Wahid (Chairman of Hizb ut-Tahrir's UK Executive) saying he was running a story about the family of nine from Rochdale who were recently arrested in Turkey. He raised a speculation that Waheed Ahmed, 21; Mahboob Yasin, 22 and Habib Yasin, 24 - were members of Hizb ut-Tahrir or have links to Hizb ut-Tahrir.…

News: On the 6th of April, on the occasion of the Christian Easter, the Danish newspaper Politiken published an article written by a religious historian with specialty in Semitic philosophy, with the title: "If Jesus Never lived - Then Islam Would Most Likely Not Have Existed". Besides criticizing religions in general, he claims that Islam is a made-up hybrid between Christianity and Judaism. Comment: These types of claims have become…

Headlines • Power outage still being investigated: Energy Minister Yildiz • Turkey: Training for Syrian fighters expected in May • Prosecutor dies after Turkey hostage siege; 2 gunmen killed Details Power outage still being investigated: Energy Minister Yıldız Turkey's energy minister has ruled out electricity scarcity as a factor behind the country's massive power outage on Tuesday, as the investigation into its cause continues. "We have no clear data yet.…

News This week officials from Iran and six other countries, the US, Britain, France, Russia, China and Germany, agreed on a framework for ways to contain Iran's nuclear programme. It provides guidelines for a more lasting agreement, one that must conclude by June 30, 2015. However, the framework sees Iran surrender key pillars of its nuclear programme in return for the lifting of sanctions. Many Iranians may wonder why their…