Emdad Rahman Team Legend played in The Peoples FA Cup on Saturday at The Norwegian Playing Fields at Power League Newham. To be honest, we turned up to have a bit of fun and do our bit to promote and ...
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Celtic’s Smiler – the Neilly Mochan story
Emdad Rahman Smiler Mochan is a Celtic legend whose name doesn’t crop up as much as it needs to, but I have seen his portrait hanging at Celtic Park. Celtic Football Club is quite simply the stuff dreams are made ...
Read More »Bangladesh earthquake: further reports arrive
A 6.7 magnitude earthquake occurred at approximately 5am on the morning of 3rd January. The epicentre was near Imphal, the capital of that Manipur state of India, just to the east of Bangladesh – about 200 miles from Dhaka. The ...
Read More »Mystery surrounds mosque attack
A 29 year old man drove a red Peugeot 307 at a mosque in Valence, France, on New Year’s day: no one yet knows why. Initially it seemed like a terror attack. The French army has been on guard outside ...
Read More »Tory Minister apologises for saying black people have “bad moral attitudes”
Oliver Letwin MP is the Minister for Government Policy in the Cabinet Office. Government papers, which are routinely released after 30 years, show what he (and fellow civil servant Hartley Booth) wrote about the riots on Tottenham’s Broadwater Farm estate ...
Read More »Corsica: crowds attack Muslim prayer hall
The Mediterranean island of Corsica was the scene of a Christmas Day attack on a Muslim prayer hall by a crowd chanting “Arabs out!” Glass in the front door was shattered, fixtures and fittings were broken and some copies of ...
Read More »Ben Day lifts Southern Area title in York Hall knockout
“The Entertainer” sets York Hall alight with a blistering knockout Emdad Rahman reports Ben “The Entertainer” Day extended his unbeaten streak after the Teignmouth boxer took less than three minutes to send opponent Ryan “Crash Bang” Taylor spiralling out of the ...
Read More »We are not the “enemy within”!
Two Muslim men sit on a train, minding their own business. A white fellow passenger starts abusing them. “I’ll defeat you,” he says, “whatever it takes.” He goes on. “Jihad bastards” – and a few more similar phrases. “Bring it ...
Read More »Two poems from Dr Amanullah Ashru
Heart Sip from love’s cup, give from your own heart, drink a draught-sorrow after pain. Forsake not the thought that reply silently, holding from crowd. Each moment is a share of eternity, faith and theology, multitude formal prayer. Not your ...
Read More »Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park News
It’s been a summer of awards for the Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park. It began in July, when the Friends of the Cemetery Park were joint winners of the Ethical Wildlife award at the Observer’s Ethical Awards evening. Within weeks, the ...
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