Q-News is an independent glossy monthly magazine, improving in presentation and edited by Fuad Nahdi, a Kenyan Arab. It takes a strong Islamic political stance, but is relatively positive towards Christians and balances domestic and international fronts.
Crescent International is a bi-weekly tabloid published in Canada and distributed here, edited by Zafar Bangash. It supports the British Muslim Parliament but mainly covers international as opposed to theological issues. Not always Churchophobic, it once ran an article by Muhammad Al-Aasi calling for Christian co-operation. It leads Islamic media in production and content.
Trends is a glossy monthly published by Young Muslims UK (YMUK), edited by Inayat Bunglawala. It claims to be the UK’s biggest-selling Muslim journal, dealing chiefly with domestic issues. Trends takes a hard foreign line and is critical of Saudi Arabia. It is Westophobic and Churchophobic, perhaps as an ex-editor was a convert; and YMUK often pursue Muslim-Christian disputations.
Impact International is a gradually improving glossy monthly, edited by Ahmad Irfan. Impact International usually takes the position of Jama’at-i-Islami, but has grown critical of Saudi Arabia since the Middle East Peace Process began. Its scope is wide, ranging from domestic and international to economic matters.
Muslim News is an independent weekly tabloid edited by Ahmed Versi, a Tanzanian Asian. It is highly militant, polemical, Westophobic and Churchophobic; one headline ran ‘Christians continue sanctions against Iraq’. Muslim News mainly tackles domestic issues, but also Islamic theology or political theory.
British Muslim Monthly Survey is published by the Centre for the Study of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, Selly Oak. It provides a round-up of Muslim events and articles in the mainstream press.
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