Windsor, November 2, 2009: One of Islam’s most important cities, Madinah, is to become a model ‘green’ city under a Muslim Seven Year action plan on the environment, unveiled yesterday by the Grand Mufti of Egypt, Sheikh Ali Goma’a. Madinah is the second holiest city in the Islamic world, after Makkah and is also known as “the City of the Prophet”

The future leadership of the Muslim community is expected to rise from the crescendo of smaller but significant initiatives; deviating from the hitherto existing culture of leadership being imposed from above. (full story)