Islamophobia Watch alerts us to a new development in the far right British Freedom Party – it has appointed a English Defence League activist as its South West regional coordinator. From IW: “Earlier this week the English Defence League’s political wing, the British Freedom party,...
A local paper, the Shields Gazette has reported on the trial of an EDL supporter who posted a comment threatening Muslims with violence ‘Oslo-style’ on Facebook. Kenneth Holden pleaded guilty to two charges of ‘sending an offensive message by a public communication network’. From the local...
BBC News, the Guardian, Independent, Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, Daily Express, Daily Star and Sun have all reported on the outcome of a lengthy legal battle involving five men, including Babar Ahmad, Syed Talha Ahsan and Abu Hamza, fighting extradition to the US to stand trial on terrorism...
The Daily Mail has been running a series of extracts from the political memoirs of MP for Blackburn and Darwen and former Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw. In the final extract ahead of the book’s release tomorrow, Straw recounts his decision to publicly raise the issue of face veiling in 2006, when...
The Guardian has reported on US President Barack Obama’s speech to the United Nations General Assembly, made yesterday, in which he condemned the viral anti-Islam Youtube video ‘Innocence of Muslims’, and condemned the sometimes violent anti-American protests which the video sparked. From the...
The Waltham Forest Guardian reported last Friday that the leader of the council, Chris Robbins, has written to the Home Secretary seeking a ban on an English Defence League march planned for October 27th. The paper, which has joined the campaign Waltham Forest – United. Strong. Together, notes...
As criticism of the government’s proposals to extend secret trials to civil courts increases, the Guardian today reports that the government has clearly admitted that one of the main motives behind the proposals is to limit “reputational and political costs” arising from allegations of...
The BBC and the Guardian today both report that two US marines who were involved in a video showing them urinating on Taliban corpses in Afghanistan, will face trial in a military court. From the BBC: “Two US Marines have been referred for trial by courts martial for a video of troops urinating...
In light of the recent controversy courted by the Youtube video ‘Innocence of Muslims’ and the subsequent caricatures printed in the French satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo, the Scottish paper, The Herald recently published an article by Abdel Bari Atwan exposing the inconsistency with which...
The Guardian on Saturday reported on the criticism leveled by the Labour Party at the government’s proposals to extend the mandate of secret trials to civil courts. In a letter to the leader of the Liberal Democrats, Nick Clegg, the shadow justice secretary Sadiq Khan described the coalition’s...
