BBC Radio 4 recently broadcast a programme inquiring into why far right extremists have not made significant gains in the UK in contrast to the steady growth of their counterparts in Europe. In ‘No Extremists Please- We’re British!’ Trevor Phillips, the chair of the Equality and Human Rights...
Front page news in the Jewish Chronicle today is the private members’ motion on the Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme on Palestine and Israel (EAPPI) which was debated at the meeting of the General Synod of the Church of England earlier in the week. The EAPPI is a programme run under the...
The Guardian today covers the publication of a report by the Joint Committee on Arms Export Controls on the UK’s export licenses. The committee, noting the revocation of 158 arms export licenses since the start of the Arab Spring, argues that there was “no significant changes in the...
The Hansard Society has launched the second part of their 9th Audit of Political Engagement which looks at ‘the media and politics’. The second part of the audit looks at key questions relating to the media’s influence on knowledge of and attitudes to politics, sense of political capacity and...
The South London Press reports that approval of plans to create a Tibetan Buddhist meditation centre in Lambeth, south London, has sparked controversy and protests from Christian and Muslim groups, as well as the local MP, amid claims that the centre’s backers are anti-Christian and anti-Muslim....
Islamophobia Watch draws our attention to a local news report regarding the arrest of a far right supporter for an alleged racial public order offence during a protest organized by the South Wales National Front in Swansea. From the South Wales Evening Post: “A 21-year old man has been arrested...
New Europe Online reports that members of far right organisations from several European countries, including the UK, recently attended a meeting at the European parliament where far right literature was sold to attendees. From New Europe Online: “Far right members from organisations in Germany,...
The US-based Pew Research Center has published a report looking at attitudes towards democracy, freedom and Islam’s place in political life in Arab and other predominantly Muslim nations. The findings come from a survey conducted by Pew in six countries; Pakistan, Jordan, Egypt, Tunisia, Turkey...
Ibrahim Hewitt, Senior Editor at Middle East Monitor, has a letter published in the Daily Telegraph today in response to a column written by Con Coughlin on the victory of the ‘Islamist’ candidate in the Egyptian presidential elections, Mohammed Morsi. As the countries of the Arab Spring,...
Islamophobia Watch draws attention to Islamophobic comments and threats of violence posted on the Facebook page of English Defence League supporter, Danny Holmes. Holmes has posted several comments including one where he describes ‘infidels’ as “anyone who is the enemy of Islam anyone who...
