Joseph Harker in the Guardian Comment is Free writes about the jailing of Liam Stacey yesterday for tweeting racist remarks about footballer Fabrice Muamba. Harker, reflecting on the sentence passed on Stacey and the acquittal of the BNP’s Nick Griffin and Mark Collett on charges of incitement to...
The Guardian today covers the report of the joint select committee on privacy and injunctions on the balance to be struck between freedom of expression and the right to privacy. From The Guardian: “A cross-party committee of MPs and peers has urged the government to consider introducing...
Both the Guardian and the Daily Mail have covered the planned anti-Islam rally organised by the English Defence League to take place in the Danish city of Aarhus on 31st March. The EDL hope to use the rally to mark the formation of a ‘European Defence League’. It will take place just weeks...
The Guardian today covers the horrific attack on Shaima Alawadi, a US immigrant of Iraqi descent who was brutally beaten at her home in California with her attacker leaving a note that read “go back to your country, you terrorist”. From The Guardian: “Alawadi, an immigrant, died...
The Mail on Sunday yesterday reported on the Government’s proposed changes to food labeling legislation “to ensure that meat slaughtered in accordance with strict Islamic law cannot be sold to unwitting members of the public.” The Mail on Sunday reported that: “The Government is drawing up...
The Guardian covers the report by the Government’s independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, David Anderson QC, into the use of control orders and their replacement, T-Pims (Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures) in 2011. From The Guardian: “The annual report sets out the full...
There was a shocking article published in the Guardian this week relating an ex-FBI informant’s account of his experience spying on the Muslim community in California. Craig Monteilh pretended to be a convert to Islam and a ‘radical’ Muslim, infiltrating Californian mosques to gather...
The Lancashire Evening Post has reported on the conclusion of a trial of two men and a woman charged with racially aggravated assault and criminal damage after an attack on a Muslim taxi driver in Preston on December 28th last year. The three individuals were found guilty and will be sentenced at a...
Typically odious stuff from Rod Liddle in the Spectator’s Coffee House blogs where he muses on the comments made by Ken Livingstone on Prophet Muhammad’s (saw) last sermon. Livingstone is reported to have referred to the last sermon as ‘an agenda for all humanity’. Liddle caricaturing Islam...
The Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph and Jewish Chronicle all report on a row that has erupted between Baroness Catherine Ashton, the EU High Representative on Foreign and Security Policy, and Israeli officials after an inaccurate transcript of comments she made at a conference on Palestinian youth was...
