The Daily Telegraph front page today features excerpts from a presentation given by the Chair of the Equalities and Human Rights Commission, Trevor Phillips, at the first Westminster Faith Debate last week on ‘Religious Identity in “Superdiverse” Societies’, in which Phillips argued for...
The Irish Examiner reports on new research to be presented on Saturday at University College Cork on “Measuring Islamophobia” in Ireland (accessible here via Scribd). From the Irish Examiner: “Ireland’s failure to gather statistics on hate crime and discrimination against Muslims amounts...
There’s some media coverage today (Daily Telegraph, Guardian, BBC) on the delegation of ministers led by Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, co-chairman of the Conservative Party, to the Vatican. In an article for the Daily Telegraph, Lady Warsi sets out the purpose of her visit and her “absolute...
The Daily Telegraph on Friday published an article concerning the testimony of Charles Farr, Director General of the Office for Security and Counter-terrorism (OSCT), to the Home Affairs select committee as part of its hearings on the inquiry into ‘The Roots of Violent Radicalisation.’
The BBC reports on the findings of a research study conducted by Cardiff University’s School of Social Sciences and Centre for the Study of Islam in the UK on religious nurture in Muslim families. From the BBC: “Researchers found 77% of adult Muslims actively practise the faith they were...
There’s some media coverage today (Daily Telegraph, Guardian, BBC) on the delegation of ministers led by Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, co-chairman of the Conservative Party, to the Vatican. In an article for the Daily Telegraph, Lady Warsi sets out the purpose of her visit and her “absolute...
MP for Rotherham, Denis MacShane, reviewed Nick Cohen’s new book, ‘You Can’t Read This Book: Censorship in an Age of Freedom’ in The Observer yesterday. MacShane lauds Cohen’s argument in favour of the need to “assert the Enlightenment values of both Voltaire and Mill as they argued...
Leo McKinstry pushes his anti-Muslim bigotry, common to his columns in the Daily Express, onto the pages of the Daily Mail today. In an article eulogising the recent demise of Bradford headmaster Ray Honeyford, ‘A prophet sacrificed to appease the mob,’ McKinstry uses the opportunity to...
The Evening Standard this week reported that police are investigating another racist rant on a tube train after a woman subjected Asian passengers on the Central Line to a “seven-minute expletive-ridden rant”
Leo McKinstry pushes his anti-Muslim bigotry, common to his columns in the Daily Express, onto the pages of the Daily Mail today. In an article eulogising the recent demise of Bradford headmaster Ray Honeyford, ‘A prophet sacrificed to appease the mob,’ McKinstry uses the opportunity to single...
