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Manchester’s Muslim, Jewish and Christian communities held a joint celebration marking their respective festivals which, fortuitously, all fall in December this year.

  The Daily Star prints its usual nonsense with this story on a bid submitted by a Muslim charity to set up a primary school in Swindon. The Al Habib Islamic Education and Cultural Centre has applied to establish a primary school in the area with 50% of places at the school, which serves a...

  David Toube, on the anti Muslim hate site Harry’s Place, comments on a Jewish Chronicle story on The Guardian’s refusal to print a letter by the press counsellor of the Israeli Embassy in response to a comment piece in the paper written by Azzam Tamimi, Director of the Institute of Islamic...

  English Heritage comments on the report published by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) on growing interest and attendance by black and minority ethnic communities at historic sites in Britain.

  Show Racism the Red Card (SRTRC) held a screening of their documentaries on racism and Islamophobia in football at the Foreign Office in London yesterday (10 Dec). The SRTRC campaign was set up 13 years ago with the aim of eradicating racism in football by using the beautiful game, and its...

Now this is an amusing story. The Daily Express, which regularly features news items and commentary on Muslims enjoying so called preferential treatment, is in a tizz over the Equalities Bill which it claims will provide ‘new legal rights to Muslims and other minority religious groups’.

  The Daily Star goes in search of comments by Anjem Choudary to splash across its front page. It reproduces a post from the Islam4UK website under the headline ‘Ban Evil Xmas’.

Dr Ghayasuddin Siddiqui writes a comment in The Times in relation to a story concerning a study on child abuse in madrassahs in the UK.

Another ex-HT member joins the growing industry of these former armchair revolutionaries that have left off their armchairs to beat back the beast they spawned. Rashad Ali writes in the Guardian’s Comment is Free section on the report by Dr June Edmunds on campus radicalisation. ‘I can...

  The BNP reports on a petition organised by South Birmingham BNP against the building of a new mosque in the Billesley ward. ‘Residents formed a long queue to sign the petition opposing the conversion of the now closed GP surgery into a mosque’, reports BNP news.