In an interview with The Times (18 Oct) Phil Woolas, the newly appointed Immigration Minister speaks of his lifelong quest to defeat racism and the challenges he faces in his new ministerial role. He talks of the need to reduce levels of immigration to the UK as the BNP and a looming recession...
Have the UK’s foreign policy decisions on Afghanistan and Iraq affected radicalization and the lure of terrorism among young British Muslims? The question is an important one given the battles fought over its answer. Dame Stella Rimington, former head of MI5, in a Guardian interview on...
Jim Knight, the Schools minister speaking at the launch of an Islamic innovations exhibition in Parliament, developed by The Foundation for Science, Technology and Civilisation and designed to improve knowledge of the contribution of Islam to European and world civilisation, has urged for this...
AC Grayling writes about a conference held on ‘World Day Against the Death Penalty’ by the Council of Ex-Muslims and uses the opportunity to again subject Muslims and others to his moralizing on Islam. He writes of the ex-Muslims as ‘brave and principled people to whom the death penalty might...
The BNP claims success in its campaign (‘Say No to Asia Town’) to obstruct the building of a development called ‘Asia Town’ in the western part of the city of Newscastle Upon Tyne. The campaign is another example of the party’s targetting Muslim communities through the...
BBC’s Question Time this week (16 Oct) from Stoke on Trent featured questions from residents in the town concerned at the presence of nine councillors from the BNP on the local council and the associated rise in Islamophobia. “What is the future for me and my family in a city with nine...
Roy Greenslade in MediaGuardian comments on the discrimination tribunal case brought against Al Jazeera English by a former executive, Jo Burgin, on grounds of sex, race and religion. Commenting on the British media’s coverage of the tribunal Greenslade remarks that while the opening of the case...
Anshuman Mondal’s Young British Muslim Voices will be published at the end of October. Mondal, known for his work on identity politics and the ideological battles fought by neoconservatives over the emergence and development of a Muslim identity and agency, says that ‘young British Muslims...
A ridiculous front page and story in the Daily Star today on the speech by Mark Thompson, BBC Director General, at THEOS on Tues 14 Oct. The paper claims the ‘BBC put Muslims before YOU!‘ The paper continues with ‘He [Thompson] would not allow jokes about Muslims’, and that he ...
Continuing the quest to eradicate any and all attempts by Muslim bodies to celebrate Islam and Islamic teachings in full and glorious multicolour, Harry’s Place has a feature on the Global Peace and Unity event (GPU) that is to be held at the ExCel Centre in London on 25 – 26th October 2008.
