Thomas Sutcliffe in his column in Tuesday’s Independent criticises the BBC’s offering a talking spot to Anjem Choudary of Hizb ut-Tahrir on the Today programme discussion on the publication of the book ‘The Jewel of Medina’, (29 Sept).
Inayat Bunglawala, ENGAGE vs Daily Star Hizb ut-Tahrir vs The Sunday Times Metro, ‘Girl of 8 suicide bomber’ Complainant Name: Resolved – Inayat Bunglawala v Daily Star Clauses Noted: 1 Publication: Daily Star Complaint: Inayat Bunglawala, Advisor on Research and Policy for...
Arab Media Watch (AMW) has issued a report on its analysis of news and headlines in the British press that erroneously refer to Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. From a 3 month study (1 June – 31 August 2008) of British national dailies, the AMW team found that out of a total of...
Rights of Muslims, letter to Western Mail, 11 Dec 2008 Citizenship classes should not isolate, letter to Birmingham Post, 10 Dec 2008 Muslim neighbours, letter to The Independent, The Rev. Stephen Griffith MBE, 27 Oct 2008 Response to Douglas Murray’s article on Islamophobia and the media,...
The Sunday Express leads with the speech given by Dame Pauline Neville Jones, the Shadow Security Minister at the Tory party conference in Birmingham with a front page that proclaims: ‘Cameron: I’ll curb Muslim fanatics’. Dame Neville Jones, referring to the recent disclosure...
Bill Carmichael, columnist for the Yorkshire Post writes in response to a High Court decision to deny five former Gurkhas the right to settle in the UK, (‘Loyalty Bonus‘, 19 Sept). Questioning the logic of the decision handed down by the court, Carmichael slips in a remark that could...
Stephen Pollard writes in The Times (22 Sept), ‘Last week, a variation on the “cry wolf” story emerged which, in its long-term impact, threatens to be far more dangerous to Western civilisation than any banking collapse’. The story he alludes to? News that Shari’a court...
BNP Councillor for Marsden ward in Nelson, Brian Norton Parker, writes in Pendle Today that his objection to the postponement of a council meeting that was scheduled during Ramadan was not wrong, as implied, but perfectly reasonable given that ‘it really is incumbent upon them [migrants and...
A leaflet claiming that Muslims are ‘almost exclusively responsible’ for the heroin trade, has been distributed to hundreds of households in Lancashire, Cumbria and Yorkshire. The leaflet calls for a process of ‘naming and shaming’ Muslims for ‘positive effect’...
The Pew Research Centre publishes a report on the rise of ethnocentrism entitled ‘Unfavourable views of Muslims and Jews on the increase in Europe‘. The Washington-based Centre’s global attitudes survey found that favourable opinion of Muslims in European...
