On Friday the BBC reported the arrest of over 170 EDL supporters outside a pub on Parliament Street on Friday. The EDL had gathered to observe the Armistice Day ceremony though in previous years their presence has been in counter-protest to the group Muslims Against Crusades which was banned by...
After publishing an apology to Tafazal Mohammed for falsely labelling him a ‘jihadist,’ the Jewish Chronicle yesterday published an apology to the Pears Foundation and Forward Thinking. The two organisations were criticised in a JC front page article by Martin ‘The Great Koran Con...
A mosque in Stockport has been vandalised after leaflets were distributed allegedly containing inaccurate information about plans to expand the Mosque. From the Stockport Express: “Three cars were sprayed with racist graffiti on Green Pastures and stones and eggs were thrown at the Heaton...
There’s much coverage in the press today on the Home Secretary’s banning of Muslims Against Crusades: see the Daily Mail, Daily Express, Metro, The Guardian, The Independent, and The Mirror. Interesting that a newspaper that has indulged the provocations of MAC’s members and exaggerated...
The police are searching for the perpetrators of a violent attack on a young Muslim man on his way to Shepherds Bush mosque in London according to a news report in the Fulham and Hammersmith Chronicle. From the local paper: “At around 8.30pm on Sunday, September 25, the 25-year-old, who was...
The BBC reports that the Home Secretary, Theresa May, has used her powers to proscribe groups under the Terrorism Act (2000 and 2006) to ban Muslims Against Crusades. From the BBC News website: “Home Secretary Theresa May is banning Muslims Against Crusades, a group planning an...
Foreign Secretary William Hague has been warned over the UK’s abstention on a vote at the UN recognising the Occupied Palestinian Territories as an independent state, according to an article in The Guardian today. From the paper: “As the foreign secretary, William Hague, prepares to tell MPs...
Following on from its report last week looking ‘Inside the EDL’, Demos has published an interim report looking at the rise of ‘anti-Islam’ populist parties across Europe (with more detailed country-specific papers to be released in the coming weeks). The latest report,...
Mehdi Hasan in a column in today’s Guardian draws attention to the plight of Babar Ahmed and asks “Is it justice to lock up Babar Ahmad so long without trial?” “For seven long years, Ahmad has languished behind bars, fighting against his extradition – under the Labour...
Paul Sims interviews Dr Robert Lambert on his new book, ‘Countering Al Qaeda in London‘, in the New Humanist this week. Speaking about his time as Head of the Metropolitan Police Muslim Contact Unit, Lambert tells Sims: “Within the Met we felt that communities defeat terrorism,...
