There was an interesting article in the Lancashire Telegraph last week relaying news of a £47,000 donation made by members of an East Lancashire mosque to the Royal Blackburn Hospital and Burnley General Hospital. The money was collected and presented by members of the Masjid-e-Tauheedul...
The Jewish Chronicle today reports on the direct intervention of the Prime Minister, David Cameron, to “fight for Israel” as the Palestinians submitted their bid for statehood at the UN this week. The JC reports: “The Prime Minister flew to New York this week “to fight for...
The blog Jews Sans Frontieres draws our attention to a letter published in the Daily Telegraph yesterday from artists protesting the decision by the London Philharmonic Orchestra to suspend four members for signing a letter urging the BBC to withdraw its invitation to the Israel...
Dr Matthew Goodwin, author of ‘New British Fascism: Rise of the British National Party,’ and associate fellow at Chatham House, has produced a new report on populist extremist parties in Europe entitled ‘Right Response: Understanding and Countering Populist Extremism in Europe’. From the...
Shadow Foreign Secretary, Douglas Alexander, has written to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, William Hague, urging that the Government back the Palestinian vote on statehood recognition at the UN tomorrow. Setting out the Labour Party’s support for the bid,...
Nick Clegg’s speech to the Liberal Democrats’ autumn conference detailing the party’s commitment to “Civil liberties; internationalism; human rights; political reform; responsible capitalism and fighting climate change,” can be read here.
In April 2011, France sparked global controversy by becoming the first European country to implement a nation-wide ban on the face-covering, niqab. The ban is now creeping across Europe with countries like Belgium and Holland similarly banning the face-veil, and discussions on similar...
A study carried out by the German Georg Eckert Institute for Textbook Research has found that the representation of Islam and Muslims in school textbooks used in five European countries (Britain, France, Austria, Spain and Germany), is distorted. The research analysed 27 volumes used in...
With the Palestinian bid for statehood recognition at the UN just days away, there is fierce deliberation in the US and the EU bloc on how to respond to the UN vote which will take place on Friday, 23rd September. The EU Observer reports that senior personalities in the EU have issued a...
Two men have pleaded guilty to the charge of conspiring to commit an act of racially aggravated criminal damage. The Asian Image newspaper reports: “Two men have admitted daubing racist graffiti on a mosque and two Asian-run business premises. “Anthony Donald Smith, 24, and 32-year-old...
