The Rt. Revd. Dr Peter Mullen, Rector of St Michael’s, Cornhill, and St Sepulchre-without-Newgate church in the City of London, contributes a short comment piece in the Mail Online today in reaction to the speech yesterday by Mustafa Abdel Jalil, chairman of the Libyan National...
The Rt. Hon. Alan Duncan MP, Minister of State in the Department for International Development, has replied to our letter of support for his comments criticizing Israel’s illegally constructed wall in the Occupied West Bank made in a video posted on the DfID website (but which has since...
The Independent and Daily Telegraph have both reported on the protest last Sunday by the group Muslims Against Crusades as they attempted to disrupt the 9/11 commemoration ceremony held at the memorial garden in London. From the Independent: “Some 100 protesters from Muslims Against Crusades...
The Joint Select Committee on Human Rights have today released their second report on the powers of police to stop and search without reasonable suspicion. The report addresses the risk of the arbitrary use of stop and search powers under current guidelines and their possible breach of human...
On Sunday the world marked the tenth anniversary of the terrorist attacks of 9/11 and it would seem apposite that newspapers, TV and radio marked the occasion with comment pieces of reflection and rumination on the events of that day and its legacy ten years on. It should come as no surprise...
– A court has heard how a 41 year old male sought to publicise a religiously motivated act of vandalism by asking his daughter to upload a photo of a pig’s head thrown on the site of a future mosque onto Facebook. Wayne Havercroft is said to have been part of a gang who […]
The BBC, The Guardian, The Independent and the Daily Telegraph have all today reported on the findings of the Baha Mousa Inquiry, chaired by retired appeal court judge, Sir William Gage. Mousa (pictured), an Iraqi hotel worker died whilst held in detention at 1st Battalion, the Queen’s...
The House of Lords is due to debate the state of interfaith dialogue in the UK this afternoon. A debate tabled by Lord Parry Mitchell will begin at around 4.30pm. Among the Members of the Lords scheduled to speak in the debate are Lord Sacks, Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the...
Ten years on from 9/11, the events of that day continue to have ramifications for people all over the world. On Tuesday BBC Radio 4 broadcast a documentary exploring how 9/11 has changed the lives of British Muslims. Presented by Navid Akhtar, the documentary sees him travel around the...
Robert Lambert, whose new book on ‘Countering al-Qaeda in London: Police and Muslims in Partnership,’ is out this week, was interviewed on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme this morning on his work with Muslim groups as Head of the Muslim Contact Unit at the Metropolitan Police from 2002...
