The Daily Telegraph blogs section runs an egregiously offensive post by Richard Landes titled, “Liberal intellectuals are frightened of confronting Islam’s honour-shame culture”. The article’s catalyst is a recent poll by ipsos MORI on ‘Global Views on Immigration,’ which surveyed...
The BBC covers the report by the Chief Inspector of HM Prisons on the conditions of detainees held at the terror unit at Long Lartin prison, in Worcestershire. Nick Hardwick, the chief inspector of prisons, has criticized the “prison within a prison” conditions under which several...
There was an interesting article in The Independent yesterday on the BBC being ‘forced’ to apologise for a programme broadcast during its coverage of the UK riots which posed the question: ‘Is there a problem with young black men?’ The show, broadcast on the BBC World Service’s World Have...
The New Statesman this week publishes an interview with Shabana Mahmood, MP for Birmingham, Ladywood, and one of the first female Muslim MPs to be elected in the May 2010 general elections. In the interview she reflects on the recent riots which hit her city culminating in the tragic deaths of...
In light of the Norway terror attacks and the rise of far-right extremism in Europe, BBC Radio 4 broadcast an edition of The Report last Thursday, 11th August, looking into far right extremism in the UK and the fears of ‘Islamisation’. The Report looked at the issue of ‘Islamisation’ in the...
A booklet published by the Barnabas Fund has been brought to the attention of the Charity Commission following a complaint over its contents. The booklet entitled ‘Slippery Slope: The Islamisation of the UK’, “claims that DVDs featuring radical preachers are “widely disseminated”...
A private Islamic school in Dewsbury, Paradise Primary School, has been rated as either good or outstanding across all areas of the curriculum, with literacy and numeracy being rated highly, following an Ofsted inspection in July. From The Press: “The school scored 100 per cent pass rates in...
Following the deadly hit-and-run of three Muslim men in Birmingham on Wednesday in the wake of rioting in several parts of the UK, the Daily Mail has reported that mosques in Birmingham have been receiving threats from gangs as well as from the EDL. The community affected has called for peace and...
The Pew Research Center has published a study looking at rising restrictions on religious beliefs and practices from governments as well as social hostilities. The report, which is the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life’s second report on global restrictions on religion, looked at the period...
The Sunday Telegraph joins the bandwagon in the recent spate of articles on Shari’ah councils in the UK with a full page spread. titled “A law unto themselves?” Jonathan Wynne-Jones, the Telegraph’s religion correspondent spends time observing the workings of shari’ah councils in...
