The Prevent review was finally announced by the Home Secretary in Parliament yesterday and can be read here. A report by Lord Carlile which accompanies the review, can be read here, and responses to consultations submitted as part of the review process can be found here. The print and broadcast...
The Guardian reports on the jury’s decision in the case against four Metropolitan Police officers for the alleged assault of Babar Ahmad during his arrest at home in December 2003. From The Guardian: “Babar Ahmad, 34, a terrorism suspect who remains in detention, had claimed he was...
The Leicester Mercury reports on the sustained verbal and criminal abuse experienced by a Muslim family residing in a council house in Leicester. From the paper: “A Muslim family have been targeted by yobs again – even as they prepared to flee from their council house. The family were...
A week on from the Daily Telegraph interview with Universities UK chief executive, Nicola Dandridge, today’s DT publishes a front page interview with Home Secretary, Theresa May, outlining the Prevent review’s focus on tackling radicalization on university campuses. The interview and the...
The Daily Mail today relates the case of Simon Parker, the headteacher of Coppice Primary School in Chigwell, Essex, who has been barred from teaching by the General Teaching Council for subjecting teachers and pupils to a litany of racist, sexist and anti-Muslim abuse. From the Daily Mail:...
The Centre for Women and Democracy today published a report on the number of women who competed for a seat, successfully or otherwise, in the local government elections. The CfWD report capture the incremental change, for the better or worse, in the representational status of women in local...
It would seem the long-awaited Prevent review is crossing the final hurdles as Government readies to announce the revised programme next week when Parliament returns from the Whitsun break. Allegra Stratton in the Guardian today reflects on the ideological dissonance between the Tories and Lib...
BBC News reports on the building progress of a new mosque in Redditch which is on track for completion in Spring 2012 despite being the target of a recent attack. The ten year, £2.5 million pound project, to build a new mosque in Redditch has been a long time in the making and not […]
As is wont of the Daily Mail when an issue crops up that requires a “brave Muslim” to speak out on, today’s edition of the paper carries a feature column by Saira Khan on the “brave speech” of Professor Steve Jones at the Hay Festival on “inbreeding” and the high incidence of...
There were some interesting, and all too predictable, headlines in the papers this weekend on the presentation of Professor Steve Jones, an eminent geneticist, at the Hay Festival. Professor Jones is reported to have spoken of “inbreeding” and the impact of first cousin marriages on children...
