The BBC reports on the court appearance of the three people charged with racially motivated vandalism, including spray painting graffiti on the walls of the Nasir mosque in Hartlepool. From the BBC:“Three members of the English Defence League have appeared in court charged with...
Following the release of statistics from a Pew survey showing that al-Qaeda’s appeal is declining among Muslim publics, The Economist asks: “Is violent jihad an ideological spent force?” “The death of Osama bin Laden has prompted many questions about his influence and that of the...
The Muslim News draws our attention to an exchange in the House of Commons yesterday where the Prime Minister was asked by former Home Secretary, Alan Johnson, about the Conservatives’ long-standing pledge to ban Hizb ut-Tahrir. From Hansard (pg 10): Alan Johnson (Kingston upon Hull West and...
{youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8mKwXXlhF4&feature=player_embedded} The EU Observer’s “Let’s talk about EU” programme last week discussed Europol’s “Terrorism Situation and Trend Report 2011” with MEPs Franziska Brantner (Greens) and Derk Jan Eppink (European...
The Joint Committee on Human Rights today published its report scrutinizing the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill, including proposed changes to the law on universal jurisdiction contained therein. The extant provisions in UK law on universal jurisdiction have come under intense...
The BBC reports that spy cameras installed by Birmingham City Council in local areas heavily populated by Muslims are finally being removed. “Acting Chief Constable Sharon Rowe said: “The work starting today shows that we have listened to what our communities wanted and acted upon...
It’s been an eventful weekend for the Muslims Against Crusades misfits. There’s extensive coverage of their provocative staging of “funeral prayers” for Usama bin Laden outside the US embassy in London, with the usual exaggeration of numbers present in the right wing tabloids (see...
The Guardian today runs a special report on the concluding of the inquest into the London bombings of July 7th and the merciless killing of 52 people on London’s transport network by four young British Muslim men. The report includes an article by Vikram Dodd on the government’s domestic...
Election results from yesterday’s local and regional elections are being declared today and news that the BNP has suffered further losses to its number of council seats held. From the BBC: “After 207 council election results, the anti-immigration party had won one seat with a net loss of...
The BBC reports that the five men arrested at the Sellafield nuclear site on Monday have all been released without charge. The men who were arrested under Section 41 of the Terrorism Act 2000 were said to be taking photographs at the site prompting police suspicion. The news of their arrest,...
