The Perthshire Advertiser highlights the launch last week of the BNP’s manifesto for the Holyrood Assembly elections on May 5th The paper notes the BNPs’ referral to the Electoral Commission over a leaflet which falsely claimed there are “more Muslims in the UK than Scots”. The BNP is...
Nick Clegg writes an article for the Daily Telegraph today ahead of his speech on “The Shape of the New Politics,” at IPPR this morning making the case for electoral reform. He writes: “I believe there is a direct link between our electoral system and the expenses scandal. Why? Not because...
Racist vandals have targeted homes in streets near to a mosque in Birkenhead spraying racist slurs on the walls of the buildings. Graffiti reading “Islam = Murder” and “Britain for the British” has been sprayed onto walls of homes in the area. From the Wirral Globe:“The...
The Guardian reports that the MoD has been ordered to disclose information on any involvement in the US led practice of rendition, where suspects captured in Iraq and Afghanistan were transferred to secret locations making them vulnerable to abuse and torture. The Information Rights Tribunal...
Coverage today in the Daily Mail and Daily Express on the sentencing of Andrew Ryan (pictured), the ex-soldier who stole a copy of the Qur’an from the local library in Carlisle and burnt it in January this year. Ryan claims he’d been moved to act in the way he did after seeing internet clips...
Henry Samuel in Saturday’s edition of the Daily Telegraph interviews Hind Ahmas, a French Muslim woman who has defied the niqab ban in France by “pitching up to the Elysée Palace in full Islamic attire” From the Daily Telegraph:““The Bill Prohibiting Facial Dissimulation in a Public...
The Herald paper carries a feature on a new campaign launched by Muslim women who wear the veil (in all its manifestations: hijab, jilbab and niqab) to educate Scots on their reasons for wearing it. From the Herald:“Glasgow-born Samina Ansari and her loved ones were assaulted because she was...
Ruth Dudley Edwards, whose comment piece on Cameron’s speech on immigration in last week’s Daily Telegraph was inadvisedly illustrated with an image of a Muslim woman in niqab, further embellishes her perspective of the “spreading rash of Islamism” with an article on the French niqab ban...
As April 29th draws closer and excitement grows over the Royal wedding, the Sunday Express yesterday took the opportunity to foment divisions by brandishing the exploits of Anjem Choudary on its front page. The paper devotes three pages to the odious members of Muslims Against Crusades and has...
Allison Pearson goes back to her “burkha rage” with an article in yesterday’s Daily Telegraph advocating a French style ban on the burka in the UK. Prefacing her piece with what appears to be information gleaned from the recent Panorama programme, “British Schools, Islamic Rules”,...
