The Staffordshire Sentinel and BBC News report that two men are due to appear in court today, having been charged with arson and intent to endanger life after an arson attack on a newly-built mosque in Stoke-on-Trent last December. From the Staffordshire Sentinel: “Simon Beech, aged 23, and...
A man who was charged with religiously aggravated harassment and theft following his burning a copy of the Qur’an in Carlisle city centre appeared at Carlisle Magistrates’ Court yesterday. The ‘News & Star’ reported that his solicitor told the court “he was protesting against...
Louise Bagshawe, Conservative MP for Corby, wrote in the Daily Telegraph of her grievance with the BBC over its reporting of the murder of the Fogel family, residents of an illegal settlement in the West Bank. She wrote of being “stunned at the BBC’s seeming lack of care [with] all the...
One more reason to wonder where the Express Newspapers’ withdrawal from the PCC will lead with this article from Wednesday’s edition, “Muslim vandals daub hate signs on war memorial”? From the paper: “A war memorial has been sprayed with extremist Islamic graffiti less than a year...
The Leicester Mercury reported that a man who smashed the window of a local takeaway during an English Defence League protest in Leicester in October has “admitted causing criminal damage worth £1500.” “Gareth Mooney (29) of Sandown Court, Wallsend, Tyne and Wear, broke the shop window...
After extensive efforts from some journalists, MPs and even the co-founder Maajid Nawaz himself, to persuade the government to grant the Quilliam Foundation ‘transitional funds’ following the announcement that their government funding was to be cut, the Home Office has reportedly offered...
Is the FCO’s “See Britain through my eyes” series of short videos a rehash of the “I am the West” Prevent funded project? Reading the Evening Standard article yesterday, “Muslim cricket star’s anti-terror video message (with no spin)” you might certainly think so. The “See...
In a written ministerial statement, the Foreign Secretary yesterday informed the House of Commons that the guidance on reporting torture and mistreatment has been “updated and reissued” to all FCO staff. He said: “I have made this guidance available to the public by publishing it on the...
In her Daily Express column today, Ann Widdecombe takes issue with Islamic finance and the provisions provided therein. She writes: “Because sharia law prohibits the payment of interest Muslims buy a house, then sell it on immediately to an off-shore financial company which leases it back. As...
Several papers, among them the Guardian, Telegraph and Independent, cover the unearthing of 4000 photographs and videos by German magazine, Der Spiegel, portraying US soldiers posing alongside the dead bodies of Afghan civilians who they had killed. You can view some of the photos via the...
