Is the Spectator unwilling or incapable of addressing the racist commentaries of its bloggers? Given its track record of late the question is not without merit. Despite a PCC rebuke over Rod Liddle’s racist blog entry last March on Afro-Caribbeans, and its apology and payment of substantial...
The Guardian reported yesterday that the US government is being accused of “pumping millions of dollars into unregulated training schemes for local police officers and other law enforcers that give a distorted, dangerous and inflammatory picture of the Muslim faith.” “Political Research...
The Homeland Security Committee of the US House of Representatives has begun a hearing, chaired by New York Republican representative Peter King, on the “threat of homegrown Islamist terrorism.” The hearing is being described as a “witch-hunt” against American Muslims. From the...
The Lincolnshire Echo reports today, “A far-right racist from Lincoln has been given a 10-year criminal ASBO after hurling abuse at an Asian family.” “[Shane] Overton, a self-proclaimed local leader of the EDL, pleaded guilty to a racially aggravated public order offence, which happened...
Several articles and events this week surrounding what appears to be the Quilliam Foundation’s swansong. It was revealed last year that QF was to lose a substantial part of its government funding, with the proposed loss of money allocated to it by the Home Office (although it continues to...
A man arrested in January over his burning the Qur’an in Carlisle city centre during an ‘anti-Islamic rant’ has been charged with “religiously aggravated harassment and theft of the [Qur’an]”, according to BBC News. He is due to appear at Carlisle Magistrates’ Court on...
The Independent reported yesterday, “A commission will be set up within days to consider whether the Government should bring in a ‘British Bill of Rights’ following mounting controversy over rulings by the European Court of Human Rights.” “The move will delight Conservative MPs,...
Guramit Singh, one of the leaders of the extremist group, the English Defence League, “will face no further police action” after being arrested following a public hate-filled rant during an EDL protest in Peterborough in December. From the Peterborough Evening Telegraph:“Guramit Singh...
Andrew Stunell, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government was yesterday asked what payments the DCLG had made to the Community Development Foundation in relation to the prevention of extremism since its inception, as well as payments made to the Foundation and...
A building in Ipswich which had been set to be transformed in to a Muslim-run community centre was set on fire Monday night in a ‘deliberate’ attack. A local news website reports: “Fire investigators are ‘99 per cent sure’ that a blaze which ripped through a church in Ipswich was...
