The Wall Street Journal printed a comment piece by former British PM, Tony Blair, on Tuesday titled ‘Making Muslim integration work’. Blair reviews the rise of far right parties in Europe and the centre-stage debates on immigration have taken in recent years arguing, “This is a big and...
The Telegraph reported yesterday of an individual having been arrested on suspicion of encouraging an act of terrorism. The article states: “The individual is thought to be involved with a website that praised the stabbing of the MP Stephen Timms and published a list of other MPs who voted for...
Newspapers were brimming today with reports of Armistice Day being marred by extreme factions. 35 protesters from a group calling themselves “Muslims Against Crusades” burnt a poppy to coincide with the two minute silence to commemorate the war dead. One report, from the Telegraph, states:...
Amir Ali, the London Underground tube driver who was accused of intending to fly out to Pakistan and engage in acts of terrorism, was on Tuesday found not guilty of terrorism charges. During his trial, Mr. Ali claimed that MI5 had framed him after he had refused to act as their spy. Laurence...
British military interrogators may be charged as war criminals, the Guardian reports today, over videos that appear to show them threatening, abusing and humiliating Iraqi prisoners. To date, the only British soldier ever to have been convicted of a war crime was Cpl Donald Payne, who was...
“… what Tauheedul shows is that Muslim faith schools do not necessarily have a separatist mentality. It is not a foregone conclusion that these schools will divide communities.” This is the conclusion reached in an Independent editorial today on how Tauheedul Islam Girls’ School in...
The ES on Monday printed a letter from Haras Rafiq, Director of Centri, in response to Professor Michael Clarke’s comment piece on Roshonora Choudhry, the ‘self-driven terrorist’. Clarke, Director of the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), reviewing the various factors that have come...
A court has heard that British servicemen, who filmed hundreds of interrogation sessions at “the UK’s Abu Ghraib” prison in Iraq, may be guilty of war crimes. From The Guardian: “Evidence of the alleged systematic and brutal mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners at the facility, operated by a...
Operation Black Vote is running a series of seminars as part of its Community Empowerment Roadshow 2010/2011. The next such will take place in Manchester on Saturday 27 November. The purpose of the seminars is “to increase Black and minority ethnic (BME) awareness of local governance and to...
Joan Smith in her column in The Independent on Sunday last weekend wrote about the Roshonara Choudhry case. Rehearsing the history of movements that have or do use political violence to attain their ideological goals, Smith also adds her usual critique of Islamic dress observed by Muslim women...
