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...
Reading Leo McKinstry’s barely comprehensible babble in his Daily Express column yesterday, one could conclude: • British Muslims are a separate entity from the ordinary British taxpayer. Perhaps they don’t pay taxes at all. They may all be on benefits.• A handful of people...
The Evening Standard on Friday ran a double page feature on Muslim women and their wearing of the niqab and burqa in growing numbers. ES feature writer Nosheen Iqbal asks, “…just what is it about the burka and the niqab — two types of face veil, the terms are often used interchangeably...
The Evening Standard yesterday reported that the government’s independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, Lord Carlile, is to investigate whether the Met Police were justified in their apprehension of six men in the so-called ‘Muslim plot to kill Pope.’ According to the ES, Lord...
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...
