The Guardian has published a letter calling on new Labour Party leader, Ed Miliband, to stand by his reported stance of a foreign policy built on “values, not just alliances” and distance himself from the Jewish National Fund. The Jewish National Fund, which was instrumental in the ethnic...
Sir William Gage, who is leading the public inquiry in to the death of Baha Mousa and other Iraqi detainees at the hands of British troops, today reprimanded army intelligence chiefs for what he called “lamentable” delays in disclosing crucial information to the inquiry. The Guardian...
Mehdi Hasan’s interview with Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, which was published in the New Statesman yesterday, offered some very interesting views and points of consideration for the Muslim community. Baroness Warsi, who is the Conservative Party Chairman and the first Muslim woman in the Cabinet,...
The Evening Standard reports that London’s deputy mayor, Kit Malthouse, has called for a public debate on the value of terror alerts, saying, “such alerts, and Britain’s official threat level warning, risked handing victory to the terrorists by spreading fear and confusion among the...
Lancashire News reports that police have obtained an order against extremist right-wing group, the English Defence League (EDL), over their protests against Blackburn’s KFC serving halal chicken. From the article, “Officers acted after seven nights of demonstrations kicked off with scenes of...
Anti-Islamic Dutch MP, Geert Wilders, went on trial yesterday, charged with inciting racial hatred against Muslims. Today, however, the trial has been halted amid allegations of bias on the part of presiding judge, Jan Moors. The Guardian reports that Wilders said, “’I am on trial, but on...
Over the weekend, the Sunday Telegraph reported of three Muslim schools that, according to them, “force girls to wear the burka or a full headscarf and veil known as the niqab.” The article states, “The Sunday Telegraph has established that three UK institutions have introduced a...
We thought you may be interested in reading an editorial in today’s Independent, which picks up on the stories reported in most newspapers today of fears of a terrorist attack in Europe (see The Guardian, the Daily Mail and the Evening Standard to name a few of those papers). The editorial...
The Guardian covers the report on the controversial surveillance cameras installed by Birmingham City Council in predominantly Muslim areas of the city stating that “a secret police operation to place thousands of Muslims living in Birmingham under permanent surveillance was implemented...
The Netherlands will ban the burqa and halve immigration under measures agreed as part of a pact to form a coalition government. This development is the condition that anti-Islam politician, Geert Wilders, secured for his party’s support for the coalition. One report states, “’A new wind...
