Phil Woolas, current MP for Oldham East and Saddleworth, stands accused of doctoring photographs, misrepresenting facts and fomenting racial and religious divisions in order to “make white folks angry” at his opponent, Lib Dem’s Elwyn Watkins, as part of a desperate bid to retain his seat...
Just weeks after the last US combat troops left Iraq and President Obama announced that it was “…time to turn the page,” the Observer yesterday reported that UK servicemen “suspected of being responsible for the murder and manslaughter of a number of Iraqi civilians” during the...
As if to prove that the Dove Outreach Center’s “International Burn a Koran Day” stunt would invite all the wrong sorts of reactions, the Metro newspaper reports that Anjem Choudary (formerly of Islam4UK) has called on Muslims to burn the American flag outside US embassies...
The US military commander in Afghanistan, General David Petraeus, has expressed grave concerns over the planned “International Burn a Koran Day” organized by Dove World Outreach Centre in Gainesville, Florida to coincide with the ninth anniversary of the Sept 11th attacks, saying it...
Watch former PM Tony Blair answer questions from Andrew Marr in a BBC interview on his memoirs, the New Labour project and the Iraq and Afghanistan invasions. Of course, no admission of responsibility by Blair for the continuing quagmire facing coalition forces in Iraq and Afghanistan following...
Very disappointing to find the Jewish Chronicle jump aboard Andrew Gilligan’s anti-IFE crusade with this article on the Tower Hamlets councillor, Lutfur Rahman, standing for the council’s executive mayor position. Perhaps the JC should revisit its letters page and read again the letters sent...
The Department of Communities and Local Government has today released experimental statistics from the first three quarters of the Citizenship Survey 2009-10 (covering months April-Dec 2009) for England and Wales on ‘Attitudes towards Violent Extremism’. The release focuses on questions...
Think tank Demos has released a new publication on the ‘radicalising multiplier’ effect of conspiracy theories and the use made of them by extremist groups. The report ‘The power of unreason: conspiracy theories, extremism and counter-terrorism’ is ‘an analysis of conspiracy theories...
This briefing is a call for the establishment of an All Party Parliamentary Group on Islamophobia tasked with executing ECRI’s recommendations on monitoring and challenging intolerance and discrimination against Muslims through a ‘regular and even closer process of consultation with...
“It’s striking that many American Republicans share with al-Qaeda the view that the West and the Islamic world are caught inevitably in a ‘clash of civilisations’”. This is what Nicholas Kristof’s article in The Scotsman yesterday had to say about the hysteria that has been...
