Conservative Party chairman, Sayeeda Warsi, says burqa’s do not prevent Muslim women from ‘engaging in everyday life’ in Britain. From the Mail on Sunday: ‘Backbench Tory MPs have launched a bid to ban the wearing of the burka in public. Critics claim the burka is a...
The Islamic Education and Research Academy (iERA) has today released its report on ‘Perceptions on Islam and Muslims: A study of the UK Population‘, authored by Hamza Andreas Tzortzis, Dr. Iman Khalaf and Sadia Salam. The report, capturing views from interviews with a random sample...
Speaking in Ankara on Tuesday 27th July, Prime Minister David Cameron denounced Israel’s attack on the Gaza aid flotilla as ‘completely unacceptable‘ and described Gaza as a ‘prison camp.’ On his visit to Turkey, David Cameron endorsed the country’s...
The Islington Gazette reports that ‘Islamophobic thugs‘ stuck a pig’s head on to the gates of North London Central Mosque in Finsbury Park. The head was discovered in the early hours of the morning when worshippers arrived at the mosque.
Britain’s Court of Appeal has held that the control orders of three terrorism suspects should be quashed altogether, according to the Guardian. The ruling by three appeal court judges headed by Lord Justice Maurice Kay has paved the way for others to claim compensation, and deals yet...
Details emerged yesterday of the arrest of EDL members in Dorset on suspicion of being involved in a plot to bomb a mosque in Bournemouth. Six men and one woman were held during the operation last week but later released without charge. From the Guardian: ‘A police spokesman said:...
A cache of more than 90,000 secret US military files obtained by Wikileaks have revealed ‘how coalition forces have killed hundreds of civilians in unreported incidents‘, reports the Guardian. Described as ‘one of the biggest leaks in US history‘, the war logs show...
Tory MP for Kettering, Philip Hollobone, who said ‘wearing a burqa is like having a paper bag over your head’ has been warned that he ‘could face legal action if he follows through on a threat to refuse to meet constituents wearing the veil.’ From the Guardian:...
Following last week’s revelation by the Guardian that the government will dismantle the Prevent programme, the independent think tank Demos has today published a report calling on the coalition government to abolish the £60 million Preventing Violent Extremism programme to make the UK...
Lord Patten of Barnes has said that Israel’s policy of blockading Gaza has been a ‘terrible failure – immoral, illegal and ineffective’ and has ‘deliberately triggered an economic and social crisis which has many humanitarian consequences.’ In an interview...
