Journalist Peter Oborne, who writes for the Spectator and Daily Mail, denounced the unfair representation of Muslims in the media as ‘un-British’ at a conference on Islamophobia on Saturday. Oborne, who investigated how press coverage of terrorism has affected the portrayal of Islam...
Speaking to an audience of scholars at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies (OCIS), Prince Charles yesterday urged people to preserve the environment and heal the ‘widening division’ between humanity and Nature. Seventeen years after his landmark speech entitled ‘Islam and the West’ at...
The Home Office has revealed that ‘tens of thousands’ of people across the UK have been stopped and searched illegally under the controversial section 44 of the Terrorism Act (2000) which allows police to stop and search someone without suspicion that an offence has occurred. An...
The Charity Commission published a report on Monday in which it said that the Islamic Shakhsiyah Foundation no longer has any links with Hizb ut-Tahrir, and that ‘issues identified and considered did not give rise to regulatory concerns.’ The Commission warned however that...
Tony Blair, special envoy of the Middle East Quartet of international mediators, said yesterday on Israeli television that ‘when it comes to security, I’m 100 percent on Israel’s side.’ Speaking on Channel 10 following last week’s deadly attack that killed nine...
The blanket approach towards 10,300 Muslim prisoners by prison staff risks entrenching alienation and disaffection, creating young men who are ‘more likely to offend, or even embrace extremism’, according to the chief inspector of prisons, Dame Anne Owers. Dame Anne Ower’s...
Robert Fisk (pictured) comments in the Independent on Israel’s attack on the aid flotilla heading to Gaza last week. He writes: ‘Turkish family protests that their sons wanted to be martyrs – something which most Turkish family members might say if their relatives had been shot...
An investigation by The Guardian has revealed that surveillance cameras in Washwood Heath and Sparkbrook, two of Birmingham’s predominantly Muslim areas, have been ‘put up to monitor extremists.’ Saturday’s edition of The Guardian stated: ‘The cameras appeared at...
Andrew Gilligan wrote a piece in the Spectator last week on how the new coalition government must ‘reformulate‘ its ‘relationship with moderate Muslims – and marginalise the extremists for good.’ In last Wednesday’s article titled ‘We need a compact with...
It emerged yesterday that Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected a UN proposal for an international commission to probe last week’s attack on a flotilla of aid ships by Israeli commandos. Instead, Israeli officials will reportedly carry out their own inquiry. Activists...
