After Nick Griffin’s appearance on Nicky Campbell’s Radio 5 Live programme last month in which he said “I’m not anti-Muslim, I’m anti-Islam”, Lord Pearson of the UK Independence Party took part in the programme on Tuesday where he repeated his party’s support for a ban on the burqa...
An advert promoting the Conservative party in the Jewish Chronicle last week (pdf file) is unlikely to impress Muslims as we approach polling day. The advert reiterates policies that are already cause for concern, from Edward Garnier’s allaying Israeli fears on the UK’s war crimes...
Today’s edition of The Herald in Scotland reports that Special Branch have been accused of abusing their stop and search powers at airports to try and recruit Scottish Muslims into spying for them. The Herald says: Under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000, officers can stop and...
The Independent today reports the case of two British Muslims who say they were detained, illegally interrogated and held in ‘inhumane’ conditions while on holiday by the authorities in Tanzania on the orders of MI5. This is just the latest in a number of similar reports of...
The Labour Party has suspended its candidate for the South East Cambridgeshire constituency, John Cowan (pictured), following comments he posted on a website claiming that he ‘would not like any of his children to marry a Muslim’. The BBC reports: ‘Labour’s election co-ordinator...
Read about the ENGAGE hustings in Blackburn (candidates pictured left) last weekend here. The event was marked by a public apology given by incumbent MP and former Justice Secretary, Jack Straw, for his comments on Muslim women wearing the face veil in an article for the Lancashire Telegraph in...
The JC last week published a transcript of a meeting hosted by the Board of Deputies of British Jews with Lib Dem peer Lord William Wallace of Saltaire speaking on his party’s position on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Questions from the audience focused heavily on the Lib Dems’ stance on...
{youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1Du97Sv61U&feature=player_embedded} See this hugely disturbing footage of the provocation of two Australian Muslims by a TV cameraman working for Australia’s Channel 7. The incident came to light when Channel 7 (and Channel 10) broadcast a segment of...
A proposed mosque planning application in Barton Hill, Bristol is the latest target of an anti-mosque Facebook campaign. Members of the far right racist group, the English Defence League, are among around 700 people that have joined the anti-mosque campaign group. Comments posted by individuals...
An interesting clip from an election hustings in marginal seat Ilford North where the incumbent, Lee Scott (pictured), is asked about his membership of the Conservative Friends of Israel and his pro-Israeli stance. Scott replies to a question from the audience: “Israel is the finest democracy...
