Hansard on Wednesday records answers given to written questions posed by Lord Ahmed of Rotherham (pictured) and Baroness Sayeeda Warsi to the Department of Communities and Local Government on the Sufi Muslim Council and its receipt of public funds. From Hansard: Lord Ahmed: To ask Her...
Ed Husain (pictured) contributes an article to the New Statesman’s special issue on Islam this week. Looking back on his involvement in Hizb ut Tahrir and his later political maturation, coming to adopt a position more consistent with Britain’s pluralist democracy, Husain tries to weave...
The papers today, Guardian, Independent, Daily Telegraph and The Times, reflect on the ruling passed in the Binyam Mohamed case by the appeals court yesterday and the judgment that confirms that MI5 was complicit in his torture. The papers also refer to the report in The Guardian yesterday of...
Coverage of the Binyam Mohamed ruling by the Court of Appeals yesterday has revealed something of an (expected?) anomaly on how the Daily Express judges newsworthiness. On Mohamed’s release from Guantanamo last February, the paper headlined his return to the UK with a front page titled...
The Daily Mail reports on Peter Bone (pictured), Conservative MP for Wellingborough, questioning the Justice Minister, Jack Straw, in the House of Commons yesterday on whether he believed there should be a change to the law on the wearing of the burqa in public places. Mr Bone asked: ‘Does the...
The government has lost its legal battle to suppress evidence that it was aware of MI5’s complicity in the torture of Binyam Mohamed. The foreign secretary, David Miliband, has fought a long battle in the courts to keep documents classified claiming their declassification would threaten...
Faisal Hanjra (pictured), President of the Federation of Students’ Islamic Societies (FOSIS), writes a column for the Student Times on the intense and unjustified scrutiny that university Islamic societies currently find themselves facing. He writes: ‘The news of Umar Farouk...
The Welsh Assembly has recently launched its community cohesion strategy for Wales on preventing all forms of violent extremism, ‘Getting on Together’. The assembly will also be holding ‘awareness sessions’ focused on tackling threats to cohesion in the Higher and Further Education...
If you missed the first part of Peter Taylor’s (pictured) documentary for BBC 2, ‘Generation Jihad’, you can catch it again on BBC iPlayer, here. In the first of a three part series, ‘Peter hears from those convicted under Britain’s newest anti-terror laws and...
Sir Norman Bettison (pictured), the Association of Chief Police Officers’ representative for policy on tackling violent extremism, told Peter Taylor, in his programme ‘Generation Jihad’ that the Muslim community ‘could do more’ to help police forces tackle the threats posed by...
