The Jewish Chronicle front page today revisits the heavy lobbying Government is facing from Anglo-Jewish organisations to amend universal jurisdiction provisions before the next election. The paper two weeks ago reported that the Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, was pushing for legislation to...
The Tory MP for Monmouth, David Davies, has sparked outrage by making comments interlinking rape with attitudes towards women in minority cultures. Commenting on a rape case and the background of the attacker, Balal Khan, Davies said: “I think there is a wider question here – what is...
The testimony of Sir Michael Wood (pictured), chief legal adviser at the Foreign Office, and his deputy, Elizabeth Wilmshurst, to the Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq War reveals the extent to which the Blair government roundly ignored the legal advice of international law experts, pressuring them...
Today sees the launch of the European Muslim Research Centre (EMRC) and its seminal research paper on ‘Islamophobia and Anti-Muslim Hate Crime: a London Case Study’. The EMRC, based at Exeter University, is co-directed by Dr Jonathan Githens-Mazer and Dr Robert Lambert, former head of the...
The Independent today prints a letter from the MCB responding to Yasmin Alibhai Brown’s article in Monday’s edition of the paper in which she referred to the organisation as “retrogressive” for its opposing the banning of Muslim female attire (niqab and burqa). The letter reads:...
UN Human Rights experts have published a report on the ‘reinvigorated’ use of secret detention as part of states’ counter-terrorism efforts and the human rights abuses involved in the practice. ‘In a 222-page study which will be presented to the UN Human Rights Council in March, the...
In today’s edition of The Independent, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown once again berates Muslim women who choose to wear the burqa. Alibhai-Brown writes: ‘You people who support the “freedom” to wear the burka, do you think anorexics and drug addicts have the right to choose what...
Martin ‘The Great Koran Con Trick’ Bright reports in the latest issue of the Jewish Chronicle that UK Jewish leaders are furious that the government has restored ties with the country’s largest Islamic umbrella body, the Muslim Council of Britain. Bright says: ‘In a...
There’s something typically disturbing about the Daily Express’s coverage (image, left) of the reported termination by Newham Council of proposals by Tablighi Jamaat to erect a mosque and educational complex with 12,000 people capacity in East London. Newham Council has reportedly served the...
It was inevitable that the resurfacing of the niqab/burqa issue in the press, initiated by UKIP’s announcement of its intention to ban these items of clothing, would see Joan Smith (pictured) of The Independent proffer her blinkered views couched in her familiar secular gender equality...
