Damian Thompson (pictured), editor of Daily Telegraph Blogs and author of the Holy Smoke blog, has come up with a commendable initiative to counter offensive anti-Semitic comments made on his blog posts. Thompson says, ‘For every anti-Semitic comment that appears on this blog, I will make a...
Revd. Peter Mullen (pictured), Rector of St Michael’s, Cornhill, and St Sepulchre-without-Newgate church in the City of London, offers a further sampling of his bigoted views on Muslims in a recent column in the Northern Echo. Mullen, commenting on the attempted Detroit airplane bombing,...
Revelling in the kind of publicity money can’t buy Islam4UK appears to have scored another media coup with its shameful proposed march on Wootton Bassett, (see The Times, Daily Telegraph, Daily Star, The Guardian, Daily Mail and BBC News). The group posted the proposed march on its website,...
The Independent, following its disclosures last year of MI5 allegedly trying to blackmail Muslims into spying for the agency, today reports that the agency is still using intimidation and threats to recruit Muslims from Somali and Yemeni backgrounds. The paper reports: ‘In one case, a man who...
As new US rules on profiling individuals from ‘high security risk’ countries come into operation today, the Daily Telegraph carries comments from Khalid Mahmood MP (pictured) and Dr Shaaz Mahboob, of British Muslims for Secular Democracy, supporting moves to introduce passenger profiling in...
In the Observer today – which you will recall disgraced its fine liberal traditions and supported the Iraq war – Rashad Ali (pictured, ex HT figure) and formerly employed at the Quilliam Foundation, writes a comment piece saying that the main lesson to be learned from the recent...
The Independent published a letter yesterday from the East London mosque concerning the paper’s article on Monday ‘Nigerian in aircraft attack linked to London mosque’, linking ELM to Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s radicalisation. The article in Monday’s edition stated...
The President and Provost of University College London, Malcolm Grant (pictured), has written an article for the Times Higher Education website in which he has defended his college from the many scurrilous allegations that have been made against it in recent days following the failed...
It was only likely to be a matter of time before the usual suspects were invited to contribute their simplistic explanations on the suspected causes of Umar Farouk Abdulmuttalab’s radicalisation. Stephen Pollard (pictured), editor of the Jewish Chronicle, contributes a comment piece in today’s...
The Muslim community of Cradley Heath, in the West Midlands, is appealing for help to catch arsonists who set the Cradley Heath mosque and Islamic centre ablaze and burnt it to the ground on Boxing Day. It is the second time in five years that the building has been targeted by arsonists and...
