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...
Melanie Phillips (pictured) in her column in yesterday’s Daily Mail offers her usual mix of hyperbole and hysteria as she comments on Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the suspected terrorist who allegedly attempted to ignite explosives aboard a plane bound for Detroit, Michigan on Christmas Day. She...
The Liberal Democrat leader, Nick Clegg (pictured), heads the list of signatories of an open letter published in the Observer today calling on ‘the British government and the international community to apply meaningful pressure upon Israel’ to lift its suffocating blockade on...
The MCB’s letter to the Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, criticising his proposed suggestion to amend UK laws to protect suspected Israeli war criminals from facing arrest, has been picked up by international news organisations. The Associated Press have covered the story here....
The war of words between the Quilliam Foundation and the Green Lane Masjid (Birmingham) continues. Today saw the Quilliam Foundation issue an open letter to Faisal al-Jassim – who is due to speak at the Winter Conference at the GLM – and whom Quilliam had described in a...
David Wearing (pictured), graduate student in political science at UCL, contributes an article to the Guardian’s Comment is Free section on UK foreign policy making and its democratic deficit. He writes: ‘In February 2003, more than 90% of Britons opposed Tony Blair’s...
A year on from the devastation of the Gaza strip by the Israeli army, a consortium of 16 aid agencies, including Amnesty International and Oxfam, have released a report on the meagre progress in Gaza’s reconstruction caused by Israel’s continuing blockade. The report, ‘Failing Gaza’...
The target of the Quilliam Foundation’s latest press release is Birmingham’s Green Lane Mosque (pictured). QF claim that the mosque is planning to host ‘two extreme Wahhabi clerics who bolster al-Qaeda narratives’. The two scholars in question are Sheikh Faisal al-Jassim, ‘a Wahhabi of...
