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...
ENGAGE has today written to the Foreign Secretary, the Rt. Hon. David Miliband MP, to raise concerns over suggestions, in the aftermath of the Tzipi Livni affair, that legal procedures are to be amended to protect Israeli politicians from vulnerability of arrest in the UK on charges of suspected...
The arrest warrant issued by a Westminster magistrate against Tzipi Livni (pictured, left, with David Miliband), the former Israeli foreign minister, for war crimes committed during Israel’s savage bombardment of Gaza in Dec 2008-Jan 2009 has caused a flurry of lobbying to pressure the British...
The Open Society Institute today launched its new report on ‘Muslims in Europe’. The study, a ‘comparative analysis of data from 11 cities in seven European countries’, has found that British Muslims are the most patriotic in Europe. The report ‘while not...
