The BBC website yesterday reported that Hizb ut-Tahrir has been denied the opportunity to participate in a student society debate at Queen Mary, University of London on ‘Shariah law – compatible in the modern world?’. Members of the group, Jamal Harwood and Reza Pankhurst, were to take...
The Jewish Chronicle reports on a spat between the Foreign Office (Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, pictured with Ehud Barak, Israeli Defence Minister) and the Department for Communities and Local Government on messages filtered to British Muslims on the Government’s line during the Israeli...
The Guardian reports on new voluntary guidance issued by the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), which urges British supermarkets to label foodstuffs from the Occupied Palestinian Territories as “Israeli settlement produce” or “Palestinian...
The Times discloses an email sent by a police officer in the West Midlands Counter Terrorism Unit to community groups involved in the region’s Prevent programme that suggests that police forces are monitoring nurseries and children as young as four in their counter-radicalisation efforts....
BBC Question Time today will be broadcast from Wootton Bassett, the town in Wiltshire that has been honouring British soldiers that have been killed while serving in Afghanistan. The programme will focus in part on government policy on Afghanistan and whether the aims that informed the...
Further to the advice of the Community Security Trust urging British Jews to stay away from Stop Islamisation of Europe’s (SIOE) demonstration against Harrow central mosque on December 13th, Jewish leaders in Harrow have declared their solidarity with local Muslims against “those whose...
The Communities and Local Government select committee’s inquiry into Prevent will continue its oral evidence sessions with the following called to give evidence on Monday 14 December: At 4.20pm Guy Wilkinson, National Inter Religious Affairs Adviser & Secretary for Inter...
The Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) today issued the first ever EU-wide survey on ethnic minorities: ‘Mapping Discrimination across Europe’. The EU-MIDIS survey interviewed 23,500 people with an ethnic minority or immigrant background across the EU’s 27 Member States, and is the largest...
The Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, John Denham MP (pictured), delivered the keynote address at the Prevent conference in Birmingham today. The conference is intended for frontline staff in local councils and the police forces, all involved in delivering the...
Alex Massie (pictured), on Spectator blogs takes aim at fellow Spectator blogger, Rod Liddle, and his penchant for mistaking prejudiced for provocative. Massie writes, ‘...like his comrades Clarkson and Littlejohn, Liddle confuses being offensive with being provocative.’ Liddle, in a...
