Read the transcript of shadow home secretary, Chris Grayling’s speech, ‘Radicalism is a domestic and international challenge‘, to the Heritage Foundation in Washington today. Excerpted from the speech: ‘Today I want to set out how a Conservative Government in Britain...
Sholto Byrnes (pictured) comments on the Swiss referendum result to ban minarets in New Statesman blogs. ‘I’m afraid that the Little Europeans have far more support than we normally wish to admit, even in Britain. For it is part of the paradox of Western liberalism that its pluralism...
Taj Hargey (pictured), chairman of the Muslim Educational Centre of Oxford, adds his voice to commentary on the Swiss referendum result to ban the building of new minarets in a guest column in The Times today. He says: ‘Switzerland’s referendum vote to ban minarets is needlessly...
Michael Gove (pictured), shadow secretary for children, schools and families, responds in the Telegraph to the comment piece by Ed Balls published yesterday, on Muslim faith schools and Hizb ut-Tahrir. He writes: ‘I want to support all the major faiths of this country in establishing and...
Jonathan Freedland (pictured) in the Guardian offers a sober reflection on the Swiss ban on minarets and what it connotes of majority attitudes towards minority groups in Europe. He writes: ‘[H]ow would I react if the Swiss voted to restrict the way synagogues are built? With horror, of...
Proving that there’s no depth to which they won’t sink in their campaign of hate against British Muslims, the Stop Islamisation of Europe (SIOE) group has sent emails to British Jews encouraging them to attend the demonstration in front of Harrow mosque on December 13th. The Jewish...
Tariq Ramadan in the Guardian’s Comment is Free reflects on the outcome of the Swiss referendum to ban the building of new minarets. ‘For the first time since 1893 an initiative that singles out one community, with a clear discriminatory essence, has been approved in...
Leaflets distributed by a BNP activist in St. Albans, against a mosque planning application submitted by a local Muslim group, are being investigated by police for incitement to racial hatred. The BNP leaflets headlined “Do you want to live under an oppressive Islamic Sharia...
Watch coverage of the Communities and Local Government committee’s oral evidence sessions, part of its inquiry into Prevent, on BBC Democracy Live here.
Ed Balls, Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, writes in the Daily Telegraph today on the controversy sparked by David Cameron’s ill-informed remarks last week on the two schools run by the Islamic Shakhsiyah Foundation. He writes: ‘We must never forget that...
