Harrow Central Mosque (pictured) has urged anti-fascist campaigners to stay away on December 13th when the Stop the Islamisation of Europe (SIOE) group will revisit the town for another ‘anti-Islamic extremism’ demonstration. Ghulam Rabbani, general secretary of the mosque, said: “Our...
Muslim gravestones in a Manchester cemetery have been desecrated for the third time. Over 20 headstones at the Southern Cemetery in Manchester were pushed over sometime between Friday 20th and Monday 23rd November. It is the third time that the Muslim section of the cemetery has been targeted...
David Cameron, Leader of the Opposition, during Prime Minister’s Question Time today questioned the PM on the subject of public funds allegedly given to two Muslim schools that are said to have links to Hizb ut-Tahrir. Cameron also touched on proscribing the group arguing that despite an...
Shaikh Asif Farooqui, whose arrest last week under terrorism legislation sparked outrage among Bolton’s Muslim community, was released without charge on Sunday evening. The Shaikh’s arrest prompted local Muslims to launch an e-petition calling for his immediate release and to organise a...
Seumas Milne in the Guardian’s Comment is Free writes on the ‘Community Defence Initiative’ to fund anti-Taliban militias in Afghanistan and the naivety of assuming that peace is something that can be bought. He writes: ‘So now we know the secret weapon of the new western plan to...
Louise Christian (pictured), solicitor for former Guantánamo detainee Martin Mubanga, writes in the Guardian’s Comment is Free on the release today of a report by Human Rights Watch exposing the British government’s complicity in the torture of terror suspects in Pakistan. HRW’s...
The Sunday Times yesterday ran an article on recent meetings between British Muslims and the UK’s ‘flying diplomats‘. According to the ST, ‘Ambassadors and other senior British diplomats in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia and Morocco have joined...
The former British ambassador to Libya, Sir Oliver Miles (pictured), has added his voice to criticism of the composition of the Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq war in an article in the Independent on Sunday, ‘The key question – is Blair a war criminal?’. Sir Oliver writes: ‘The Prime...
The Communities and Local Government select committee inquiry into Prevent will begin its oral evidence sessions on Monday 30 November. Organisations that have been called upon to provide oral evidence in the first session are: At 4.20pm Quilliam, iCoCo (Institute of Community...
Martin ‘The Great Koran Con Trick’ Bright in this week’s JC (and Spectator blog), writing on the prospect of a BNP MP in Barking and Dagenham and the possibility of the party winning control of its first ever local council next year, calls for a ‘strategic alliance between...
