Richard Norton-Taylor writes in The Guardian on the ruling by the High Court yesterday further undermining attempts by the Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, to shield information relating to the mistreatment and torture of Binyam Mohamed by UK intelligence agents. Norton-Taylor writes: ‘In...
The BNP has signed its first non-white party member, and guess what – he ‘hates Muslims’. Rajinder Singh (pictured), a retired teacher, who once described Islam as a ‘beast’, is the first non-white member to be signed on following changes to the party’s membership criteria introduced...
Peter Housden (pictured), Permanent Secretary at the Department for Communities and Local Government responds to the Jewish Chronicle article by Martin Bright last week on Whitehall’s Muslim Advisors. Read Housden’s letter printed in today’s JC here.
As the police are granted more time to question the five individuals apprehended on suspicion of inciting terrorism overseas, the family of Shaikh Asif Farooqui has released a statement expressing their shock and dismay at the arrest of the 62 year old preacher. The family’s statement reads:...
Dr Mohammed Mukadhum (pictured), chairman of the Association of Muslim Schools (AMS) tells the BBC Asian Network that the current economic climate and straitened financial circumstances of Muslim families are threatening the viability of Muslim schools in the UK. Independent Muslim schools in...
Paul Goodman MP (pictured), the member of the House who has been assiduous in questioning CLG ministers on the allocations of Prevent funding to Muslim groups continues his probing with questions over allocations for the period 2009-2010 and 2010-2011. From Hansard we learn the names of groups...
The JC last Friday carried an article by Martin Bright (pictured) on reactions to changes in personnel at the Department for Communities and Local Government. Bright wrote that ‘A series of recent changes of personnel and promotions at key departments has led to concerns that the government is...
For those who missed the Dispatches programme on Monday ‘Inside Britain’s Israel Lobby’ on Channel 4, you can catch it again on Youtube here. The programme will also be repeated on Channel 4 tomorrow, Friday 20th November, at 3am.
Peter Oborne, presenter of tonight’s Dispatches documentary on the UK’s pro-Israel lobby writes in the Guardian today, with James Jones, on issues that prompted the Dispatches investigation and what they learned. Oborne and Jones ask: ‘What are the rules of British political...
The Sunday Herald covers the demonstration organised by the Scottish Defence League in Glasgow last Saturday and the anti-racist counter-demonstration of Scotland United. The paper reports that the racists of the SDL were hugely outnumbered by the Scotland United anti-fascist coalition as...
