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...
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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...
The Jewish Chronicle today publishes letters in response to Martin Bright’s article last week on the need for a ‘strategic alliance between British Jews [and] anti-Islamists’ against the East London Mosque and the London Muslim Centre. The letters from Ayub Khan, secretary of...
The Speaker’s Conference, convened by the Speaker of the House, John Bercow MP (pictured), published its second interim report on parliamentary representation yesterday in which it recommended that political parties publish fuller details on candidate selection. The report states that since...
The subject of two Muslim schools run by the Islamic Shakhsiyah Foundation, which the Conservative leader yesterday claimed had links to Hizb ut-Tahrir, features in many of today’s newspapers (Independent, Express, Mail, Telegraph), as Cameron retreats over claims he made that the schools...
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...
