It’s almost par for the course that come this time of year Muslims will suffer the indignity of certain newspapers publishing the rants of extremists thus blackening the image of British Muslims as we approach Remembrance Day. True to form, the Sunday Express gives up a page to...
The UK Youth Parliament is to hold its annual debate in the chamber of the House of Commons today for the first time. Debating scenes in the House will depart from the customary as 300 Members of the Youth Parliament (MYPs) take to the green benches to discuss: Lowering the voting age to 16...
Liz Fekete, Executive Director of the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) and author of ‘A Suitable Enemy: Racism, Migration and Islamophobia in Europe’, delivered the eighth Claudia Jones Memorial Lecture on ‘Who’s terrorising who? The media and the war on terror‘,...
If you missed the first episode of Andrew Marr’s ‘The Making of Modern Britain’ on BBC2 yesterday, you can catch it on BBC iPlayer here. The six part series looks at the events that shaped Britain from the death of Queen Victoria to the end of the Second World War. The first episode, ‘A...
Seumas Milne in his Guardian column today critiques the Government’s ‘domestic extremism’ surveillance strategy arguing that it ‘criminalises political dissent’ and assaults the fundamental principles of a democratic society; the right to protest and engage in non-violent politics. He...
As we approach Sat 31st October and British Muslim groups (Muslims4UK, ISB) prepare to counter the ridiculous ‘March for Shari’ah’ demonstration called by the Islam4UK fringe group, what groups do you suppose the Daily Express is busy promoting? No prizes for guessing of course, the...
Another instance of a mosque playing its role as a hub of community life and activity is displayed in the example of Darul Amaan Trust Mosque in Colliers Wood, which hosted a meeting with Wimbledon MP Stephen Hammond (pictured left) and London MEP Syed Kamall (pictured right) to discuss local...
The Home Office today has responded to the story published in the Guardian on Saturday 17 October on the use of Prevent to spy on Muslims, and the report by Arun Kundnani of the Institute of Race Relations on ‘Spooked! How not to prevent violent extremism’, with what purports to be a...
The man accused of stabbing Egyptian Marwa Al-Sherbini (pictured left) 18 times in a Dresden courtroom in July, killing her in front of her husband and three year old son, has appeared in court charged with her murder. ‘Alex W’, who stabbed Marwa during a hearing to appeal his fine for...
The Guardian columnist, George Monbiot (pictured), explains his reasons for backing the former British Prime Minister Tony Blair for the post of EU President. While Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, yesterday set out his vision for ‘A Strong Britain in a Strong Europe’, and David Cameron...
