The Policy Research Centre – based at the Islamic Foundation in Markfield – has issued a report today on Young British Muslims, ‘Seen and Not Heard’, which explores young Muslims’ attitudes on education, identity and belonging, media, policing and community leadership. The...
Progress Online carries details of a fringe meeting to be organised by the Quilliam Foundation at the Labour Party conference next month on ‘How should the Left engage with British Muslims’. The speaker line up includes: Rt Hon John Denham MP, Secretary of State for Communities & Local...
A Spinwatch investigation by Tom Mills and David Miller, ‘The British amateur terror trackers: A case study in dubious politics’ uncovers the motives and ideological leanings of so called ‘terrorism experts’, like the discredited Glen Jenvey, who have falsely exaggerated the threat from...
The Committees on Arms Export Controls, which consists of four select committees (Business and Enterprise, Defence, Foreign Affairs and International Development Committees), and is chaired by Roger Berry MP (pictured), published its first Joint Report of session 2008-09, on ‘Scrutiny of Arms...
There’s a typically irresponsible piece in the Daily Star (Proprietor: Richard Desmond) today. On the front page the paper prints ‘Muslims: We’ll kill Mourinho’ (pictured) and it devotes most of page 7 to a story titled, ‘Muslim fiends: we’ll kill Jose for fast blast’. The entire...
A Muslim in Loughton, Noor Ramjanally (pictured), who has been at the forefront of organizing Jum’uah prayers at a local community centre for Muslims living in Loughton was kidnapped at knife point and threatened by two men who demanded he stop organizing the weekly prayer session according to...
The Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, currently on a visit to the UK, has called on EU governments, including Britain, to end their support for the Israeli human rights organisation Breaking the Silence. The group published a report earlier this year on the IDF’s ‘permissive...
Harry’s Place carries an announcement on the creation of a new website, CiF Watch, to monitor alleged antisemitism on the Guardian’s Comment is Free website. The announcement states the purpose of the new CiF monitoring website as: ‘Created to address the endemic problem of antisemitic...
Paul Richards – the ex-special advisor to the disgraced former Communities Secretary, Hazel Blears – writes about the wedding segregation row in an article for Progress Online. Richards uses the opportunity to hark on in similar vein to the articles he recently wrote for the...
The author Sebastian Faulks (pictured), in an interview with the Sunday Times magazine this week, disparagingly referred to to the Holy Qur’an as a “a depressing book” and compared it to the “rantings of a schizophrenic”. Faulks, speaking of his reading the Qur’an for research...
