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...
As the Israeli Prime Minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, prepares for a visit to the UK this week to meet with the Prime Minister Gordon Brown and US special envoy George Mitchell, amid speculation that a deal may be struck on ceasing – for a fixed period – Israel’s illegal settlement...
A new book by Lancaster University academics challenges the argument that multicultural policies in Britain are harming integration. Professor Roger Penn and Dr Paul Lambert of Lancaster University in a new book, ‘Children of International Migrants in Europe’, argue that the children...
Le Figaro carried a story earlier this week about the defiling of a mosque in Toul, France, where racist and Nazi graffiti was sprayed and pig offal smeared onto its walls. The paper reports that the desecration is the work of far right skinheads who also sprayed the walls of a kebab shop in...
