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...
The Independent prints letters received in response to Joan Smith’s (pictured) column yesterday, ‘This shameful gender segregation’, in which she described the segregation of men and women at weddings in East London and Kuwait as ‘a blatant form of discrimination’. The printed letters...
Martin Bright is to join the Jewish Chronicle as it’s new political editor next month, according to the Press Gazette today. Readers will be familiar with Bright’s work at the New Statesman, where he authored the specious ‘The Great Koran Con Trick’ article. Bright’s arguments...
While Alex Massie on Spectator blogs uncovers the flawed and frenzied arguments of Eurabia-mongers, his fellow Spectator contributor, James Delingpole (pictured), adds his own Eurabia style thoughts in a comment piece in yesterday’s Daily Express. ‘Is this the newest wave in the battle...
Islamophobia Watch draws attention to the accusation of alleged ‘thuggery and hooliganism’ by anti BNP demonstrators in Codnor last weekend made by the Quilliam Foundation Research Fellow Lucy James. James, in an article for Progress Online writes, ‘Unfortunately, these anti-BNP protesters...
Alex Massie in The Spectator Blogs comments on recent stories fuelling Eurabia enthusiasts’ apocalyptic vision of an ‘Islamized’ Europe. The ‘evidence’ used to feed their fantasies? Well, there’s European Muslim birth rates, which are not only exaggerated by Eurabia-mongers, but...
Jim Fitzpatrick, Minister for Food, Farming and the Environment and MP for Poplar and Canning Town, walking out of a Muslim wedding last week because it was a segregated affair has attracted all manner of critique and comment though the lines of thinking are pretty well drawn. The Minister...
Pankaj Mishra reviews recent publications that foment ‘Eurabia’ hysteria in a lengthy feature for The Guardian’s review section this weekend. Mishra looks at Christopher Caldwell’s ‘Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Can Europe Be the Same With Different People in It?’, Bruce...
