William Underhill in last week’s Newsweek magazine wrote a cover story about ‘Why fears of a Muslim takeover [of Europe] are all wrong’. The article mentions the farfetched claims of those that foresee in Europe’s future a ‘creeping Islamification’, to quote BNP party leader Nick...
Trust the Daily Express to scorn the (heavily exaggerated) news that non-Muslims are also turning to Shari’ah tribunals for arbitration purposes. The paper today covers the story that was printed in yesterday’s Times, ‘Non-Muslims turning to Sharia courts to resolve civil disputes’,...
Fatima Barkatullah writing a piece in The Times today entitled ‘Niqab: Fact v Fiction‘, seeks to dispel popular myths on the niqab and burqa, challenging the common misconceptions that shape antipathy to these forms of dress observed by many Muslim women. Read her retorts to popular...
The Centre for Social Cohesion last week published a report entitled, ‘The BNP and the Online Fascist Network’, which it claims, ‘reveals that members and supporters of the BNP and its online activists display significant ideological affinity with key tenets of the neo-Nazi ideology....
Alaa Al Aswany, author of The Yacoubian Building, writes in the Guardian today on the media’s double standards in dealing with Islam and Muslims as subject matters and laments the dearth of Muslim voices and examples that challenge these prejudices and project Islam in its truer form. He...
Professor Stephen Walt, (pictured), co-author of ‘The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy’, comments on the meeting last week of pro-Israel lobby groups in the United States with President Obama. He writes of the importance of the lobby to US endeavours to progress on the establishment of a...
Martin Bright (pictured) comments in the Spectator blogs on the MCB’s libel win against the BBC last week. He quotes from Nick Cohen’s column in The Observer: ‘The exorbitant costs of libel actions are far beyond the means of all academics and, increasingly, most newspapers…’...
A London-based conman who defrauded hundreds of Muslims of their Hajj savings has been jailed for 6 years following a Metropolitan Police investigation. Muslims who approached Mohammed Faruk Ahmed (pictured) of Qibla Hajj Kafela Services in London’s Brick Lane, to secure their visas,...
Pickled Politics features a guest post by Shaaz Mahboob (pictured) of British Muslims for Secular Democracy (BMSD) on Muslim patriotism. He writes: ‘Yesterday’s coverage about the repatriation of the eight British soldiers killed in Afghanistan and the welcome accorded to them by the British...
Further to our item on the Israeli Foreign Ministry’s use of ‘talkbackers‘ to ‘talk up’ Israel in online discussion forums, a Calcalist article translated from Hebrew into English explains and exposes the purpose of the venture and why the war of words is moving into the online...
