Channel 4 News featured a news item yesterday (click on image to view) about the BNP’s foray into Europe and its attempts to build a far right bloc in the European Parliament to increase its budget for expenses and staff. The party leader, Nick Griffin, seeking European partners for the BNP,...
Alex Brummer, (pictured) Daily Mail City columnist, writes in the Jewish Chronicle this week on the work of ‘Just Journalism’, a pro-Israel organisation launched to ‘measure coverage of the Middle East in the UK media against various codes of conduct laid down by the BBC, Ofcom, the Press...
Following the remarks by French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, on establishing a commission to look into the banning of the burqa and niqab in France, AFP reports that the French government has now set up a special panel of 32 lawmakers to look into such a ban. At the first hearing of the...
{youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoOwtPJNsAM} The English and Welsh Defence League demonstration in Birmingham last Saturday, captured in this Youtube video, featured demonstrators chanting ‘Muslims out!’. Not that this is surprising – Bartholomew’s Notes reveals that EDL and WDL...
There’s an interesting post on the rabidly anti-Muslim website Harry’s Place about this speech by the former British Army Colonel Richard Kemp CBE on ‘Hamas, the Gaza War and Accountability Under International Law’, delivered at the Jerusalem Centre for Public Affairs. It’s no...
Adding to the recent spate of attacks on Muslim properties and places of worship, comes news that the Glasgow branch and Scottish headquarters of the UK based Muslim charity Islamic Relief was set on fire in the early hours of Thursday morning last week. The damage to the property is estimated...
The Guardian reveals that MI5 has been accused of offering Rangzieb Ahmed a bribe in order to induce him to drop allegations of torture collusion by the security agency. Ahmed had three fingernails ripped out when detained and questioned under torture by the Pakistani Inter-Services...
A further instance of the disparity in media reporting of comparable incidents involving hate crimes is this abominable story of an Egyptian woman who was stabbed to death in a courtroom in Dresden, Germany by the man against whom she was due to give evidence. Marwa Al-Sherbini, who was four...
Riz Khan hosts Q&A on Al Jazeera English and asks ‘Is there a crack in the US pro-Israel lobby?’ The show looks at the influence of America’s pro-Israel lobby and questions whether the lobby is changing under President Obama evincing a new face and a new orientation in its support for...
The Sunday Times carried an alarming story yesterday on recent arrests involving far right extremists and their plots to bomb mosques in the UK. The paper reports: ‘A network of suspected far-right extremists with access to 300 weapons and 80 bombs has been uncovered by counter-terrorism...
