The Department for Communities and Local Government is looking to recruit Faith and Community Advisers; a Policy Adviser to the Secretary of State, Departmental Advisers and a Panel of Experts (unpaid position) for the CLG to strengthen its expertise in working with faith communities. Full...
Taj Hargey continues his quest for a Qur’an only based theology with a letter to The Times calling for the end to “shariafication”, a process which, he says, ‘flagrantly violates the transcendent Koran, particularly when it relates to women’s rights, criminal punishments, interfaith...
Harry’s Place continues its vicious witch-hunt against Mehdi Hasan – a senior editor at the New Statesman and a former commissioning editor at Channel 4 – in what appears to be a determined campaign to get him sacked. James Macintyre – a colleague of Mehdi’s...
The Communities and Local Government Committee of parliament is to undertake an inquiry into ‘Prevent’, the Government’s strategy on Preventing Violent Extremism. The inquiry is currently inviting written submissions on the effectiveness to date of Prevent, and its likely effectiveness in...
The Jewish Chronicle today reports on the sacking of four council workers in Lancashire who were suspended earlier in the year pending a council investigation into their sharing of emails that drew similitudes between Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians during the bombardment of Gaza...
Dominic Cavendish reviews Hanif Kureishi’s play ‘The Black Album’ in the Telegraph. Writing about a scene in the play which depicts Muslims burning a copy of the Satanic Verses, Cavendish remarks, ‘in the most disturbing scene we see a copy of The Satanic Verses being set alight...
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....
