{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...
Paul Richards, former political advisor to the disgraced MP, Hazel Blears, blathers again in the Jewish Chronicle. This week his target is Azad Ali, whom ENGAGE earlier reported has been vindicated in a Civil Service investigation of any wrongdoing and reinstated to his post at HM Treasury....
Human Rights Watch comments on President Sarkozy’s remarks on the burqa saying that ‘a legal ban in Europe on the wearing of the burqa in public life would be just as much a violation of the rights of those women who wish to wear it as is the forcing of the veil on those […]
Dina Al Jnidi, the wife of Mahmoud Abu Rideh (pictured), a suspect detained on secret evidence and kept under a control order, writes a harrowing piece in The Independent today on the injustices of detention without charge, secret evidence, the control order regime and the trauma inflicted on an...
