ENGAGE has learnt that Azad Ali, the Muslim civil servant who was suspended from his job at HM Treasury following a witch hunt agitated by (surprise, surprise) amongst others the anti-Muslim website Harry’s Place and the Mail on Sunday, is back at work after having been cleared by a Civil...
Richard Ingrams (pictured), a columnist at The Independent and a former editor of Private Eye, penned a column in last Saturday’s paper commenting on the appointment of Sir Martin Gilbert and Sir Lawrence Freedman to the newly formed Iraq Inquiry committee. He wrote: ‘Sir Martin Gilbert, the...
Alex Massie writes a marvellous piece in The Spectator this week, ‘The Muslim Menace to Our British Nationality. For Real!’. Drawing on parallels from British history on the majority’s prejudicial and bigoted views towards other groups in society, Massie shows how attitudes towards Muslims...
Taj Hargey, of the Muslim Educational Centre of Oxford (MECO) wades into the burqa debate with a letter published in The Times today. He writes: ‘Sir, While I oppose Nicolas Sarkozy’s right-wing and pro-American agenda, I commend the French leader for questioning the validity of full-face...
Michael Gove, the (neo)-Conservative Shadow Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, reviews Bruce Bawer’s ‘Surrender: Appeasing Islam, Sacrificing Freedom’, in this month’s Standpoint magazine. Standpoint is edited by the former Daily Telegraph leader writer and unabashed...
The niqab and burqa debate sparked off by Nicolas Sarkozy’s comments on Monday continues apace in today’s papers. The Daily Express informs us that both Muslims and non – Muslims want Britain to ban the burqa. Their sources of authoritative commentary? Among others, the rabid neo-con...
There’s a lot in the papers today, (Times, Daily Express, Daily Mail) regarding the speech of the French President Nicolas Sarkozy yesterday in which he pledged his support for a parliamentary commission to debate a possible ban on the wearing of the burqa/niqab in France. Sarkozy said that...
The Telegraph and the Daily Mail today both carry stories on alleged bias towards Islam in BBC programming. The Daily Telegraph reports on a document to be presented to the Church of England’s General Synod next month which criticises the marginalisation of Christian programming on the...
This paper, ‘Explaining Al-Qaida’s Continued Appeal’, by Dr Brynjar Lia (pictured), Research Professor at the Norwegian Defense Research Institute, analyses factors that have contributed to Al Qa’ida’s continued appeal among some Muslims across the globe. Dr Lia argues Al Qaida’s...
Many papers yesterday covered Lord Carlile’s comments that white Britons are unnecessarily being stopped and searched in order to give ‘racial balance’ to stop and search statistics. Lord Carlile, the government’s Independent Reviewer of Terrorism legislation wrote in...
