Amnesty International has released a report today on Israel’s conduct in war during the savage bombardment and invasion of the Gaza Strip in December 2008 – January 2009. Amnesty argues in the report, ‘Operation ‘CAST LEAD’: 22 Days of Death and Destruction’, that the Israeli...
The Socialist Worker carries a story on recent court cases involving hate crimes targetting non White Britons and shows just how far right wing extremists are prepared to go to advance their rabidly racist agenda. ‘Four recent court cases in different parts of Britain shed some light on what...
The BBC One Show poses the question ‘Should schools allow teachers to wear full-face veils?’ It follows on from comments made by David Cameron and reported in the Daily Express yesterday. The paper misleadingly titled the story ‘Cameron backs ban on burkhas’, a throwback to its...
Helen Martin in The Scotsman commenting on the burqa and equality: ‘If we are going to rank clothes by offensiveness I would put fat girls in crop tops and low slung minis or sausage-skin jeans way above the burkha. . . which is not to say I don’t find them both equally ridiculous.
Setting a new low for publications lacking in academic rigour, Civitas produces another questionable report by Denis MacEoin entitled: ‘Sharia Law or ‘One Law For All’? The report is covered extensively in today’s press (Daily Mail, Daily Express, Telegraph), both in news...
The Guardian reports today on the challenge the BNP is presenting to extant race hate legislation with the Crown Prosecution Service unable to prosecute the party for leaflets (pictured) that are overtly racist but which fall short of the requirements of the law on incitement to racial hatred....
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...
