Activist groups inspired by the work of ENGAGE have been taking their message on voter registration and campaigning for the European elections to their local communities through mosques in North West England. Posters (left) and a Friday Khutbah, prepared by Mufti Zubair Butt, chair of the Al...
From the Economist, a short and interesting analysis of the Home Office figures released this week which revealed that less than 10% of those arrested under terrorism legislation are actually convicted of such an offence. ‘The numbers are enough to make anyone pause before considering...
The Quilliam Foundation, ever ready to issue an alert of questionable veracity, issued a press release yesterday claiming, ‘Quilliam Director Maajid Nawaz [pictured left] Attacked in Pakistan’. The press release claimed that ‘Maajid Nawaz, the Director of the Quilliam Foundation, was...
We have been forwarded the following fascinating email exchange between Dr Musharraf Hussain (pictured left), advisor to the Quilliam Foundation and a concerned Muslim rebutting the QF’s reprehensible ‘alert’ on Islam Channel and its presenters, and the foundation’s...
Israel’s foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman (pictured) is in London today to meet with the Foreign Secretary, David Miliband. Lieberman has been touring European capitals over the last few days hoping to win support for a proposed upgrade in EU trade relations with Israel. But, given the new...
The former editor of the Daily Telegraph and the London Evening Standard, Max Hastings, writes a very interesting article in today’s Guardian about how his admiration for the Jewish state waned over the years as he saw how it had become addicted to the continuing dispossession of the...
Looking at the coverage of the Gallup – Coexist Foundation survey in today’s Daily Express and Daily Star (both owned by Richard Desmond), you’d be forgiven for thinking that there was anything positive revealed in the survey results. Despite the fact that the survey, released yesterday,...
The Quilliam Foundation’s ridiculous alert on the Islam Channel features on the pages this week of the Jewish Chronicle. Not surprising really since the paper also featured the earlier equally ridiculous QF alert on Osama Saeed.
Caryl Churchill’s play ‘Seven Jewish Children’ will be performed at the Hackney Empire in London on Thursday, 21 May by some of the Royal Court’s original cast. Just as the BBC refused to broadcast the Disaster’s Emergency Committee appeal in aid of the people of Gaza, this play...
There’s a truly awful piece in Telegraph blogs by, no not Damian Thompson, but Ed West (pictured), entitled ‘Here’s an inconvenient truth: the Islamisation of Europe’. West tries to rationalize what is nothing more than a racist diatribe against Muslim immigration and Muslim...
