Worcester City Council approved a proposal to twin the city with Gaza as a ‘humanitarian gesture’. Councillor Alan Amos who proposed the move said, “We are linking with the people [of Gaza], reaching out to these women and children and men who have been through so much.”
Following yesterday’s news that Sir Alan Sugar is to sue the Sun, there is news today that Muslim bus driver Arunas Raulynaitis, whom the paper accused of forcing people off his bus so that he could pray, has accepted £30,000 in damages from the newspaper. Stephen Loughery , Raulynaitis’...
Sir Alan Sugar is to sue the Sun newspaper over the printing of a false front page story in January this year, ‘Terror Target Sugar’, which claimed that British Jews were being singled out for attack by Muslims over events in Gaza. He has issued a writ against News Group Newspapers...
Sabby Dhalu of Unite Against Fascism (UAF) writes in the Guardian’s Comment is Free on why unity is paramount in the struggle against the BNP gaining further advances in local, national, and more pressingly, the forthcoming European elections. Dhalu quotes the BNP leader Nick Griffin:...
Newspapers today report and comment on the return of Binyam Mohamed to the UK following his release from Guantanamo. It is shameful and disgusting to read some of the stories and leader columns in today’s papers that trivialise the horrors Mohamed has endured over the past seven years. It...
Determined not to allow the Charity Commission’s report of the good services provided by mosques in Britain to be fully appreciated, the Home Office funded outfit, the Quilliam Foundation, has released a report of its own, ‘Mosques Made in Britain’, claiming that: 97 per cent of imams...
The Charity Commission has revealed the results from the first detailed survey into the services provided by mosques in England and Wales. The survey results are based on responses from the 255 mosques that took part in the exercise. The findings show that most mosques are well-established,...
As politicians lament the BNP by-election win in Kent and contend that the fight against fascism is harder today than it was in the 1970s, Trevor Kavanagh writing in the Sun today echoes the kind of anti Muslim prejudice that reveals why it is tougher to eradicate ill informed, prejudicial views.
Not content with fabricated evidence in producing his ‘report’ on hate literature in mosques for Policy Exchange, (The Hijacking of British Islam), Denis MacEoin’s new ‘report’ on Muslim schools confirms only this, that having been caught out once with flimsy evidence backing an...
Seumas Milne in his column in The Guardian comments on the leak of the Government’s Contest 2 strategy and Dame Stella Rimington’s comments earlier in the week on the government’s exaggerating fear in society to pass ever more repressive legislation.
