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  The Daily Star goes in search of comments by Anjem Choudary to splash across its front page. It reproduces a post from the Islam4UK website under the headline ‘Ban Evil Xmas’.

Dr Ghayasuddin Siddiqui writes a comment in The Times in relation to a story concerning a study on child abuse in madrassahs in the UK.

Another ex-HT member joins the growing industry of these former armchair revolutionaries that have left off their armchairs to beat back the beast they spawned. Rashad Ali writes in the Guardian’s Comment is Free section on the report by Dr June Edmunds on campus radicalisation. ‘I can...

  The BNP reports on a petition organised by South Birmingham BNP against the building of a new mosque in the Billesley ward. ‘Residents formed a long queue to sign the petition opposing the conversion of the now closed GP surgery into a mosque’, reports BNP news.

Edmonton Islamic Centre with Haringey Council hosted a ‘Road Family Safety Day’ featuring a presentation providing vital facts, figures and advice on road safety issues, along with a range of entertainment activities for a family fun day out.

 Germany’s largest mosque, the newly opened Merkez mosque in Duisburg An article on Muslims and city politics can be found in this week’s issue of The Economist magazine. The article, ‘When town halls turn to Mecca’, takes a closer look at the ways in which Muslims are transforming...

Middlesbrough striker Ahmed Hossam, better known as Mido, complained at the lack of robust action by the FA following an earlier incident of Islamophobic taunting at a football match in Newcastle and claims that complacency has only emboldened the racists.

Wajahat Ali contributes a comment to the Guardian Comment is Free section criticizing the perverse justice that led to the conviction of five members of the Holy Land Foundation, a charity active in providing humanitarian support to Palestinians. Ali quotes Linda Moreno, a defence lawyer for one of...

Dr June Edmunds of Cambridge University’s Development Studies Centre and author of research on Muslims on campuses and radicalization writes about her research findings in the Guardian’s Comment is Free section. Her research suggests that contrary to popular perception ‘young Muslims are...

  The sort of headline that is to be expected from the Daily Star in presentation and prominence; the story appears on page 2 of the paper.