A couple of stories today in The Sun, Daily Mail and Metro on the harangues of Omar Bakri Mohammed that have been posted on an internet site run by supporters of Al Muhajiroun. Mohammed riles against an X Factor single that is intended to raise funds for the ‘Help for Heroes’ charity, a...
The British Humanist Association (BHA) is considering placing posters on London buses that state ‘There’s probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life’. The posters have the support of Professor Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion, who said that “Religion...
A letter by Joan McTigue, an independent councillor of Beechwood ward in Middlesbrough to the Sunday Sun criticising Middlesbrough Labour Council’s spending of £400,000 on ‘helping Muslims integrate’. Councillor McTigue writes that the integration of the Irish and Scots cost, ‘not one...
Philip Lewis, author of ‘Young, British and Muslim’ and Interfaith Advisor to the Bishop of Bradford, throws his weight behind objectors to the new mosque development project in east London claiming it would create a ghetto and be vulnerable to extremism. At a meeting organised by...
In an interview with The Times (18 Oct) Phil Woolas, the newly appointed Immigration Minister speaks of his lifelong quest to defeat racism and the challenges he faces in his new ministerial role. He talks of the need to reduce levels of immigration to the UK as the BNP and a looming recession...
Have the UK’s foreign policy decisions on Afghanistan and Iraq affected radicalization and the lure of terrorism among young British Muslims? The question is an important one given the battles fought over its answer. Dame Stella Rimington, former head of MI5, in a Guardian interview on...
AC Grayling writes about a conference held on ‘World Day Against the Death Penalty’ by the Council of Ex-Muslims and uses the opportunity to again subject Muslims and others to his moralizing on Islam. He writes of the ex-Muslims as ‘brave and principled people to whom the death penalty might...
The BNP claims success in its campaign (‘Say No to Asia Town’) to obstruct the building of a development called ‘Asia Town’ in the western part of the city of Newscastle Upon Tyne. The campaign is another example of the party’s targetting Muslim communities through the...
BBC’s Question Time this week (16 Oct) from Stoke on Trent featured questions from residents in the town concerned at the presence of nine councillors from the BNP on the local council and the associated rise in Islamophobia. “What is the future for me and my family in a city with nine...
Roy Greenslade in MediaGuardian comments on the discrimination tribunal case brought against Al Jazeera English by a former executive, Jo Burgin, on grounds of sex, race and religion. Commenting on the British media’s coverage of the tribunal Greenslade remarks that while the opening of the case...
