Stephen Pollard writes in The Times (22 Sept), ‘Last week, a variation on the “cry wolf” story emerged which, in its long-term impact, threatens to be far more dangerous to Western civilisation than any banking collapse’. The story he alludes to? News that Shari’a court...
BNP Councillor for Marsden ward in Nelson, Brian Norton Parker, writes in Pendle Today that his objection to the postponement of a council meeting that was scheduled during Ramadan was not wrong, as implied, but perfectly reasonable given that ‘it really is incumbent upon them [migrants and...
A leaflet claiming that Muslims are ‘almost exclusively responsible’ for the heroin trade, has been distributed to hundreds of households in Lancashire, Cumbria and Yorkshire. The leaflet calls for a process of ‘naming and shaming’ Muslims for ‘positive effect’...
The Pew Research Centre publishes a report on the rise of ethnocentrism entitled ‘Unfavourable views of Muslims and Jews on the increase in Europe‘. The Washington-based Centre’s global attitudes survey found that favourable opinion of Muslims in European...
Zia Sardar in the New Statesman, lays bare the current obsession and courting of ‘ex Islamists’ by the media and Government. ‘To stand up and declare that you are an ex-fanatic or an ex-Muslim is now the shortest route to fame and fortune’, he writes. Why? Because...
The Sun reports on Sadiq Khan MP’s ‘Fairness not Favours’ pamphlet published by the Fabian Society, in typical lopsided style under the heading ‘Muslims think they are victims’. While listing extensively issues the Labour assistant whip thinks Muslims must tackle to...
The Sunday Times (14 Sept) reports that ‘Islamic law has been officially adopted in Britain, with sharia courts given powers to rule on Muslim civil cases’. The paper claims that the courts’ prior status, working on the basis of voluntary compliance, has been superseded with the...
The Telegraph and Argus (14 Sept) carries a story on an Open Day being organised by Madni Jamia Masjid in Bradford on October 20th and 21st. The open day will inlcude an exhibition of the history of faith communities in Bradford and how they have evolved, including images of the city’s...
Commenting on the proposal before the UN General Assembly, and sponsored by the OIC (Organization of the Islamic Conference) member states, to adopt a reolution on “Combating Defamation of Religion”, Clifford D. May writes in Europe News that ‘the ostensible purpose of “Combating...
Writing in the Daily Mail (11 Sept) on the outcome of the trial of Abdullah Ahmed Ali and seven other Muslims who were accused of plotting to blow up transatlantic airliners, and the expected retrial following the jury’s returned verdicts, Richard Littlejohn, remarking on how the jury...
