There’s some coverage in the media today (Daily Telegraph, BBC, The Independent) of the G8 Summit and the central place of the Arab Spring on the agenda of the world’s largest economies. News reports detail the financial assistance G8 countries are pledging to support the transition to...
The Lancashire Telegraph reports on charges brought against two people in relation to the desecration of a Qur’an and racist graffiti applied to the walls of Dawat Ul Islam Masjid in Chorley, Lancashire. From the paper: “A Quran was ’desecrated’ and racist graffiti daubed at a mosque, it...
There’s coverage in the papers today on President Obama’s speech at the US State Department yesterday on the US response to the Arab Spring. President Obama set out to “talk about this change – the forces that are driving it and how we can respond in a way that advances our values and...
The Press Complaints Commission yesterday published its annual review for 2010. You can read the review, broken down by month, here. Key statistics for 2010 are outlined below: 7,000 – The PCC received well over 7,000 complaints in writing last year, although this figure includes multiple...
Paul Richards, former political advisor to Hazel Blears MP, reflects on the exchange between Alan Johnson MP and the Prime Minister in the Commons last week concerning the Conservatives’ stated policy to ban Hizb ut-Tahrir. Richards argues in an article on Progress that the long-awaited...
The Muslim News draws our attention to an exchange in the House of Commons yesterday where the Prime Minister was asked by former Home Secretary, Alan Johnson, about the Conservatives’ long-standing pledge to ban Hizb ut-Tahrir. From Hansard (pg 10): Alan Johnson (Kingston upon Hull West and...
Front page news in the Daily Telegraph on Friday was the All Party Parliamentary Group on Homeland Security inaugural report, “Keeping Britain Safe: An Assessment of UK Homeland Security Strategy” under the headline “University campuses are “hotbeds” of Islamic extremism”. Among...
A poor blog post by Ed West on Telegraph blogs yesterday, even by his standards. Writing on the 30th anniversary of the Brixton riots, which heralded a new beginning on race relations policy in the UK, West writes: “It is 30 years since the worst urban riots in modern British history, in...
More grotesque generalizations and anti-Muslim prejudice from Leo McKinstry in his Daily Express column on Islam, the burqa and the French ban which came into effect today. McKinstry writes: “Our British political elite constantly boasts of its tolerance and enthusiasm for cultural diversity....
The Sunday Mercury website and the Birmingham Post reported yesterday that Liberal Democrat councillor, Martin Mullaney, has “apologised unreservedly” for accusing fellow councillor, Salma Yaqoob, of supporting “stoning people to death” wanting to “see Britain become an Islamic...
