Is the FCO’s “See Britain through my eyes” series of short videos a rehash of the “I am the West” Prevent funded project? Reading the Evening Standard article yesterday, “Muslim cricket star’s anti-terror video message (with no spin)” you might certainly think so. The “See...
An article in the New Scotsman today highlights a campaign by the Home Office to “tackle the growing threat of lone terrorists”: “The Home Office has launched a website where members of the public can report material on the internet which could be used to incite terrorism. “British...
The Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Berlin has published a report, titled ‘Intolerance, Prejudice and Discrimination: A European Report’, which investigated the broad extent, major determinants and possible causes of group-focused enmity in eight European countries on the basis of a telephone...
The Homeland Security Committee of the US House of Representatives has begun a hearing, chaired by New York Republican representative Peter King, on the “threat of homegrown Islamist terrorism.” The hearing is being described as a “witch-hunt” against American Muslims. From the...
The Lincolnshire Echo reports today, “A far-right racist from Lincoln has been given a 10-year criminal ASBO after hurling abuse at an Asian family.” “[Shane] Overton, a self-proclaimed local leader of the EDL, pleaded guilty to a racially aggravated public order offence, which happened...
Several articles and events this week surrounding what appears to be the Quilliam Foundation’s swansong. It was revealed last year that QF was to lose a substantial part of its government funding, with the proposed loss of money allocated to it by the Home Office (although it continues to...
Andrew Stunell, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government was yesterday asked what payments the DCLG had made to the Community Development Foundation in relation to the prevention of extremism since its inception, as well as payments made to the Foundation and...
Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, yesterday delivered a speech in Luton on the subject of creating an open and confident society; the values which underpin it, and the role of government within it. The approach outlined in his speech toward extremism, multiculturalism and engagement with...
Ed West of the Telegraph makes an astonishing proposition in his blog, questioning whether the far right’s views on Islam and Muslims are really extreme, and even whether certain people and parties can be classed as ‘far-right’ at all. Commenting on the findings of a survey conducted on...
The Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR) has published a report titled “Madrassas in the British Media”, which presents preliminary findings of an extensive analysis of “the way that madrassas have been portrayed by national and local media over the past decade.” Some of the...
