Ed West last week authored a piece on his Telegraph blog in which he contested the argument presented in a Liberal Conspiracy blog on the purported “Islamification of Britain” and the results of the British Social Attitudes survey on religious affiliation in the UK. While Matt Hill on...
There’s much in the papers today (Daily Telegraph, Independent, Guardian, Daily Mail, Daily Express, Daily Star and Metro) on the Prime Minister’s podcast marking the New Year and his comments on the continuing threat we face from terrorism. The PM speaks in his address of the Coalition’s...
Nick Ferrari in his column in last week’s Sunday Express wrote of “England’s Terror Shame.” Ferrari remarks on the £100million spent by Government “on programmes designed to counter the radicalisation of Muslims in Britain.” He argues that extremism continues to exist – the latest...
Could this be the most sensible thing so far to come out of the current review of the Prevent programme? Paul Goodman at Conservative Home claims that the Home Office have decided to stop funding the Quilliam Foundation. Goodman writes, “Sources close to Quilliam focus on the role of Charles...
The newspapers are filled with news and comment (Daily Express, Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, Scotsman, Guardian, Independent and BBC) on the Home Secretary “actively” considering an exclusion order against Pastor Terry Jones who has been invited to the UK to address an EDL gathering in Luton...
Following yesterday’s news of threats against a mosque in Wrexham and the abuse suffered by worshippers there, there are reports today of further incidents against Muslims. The Scunthorpe Telegraph today reported today of five arrests being made after a group of people “shouted abuse” and...
In a comment piece for the Guardian’s Comment is Free section, Jacob Rowbottom questions whether “a law carrying a criminal sanction is the best way to safeguard the standards of political debate.” Rowbottom asks whether the law needs to regulate electoral speech at all and argues, “We...
Following on from the blog article by Andrew Gilligan on ENGAGE’s appointment as secretariat to the new APPG on Islamophobia, Paul Goodman, former Conservative MP for High Wycombe, has contributed his own thoughts on the matter in an article for Conservative Home.
A Muslim police officer from East Birmingham won the Community Leadership Award at the prestigious Mosaic Talent Awards for her “outstanding bravery, professionalism and duty of care.” From The Asian Today: “Sergeant Khizra Dhindsa was highly commended for bravery by the West Midlands...
On Wednesday, the Wall Street Journal published an article by Shiraz Maher (reproduced in full in Standpoint Magazine yesterday) in which he sought to argue that the US ambassador to Britain, Louis Susman, was “repeating U.K. mistakes” by reaching out to “Muslim radicals.” In the...
