In a blog published in The Independent website yesterday, Michael Mumisa argued that programmes introduced by the government in the name of preventing violent extremism have only resulted in launching British Muslim communities into effective “civil war”, which “has left young Muslims (the...
Gordon Brown’s government secretly promised to “limit the extent of the Iraq war inquiry to prevent damage to the United States”, reveals one of the leaked US embassy cables from WikiLeaks. From The Independent: “A message from Jon Day, then director-general for security at the Ministry...
It was only a matter of time before ENGAGE caught the attention of Andrew ‘Islamists under the bed’ Gilligan and lo and behold, the prodigious blogger on all things ‘Islamist’ related had blogged about the all party parliamentary group on Islamophobia to which we are the secretariat. We...
Speaking on the Andrew Marr Show yesterday and in an interview to the Sunday Telegraph, Shadow Home Secretary, Ed Balls, offered his contribution to the ongoing debate around counter-terrorism measures. His comments come amid a current Home Office review of counter terrorism and security powers...
Demonstrations by the far right extremist group, the English Defence League (EDL), “fuels Islamic extremism”, according to the police. In an interview with the BBC West Midlands Counter-Terrorism Unit officers said that demonstrations by the EDL in predominantly Muslim areas had given some...
It was reported yesterday that the government will announce plans to pay compensation to former Guantanamo detainees as a settlement between government lawyers and lawyers representing the men. From the Guardian: “Ministers appear to have decided on the advice of the security services that...
The Prime Minister, David Cameron, delivered a speech to the Lord Mayor’s Banquet on Monday, which he began by highlighting the “interconnectedness” of a world which represents “huge new opportunities” as well as “creating new and more diverse threats to our society” (re-iterating...
The ES on Monday printed a letter from Haras Rafiq, Director of Centri, in response to Professor Michael Clarke’s comment piece on Roshonora Choudhry, the ‘self-driven terrorist’. Clarke, Director of the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), reviewing the various factors that have come...
The newspapers today relay the sentencing of Roshonara Choudhry for the stabbing of Stephen Timms MP and the transcript of her interview, released by the police, which reveals her apparent radicalization through listening to online lectures by Anwar Al-Awlaki. But the news that dominates the...
The Home Secretary, Theresa May, has today delivered a speech at the Royal United Services Institute on ‘Our response to the terrorist threat’. The Home Secretary spoke on the security threats facing the UK, its wider trend and home grown terrorism. She spoke on how the...
