Rights groups and MEPs have expressed their outrage over new EU plans to ‘gather data on people who voice or share “radical messages” in a bid to pre-empt terrorist attacks.’ The EU Observer writes: ‘Political activists labelled as “Extreme right/left,...
Lord Patten of Barnes reflects in the Guardian’s Comment is free section on the need for the EU to show ‘real courage’ in the Middle East, otherwise it risks being complicit in illegal acts. Calling for a new set of initiatives to diffuse tensions in the Middle East, Lord...
John Crace’s Guardian column summarises Melanie Phillips’ new book, World Turned Upside Down, providing an amusing insight into the worldview that insists ‘black is white.’ Satirising Melanie’s logic, Crace writes: ‘This book arose from a sense of perplexity...
The European Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) has published its annual report for the year 2009 in which it has identified enforcement gaps in data protection, racism, discrimination and workers rights. The report found that during ‘the period 2000-2008, 10 of the 12 Member States which...
The blanket approach towards 10,300 Muslim prisoners by prison staff risks entrenching alienation and disaffection, creating young men who are ‘more likely to offend, or even embrace extremism’, according to the chief inspector of prisons, Dame Anne Owers. Dame Anne Ower’s...
An investigation by The Guardian has revealed that surveillance cameras in Washwood Heath and Sparkbrook, two of Birmingham’s predominantly Muslim areas, have been ‘put up to monitor extremists.’ Saturday’s edition of The Guardian stated: ‘The cameras appeared at...
Andrew Gilligan wrote a piece in the Spectator last week on how the new coalition government must ‘reformulate‘ its ‘relationship with moderate Muslims – and marginalise the extremists for good.’ In last Wednesday’s article titled ‘We need a compact with...
In an exclusive interview with Islam Channel on Friday 21 May 2010, Secretary of State for Security Baroness Neville-Jones signaled radical proposals for a shake up of Anti-terror laws and a complete review of the controversial Prevent programme. Baroness Neville-Jones said the government...
Details have emerged today of the coalition deal struck between the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats in what has been described as a ‘historic document in British politics.’ Speaking at the unveiling of their coalition policy programme, the Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg,...
The Board of Deputies of British Jews has urged the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) to reverse their decision on the banning of posters used by the Israeli Government Tourist Office (IGTO) depicting the Occupied Palestinian Territories as part of Israel in recent tourism promotion posters....
