Philip Johnston (pictured) in the Daily Telegraph today argues the case for a change to the universal jurisdiction provisions that would allow war criminals to enter the UK without fear of facing arrest and prosecution, citing ‘national interest’. He writes: ‘…the central importance to...
Hansard on Wednesday records answers given to written questions posed by Lord Ahmed of Rotherham (pictured) and Baroness Sayeeda Warsi to the Department of Communities and Local Government on the Sufi Muslim Council and its receipt of public funds. From Hansard: Lord Ahmed: To ask Her...
Ed Husain (pictured) contributes an article to the New Statesman’s special issue on Islam this week. Looking back on his involvement in Hizb ut Tahrir and his later political maturation, coming to adopt a position more consistent with Britain’s pluralist democracy, Husain tries to weave...
Sir Norman Bettison (pictured), the Association of Chief Police Officers’ representative for policy on tackling violent extremism, told Peter Taylor, in his programme ‘Generation Jihad’ that the Muslim community ‘could do more’ to help police forces tackle the threats posed by...
The universities minister, David Lammy (pictured), in an interview with the BBC, has said that universities identified as being at risk of targeting by extremists will have counter-terrorism police stationed on campus. Mr Lammy told BBC Radio 4’s The Report, “We have identified...
The Jewish Chronicle front page today revisits the heavy lobbying Government is facing from Anglo-Jewish organisations to amend universal jurisdiction provisions before the next election. The paper two weeks ago reported that the Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, was pushing for legislation to...
UN Human Rights experts have published a report on the ‘reinvigorated’ use of secret detention as part of states’ counter-terrorism efforts and the human rights abuses involved in the practice. ‘In a 222-page study which will be presented to the UN Human Rights Council in March, the...
In today’s edition of The Independent, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown once again berates Muslim women who choose to wear the burqa. Alibhai-Brown writes: ‘You people who support the “freedom” to wear the burka, do you think anorexics and drug addicts have the right to choose what...
The papers are awash with the UK Independence Party’s announcement at the weekend that it will ban the burqa and niqab in the UK: Daily Express, Daily Mail, Daily Star, The Times and the BBC). Nigel Farage (pictured), former UKIP leader and current MEP Leader in the European parliament, told...
The Quilliam Foundation issued a press release on Wednesday this week drawing attention to co-director Maajid Nawaz’s (pictured) performance on Newsnight, confronting Anjem Choudary on the day the government announced that it was to ban Islam4UK and Al Muhajiroun under terrorism legislation....
