Following the remarks by French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, on establishing a commission to look into the banning of the burqa and niqab in France, AFP reports that the French government has now set up a special panel of 32 lawmakers to look into such a ban. At the first hearing of the...
Setting a new low for publications lacking in academic rigour, Civitas produces another questionable report by Denis MacEoin entitled: ‘Sharia Law or ‘One Law For All’? The report is covered extensively in today’s press (Daily Mail, Daily Express, Telegraph), both in news...
The already microscopically minuscule credibility of the Quilliam Foundation has suffered yet another hugely embarrassing setback with the publication of a new report from the Redbridge Faith Forum. The report produced by Redbridge Faith Forum (RFF) for Redbridge Safer Communities...
Lord ‘cricket test’ Tebbit courts controversy once again with his latest remarks suggesting that Shari’ah law councils are similar to the ‘system of arbitration of disputes that was run by the Kray brothers’. Lord Tebbit questioning Lord Bach, Parliamentary Under Secretary...
The Foreign Secretary David Miliband has this evening delivered a speech at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies on the theme of ‘Our shared future: building coalitions and winning consent’. We have reproduced the full speech below. Do let us know your thoughts....
We have been forwarded the following fascinating email exchange between Dr Musharraf Hussain (pictured left), advisor to the Quilliam Foundation and a concerned Muslim rebutting the QF’s reprehensible ‘alert’ on Islam Channel and its presenters, and the foundation’s...
The European elections will take place on Thursday 4th June with the British electorate voting for 72 MEPs to represent their electoral region in the European Parliament. In total, 500 million Europeans will be eligible to cast their votes from June 4th – 7th voting in the 736 MEPs that will...
Our Kingdom, part of the OpenDemocracy network, carries a piece by Eric Randolph, editor at Complex Terrain Lab, on the government’s Contest 2 strategy and the perils of handling social cohesion within counter terrorism. Randolph writes; ‘The new Contest strategy draws a line between...
BBC Newsnight yesterday featured a segment on the government’s Contest 2 strategy and the interference by the Communities Secretary Hazel Blears in the MCB. Blears has written to the MCB demanding the resignation of the organisation’s deputy secretary general, Dr Daud Abdullah (pictured), on...
A damning report into the conduct of Israeli soldiers during the conflict in Gaza reveals the lax rules of engagement which left them free to commit ‘cold blooded murder’. The testimonies of soldiers were anonymously delivered a month ago at a meeting of the Israeli military academy...
