An interesting article by Agnes Poirier in The Independent today. She writes on the French ban on niqab and burqa, which came into effect yesterday, arguing that the law introduced in 2004 on conspicuous religious symbols in the public space already takes care of the burqa issue thus negating...
A poor blog post by Ed West on Telegraph blogs yesterday, even by his standards. Writing on the 30th anniversary of the Brixton riots, which heralded a new beginning on race relations policy in the UK, West writes: “It is 30 years since the worst urban riots in modern British history, in...
Roy Greenslade on his Media Guardian blog writes of a new book out this week which focuses on a subject matter that is under-researched but hugely significant. He writes: “Few topics are as controversial as the media treatment of Muslims, and too few journalists take it seriously. They should,...
A new report, commissioned by the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) and undertaken by the Universities’ Police Science Institute at Cardiff University (UPSI), assessing the effects of policing in delivery of the Government’s Prevent strategy on Muslim communities in Britain is...
The Observer reported yesterday that Sion Owens, a BNP candidate in the forthcoming May elections for the Welsh Assembly, has been arrested by police after video footage of him dousing a Qur’an in kerosene and setting fire to it was passed on to South Wales police by the newspaper. From...
More grotesque generalizations and anti-Muslim prejudice from Leo McKinstry in his Daily Express column on Islam, the burqa and the French ban which came into effect today. McKinstry writes: “Our British political elite constantly boasts of its tolerance and enthusiasm for cultural diversity....
Six men have appeared at Kingston Magistrates Court on charges pertaining to the attack on Kingston mosque in November last year. Two of the six have entered not guilty pleas on charges of affray and one count of religiously aggravated criminal damage. Kingston mosque was attacked during a...
The public inquiry into the proposed mosque in Camberley, Surrey has heard that the 100 foot minarets at the centre of the dispute pose “little risk” to the security of the military training academy, RMA Sandhurst. Controversy has surrounded the application by the Bengali Welfare Association...
New research by academics at Oxford University, Dr Michael Biggs and graduate student Steve Knauss, reveals that BNP support is greater in towns and cities where the level of ethnic diversity is low and communities segregated. The research uses the BNP database leaked to WikiLeaks that contained...
More in the press today on Judge Richard Goldstone’s op-ed in the Washington Post retracting aspects of the UN report he co-authored into war crimes committed during Israel’s brutal 28 day siege on Gaza in Dec 2008 – Jan 2009. Goldstone’s admission that the report would look rather...
