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Friday, 27 January 2012 12:16 |
| | PM David Cameron’s speech to the European Court of Human Rights was covered in the papers yesterday.
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The PM alluded to the recent ECHR ruling on Abu Qatada saying:
“Protecting a country from terrorism is one of the most important tasks for any government.
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Friday, 27 January 2012 12:07 |
An article covering the same case appears in the London Evening Standard titled ‘Muslim raped women for being out late’.
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Thursday, 26 January 2012 17:11 |
| | MP for Tooting, Sadiq Khan, has a short comment piece in the Evening Standard today on the exhibition on the Hajj which opens today at the British Museum.
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Khan writes:
“Muslims have been performing this pilgrimage for centuries; non-Muslims are not allowed to enter this holy city. An estimated three million people from all over the globe do so every year: Chinese, Namibian, Azerbaijani and every other kind of Muslim, as well as the 25,000 British Muslims who travel each year to form this kaleidoscope of our planet.
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Thursday, 26 January 2012 12:22 |
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Follow the links here for part 1 and part 2. A full transcript can be read here.
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Wednesday, 25 January 2012 16:15 |
| | The BBC reports that the control order system introduced in 2005 under anti-terrorism legislation, which places terrorism suspects under close supervision and tight restrictions, is to end tonight.
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From the BBC:
“The control order regime restricting the freedoms of terrorism suspects is being abolished from midnight.
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Wednesday, 25 January 2012 15:27 |
| | The EU Observer published an article on Monday which describes the findings in a report by Human Rights Watch as pointing to “a worrying right-wing shift inside the European Union”.
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EU Observer states that the HRW report, ‘World Report 2012- Events of 2011’, “pulls no punches in linking the extreme cases to bad leadership by EU governments.”
The report states that despite proclaiming “the importance of human rights in the pro-democracy Arab Spring movements”, EU states “remained unwilling to prioritize human rights at home”.
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Tuesday, 24 January 2012 17:20 |
| | Local press in Lincolnshire reports that hate crimes in the county have risen by 22% in the past five years, although the region has one of the lowest levels of hate crimes in England and Wales.
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The October 2011 Ministry of Justice report, Statistics on Race and the Criminal Justice System 2010, from which the figures were obtained, also shows that nationally, there has been an 18% decrease in racist incidents over the same five-year period.
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Tuesday, 24 January 2012 16:07 |
| | The University of East Anglia has developed a new 12 week course entitled ‘Women, Islam and the Media’, looking at how the media discourse is developed around women and Islam.
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The course developer, Dr Eylem Atakav claims that the Arab Spring and new forms of female political activism has given the topic a renewed relevance and that it will serve to change perceptions of Islam.
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Tuesday, 24 January 2012 14:13 |
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From the Mail on Sunday: “A third of inmates at one of Britain’s most notorious youth jails are Muslims and the religion is attracting a large number of converts.
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Tuesday, 24 January 2012 13:26 |
| | ENGAGE will be presenting evidence to the Leveson Inquiry this afternoon.
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You can watch the proceedings live on the Inquiry's website here, and read the ENGAGE written submission here. Our Islamophobia briefing paper can be found here. A transcript from today's afternoon hearing can be found on this link.
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Monday, 23 January 2012 17:19 |
| | The Independent on Sunday published an article by Joan Smith yesterday in which she lambasts the British media for its failure to highlight the infringements to free speech demonstrated by recent events and the censorship being applied Muslims through threats of intimidation and violence.
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Smith writes:
“It's been a dreadful week for free speech. A meeting at a prestigious London college had to be abandoned on Monday evening when members of the audience were filmed and threatened by an Islamic extremist. Then the president of a student society at another London college was forced to resign after a Muslim organisation called for a ban on a joky [sic] image of the Prophet Mohammed. Finally, on Friday, the author Sir Salman Rushdie cancelled an appearance at India's largest literary festival, saying he feared an assassination attempt after protests by Muslim clerics.
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