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Helen Martin in The Scotsman commenting on the burqa and equality:‘If we are going to rank clothes by offensiveness I would put fat girls in crop tops and low slung minis or sausage-skin jeans way above the burkha. . . which is not to say I don't fin...
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The Guardian reports today on the challenge the BNP is presenting to extant race hate legislation with the Crown Prosecution Service unable to prosecute the party for leaflets (pictured) that are overtly racist but which fall short of the requirements ...
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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, Te...
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ENGAGE has learnt that Azad Ali, the Muslim civil servant who was suspended from his job at HM Treasury following a witch hunt agitated by (surprise, surprise) amongst others the anti-Muslim website Harry’s Place and the Mail on Sunday, is back at w...
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Alex Massie writes a marvellous piece in The Spectator this week, ‘The Muslim Menace to Our British Nationality. For Real!’. Drawing on parallels from British history on the majority’s prejudicial and bigoted views towards other groups in society...
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Richard Ingrams (pictured), a columnist at The Independent and a former editor of Private Eye, penned a column in last Saturday’s paper commenting on the appointment of Sir Martin Gilbert and Sir Lawrence Freedman to the newly formed Iraq Inquiry com...
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Taj Hargey, of the Muslim Educational Centre of Oxford (MECO) wades into the burqa debate with a letter published in The Times today. He writes:‘Sir, While I oppose Nicolas Sarkozy’s right-wing and pro-American agenda, I commend the French leader f...
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The niqab and burqa debate sparked off by Nicolas Sarkozy’s comments on Monday continues apace in today’s papers.The Daily Express informs us that both Muslims and non – Muslims want Britain to ban the burqa. Their sources of authoritative commen...
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Michael Gove, the (neo)-Conservative Shadow Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, reviews Bruce Bawer’s ‘Surrender: Appeasing Islam, Sacrificing Freedom’, in this month’s Standpoint magazine. Standpoint is edited by the former ...
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There’s a lot in the papers today, (Times, Daily Express, Daily Mail) regarding the speech of the French President Nicolas Sarkozy yesterday in which he pledged his support for a parliamentary commission to debate a possible ban on the wearing of the...
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The Telegraph and the Daily Mail today both carry stories on alleged bias towards Islam in BBC programming. The Daily Telegraph reports on a document to be presented to the Church of England's General Synod next month which criticises the marginalisat...
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This paper, ‘Explaining Al-Qaida’s Continued Appeal’, by Dr Brynjar Lia (pictured), Research Professor at the Norwegian Defense Research Institute, analyses factors that have contributed to Al Qa’ida’s continued appeal among some Muslims acro...
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Affirming its commitment yesterday to publish an uncensored account of MPs’ expenses, the Telegraph today has published the expenses of members of the Cabinet. A full list of all MPs’ expenses will be published in the paper tomorrow (20th June)....
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Many papers yesterday covered Lord Carlile's comments that white Britons are unnecessarily being stopped and searched in order to give 'racial balance' to stop and search statistics.Lord Carlile, the government's Independent Reviewer of Terrorism legi...
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In the wake of scandals and resignations prompted by the publication of MPs' expenses in the Daily Telegraph, the Parliament website today makes public MPs expenses dating from 2004-05. Constitutents can now access allowances and expense claims made by...
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Following on from the arson attack on the Islamic Centre in Luton, comes news that Greenwich Islamic Centre (pictured) in Plumstead was firebombed twice this past week.The cause of the fire at the GIS on Wednesday (17th June) is currently under investi...
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Allison Pearson in the Daily Mail writes today of a fare evading burkha clad female and the tribunal decision concerning Fata Lemes, terming them ‘Burkha rage’ inducing incidents. Burkha rage, Pearson tells us, is ‘shorthand for someone taking th...
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The Prime Minister yesterday announced the setting up of an independent inquiry to look into lessons learned from the invasion of Iraq. The inquiry will begin next month and take at least a year to complete. It will cover the period from July 2001 to J...
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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 (...
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Dispatches tonight will screen a documentary on a US attack on Azizabad in Afghanistan last August which killed 91 civilians, deaths which are still disputed by the US Central Command in Afghanistan. The attack, now known to have been precipitated by ...
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