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 The Tory MP for Monmouth, David Davies, has sparked outrage by making comments interlinking rape with attitudes towards women in minority cultures. Commenting on a rape case and the background of the attacker, Balal Khan, Davies said:"I think there is ...
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 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, Davi...
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 The Independent today prints a letter from the MCB responding to Yasmin Alibhai Brown’s article in Monday’s edition of the paper in which she referred to the organisation as "retrogressive" for its opposing the banning of Muslim female attire (niqa...
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 Today sees the launch of the European Muslim Research Centre (EMRC) and its seminal research paper on ‘Islamophobia and Anti-Muslim Hate Crime: a London Case Study’. The EMRC, based at Exeter University, is co-directed by Dr Jonathan Githens-Mazer ...
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 The testimony of Sir Michael Wood (pictured), chief legal adviser at the Foreign Office, and his deputy, Elizabeth Wilmshurst, to the Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq War reveals the extent to which the Blair government roundly ignored the legal advice of...
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 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 ...
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 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 rig...
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 Martin 'The Great Koran Con Trick' Bright reports in the latest issue of the Jewish Chronicle that UK Jewish leaders are furious that the government has restored ties with the country's largest Islamic umbrella body, the Muslim Council of Britain.  B...
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 It was inevitable that the resurfacing of the niqab/burqa issue in the press, initiated by UKIP’s announcement of its intention to ban these items of clothing, would see Joan Smith (pictured) of The Independent proffer her blinkered views couched in ...
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 There’s something typically disturbing about the Daily Express’s coverage (image, left) of the reported termination by Newham Council of proposals by Tablighi Jamaat to erect a mosque and educational complex with 12,000 people capacity in East Lond...
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 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 M...
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 It's rare that one can find something to agree on with Rod Liddle (pictured) and his views of Muslim affairs, but in his column in this week's Sunday Times, he is right to argue against the ban on Islam4UK and defend the group's right to be ‘stupid, ...
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 The Guardian on Saturday printed a letter signed by politicians, lawyers, human rights activists, academics trade unionists and British Muslims expressing their shock at the government's attempt to tamper with the law on universal jurisdiction to provi...
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 John Pilger (pictured) in the New Statesman writes on the revival of the spirit of internationalism and political campaigning that led to the demise of apartheid in South Africa, to support the Palestinians and highlight Israel's continued violations o...
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 The Jewish Chronicle reports that new legislation preventing UK magistrates from issuing arrest warrants for visiting Israeli officials accused of war crimes is to be unveiled next week. ‘The new legislation will pass the power to issue arrest warran...
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 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 ...
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{youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eYbanlaAdY}Viewers can watch David Toube of Harry's Place making an utter fool of himself, insolently disrupting a meeting by Cage Prisoners at the launch of their report on 'Detention without Charge in the UK', at...
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 Jonathan Freedland (pictured) in the Guardian today reflects on Alastair Campbell’s testimony to the Chilcot Inquiry yesterday and the enduring scars the Iraq war has afflicted on the body politic. Freedland writes: ‘…the Iraq episode continues t...
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 Human rights group Liberty has won a landmark case against the government in challenging the arbitrary and widespread use of Section 44 of the Terrorism Act, which allows for ‘stop and search’ of private citizens by the police acting on ‘a hunchâ...
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  The Home Secretary Alan Johnson has today announced that the government is to move to proscribe Islam4UK and its parent organisation Al Muhajiroun, and any other successor group the organisation mutates into, under counter-terrorism laws. The BBC rep...
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