Mohammed Atif Siddique and 'racism'

By Robin Simcox on February 5, 2010 5:03 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
Below is my latest blog for Conservative Home:

In September 2007, Mohammed Atif Siddique was jailed for eight years for various terror offences. The most serious of these charges - possession of an article for a purpose connected to terrorism - was quashed last week. The appeals judge, Lord Osborne, called the original verdict a 'miscarriage of justice', which is inevitably the headline that most of the press ran on. The impression given was that the British state was once again unfairly demonising its Muslim population.
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Awlaki Admits to Meeting Abdulmutallab

By Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens on February 2, 2010 4:32 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

The New York Times has reported that al-Qaeda cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who has been promoted in the UK since 2003, has now admitted that he met with Detroit bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab last fall.

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CSC Director on tonight's Question Time

By Robin Simcox on January 28, 2010 4:01 PM | 8 Comments | No TrackBacks
CSC Director Douglas Murray will be a panellist on tonight's Question Time. Murray will be appearing alongside Ben Bradshaw, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Conservative peer Lord Lawson, Liberal Democrat peer Baroness Tonge and journalist Jane Moore.

The show will be broadcast at 10.35pm on BBC 1.

Guardian exclusive: 0% of US citizens face political persecution

By Robin Simcox on January 25, 2010 5:55 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
Reproduced below is my latest blog for Conservative Home.

The Guardian has made more petty attempts at moral equivalence today by running a 'story' in which they get overly excited about the fact that between 2004 and 2008, 45 Americans tried to claim political asylum in the UK in order to avoid 'persecution' in the US.

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'Mega mosque' initiative abandoned

By Robin Simcox on January 19, 2010 12:03 PM | 3 Comments | No TrackBacks
This is a guest post by CSC Research intern, Deborah Garel.

The program to build a huge mosque next to London's Olympic site was brought to an end by Newham council yesterday.


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Islam4UK Ban - Why So Late?

By Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens on January 15, 2010 1:31 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
Reproduced below is my latest blog for Standpoint magazine:

Yesterday, Home Secretary Alan Johnson banned Islam4UK in what seemed a knee-jerk reaction to their planned march in Wootten Bassett.  Although the ban has come late and was quite clearly done with the upcoming election in mind, it is still the right move.
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Censorship by the Index on Censorship

By Robin Simcox on January 15, 2010 1:23 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
CSC Director Douglas Murray is co-signatory to a letter sent today to Index on Censorship. The organisation refused to publish one of the Danish cartoons of Mohammed in their own magazine in an article discussing the subject. The full text is reproduced below.
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CSC exposes extremist speakers at UCL

By Robin Simcox on January 5, 2010 5:21 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
The CSC has just issued a press release exposing the extremist speakers that have been invited to by UCL Islamic societies in the past few years.

Campus radicalisation is a serious problem, and one that all university chancellors should begin to take seriously. Last year, the CSC published Islam on Campus, the most comprehensive survey ever undertaken of Muslim student opinion in the UK. It can be downloaded here.
 

Islam on Campus

By Robin Simcox on December 31, 2009 1:20 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
In light of the discovery that Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab, the alleged terrorist behind the failed attempt to bomb an aircraft over Detroit, was head of the UCL ISOC between 2006-07, campus radicalisation is once again in the news.

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The nativist response to the Swiss minaret ban

By Robin Simcox on December 7, 2009 12:11 PM | 5 Comments | No TrackBacks
This is a guest post by CSC Research intern, Deborah Garel:

The response to the Swiss ban on minarets has triggered extensive criticisms from most other European governments. Nonetheless, it has inspired European nativist parties to take similar measures, revealing a fear of Islam felt by some European communities and the desire of extremist parties to exploit this.
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