January 2010 Archives

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 | 9 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.
 
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