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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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RICU Give Update on April 2009 Student Terror Arrests

By Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens on September 3, 2009 4:48 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
This is an article which first appeared on my Standpoint Focus on Islamism blog


Readers may remember that back in April, counter terrorism officers arrested 12 students in the North West of England as part of Operation Pathway.  The government has now released an update about the arrests and subsequent detentions, which have caused much consternation among some British Muslims, who (in some cases justifiably) saw the arrests as another example of the increased suspicion and victimisation of Muslims in the UK.

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Government Make Official Statement on Al-Qaeda Preacher's Banning from Local Council

By Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens on August 28, 2009 1:23 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

In my last blog, I wrote about the decision to ban an al-Qaeda supporter from a London local council.  The government's Research, Information and Communications Unit (RICU) have now released a statement about this move.

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Jim Fitzpatrick Gets it Wrong on Gender Segregation and the East London Mosque

By Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens on August 17, 2009 3:21 PM | 1 Comment | No TrackBacks
This is a blog which first appeared on my Standpoint Focus on Islamism blog.

Jim Fitzpatrick, the Labour MP for Poplar and Canning town was offended this week when he was asked to sit separately from his wife at a private Muslim wedding.  He has taken the wrong fight to the right people.
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Stop the War Coalition Launches Kafa Campaign

By Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens on June 30, 2009 4:50 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
The Stop the War Coalition's latest campaign, Kafa, was officially launched last Friday. Click here to read my account of the event.

Landmark case on forced marriage: mother jailed

By Houriya Ahmed on May 22, 2009 2:18 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
A mother has been sentenced, in what has been called a 'landmark case', for three years for forcing her two teenage daughters to marry their first cousins in Pakistan in July 2007.
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Hizb-ut Tahrir and the 'butcher of Buner'

By Houriya Ahmed on May 21, 2009 1:07 PM | 1 Comment | No TrackBacks
Hizb-ut Tahrir (HT) Britain, a global Islamist revolutionary group calling for the establishment of an Islamic state (Khilafah), has recently issued a press statement titled 'Brown welcomes the butcher of Buner to Downing Street' - denouncing Pakistani President  Zardari's visit to the UK. Taji Mustafa HT Britain's media representative said:

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British Universities: Bought and Paid For

By Robin Simcox on May 7, 2009 2:05 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
The following was written for the Hudson Institute, a US think tank, by Douglas Murray, Director of the Centre for Social Cohesion, and Robin Simcox, Research Fellow at the CSC and author of 'A Degree of Influence'.

The British government's new counter terrorism strategy, Contest 2, saw the government patting itself on the back for the 'key achievement' of promoting the UK as 'a centre of excellence for Islamic studies outside the Muslim world'. A Degree of Influence, the new Centre for Social Cohesion report, shows that if the British government is relying on Islamic studies to prevent radicalisation of young British Muslims, then we're in trouble.
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The Taliban's perversion of Sharia law

By Houriya Ahmed on May 5, 2009 11:55 AM | 5 Comments | No TrackBacks
CSC researcher Houriya Ahmed wrote for Guardian's Comment is Free: Belief section

Article is reproduced below:

The Taliban have perverted sharia law in a way that shames Islam and contravenes human rights.
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Funding with strings attached

By Robin Simcox on April 1, 2009 11:42 AM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
The Iranian government has revealed that it is in talks with British Islamic studies departments to "train and educate experts on Islam". The UK government has subsequently announced these Islamic studies centres are part of its counter-terrorism strategy. The most charitable spin you could put on this is that the government is unaware of whom exactly is funding the centres that they hope are a barrier to stopping radicalisation.
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