http://www.socialcohesion.co.uk/blog/ Founded by Civitas to encourage community cohesion en Copyright 2008 Fri, 16 May 2008 11:33:49 +0000 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss arrested at the University of Nottingham under the Terrorism Act. Police said the men, aged 30 and 22, were arrested on Wednesday morning. One is reported to be a student and the other a former student. Campus premises related to the two men are being searched.]]> http://www.socialcohesion.co.uk/blog/2008/05/two_nottingham_students_arrest.html http://www.socialcohesion.co.uk/blog/2008/05/two_nottingham_students_arrest.html Fri, 16 May 2008 11:33:49 +0000 today been forced to apologise 'unreservedly' in the High Court and pay £50,000 damages to Channel 4's Dispatches programme 'Undercover Mosque.' Readers will remember that the Dispatches programme, broadcast last year (and view-able here), showed preachers at a number of British mosques making comments which were anti-semitic, sexist and homophobic. But in an astounding decision, the police decided to investigate not the preachers of hate, but the Dispatches crew themselves, attempting to charge them with stirring up racial hatred.]]> http://www.socialcohesion.co.uk/blog/2008/05/victory_for_channel_4.html http://www.socialcohesion.co.uk/blog/2008/05/victory_for_channel_4.html Thu, 15 May 2008 17:43:54 +0000 Who can fail but to be deeply moved, if not humbled, by the magnanimous words of compassion spoken by the mother of sixteen year old Jimmy Mizen, London’s latest teenage murder victim? They were directed at the family of her son’s suspected killer, another local teenager for whom the police are searching and whose family the victim’s own are believed to know. http://www.socialcohesion.co.uk/blog/2008/05/the_cure_for_the_countrys_epid.html http://www.socialcohesion.co.uk/blog/2008/05/the_cure_for_the_countrys_epid.html Education Tue, 13 May 2008 11:12:19 +0000 arrested by British police under anti-terrorism laws. Butt was arrested at Manchester airport on Saturday as he tried to board a flight to the city of Lahore in Pakistan. According to the Manchester Evening News he had brought his ticket for the flight just 45 minutes before it was due to depart. ]]> http://www.socialcohesion.co.uk/blog/2008/05/former_jihadist_arrested_by_br.html http://www.socialcohesion.co.uk/blog/2008/05/former_jihadist_arrested_by_br.html Mon, 12 May 2008 16:54:23 +0000 said that he is helping to fund radical preacher’s Abu Qatada’s bail. Abu Qatada, who won an appeal against deportation which the government is currently trying to overturn, had appealed for Kember’s release when he was captured by the militant Swords of Truth group in Iraq in 2005.]]> http://www.socialcohesion.co.uk/blog/2008/05/csc_comes_to_the_aid_of_norman.html http://www.socialcohesion.co.uk/blog/2008/05/csc_comes_to_the_aid_of_norman.html Terrorism Fri, 09 May 2008 16:58:33 +0000 announced plans to open new research centres for Islamic studies. The centres are being funded to the tune of £16 million by Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdul Aziz Al-Saud, chairman of the Kingdom Foundation. ]]> http://www.socialcohesion.co.uk/blog/2008/05/universities_announce_opening.html http://www.socialcohesion.co.uk/blog/2008/05/universities_announce_opening.html Education Thu, 08 May 2008 17:37:16 +0000 have listened to recordings in which an alleged plotter is giving another lessons in how to present a suicide video. The conversations allegedly took place in 2006, and were picked up by an undercover recording device placed in the east London flat which the prosecution claims the men used as a bomb factory. ]]> http://www.socialcohesion.co.uk/blog/2008/05/jury_in_airline_bombers_case_l.html http://www.socialcohesion.co.uk/blog/2008/05/jury_in_airline_bombers_case_l.html Terrorism Wed, 07 May 2008 17:10:58 +0000 Another May, another Mayor mercifully less prone than some to praising preachers of hate, and now, to add further icing to the cake of all who long for this country to return to the days when it was a tolerant, peaceful and civilised place in which to live, another moderate Muslim organisation to join the recently launched Quilliam Foundation in tackling the pockets of extremism and intolerance that remain among Britain’s Muslim community. http://www.socialcohesion.co.uk/blog/2008/05/another_season_another_reason_for_making_whoopie_or_is_it_quite_yet_.html http://www.socialcohesion.co.uk/blog/2008/05/another_season_another_reason_for_making_whoopie_or_is_it_quite_yet_.html Crime Tue, 06 May 2008 10:41:52 +0000 British Muslims for Secular Democracy (BMSD) held their officially launch event in central London yesterday. Their official launch consisted of a debate chaired by Baroness Faulkner called ‘The Secular State – the best option for Muslims?’ The panel consisted of BMSD chair Yasmin Alibhai Brown, Ed Husain, Usama Hasan and Inayat Bunglawala. ]]> http://www.socialcohesion.co.uk/blog/2008/05/british_muslims_for_secular_de.html http://www.socialcohesion.co.uk/blog/2008/05/british_muslims_for_secular_de.html Social Cohesion Fri, 02 May 2008 16:03:21 +0000 spokesman for the Muslim Association of Britain (MAB), the UK-branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, has begun a campaign on Facebook.com against the Quilliam Foundation, a new thinktank which aims to tackle Islamic extremism among British Muslim. Saeed's Facebook group, titled 'The Quilliam Foundation does NOT represent Islam', accuses the group of "seeking to cuddle up close with the Government and be the new absolute word in True-Pacifist-Islam-Not-Nasty-Islamism."]]> http://www.socialcohesion.co.uk/blog/2008/05/muslim_association_of_britain.html http://www.socialcohesion.co.uk/blog/2008/05/muslim_association_of_britain.html Thu, 01 May 2008 10:19:44 +0000 charges of possessing explosive substances and articles for terrorist purposes as well as an intent to commit terrorism. He is currently being held without bail until another hearing at the City of Westminster Magistrates' Court, May 23.]]> http://www.socialcohesion.co.uk/blog/2008/04/teenager_held_on_terrorism_cha.html http://www.socialcohesion.co.uk/blog/2008/04/teenager_held_on_terrorism_cha.html Terrorism Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:12:38 +0000 Patriotic history harmful to pupils; St George’s Day celebrations cancelled over spurious health and safety concerns; postal voting fraud on epidemic scale; Britain being carved up by Brussels into a set of regions of which the parts of some lie across the Channel.… With each day comes news of some fresh assault on the body-politic of this once great country. What is the cause of this spiral of self-destruction into which Britain seems lately to have chosen to descend? ]]> http://www.socialcohesion.co.uk/blog/2008/04/thought_for_the_day_from_a_pes.html http://www.socialcohesion.co.uk/blog/2008/04/thought_for_the_day_from_a_pes.html Politics Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:12:59 +0000 letter published in Saturday’s Guardian, purporting itself to be from ‘a cross section of the Muslim community’, has criticised the Quilliam Foundation for being unrepresentative. The signatories claim to represent ‘a cross section of the Muslim community’ seems disingenuous. The letter is the combined effort of Anas al-Tikriti, Yvonne Ridley, Ihtisham Hibatullah, Ismail Patel and Roshan Muhammed Salih. The signatories say they represent a plethora of different organisations, however the letter fails to point out their extensive links. ]]> http://www.socialcohesion.co.uk/blog/2008/04/revealing_the_links_of_the_lat.html http://www.socialcohesion.co.uk/blog/2008/04/revealing_the_links_of_the_lat.html Social Cohesion Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:03:37 +0000 ruled that the Government does not have the legislative power to freeze terror suspects’ bank accounts. The government viewed these powers as being key in tackling domestic terrorism. Commenting on the case, the judge described the freezing of terror suspects’ assets as “another example of an immediate reaction without it being thought through properly — which is rather the pattern with the anti-terrorism measures.” The Treasury has said it will appeal the ruling, and the suspects’ assets will remain frozen pending the outcome. ]]> http://www.socialcohesion.co.uk/blog/2008/04/government_defeated_over_freez.html http://www.socialcohesion.co.uk/blog/2008/04/government_defeated_over_freez.html Terrorism Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:34:53 +0000 shown footage of Mohammad Siddique Khan saying his farewells to his baby daughter. Siddique Khan, the ringleader of the July 7th 2005 terrorist attacks on London, tells his daughter that he "has to do this thing for our future". The video was shown as part of the trial against Waheed Ali, Sadeer Saleem and Mohammed Shakil, who deny involvement in the attacks. ]]> http://www.socialcohesion.co.uk/blog/2008/04/new_footage_of_77_bomber_emerg.html http://www.socialcohesion.co.uk/blog/2008/04/new_footage_of_77_bomber_emerg.html Terrorism Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:52:17 +0000