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CSC Director on tonight's Question Time

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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.

Yusuf al-Qaradawi: spiritual advisor to the stars

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This is a guest post by CSC Research Intern, Alexandra Sokolowski.

Hollywood's Barrie Osborne, producer of "The Matrix" and "The Lord of the Rings", is making a $150 million movie on the life of the prophet Mohammed.

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

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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.

What really inspired the 7/7 ringleader?

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Well, it certainly was not UK involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq.  James Forsyth of The Spectator, with the assistance of Shiraz Maher, has highlighted a crucial segment of the recenly released review of the intelligence.  On page 93 of Could 7/7 Have Been Prevented?, there is a picture of Mohammed Siddique Khan from a surveillance operation in January 2001, this was before the invasion of Afghanistan and long before Iraq.  In fact, it would be difficult even to argue that Khan took his inspiration from the bravery and heroism of the 9/11 murderers.

The return of “Undercover Mosque”

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Channel 4 has announced plans to broadcast a sequel to its investigation into extremism in mainstream British mosques, “Undercover Mosque”.

The original Dispatches programme, broadcast in January 2007, sparked controversy when undercover reporters revealed preachers condemning non-Muslims and integration into British society, praising the Taliban for killing British soldiers and calling for the death of homosexuals.

CSC hosts Walid Phares seminar

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The Centre and the Henry Jackson Society today co-hosted a lunch-time seminar for Walid Phares, director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies in Washington and leading academic in the field of global terrorist movements, democratization, human rights, and Middle Eastern history.

In a wide-ranging, extensive and thought-provoking discussion for opinion formers and leading counter terrorist experts, Phares spelt out his the nature of the future jihadist threat, as well as the most effective ways in combating this threat in order to make the world safe for free and democratic societies.

Forthcoming CSC report in the press

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A report written by Professor Anthony Glees, soon to be published by the Centre for Social Cohesion, has received coverage in the weekend press.

Both the Sunday Telegraph and the Daily Mail reported on Glees’s study into the extremist ideas being taught at Islamic study centres on a variety of British university campuses.

Graham Fuller, the CIA’s former head of long-term strategic planning, writes in the lead story of this month’s issue of Foreign Policy, a global politics magazine, that a terrorist attack on the US like 9/11 would likely have occurred even if the “Muslim religion had never existed”.

“In the bluntest of terms, would there have been a 9/11 without Islam?” asks Fuller, the adjunct professor of History at the Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada.

Ofcom, the UK's broadcasting regulator, has ruled that Channel 4's documentary 'Undercover Mosque' was a "legitimate investigation". Ofcom dismissed police claims that the programme-makers had intended to "encourage or incite" violence against Muslims.

The hour-long documentary, aired in January, reported that preachers in numerous British mosques had incited violence against women and voiced support for Taliban attacks on British troops.

Last night's episode of Question Time featured Douglas Murray, Director of the Centre for Social Cohesion.

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