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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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Denouncing Anwar al-Awlaki

By Robin Simcox on November 12, 2009 7:27 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
Reproduced below is my blog from Conservative Home.

Anwar al-Awlaki - the jihadist preacher who was in direct contact with Nidal Hassan, the sole suspect in the Fort Hood, Texas killings - recently wrote a blog approving of Hassan's actions, calling him a "hero".

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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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Scottish Islamic Foundation Forced to Return Tax Payer Money

By Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens on August 17, 2009 5:36 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

The Scottish Islamic Foundation (SIF), Scotland's primary Islamist pressure group, was forced this week to return £128,000 of public money.

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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.

Why we must debate the extremists

By Robin Simcox on June 19, 2009 12:43 PM | 1 Comment | No TrackBacks
This article by CSC Director Douglas Murray is reproduced from the Guardian's Comment is Free.

The oxygen of free societies is freedom of speech. Everything short of incitement has to be tolerated, even when it is wrong. You can't get much more egregiously wrong and wicked than the views expressed by al-Muhajiroun. But they are currently operating in what I hope will be a very brief legal air-pocket. As with the BNP, while they are legal and are being given a platform by independent organisations, they cannot go unchallenged.
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White supremacist UK terror plot foiled

By Houriya Ahmed on June 9, 2009 2:42 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
This is a guest post by Gabrielle Nejad, Research intern at the Centre for Social Cohesion.

A white supremacist plot, aimed at using ricin as part of a biological weapon against ethnic minorities in the UK, has been thwarted by police after a father and son team have both been arrested under the Terrorism Act 2000. The lethal toxin was discovered in a sealed jam jar, after a six month investigation led to the dawn raids on two properties in County Durham.
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What really inspired the 7/7 ringleader?

By Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens on May 19, 2009 9:55 PM | 3 Comments | No TrackBacks
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.
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