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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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Hello Hizbis

By Houriya Ahmed on November 4, 2009 1:01 PM | 1 Comment | No TrackBacks
Cross posted from Harry's Place

Hannah Stuart & Houriya Ahmed

Regular readers of Harry's Place don't need us to tell them about Hizb ut-Tahrir (HT). However, as authors of the Centre for Social Cohesion's recent report, Hizb ut-Tahrir: Ideology & Strategy, we feel obliged to respond to HT's 'smear  aimed at distracting our organisation from its work'.
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HT's Strategy in the UK

By Houriya Ahmed on November 4, 2009 12:33 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
I've just completed writing a report for the CSC, Hizb ut-Tahrir: Ideology and Strategy. The full report can be accessed here and an executive summary here.
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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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The BNP's Newest Recruit

By Robin Simcox on August 24, 2009 10:14 AM | 8 Comments | No TrackBacks
This is a guest post by CSC Research Intern Natasha Hausdorff.

The BNP is turning to religion to justify its extreme policies.

The BNP MEP candidate Rev. Robert West has been a leading figure in the party's turn to the Bible as a founding member of the 'Christian Council of Britain', upon which the BNP relies for interpretation of Bible passages. Its stated aims include 'to promote understanding of Christian values in Great Britain and to develop efforts for the benefit of Christians throughout the country'. These undertakings increasingly involve attempts by the Christian Council to use the Bible in order to justify racism.
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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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The Metropolitan Police Sikh Association get it wrong

By Robin Simcox on July 24, 2009 12:31 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

This is a guest post by CSC Research Intern Tom Bumstead:

The Metropolitan Police Sikh Association (MPSA) has recently made the transition from being merely incoherent viz a viz social cohesion into being actively insulting to that principle.

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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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CSC welcomes decision to deport Abu Qatada, criticises ECHR compensation award

By Robin Simcox on February 19, 2009 4:55 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
The CSC applauds the action taken by the Lord Laws to uphold the decision to deport Abu Qatada to Jordan, but believes the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) were misguided in awarding him £2,500 for a supposed breach of human rights he suffered while in the UK.

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