PUBLICATIONS
The Centre's reports can be accessed online below. To enquire about hard copies please contact mail@socialcohesion.co.uk
New Report: Blood & Honour: Britain's Far-Right Militants
22 February 2010
New report released today by the Centre for Social Cohesion (CSC) and Nothing British exposes violent ideology of white supremacism. Featured in yesterday's News of the World, 'Blood & Honour: Britain's Far-Right Militants' analyses the threat posed by white supremacist militant network, Blood & Honour (B&H). Also includes a foreword by Rt Hon Denis MacShane MP
Hizb ut-Tahrir: Ideology and Strategy
By Houriya Ahmed and Hannah Stuart
'Hizb ut-Tahrir: Ideology and Strategy' is the most comprehensive study of the party’s activities in the United Kingdom to date. The report looks into Hizb ut-Tahrir’s ideology and the subversive tactics used to embed itself into communities and downplay its intolerant beliefs. The report concludes with a detailed analysis of the policies the government could adopt to limit the influence of Hizb ut-Tahrir in the UK.
New CSC report reveals BNP's online fascist network
The BNP and the Online Fascist Network
On the day before two leading British National Party (BNP) members take their seats in the European Parliament, a new Centre for Social Cohesion report reveals that members and supporters of the BNP and its online activists display significant ideological affinity with key tenets of the neo-Nazi ideology. This included: support for violence; antisemitism and an admiration of the Third Reich; extreme racist views; and Holocaust denial.
A Degree of Influence
A Degree of Influence: The Funding of Strategically Important Subjects in UK Universities
A Degree of Influence: The Funding of Strategically Important Subjects in UK Universities is the first study to analyse the high levels of foreign funding entering British academia. The report highlights how university subjects designated as 'strategically important' by the British government are currently receiving large financial injections from foreign donors, many of whom are unelected, despotic governments notorious for regularly perpetuating wide-scale human rights abuses.
The Beth Din
The Beth Din: Jewish Law in the UK
Since the Archbishop of Canterbury’s controversial comments on Sharia law last year there has been widespread discussion about religious law in the UK, and a focus on comparisons between Jewish courts – the Beth Din – and Sharia courts. The Beth Din: Jewish Law in the UK is reference guide to how the Beth Din operates in the UK, including how they work within UK law to offer arbitration in civil disputes; their religious functions, including divorce; and whether they offer a parallel legal system.
The West and the Future of Islam
The West and the Future of Islam: A debate between Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Ed Husain
‘The West and the Future of Islam’, a debate hosted by the Centre for Social Cohesion in London, brought together two prominent speakers on Islam for the first time. Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a self-declared Muslim apostate and former Dutch MP, and Ed Husain, author of the best-selling book The Islamist and former member of the extremist group Hizb ut-Tahrir, discussed the compatibility of Islam and Western values.
This booklet is a transcript of the debate, in which Ed Husain advocates an Islamic 'renaissance', arguing for a pluralist reinterpretation of Islam to meet modern-day challenges. In response, Ayaan Hirsi Ali argues that Islam as a 'body of ideas' is opposed to the 'Enlightenment' values of the West.
Victims of Intimidation
Victims of Intimidation: Freedom of Speech within Europe's Muslim Communities, Douglas Murray and Johan Pieter Verwey
Victims of Intimidation tells the stories of nearly 30 Europeans of Muslim background - some believing Muslims and others not - who have been threatened by Muslim extremists. Based on interviews with many of these individuals, the report details the substantial threats and violence they have faced as a result of critical inquiry into aspects of their faith or lifestyle.
Islam on Campus
Islam on Campus: A survey of UK student opinions, John Thorne and Hannah Stuart
Islam on Campus is the most comprehensive survey ever undertaken of Muslim student opinion in the UK, based on a specially commissioned YouGov poll of 1400 students, fieldwork and interviews. The report examines students' attitudes on key issues including killing in the name of religion, establishing a worldwide Caliphate, introducing Sharia law to the UK, setting up an Islamic political party in the UK, gender equality, the treatment of apostates and homosexuals and the compatibility of Islam with secularism and democracy.
Virtual Caliphate
Virtual Caliphate: Islamic extremists and their websites, James Brandon
Virtual Caliphate shows how Islamic extremists in the United Kingdom have established dedicated websites in order to circumvent British anti-terrorism measures introduced after July 2005. It is the first report to catalogue the content of these websites and to analyse how British extremists use these sites to spread jihadist ideologies, co-ordinate their activities and win new recruits.
Crimes of the Community
Crimes of the Community: Honour-based violence in the UK, James Brandon and Salam Hafez
Crimes of the Community examines how ideas of honour can lead to violence. Examining forced marriages, honour killings, female genital mutilation (FGM) and honour-based domestic violence, the report explains why such violence is carried out and why it continues. Based on over 80 interviews with women's groups, community activists and the victims of honour-based violence, Crimes of the Community is the most comprehensive study of honour-based violence ever conducted in the UK.
Hate on the State
Hate on the State: How British libraries encourage Islamic extremism, Douglas Murray and James Brandon
The first report published by the Centre for Social Cohesion examines how public libraries may be fuelling Islamic radicalism. The study finds that the libraries of Tower Hamlets, Waltham Forest and Birmingham in particular have stocked a disproportionate number of pro-jihadist texts at the expense of more moderate authors.