Last weekend, Tony Brett, a Liberal Democrat councillor in Oxford and the city’s deputy lord mayor, found what he called a “disgraceful rabble” of people climbing on the city’s main war memorial — squashing, he said, the flowers that mourners had placed there, then trying to remove half of them altogether and “jeering” other visitors…
June 14, 2013 No one comes to mind more quickly in the cause of Islam: for both institutional and foreign students in Brescia than the case of Anas El Abboubi (a recently discovered extremist living outside of Milan) Yet, the word “Islam,” today in Brescia’s city of Vobarno, as well as in Niardo…
Anti-terror law reviewer David Anderson QC says broadcasters should decide whether to show radicals on their channels. Channel 4 and the BBC were criticised last week for giving Anjem Choudary airtime in the wake of the Woolwich attack. Radical speakers such as the Islamist preacher Anjem Choudary should not be banned from appearing on television,…
As a Muslim convert, I set up a project to counter radicalisation among young urban men. But our funding was cut by the government and now there’s a vacuum. The former chairman of Brixton mosque in south London saw the challenges facing new converts to Islam. Since 2005, there have been 148 teenage murders…
Those wondering how to respond to English Defence League marches this weekend can look to the example of tea and non-confrontation we set at York mosque When we first heard about the English Defence League protest that was to take place outside our local mosque in York last Sunday, my colleagues and I sat…
