Terry Jones, the controversial American preacher who wanted to burn the Koran in public, has been banned from entering Britain. The Home Secretary, Theresa May, banned Mr Jones after he accepted an invitation to address England is Ours, a fringe anti-Islamic group with links to the British National Party. A spokesman for the Home Office…
18 December 2010 MI5 and antiterrorist police are attempting to unravel what transformed the father-of-three into a terrorist. But moderate Muslims in Luton, where Iraqi-born Taimour Abdulwahab al-Abdaly lived for almost ten years, claim the authorities are to blame for turning a blind eye to the activities of hard core jihadi sympathisers in the area….
13 December 2010 US concerns that the UK was struggling to cope with home-grown extremism have been revealed in new Wikileaks cables. One cable said the British government made “little progress” in engaging with the UK’s Muslim community after the 7 July 2005 terror attacks in London. The communication was delivered to Washington from the…
1 December 2010 In this op-ed, Michael Mumisa of the University of Cambridge shares his view on the fragmented situation of the Muslim community in Britain: “The previous government’s controversial programme for preventing violent extremism is currently being reviewed by the Home Office. How did it happen that programmes which were introduced with the aim…
November 25 2010 According to the latest integration report from the national statistics office CBS, second generation immigrants from non-western countries are more likely to consider themselves Dutch than their parents. Second generation immigrants constitute more than half of the non-western immigrants in the country.
