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Home office latest stats on operation of police powers under Terrorism Act 2000

ENGAGE - Tue, 18/06/2013 - 3:36pm

The Home Office has released data on the operation of police powers under the Terrorism Act 2000 for July 2012 – December 2012, updating figures last posted to June 2012. The release provides ...

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Pregnant Muslim woman attacked in Paris loses baby

Islamophobia Watch - Tue, 18/06/2013 - 3:35pm

Despite all medical efforts, a pregnant Muslim woman who was attacked by two Islamophobic men in the Paris suburb of Argenteuil on Thursday suffered a miscarriage and lost her baby, her lawyer ...

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Gloucester mosque targetted in petrol bomb attack

ENGAGE - Tue, 18/06/2013 - 3:33pm

Police are investigating an attempted arson attack on the Masjid-e-Noor on Ryecroft Street, Gloucester, after a canister filled with petrol was thrown at the mosque’s main entrance late last ...

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Muslim women hand out roses in Newcastle shopping centre

ENGAGE - Tue, 18/06/2013 - 1:00pm

Newcastle paper, The Journal, reports on an initiative by Muslim women in the city to reach out to locals and dispel negative perceptions of Islam that have surfaced in the days following the ...

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Two men charged over Maidenhead mosque attack

ENGAGE - Tue, 18/06/2013 - 12:45pm

The Maidenhead Advertiser and BBC News both report on the court appearance of two men in connection with criminal damage andvandalism of a mosque in Holmanleaze, Maidenhead. “Lee Hunt, 26, and ...

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Third man charged over Grimsby mosque arson

ENGAGE - Tue, 18/06/2013 - 11:55am

BBC News reports on the arrest and charge of a third man in connection with the arson attack on Grimsby Islamic Centre on 26 May. Daniel Cressey, 24, has been charged with arson with intent to ...

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Arson Attack At Gloucester Mosque

Islamophobia Watch - Tue, 18/06/2013 - 10:03am

Police in Gloucester are appealing for information after a man set light to a door at a mosque in the city in the early hours of today. News story

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EMET To Give “Speaker of Truth Award” to Reza Khalili

Barth's Notes - Mon, 17/06/2013 - 10:12pm

From Sarah Stern’s Endowment for Middle East Truth: Rays of Light In the Darkness Dinner Wednesday June 19, 2013 Washington, DC EMET is proud to bestow the Speaker of Truth Award to honor a ...

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Cute Font launches

Bloggerheads - Mon, 17/06/2013 - 4:55pm

It’s funny what life throws at you sometimes. For years I’ve been putting little notes to one side that describe ideas and projects I doubt I’ll have the time for. I showed one ...

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Hate crime in Scotland, 2012-13

ENGAGE - Mon, 17/06/2013 - 4:05pm

BBC News and Herald Scotland both report on the release of statistics on hate crimes in Scotland over the period 2012-2013, and in earlier years for comparison. The report covers race hate crime ...

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Colchester MP asks about membership of EDL by British soldiers

ENGAGE - Mon, 17/06/2013 - 4:02pm

Local paper, Maldon and Burnham Standard, reports on the question tabled by MP for Colchester, Sir Bob Russell, on membership of the English Defence League by members of the Armed Forces. The ...

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Men given suspended sentences for beating Muslim at tube station

ENGAGE - Mon, 17/06/2013 - 4:00pm

Local paper, News Shopper, reports on the guilty verdict reached in the case of two men charged with a racially aggravated public order offence for beating up a Muslim at a tube ...

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Woman given suspended sentence for 'burning down mosques' comment on Facebook

ENGAGE - Mon, 17/06/2013 - 3:10pm

The Guardian and the local paper, News Shopper, reported on the suspended sentence passed on Michaela Turner for comments posted on Facebook after the murder of drummer Lee Rigby which violated ...

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Work for the UN

Craig Murray - Mon, 17/06/2013 - 9:25am

GCHQ and the NSA between them employ tens of thousands of people. I am bemused by the shock at the “revelation” they have been spying. What on Earth did journalists think that spies ...

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Estonian Catholic Group Gathers 40,000 Signatures for “Traditional Marriage”

Barth's Notes - Sun, 16/06/2013 - 9:19am

From LifeSiteNews: The founder of Estonia’s pro-family movement said in an interview with a Polish Catholic television program that the country’s draft law on same-sex marriage will not go ...

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Wreck of the Emma

Craig Murray - Fri, 14/06/2013 - 5:55pm

Some of the information that gets volunteered from readers of my blog for use in my Sikunder Burnes book has been quite extraordinary. So, with continued hope and gratitude, let me try this one ...

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EXCLUSIVE: Edward Snowden's employer, NSA Prism contractor Booz Allen Hamilton, ran Pentagon war games on civil unrest due to climate, energy, economic shocks

The Cutting Edge - Fri, 14/06/2013 - 1:32pm

Photo taken by U.S. Airforce Tech. Sgt. Brian E. Christiansen, North Carolina National Guard at Vigilant Guard training exercise Ft. Richardson, Alaska — April 2010 As questions are being ...

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Grimsby Muslims host event to thank local community for support

ENGAGE - Fri, 14/06/2013 - 10:49am

BBC News reports on the overwhelming display of support shown by locals for the Islamic Cultural Centre in Grimsby, the scene of an arson attack in the immediate days after the murder of Drummer ...

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Charles Moore's Islamophobic smears

Islamophobia Watch - Fri, 14/06/2013 - 10:10am

Writing in the Telegraph, Charles Moore does his best to draw an equivalence between fascist street fighting gangs and organisations such as Tell Mama who monitor anti Muslim hate crime.

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Preparing to Bomb Syria

Craig Murray - Fri, 14/06/2013 - 9:34am

Quite simply I do not believe the US, UK and French government’s assertion that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons against rebels “multiple times in small ...

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