Islamophobia Watch

The battle of Bolton and the media

Sun, 21/03/2010 - 5:55am

Anti-fascist protesters emerged victorious on Saturday after holding Bolton's central Victoria Square against the racists from the English Defence League. But mainstream national media reports ...

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The JC and Osama Saeed

Sat, 20/03/2010 - 9:03am

In this week's edition of the Jewish Chronicle, under the headline "Hunting the SNP's Islamist", Martin Bright complains that Osama Saeed, SNP parliamentary candidate for Glasgow Central, is ...

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'Pawn of Islamists' – now Gilligan witch-hunts a Tory parliamentary candidate

Fri, 19/03/2010 - 11:28pm

Witchfinder General Andrew Gilligan shifts his attention to Tim Archer, Tory PPC for Poplar and Limehouse, who is speaking at an IFE meeting "Confronting Anti-Muslim Hatred in Contemporary ...

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'Muslim police club nets £10,000 public cash', Express reports

Thu, 18/03/2010 - 7:58pm

An exclusive association for Muslim police officers, backed with £10,000 from the SNP Government, was extended across Scotland’s eight police forces yesterday. Despite having only 46 ...

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Quebec body rules against right to wear niqab

Wed, 17/03/2010 - 7:00am

A woman wearing the niqab cannot demand to be served by another woman when dealing with the Quebec Health Insurance Board, Quebec's human-rights commission has ruled. Concluding that religious ...

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Ask your MP to sign EDM 1079

Tue, 16/03/2010 - 10:33pm

Please ask your MP to sign Early Day Motion 1079 – Muslims in Britain. You can do this easily by clicking on this link. It takes less than two minutes. The motion follows rising concerns ...

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'Exposing Dispatches' – the East London Mosque replies to Gilligan's witch-hunt

Tue, 16/03/2010 - 2:00pm

Read it here

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Sarkozy's pandering to Islamophobia gives boost to Le Pen

Tue, 16/03/2010 - 7:55am

Far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen, playing on fears over the spread of Islam, has regained the political initiative in France with a strong result in regional elections that poses a problem for ...

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Sunday Express apologises to the East London Mosque

Mon, 15/03/2010 - 10:26pm

ENGAGE has the details.

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'Neo-Nazi granny' is BNP candidate for Mayor of Lewisham

Mon, 15/03/2010 - 6:15pm

A "vile" and racist party has announced its candidate for Lewisham borough’s mayoral election. Tess Culnane, who previously ran unsuccessfully for the far-right National Front at the ...

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Islamophobia and antisemitism: sinister parallels of hatred

Sun, 14/03/2010 - 6:24pm

"There are weeks to go before a general election and the main parties are struggling. Cue the filthy politics of scapegoating and divide and rule. "If it were only the fascists of the British ...

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Canadian cartoonist defends anti-niqab image

Sun, 14/03/2010 - 6:00pm

An editorial cartoon in Friday's Montreal Gazette is highlighting a controversial incident in which a Muslim woman was asked to leave a French language school for refusing to remove her ...

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EDL exposed as racist, violent thugs

Sun, 14/03/2010 - 1:22pm

The repulsive race-hate face of the English Defence League is unveiled today by the News of the World. A three-month probe by our undercover investigators exposes the TRUE nature of the ...

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Being anti-Islam is not racist claims Ian McEwan (as do the EDL, of course)

Sat, 13/03/2010 - 11:18pm

Ian McEwan has insisted that criticising Islam is not racist and blamed left-leaning thinkers for "closing down the debate". The Booker Prize winner said those who claimed judging Muslims was "de ...

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France plans bill banning veil for spring

Sat, 13/03/2010 - 1:40pm

A bill banning the full Muslim veil will be introduced this spring, French Prime Minister Francois Fillon said Thursday. "A full veil that hides the whole face runs contrary to our idea of free ...

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'Pandering to Islam' – Express and Alan Craig attack NAMP

Sat, 13/03/2010 - 10:24am

Home Office chiefs were last night accused of pandering to Islam after it was revealed that they handed out a staggering 15 times more funding to a Muslim police support group than to its ...

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Dawn raids and draconian sentences for Muslim demonstrators

Sat, 13/03/2010 - 10:19am

Last year, during protests against the attack on Gaza, a mixed group of demonstrators clashed with police. But when the alleged culprits were arrested in dawn raids, nearly all those taken were ...

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Tory MP calls for veil to be banned in UK

Fri, 12/03/2010 - 8:25am

An MP has called for ministers to ban the wearing of burkas, branding it "offensive" and "against the British way of life". Philip Hollobone, Conservative MP for Kettering, told the Commons: "This ...

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Review rejects ban on fascist teachers, says BNP and NF are 'legitimate organisations'

Fri, 12/03/2010 - 8:10am

Teachers in England should not be banned from membership of the British National Party or any group which may promote racism, a review has concluded. The government commissioned the report last ...

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Book launch in Birmingham

Thu, 11/03/2010 - 11:31pm

A new book with a radical approach to Christian engagement with Islam is being launched at the Queens Foundation for Ecumenical Theological Education on Monday 15th March 2010 at 6pm. A Heart ...

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