CAIRO — One of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's closest aides has urged the United States to pursue a new foreign policy based on multilateralism and "soft power" as a country's strength can no longer be measured by its destructive force, the Guardian newspaper reported Friday, July 13.

In the UK, authorities have used anti-terrorism legislation to detain more than 1,000 people during the past few years and police can hold them for 28 days before they have to be charged. More than half of those held have been released without facing any court proceedings. In some cases, their names have been on front pages all over Britain by the time they are allowed to go.

Iran's Jews have given the country a loyalty pledge in the face of cash offers aimed at encouraging them to move to Israel, the arch-enemy of its Islamic rulers. The incentives - ranging from £5,000 a person to £30,000 for families - were offered from a special fund established by wealthy expatriate Jews in an effort to prompt a mass migration to Israel among Iran's 25,000-strong Jewish community. 

Two ex-Bnp terror suspects not convicted under Terror Laws. WHY? We are appalled at the media blackout surrounding the story of the ex-BNP terrorists. In spite of being found in possession of the largest stockpile of explosives ever seized in the UK, Robert Cottage and co-defendant David Jackson were NOT convicted under the UK Terror Laws. Moreover, the story was accompanied by a glaring absence of breaking news and hysterical headlines commonly associated with ‘terrorist stories’, a blatant example of the double standards prevalent in British society today.

The Muslim Public Affairs Committee (MPACUK), a leading British Muslim Campaign Group is actively supporting the Liberal Democrat candidate in this month’s Ealing-Southall by-election. Southall is one of the most ethnically diverse constituencies in the UK today, with a Muslim population of over 13,000. As in the Brent-East by-election in 2003, MPACUK have taken to the streets, distributing thousands of leaflets urging Muslims to vote Lib Dem.

As our readers are aware, in a recent article "Hamas FREES Alan Johnston and the Zionist state of Israel again TARGETS Vanunu", we highlighted the treatment of Alan Johnston and Mordechai Vanunu. Well MPACUK are very pleased to announce that there are 2 Early Day Motions before the House of Commons on these very issues. An Early Day Motion (EDM) is a formal motion submitted for debate in the House of Commons. They are used for publicising the views of individual MPs and drawing attention to specific events or campaigns. An MP can add their signature to an EDM to show their support for a particular cause or point of view.

CAIRO — A high-profile London meeting that brought together senior Muslim community leaders, imams and police representatives has recommended a national dialogue on radicalism in Britain. "We called on both Muslims and non-Muslims from all sections of society to come together and engage in a national dialogue on radicalism," Dr Daud Abdullah, Deputy Secretary General of the umbrella Muslim Council of Britain (MCB), told IslamOnline.net in a phone interview from London on Sunday, July 8.