Islamaphobia

Reading University Colludes With Far-Right Extremist Muslim Society

Peter G Tatchell | Posted 01.05.2013 | UK Universities & Education
Peter G Tatchell

Reading University and students union have praised the university's Muslim Society, despite its bid to host the "kill the gays" Islamist preacher, Abu Usamah at-Thahabi. Thahabi had been invited to speak to the far right university Muslim Society as part of its Discover Islam Week. He endorses the murder of gay people and of Muslims who give up their faith.

Witches and Witch Hunts - What the Salem Trials Tell us Today

Jeffrey Gedmin | Posted 26.04.2013 | UK Politics
Jeffrey Gedmin

How do we promote tolerance and protect free speech in a time where organised groups openly, and others clandestinely, exploit our liberal values to oppose our aims, sometimes with the deadliest of means?

Census 2011: Muslims Are Not to Be Feared

Muhammad Abdul Bari | Posted 16.02.2013 | UK Lifestyle
Muhammad Abdul Bari

Many headlines have seized on the fact that Muslims now make up nearly five percent (4.8%) of the English and Welsh population. At the same time, especially after the London bombings in July 2005, the level of prejudice against Muslims has multiplied.

Watch: Mehdi Hasan's Full Length 'Right To Offend' Debate

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 22.11.2012 | UK Politics

On 12 October, the Huffington Post UK's very own Mehdi Hasan, the site's political director, debated Times columnist David Aaronovitch on free speech...

Mehdi Hasan Debates 'The Right To Offend?'

Huffington Post UK | Felicity Morse | Posted 12.10.2012 | UK Politics

Mehdi Hasan, political director of The Huffington Post UK, called for a crackdown on the culture of Islamophobia and argued freedom of speech was not ...

To Snip or Not to Snip Is Not the Question

Jill Shaw Ruddock | Posted 07.09.2012 | UK Politics
Jill Shaw Ruddock

Last week the German court in Cologne ruled that circumcision by parents of sons is an unlawful act. This ruling will be enforced even if performed by a qualified doctor,making them liable to prosecution.

When Anti-Racism Becomes Anti-Woman: The 'Privileging' of Race above Gender

Adele Wilde-Blavatsky | Posted 30.06.2012 | UK Politics
Adele Wilde-Blavatsky

Has the anti-racist debate really become so closed-minded, divisive and fearful? That a white person cannot question any practice or ideology, if it is prevalent amongst people of colour? Does that mean to criticise porn one has to be a porn star? To criticise rape one has to have been raped?

Breivik Thought He Had '5% Chance Of Survival' During Bombing

Posted 19.04.2012 | UK

Anders Breivik has agreed to a request from his own lawyers to drop a far-right salute, after families of his 77 victims urged the self-confessed Norw...

Kill Me Or Acquit Me, Breivik Tells Judge

Posted 18.04.2012 | UK

Anders Breivik has said he expects to be acquitted or given the death penalty for massacring 77 people in Norway last year. The 33-year-old right ...

Breivik - In the Dock on Hitler's Birthday?

Michelle Brooks | Posted 16.06.2012 | UK Politics
Michelle Brooks

As Anders Breivik, the far-right Norwegian singularly responsible for the massacre of 77 people begins his trial it is perhaps astounding that it has gone ahead at such a symbolic time; symbolism that Breivik has wasted no time in exploiting.