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Islamist Hate Preachers Blocked at East London University

Peter G Tatchell | Posted 20.05.2013 | UK Universities & Education
Read More: Islam, Islamist, Uel, Hate Preachers, UK Universities, Peter Tatchell Foundation, Radical Islam, UK Students, Peter Tatchell, Hate Speech, UK Universities & Education News
Peter G Tatchell

Students and staff should not be subjected to hate and menaces. Universities are supposed to be places of enlightenment, tolerance, liberalism and human rights. It is shocking the way many student Islamist societies are promoting hate preachers who are anti-Semitic, sexist, homophobic and who abuse fellow Muslims.

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British National 'Killed In Gas Field Terror Attack'

Posted 16.01.2013 | UK
Read More: Salah Gas Krechba Project, Bp, Cobra, Killed, Islamist, Oil Workers, UK News, Deaths, Terrorist Attack, Kidnapping, Algeria, Foreign Office, Briton, Prime Minister, UK News

"Several" British nationals have been caught up in a terrorist attack on an oil facility in Algeria, Downing Street have said. UK sources were unab...

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Dutch Photographer Captured Alongside British Journalist In Syria Describes Ordeal

Huffington Post UK | Felicity Morse | Posted 29.07.2012 | UK
Read More: Jeroen Oerlemans, Islamist, UK News, John Cantile, Islam in Syria, Syria Ransom, Jihadi, John Cantlie, Kidnap, Aleppo, News, Syria, UK News

A Dutch and British photojournalist who were kidnapped in Syria by Islamist militants have been freed by members of the Free Syrian Army after a harro...

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Egypt's Second Day Of Voting In Historic Presidential Poll

Huffington Post UK | Michael Rundle | Posted 24.05.2012 | UK
Read More: Egyptian Military Council, Islamist, Arab Spring, UK News, Cairo, Egypt, Egyptian Vote, Middle East, Egypt Election, Democracy, UK News

Egypt is voting for a second day in its historic presidential election, the first such free vote in the country's history. The vote - held 15 month...

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Egyptians Head To Polls In Country's First Free Election

Huffington Post UK | Felicity Morse | Posted 23.05.2012 | UK
Read More: Islamist, Arab Spring, UK News, Military Council, Cairo, Egypt, Egyptian Vote, Egypt Election, Democracy, UK News

Egyptians are voting in the country’s first free presidential elections, 15 months after Hosni Murbarak's stranglehold on the country was dissolved ...

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Outraged Against Blasphemous Article and Not Killing of Kurds

Ruwayda Mustafah | Posted 08.07.2012 | Home
Read More: Kurdistan, Islam, Muslim, Kurdish, Islamist, Youth, Home News
Ruwayda Mustafah

Muslim youth in Southern Kurdistan staged a protest against what they perceived to be a blasphemous article published in a local magazine about Islam. Hundreds of youth took to the streets in the city of Hewlêr, some of them burnt down shops that sold alcohol, while others tried to storm governmental institutions.

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Time for an Inclusive Politics

Muhammad Abdul Bari | Posted 12.05.2012 | UK Politics
Read More: Islamist, Terrorism, Muslim Council, 9/11, London, Islamophobia, Conservative Party, Prevent, 7/7, London Olympics, Labour, Integration, Muslim, Eric Pickles, The Queen, Extremism, UK Politics News
Muhammad Abdul Bari

There will be differences of opinion and approaches in tackling this. But the constant demonisation of Muslims and their institutions by the media, and the lacklustre response by the Westminster political class to anti-Muslim intolerance, is not helpful.

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Abu Qatada Deportation: Theresa May To Fly To Jordan 'Soon' To Strike A Deal

PA | Posted 04.05.2012 | UK
Read More: Islamist, UK News, Bin Laden's Right Hand Man, UK Politics, Fundamentalist, 9/11, Terrorist, Abu Qatada, Radical Muslim Cleric, UK News

Theresa May is to visit Jordan "very, very soon" to try to strike a deal over the deportation of radical cleric Abu Qatada. Home Office Minister Ja...

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'This Is The Worst Day', Abu Qatada's Landlord Tells Court

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 23.02.2012 | UK
Read More: Islamist, Bin Laden's Right Hand Man, Fundamentalist, 9/11, Terrorist, Abu Qatada Landlord, Abu Qatada, Radical Muslim Cleric, UK News

A landlord who did not realise that he had rented a house to Abu Qatada's family said he experienced "the worst day" after journalists discovered that...

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What Norway Should Teach the Media About Covering Terrorism

Peter Blair | Posted 10.10.2011 | UK
Read More: Islamophobia, Norway, Islamist, Media, Right-Wing Extremism, Terrorism, Al Qaeda, UK News
Peter Blair

I wasn't alone on July 22nd in thinking that the attacks in Oslo and Utoya bore few of the hallmarks of Al Qaeda, but it certainly didn't seem that way to anyone watching rolling news coverage of the events unfolding in Norway.

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