(UK) Al Muhajiroun's return presents test for terror laws
-- "A formerly defunct radical Islamist sect led by the banned preacher Omar Bakri Muhammad
has appointed a new British leader and will re-form publicly this week for the first time in five years."
-- "Al Muhajiroun, which campaigns for the implementation of sharia in Britain and once described
the 9/11 hijackers as 'the Magnificent 19', supposedly disbanded in 2004."
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/al-muhajirouns-return-presents-test-for-terror-laws-1706922.html
--- Centre for Social Cohesion Press Release: "One in Seven UK Terror-related Convictions Linked to Islamist Group Now Threatening to Relaunch"
http://www.socialcohesion.co.uk/files/1243874438_1.pdf
--- Al Muhajiroun: Extremists and Thugs
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/06/17/al-muhajiroun-extremists-and-thugs/
--- Islamist Al-Muhajiroun relaunch ends in chaos over segregation attempt
---- Choudary: "Jews and Christians will never make peace with you until you either become
like them or adopt their ways."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/jun/18/islamist-al-muhajiroun-meeting-chaos
(UK) Student sentenced over terror bid
-- "Mohammed Abushamma, 20, from Islington, north London, was arrested at Heathrow Airport
in April last year, along with co-defendant Qasim Abukar"
-- "A student who tried to travel to Afghanistan to fight jihad has been jailed for three-and-a-half years"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/8106092.stm
(UK) Money was for orphans, says terror charge Imam Ahmed Mohamed
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/money-was-for-orphans-says-terror-charge-imam-1707592.html
(UK) No bias, UK cops target non-Muslims
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/No-bias-UK-cops-target-non-Muslims/articleshow/4669557.cms
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6521199.ece
MPACUK congratulates President Ahmadinejad
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/06/15/mpacuk-congratulates-president-ahmadinejad/
http://www.mpacuk.org/content/view/5752/102/
-- Along with HAMAS and Muslim Brotherhood
-- Iran: "Congratulation messages pour in" -- including leaders of Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood and HAMAS
http://www.irna.ir/En/View/FullStory/?NewsId=545389&IdLanguage=3
(UK) Muslims told voting was a sin
-- "I AM a resident of Normanton and I received a leaflet targeted at the Muslim community explaining
why it was anti-Muslim to participate in both the council and EU elections."
-- "This leaflet covered a full sheet of paper stating, amongst other things, that the only law- maker was
Allah and that anyone who voted in the elections was a disbeliever and that any Muslim who votes is a sinner."
http://www.thisisderbyshire.co.uk/letters/Muslims-told-voting-sin/article-1075162-detail/article.html
(UK) Guardian Newspaper Article defends Sharia - Sara Khorshid
--- Sara Khorshid: "Muslim incorporation of sharia law in the public square will increase
western entities' credibility among Muslim masses"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2009/jun/13/egypt-islam-sharia
--- Sara Khorshid's "articles are published in the Middle East Times, IslamOnline.net, and other
media outlets. She is the managing editor of IslamOnline.net's Politics in Depth section"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/sara-khorshid
(UK) Olivant loses £2.3m on sharia asset fund
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/privateequity/5533517/Olivant-loses-2.3m-on-sharia-asset-fund.html
(UK) Britain was wrong to freeze assets of Abu Qatada, rules EU, clearing way for him to get compensation
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1192365/Britain-wrong-freeze-assets-Abu-Qatada-rules-EU-clearing-way-compensation.html
-- EU court annuls freeze on Abu Qatada's assets
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18/20090611/tuk-eu-court-annuls-freeze-on-abu-qatada-a7ad41d.html
(UK) Radical Islamists must be exposed, not invited to tea
http://www.thejc.com/articles/radical-islamists-must-be-exposed-not-invited-tea
(UK) Disarray over terror control orders after law lords ruling on secret evidence
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6469431.ece
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/jun/10/terror-suspects-alan-johnson-lords
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/jun/10/control-orders-breach-terror-suspects-rights
(UK) Abdur Raheem Green: Imperious Islam
-- founder of "Islamic Education & Research Academy" (iERA)
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/06/10/abdur-raheem-green-imperious-islam/
UK Journalist defends use of term "Muslim World" in Guardian
-- "Wrong to talk of a 'Muslim world'?" - Mehdi Hasan
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2009/jun/07/muslim-world-quilliam-foundation
--- See also:
--- "One World" by Jeffrey Imm
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/04/one-world/
(UK) Premier customers offered enhanced Shariah compliant mortgage to finance high-end properties
http://www.theasiannews.co.uk/news/business/s/1119231_premier_customers_offered_enhanced_shariah_compliant_mortgage_to_finance_highend_properties
(UK) Wales: Launch of Islamic finance program
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/business-in-wales/business-news/2009/06/06/launch-of-islamic-finance-programme-91466-23802241/
(UK) Premier office opened by Islamic Bank of Britain
http://www.bankingtimes.co.uk/05062009-premier-office-opened-by-islamic-bank-of-britain/
(UK) Government 'complacent' about Sharia say Lords
http://www.christian.org.uk/news/20090605/goverment-complacent-about-sharia-say-lords/
(UK) Brits warned after hostage is beheaded
-- "Fears more Britons could be murdered by al-Qaeda after murder of hostage Edwin Dyer"
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2462380/Brits-warned-after-hostage-Edwin-Dyer-is-beheaded.html?OTC-RSS&ATTR=News
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/mali/5437960/British-hostage-Edwin-Dyer-executed-by-al-Qaeda-in-Mali.html
(UK) British Company Kills Al Qaeda Fantasy Xbox Video Game
http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2009/06/british_company_kills_al_qaeda.asp
(UK) Muslim Public Affairs Committee (MPACUK): "Without Jihad I am 50% Muslim"
-- MPACUK: "Every Muslim anywhere in the world should have one common goal, to this day the goal
of the Ummah remains suppressed."
-- MPACUK: "It is the concept of Jihad, the struggle and striving for Allah that Islam alone emphasis
encompassing all the above that makes you a real Muslim."
http://www.mpacuk.org/content/view/5707/103/
(UK) Tories set to create boom in Islamic schools
http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/Tories-set-to-create-boom.5320365.jp
(U.S./UK) HLF Trial, Hamas, and International Links: A Long Way From Texas
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/06/01/a-long-way-from-texas/
(UK) Abu Hamza still preaching hate in prison
-- "Dozens of inmates - many jailed for terror offences - have been gathering to listen
in the cell next to where the Muslim extremist is being held at high-security Belmarsh Prison in SouthEast London."
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/05/31/hamza-preaches-in-prison-115875-21402446/
(UK) Taliban target Britain on 'orders' from al-Qaeda
http://britishjihad.com/blog1/2009/05/taliban_target_britain.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/5407321/Taliban-target-Britain-on-orders-from-al-Qaeda.html
-- "A Taliban-trained terrorist was part of a cell sent to bomb Britain as revenge
for their presence in Afghanistan, it has emerged"
-- "British investigators believe that the cell, which was allegedly planning attacks
on the Trafford and Arndale shopping centres over the Easter holidays"
-- "The information echoed claims made by British security services that a terrorist cell
was sent to Manchester from the Taliban heartland in Pakistan's lawless tribal areas."
-- "It is claimed the attacks were to begin on the Barcelona underground system
and then spread to the other European countries with a presence in Afghanistan,
thought to include Britain, according to new documents"
-- [Informant] "Ahmed told them he had trained at a terrorist camp in Waziristan,
in Pakistan's tribal areas, and met [Taliban leader Baitullah] Mehsud"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/5407321/Taliban-target-Britain-on-orders-from-al-Qaeda.html
--- Taliban International Objectives
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/taliban_international.html
(UK) Daily Star report: "Cleric's hate call"
-- "Banned Islamic extremist Omar Bakri is relaunching a hate-filled organisation in Britain."
-- "The preacher, who wants the country to be ruled by Sharia Law with 'the black
flag of Islam flying over Downing Street,' is set on a return for the Al-Muhajiroun group."
-- "It was disbanded after a Government ban in 2004."
-- "Bakri, 51, ran Al-Muhajiroun with Anjem Choudary, 42.They once praised
the 9/11 hijackers and Bakri was forced out of the country in 2005."
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/82740/Cleric-s-hate-call/
UK woman jailed for keeping sons' wives like 'dogs'
-- Naseebah Bibi "jailed for seven years on Friday for falsely imprisoning her
three daughters-in-law from Pakistan who she treated as 'slaves and dogs' and subjected to regular beatings"
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\05\30\story_30-5-2009_pg7_42
(UK) Teacher sacked after 'making pupils kneel and pray to Allah' during RE lesson
-- "Alison Phillips was accused of giving two pupils detention after they refused
to kneel down and 'pray to Allah' during the class."
-- "Parents were outraged after stories emerged that the two boys, aged 11, were
allegedly punished for not wanting to take part in a practical demonstration of how Allah is worshipped."
-- "They said children should not be forced to take part in the exercise, which
included wearing Muslim headgear, was a breach of their human rights."
-- "But governors at Alsager High School, near Stoke-on-Trent, denied Mrs Phillips
made pupils pray or that two boys were put into detention for refusing to do so."
-- "'The RE lesson in question contains an element of role play which complies with acceptable practice.'"
-- "Parents had claimed that their children were made to bend down on their
knees on prayer mats which the teacher had got out of her cupboard."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1189497/Teacher-sacked-making-pupils-kneel-pray-Allah-RE-lesson.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/5406154/Teacher-sacked-after-parents-complain-about-Muslim-prayer-lesson.html
(UK) BBC offers £30,000 and an apology for Question Time 'slur' on Islamic leaders over anti-war protest
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1189638/BBC-offers-30-000-apology-Question-Time-slur-Islamic-leaders-anti-war-protest.html?ITO=1490
(UK) Extremists behind anti-war protest driven off the streets by moderate Muslims
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1189577/Muslim-extremists-anti-war-protest-driven-members-community.html
(UK) Vulnerable Whitechapel youths recruited for jihad in Somalia
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6345911.ece
-- Somali Britons with jihad training pose terrorist risk
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article6345940.ece
-- British and American fighters respond to jihad call in Somalia
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article6345930.ecehttp://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article6345930.ece
--- February 17, 2009 Channel 4 Report
http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/world/africa/why+somalia+must+rise+up+uk+agenda/2958407
--- February 16, 2009 Channel 4 Report
http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/politics/international_politics/somalia+the+new+pakistan/2956057
--- February 16, 2009 - Growing number of British men joining Islamic radicals in Somalia
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/4638987/Growing-number-of-British-men-joining-Islamic-radicals-in-Somalia.html
--- January 14, 2007 - UK Telegraph report on use of mosques "Islamists use raid to stir up UK Somalis"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1539501/Islamists-use-raid-to-stir-up-UK-Somalis.html
--- August 3, 2005 - Boston Globe: "Authorities say mosque was radicals' haven"
http://www.boston.com/news/world/articles/2005/08/03/authorities_say_mosque_was_radicals_haven/
(UK) 7/7 bomb attacks: police and MI5 cleared of blame
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/may/19/july7-atacks-mohammad-sidique-khan-shehzad-tanweer
(UK) "The self-styled Muslim Association of Britain and Palestinian Solidarity Campaign
have found a new cause: campaigning against ads for Israeli tourism in London"
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/05/22/fun-with-maps/
(UK) Man who plotted to behead British Muslim soldier loses sentence appeal - Parviz Khan
http://www.birminghampost.net/news/west-midlands-news/2009/05/20/man-who-plotted-to-behead-british-muslim-soldier-loses-sentence-appeal-65233-23673095/
(UK/Mali) Al-Qaeda Africa extends execution deadline for British hostage -- May 31
-- "unless Abu Qatada was freed from a maximum security jail"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/mali/5362753/Al-Qaeda-Africa-extends-execution-deadline-for-British-hostage.html
(UK) Sham colleges open doors to Pakistani terror suspects
-- "Thousands of young Pakistanis exploited a hole in Britain’s immigration
defences to enrol as students at a network of sham colleges, The Times can reveal."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6330301.ece
-- Forger set up own colleges and gave himself fake degrees - Fayaz Ali Khan
--- claimed to be "full-time director of education at Swat College of Education"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6330097.ece
-- Former pub became the centre of a web of bogus colleges - "as Manchester College of Professional Studies"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/education/article6330037.ece
-- Part-owner of bogus college is linked to two murders in Pakistan
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6330132.ece
(UK) "Miliband seeks coalition with Islamic world"
-- "Foreign Secretary will reach out to Muslim states by acknowledging the
damage the Iraq war caused to Britain's standing"
-- "David Miliband will reach out to Muslim states today, placing the Iraq war
alongside the Crusades and colonialism in a list of 'prejudices that British history generates'"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6329983.ece
--- "Vast majority of Taliban 'do not support al-Qaida'" -- David Miliband
---- Miliband seeks "moving beyond the binary division between moderates and extremists"
http://www.viewlondon.co.uk/news/vast-majority-of-taliban-do-not-support-al-qaida-19182092.html
--- Miliband for coalition of consent between the West and Muslim world
http://www.app.com.pk/en_/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=76766&Itemid=39
--- February 2009: Miliband believes that Taliban supporters "need to know that if they
renounce violence and accept the rule of law, there are legitimate opportunities for them"
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/david-miliband-the-army-alone-cannot-defeat-this-taliban-insurgency-1631293.html
--- January 2009: Miliband further claims that regarding "[t]errorist groups... [the solution is]
channelling their followers into democratic politics."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jan/15/david-miliband-war-terror
(UK) Muslim mother who sent her school age daughters to Pakistan to marry their cousins is jailed for 3 years
-- "The woman then altered documents to make it appear her daughters were
18 and then forced her daughters to marry."
-- "During the girls' ordeal their mother from Manchester told her eldest daughter
that unless she consumated the marriage, she would 'tie her to the bed, blindfold
her and strip her' and watch to make sure she had sex with her new husband."
-- "The grooms-to-be then tied the knot with the two terrified sisters in a
joint ceremony as their mother looked on before the girls were forced to become their new husbands' sex slaves."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1185589/Muslim-mother-sent-school-age-daughters-Pakistan-marry-cousins-jailed-3-years.html?ITO=1490
(UK) Intelligence officials 'laughed' at al Qaeda 7/7 bomb link
-- "MI5 knew Sidique Khan had attended a key meeting which led to the fertiliser bomb plot"
-- "Sidique Khan's name and telephone number were found in 2003 on the
mobile phone of Mohammed Quayam Khan, who allegedly acted as a go-between
for both the July 7 attackers and the fertiliser gang."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/5346518/Intelligence-officials-laughed-at-al-Qaeda-77-bomb-link.html
(UK) MI5 could only track one in 20 terror suspects ahead of London bombings
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6318698.ece
-- MI5 had 7/7 ringleader on 'radar' 12 times... but MPs' report still fails to point the finger
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1184234/MI5-7-7-ringleader-radar-12-times--MPs-report-fails-point-finger.html
-- Probe clears spy agencies over 7/7 bombings
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.0.3332549486
-- MI5 'overstretched' before 2005 bombings
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/090519/world/britain_attacks_security_1
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/may/19/july7-atacks-mohammad-sidique-khan-shehzad-tanweer
(UK) "Pro-British, Anti-Extremist"
http://pro-brit.blogspot.com/
(UK) Security service in spotlight as 7/7 bombings report due out
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/may/18/july-7-bombings-intelligence-report
(UK) Britain's publishers are silenced by Islamist bullies
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/edwest/blog/2009/05/18/britains_publishers_are_silenced_by_islamist_bullies
(UK) 'I was groomed for jihad in Britain'
-- "A Muslim teenager in London gives the first inside account of how extremists are luring recruits"
-- "Aged 15, he was the youngest of about 50 recruits who were
shown 'martyrdom' videos and encouraged to travel to Pakistan to receive terrorist training."
-- "Adam, who is now 18, quit the group after a year. The whereabouts of most of the other recruits is unknown"
-- "Adam fell under the spell of extremists at the Stockwell mosque in Lambeth in 2005"
-- "The Stockwell mosque had previously been attended by Muktar Ibrahim and Hussain Osman"
-- "Adam’s new mentors were Mohammed Hamid, a preacher with links to the 21/7 bombers who called himself Osama Bin London, and Atilla Ahmet, a former aide to Abu Hamza, the
hook-handed cleric of Finsbury Park mosque in north London"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article6301582.ece
(UK) Report clears MI5 and police of 7/7 blunders
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/may/17/mi5-police-july-7-bombings
(UK) Further Report on Abbas Taj
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/05/16/self-help/
(UK) MI5 'used Muslim 007' to turn British torture victim in Moroccan prison
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1183183/MI5-used-Muslim-007-turn-British-torture-victim-Moroccan-prison.html
(UK) Additional Report: Muslim extremist firebombed home of man who published book on Prophet Mohammed
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/5330042/Muslim-extremist-firebombed-home-of-man-who-published-book-on-Prophet-Mohammed.html
(UK) Radical Muslims guilty of firebomb plot on publisher of Prophet Mohammed book
-- "A radical Muslim who dressed his baby daughter in a hat
with 'I love al-Qaeda' on it tried to firebomb the home of the publisher
of a controversial novel about the Prophet Mohammed."
-- "Ali Beheshti, 40, along with Abrar Mirza, 22, have admitted conspiracy
to recklessly damage property and endanger life"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6295795.ece
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/man-guilty-of-firebomb-attack-on-publisher-of-mohamed-book-1685712.html
(UK) Three held over Muslim anti-war protest
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/05/15/three-held-over-muslim-anti-war-protest-115875-21360416/
(UK/Syria) Arrested Nottingham mum has links to al-Qaeda, say Syrians -- Maryam Kallis
http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/politics/Nottingham-mum-held-Syria-8211-accused-terror-links/article-994463-detail/article.html
(UK) Straw abandons secret inquest plans
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/may/15/jack-straw-drops-secret-inquests
(UK) Terror laws built up after 9/11 and 7/7 may be scaled back, says Jack Straw
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/may/13/terrorism-legislation-jack-straw
(UK) British Parliamentarians give encouragement to jihad
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/05/13/british-parliamentarians-give-encouragement-to-jihad/
(UK) Extremist beaten up over mosque attack
-- Former Al-Muhajiroun leader Sayful Islam
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/80605/Extremist-beaten-up-over-mosque-attack/
(UK) Charity to sue over domestic violence murder victim Sabina Akhtar
-- "A charity that campaigns for victims of domestic violence is to sue a police force
and the Crown Prosecution Service over allegations that it failed to protect a woman who was murdered by her husband"
-- "She went to the police to complain that he had attacked her 25 times and made
repeated threats to kill her. On one occasion he had told her to prepare for death by reading
passages from the Koran adding: 'I am going to get a knife and when I return I am going to slaughter you.'"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6287902.ece
-- "Using both hands to squeeze her windpipe he told her to read her Koran warning: 'This is your final hour.'"
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/03/07/wife-killed-by-violent-husband-after-police-apathy-115875-21177797/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/manchester/7928019.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/mar/06/husband-jailed-wife-murder-cps
(UK) I would fight for women's freedom - by Sue Blackmore
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2009/may/13/women-sharia-veil-rights
(UK) Al-Qaeda suspects 'plotted attack on Britain' from behind bars
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/5314517/Al-Qaeda-suspects-plotted-attack-on-Britain-from-behind-bars.html
(UK) Pakistani men 'part of al-Qaeda network planning attacks in Britain'
-- "Ten Pakistani men released without charge after an investigation into an
alleged plot to bomb shopping centres in Manchester were part of an al-Qaeda
network planning attacks in Britain and should be deported, a tribunal has heard"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/5314427/Pakistani-men-part-of-al-Qaeda-network-planning-attacks-in-Britain.html
(UK) Only one in ten anti-terror arrests leads to conviction
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/5317588/Less-than-one-in-ten-anti-terrorism-arrests-leads-to-conviction.html
-- Two-thirds of UK terror suspects released without charge
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/may/13/terrorism-suspects-britain-uk
-- Terror arrest conviction rate 13%
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8047477.stm
-- UK: Most terrorism suspects freed
http://www.thenews.com.pk/updates.asp?id=77550
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1242029517172&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
(UK) Freed anti-terror detainees fight deportation
-- "Ten men arrested in raids in the North West were linked to al-Qaeda attack planning, Home Office tells immigration hearing"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6276100.ece
(UK) Alleged al-Qaeda supporters arrested in Italy over UK terror plot
-- also see below newslinks in Italy news
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article6271730.ece
(Italy) Al-Qaeda suspects accused of planning attacks: Bassam Ayachi and Raphael Gendron
-- "Bassam Ayachi has been described a spiritual leader, committed to proselytising on behalf of Al-Qaeda"
-- "Gendron is a computer engineer who provided the technical knowledge needed to spread
propaganda via the internet to support the terror network"
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.0.3303452079
-- Two Al Qaeda suspects arrested in Italy: Bassam Ayachi and Raphael Gendron
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle08.asp?xfile=data/international/2009/May/international_May814.xml§ion=international
-- Italian police arrest suspected al-Qaeda plotters who 'planned terror attacks on Britain and Paris while behind bars'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1180835/Italian-police-arrest-suspected-al-Qaeda-plotters-planned-terror-attacks-Britain-Paris-bars.html?ITO=1490
Italian police arrest alleged terrorists
-- "Italian police have arrested two men who were supposedly planning an attack on the Charles de Gaulle airport near Paris"
-- "The men are also suspected of planning other attacks in France and Great Britain."
-- "It is believed they both have French passports and are allegedly members of the al-Qaeda network."
-- "One man is a 63-year-old imam originally from Syria."
-- "The other is a 34-year-old Islam convert from France."
-- "The two were arrested on terrorism charges after being taken into custody in the southern Italian city of Bari."
http://www.calcuttanews.net/story/500518
(UK) British victim of Mumbai terror tells of official neglect back in UK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/may/10/mumbai-terror-attacks-compensation-britain
(UK) Counter-terrorism drills fall short
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f6b2bbfa-3c01-11de-acbc-00144feabdc0.html
(UK) Roger Godsiff MP meets with Hamas Leadership
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/05/10/roger-godsiff-mp-meets-with-hamas-leadership/
(UK) Prisoners in Ranby jail make bomb to blow up Muslims
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/05/10/prisoners-in-ranby-jail-make-bomb-to-blow-up-muslims-115875-21346716/
(UK) "Ranting preacher Anjem Choudary is planning to peddle his hate to teenagers at a 'jihad' summer school"
-- "They will learn about the Islamic 'struggle' and how to enter the 'Gardens of Paradise'. "
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/79645/Rant-preacher-opens-jihad-summer-school/
(UK) Police 'must stop harassing Muslims'
http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/index.php/britain/police_must_stop_harassing_muslims
(UK) Binyam Mohamed 'torture' case goes to High Court
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/5296750/Binyam-Mohamed-torture-case-goes-to-High-Court.html
(UK) Just one in 10 British Muslims feel integrated into society, study claims
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1178794/Just-10-British-Muslims-feel-integrated-society-study-claims.html
(UK) Muslim father in custody faith fight
http://www.lep.co.uk/news/Muslim-father-in-custody-faith.5248047.jp
(UK) Police to severely curtail use of stop and search powers
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/may/06/police-stop-and-search-reform
-- Officers stripped of stop and search terror powers over fears of angering Muslims
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1178296/Met-police-officers-stripped-stop-search-terror-powers-fears-angering-Muslims.html
(UK) MPACuk: 'Yes, We Are Mad'
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/05/07/mpacuk-yes-we-are-mad/
(UK) Muslim dentist 'refused to treat female patients unless they wore Islamic dress'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1178411/Muslim-dentist-refused-treat-female-patients-unless-wore-Islamic-dress.html
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/99706/Muslim-dentist-who-told-female-patients-to-wear-headscarves
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/5292031/Muslim-dentist-refused-to-treat-woman-unless-she-wore-headscarf.html
(UK) Muslims in Britain have zero tolerance of homosexuality, says poll
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/may/07/muslims-britain-france-germany-homosexuality
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2009/05/ukfrancegermany-gallup-poll-on-sexual.html
(UK) Coexist Foundation: More Muslims identify themselves as British than rest of population
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/5287105/More-Muslims-identify-themselves-as-British-than-rest-of-population.html
-- UK report says 66 percent believe Muslims aren't loyal to UK
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/79800/Muslims-aren-t-loyal-to-UK-say-66-of-Brits/
(UK) Radical preacher Abu Izzadeen freed from jail early
-- "Abu Izzadeen, a radical Muslim preacher who was jailed after footage was uncovered of him
calling for the beheading of any Muslim in the British army, has been freed early from jail"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/5281881/Radical-preacher-Abu-Izzadeen-freed-from-jail-early.html
(UK) British tax payer pays £600,000 in legal fees for al-Qaeda suspects
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/5285744/British-tax-payer-pays-600000-in-legal-fees-for-al-Qaeda-suspects.html
UK "least wanted" list published
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=1995771&Language=en
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_BRITAIN_NOT_WELCOME?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=EUROPE&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2009-05-05-16-48-58
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/5273762/16-extremists-banned-from-Britain.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1177428/Talk-host-sue-Home-Office-link-neo-Nazis-Muslim-preachers-hate-list-22-banned-Britain.html
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/05/05/uk.ban.list/index.html
(UK) Press release referencing Rana Husseini's "Murder in the Name of Honour" (pdf)
http://www.ranahusseini.com/Pressreleases/MurderinthenameUK.pdf
(UK) Muslim extremists plot escape from prison
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/5272202/Muslim-extremists-plot-escape-from-prison.html
(UK) Lost official documents spark terrorism and fraud fears
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/05/04/lost-papers-terror-fear-115875-21330747/
(UK) Police trained to deal with Mumbai-style attack
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/may/04/police-terrorism-mumbai-training
(UK) Government 'not planning to monitor all web use'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/technologynews/5271796/Government-not-planning-to-monitor-all-web-use.html
(UK) The Brotherhood Ruse
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/05/02/the-brotherhood-ruse/
(UK) Muslim extremists plot escape from prison
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/5272202/Muslim-extremists-plot-escape-from-prison.html
(UK) Lost official documents spark terrorism and fraud fears
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/05/04/lost-papers-terror-fear-115875-21330747/
(UK) Police trained to deal with Mumbai-style attack
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/may/04/police-terrorism-mumbai-training
(UK) Government 'not planning to monitor all web use'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/technologynews/5271796/Government-not-planning-to-monitor-all-web-use.html
(UK) The Brotherhood Ruse
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/05/02/the-brotherhood-ruse/
(UK) Muslim extremists plot escape from prison
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/5272202/Muslim-extremists-plot-escape-from-prison.html
(UK) Lost official documents spark terrorism and fraud fears
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/05/04/lost-papers-terror-fear-115875-21330747/
(UK) Police trained to deal with Mumbai-style attack
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/may/04/police-terrorism-mumbai-training
(UK) Government 'not planning to monitor all web use'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/technologynews/5271796/Government-not-planning-to-monitor-all-web-use.html
(UK) The Brotherhood Ruse
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/05/02/the-brotherhood-ruse/
(UK) Delay in publication of report on 7/7 attacks
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=1994975&Language=en
-- 7/7: time for the Whitehall foot-dragging to stop
http://timesonline.typepad.com/crime/2009/05/77-time-for-the-whitehall-footdragging-to-stop.html
-- New footage released of July 7 bombers
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/may/01/july-7-bombings-terrorism
(UK) Police defend search powers as a vital for war on terrorism
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6202016.ece
(UK) Scotland Terrorist Threat: 'Racist' made mosque bomb threat
-- Neil MacGregor: "I'm a proud racist and National Front member." "Our demands
are very small. Close all mosques in Scotland."
-- Neil MacGregor: "If our demands aren't met by next Friday, we'll kidnap one Muslim
and execute him or her on the internet, just like they did to our Ken Bigley."
-- "MacGregor then followed up the email with a call threatening to blow up Central Mosque. "
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/glasgow_and_west/8029023.stm
-- Scots racist's Muslim attack threat
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article6207112.ece
--- Background on British National Front
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_National_Front
(UK) Key relationship between July 7 leader and al-Qaeda terrorist disclosed
-- Omar Khyam "put the July 7 bombers in touch with al-Qaeda and Khyam
who showed them how to raise the money to fund their plots"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/5237610/Key-relationship-between-July-7-leader-and-al-Qaeda-terrorist-disclosed.html
(UK) British trio cleared of helping to plan 7/7 London attacks
-- "Waheed Ali, Mohammed Shakil and Sadeer Saleem are the only
people to have been prosecuted over Britain's first suicide bomb attacks, on July 7, 2005"
-- "Mr Ali, 25, Mr Shakil, 33, and Mr Saleem, 28, admitted that they had
been committed jihadists and had previously attended training camps
in Pakistan. They insisted that they had no knowledge of the planned attacks
on London and said that it was against their faith to attack civilians."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6131365.ece
-- "Objects belonging to each of the men were also found in the flat
used as a bomb factory in the area of Hyde Park, Leeds."
-- "Two of the men, Waheed Ali and Mohammed Shakil, were convicted
of conspiracy to attend a place used for terrorist training after they were
arrested on their way to Manchester airport in 2007."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/5235890/Three-cleared-of-helping-July-7-bombers.html
-- "The prosecution alleged they conducted a 'hostile reconnaissance'
of potential targets, claiming it was 'an important first step in what was,
by then, a settled plan to cause explosions in the UK'"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/apr/28/july-7-london-bomb-trial
(UK) New anguish of the 7/7 families: Bombers' friends cleared of plotting deadly attack
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1174314/New-anguish-7-7-families-Bombers-friends-cleared-plotting-deadly-attack.html
-- 7/7 bombing acquittals a bitter disappointment
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6131697.ece
-- 7/7 bombings: end of the road
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6188768.ece
-- 7/7 bombers could not have acted alone
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6188666.ece
-- 7/7 trial: how acquitted trio came to embrace radical cause
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6188667.ece
-- 7/7 could have been prevented
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6188525.ece
(UK) Lockerbie bomber begins appeal
-- "Lawyers for the former Libyan agent jailed over the 1988 Lockerbie
plane bombing, in which 270 people were killed, have launched an appeal against his conviction"
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25402956-23109,00.html
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_BRITAIN_LOCKERBIE?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=EUROPE&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2009-04-28-12-45-29
-- Libya to seek extradition of Lockerbie bomber
http://www.expatica.com/nl/news/european_news/Libya-to-seek-extradition-of-Lockerbie-bomber_52056.html
(UK) "Labour woman told she is 'too Jewish' for Muslim voters"
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/damian_thompson/blog/2009/04/28/labour_woman_told_she_is_too_jewish_for_muslim_voters_sadly_thats_probably_true
-- Related news report: "Ex-Lord Mayor Coun Mahmood Hussain in Labour Party row":
http://www.birminghammail.net/news/top-stories/2009/04/27/ex-lord-mayor-coun-mahmood-hussain-in-labour-party-row-97319-23492693/
(UK / North Africa) Al-Qaeda threatens to kill British hostage unless Abu Qatada is released
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article6175024.ece
UK rules out surveillance 'super-database'
http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/090427/2009042702.html
(UK) Oldham: Forced Marriage Conference report
-- "A mother holds still the legs of her pregnant daughter while
her son strangles the life out of her -- and then stands in the dock
and defends her actions on the grounds of honour."
http://www.oldham-chronicle.co.uk/news-features/8/news-headlines/23311/honour-bound
UK ignored warning on bogus Pakistani students
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/26/pakistan-student-visas-uk
(UK) SAS and other special forces to be expanded to defeat al-Qaeda
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/defence/5220803/SAS-and-other-special-forces-to-be-expanded-to-defeat-al-Qaeda.html
(UK) Quilliam Offends the SNP
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/04/25/quilliam-offends-the-snp/
(UK) Law firm finds a way to bring Islamic mortgages to Scotland
http://www.sundayherald.com/business/businessnews/display.var.2504270.0.law_firm_finds_a_way_to_bring_islamic_mortgages_to_scotland.php
(UK / Saudi Arabia) BMI told stewardess to wear Muslim robe
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article6169989.ece
(UK) 'Glitch' Foils Hamas Address in Britain
-- "A technical problem prevented exiled Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal from
delivering an address by videoconferencing to British parliamentarians on Wednesday"
-- "Some 25 MPs (members of parliament), who had gathered to hear Mashaal, dispersed when the video link failed"
-- "MP Clare Short, who organized the event, said she would work to correct
the problem so the Hamas leader could address British lawmakers at another time"
http://www.cbn.com/CBNnews/586859.aspx
(UK) Sabah al Mukhtar: Elders Fan
-- Mukhtar defends "Protocols of Elders of Zion"
-- "Mr al Mukhtar is an Iraqi who lives in the UK. He is one of two trustees of George Galloway's 'Viva Palestina' Hamas support operation"
-- "He has also served the Muslim Council of Britain as chairman of its 'Europe & International Affairs' international committee."
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/04/24/sabah-al-mukhtar-elders-fan/
--- See also reference to Article 32 of Hamas Charter which recognizes the
antisemitic "Protocols of Elders of Zion" also referenced in Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocols_of_Zion#Hamas
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas#The_Hamas_Charter_.281988.29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocols_of_Zion#The_Protocols_in_Nazi_propaganda.2C_1930s-1940s
(UK) Pakistan anger at UK terror 'slurs'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/25/pakistan-terror-slurs
(UK) Questions over limited evidence in 'major terrorist plot'
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10568360
-- Students arrested as per UK law, Britain tells Pakistan
http://www.thenews.com.pk/updates.asp?id=75707
(UK) Clare Short criticised over parliament invitation to Hamas leader
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/apr/22/clare-short-hamas-meeting
(UK) Tony Blair calls on world to wage war on militant Islam
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article6153607.ece
UK: Prisons to clamp down on Muslim prayer groups
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2009/04/uk-prisons-to-clamp-down-on-muslim.html
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/04/21/jails-to-get-tough-on-muslim-prayer-gangs-115875-21294004/
(UK) All suspects in 'student terror plot' released
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6146578.ece
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6144111.ece
(UK) British police defend terror raids after Pakistani suspects released
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18/20090422/tuk-british-police-defend-terror-raids-a-a7ad41d.html
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20090422/tuk-review-after-terror-suspects-freed-dba1618.html
-- Britain: Pakistani terror suspects face deportation after release
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.0.3239159759
(UK) 'Easter terror' Pakistanis to fight deportation
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\04\23\story_23-4-2009_pg7_43
-- Pakistan warns Britain against deporting students
http://www.geo.tv/4-23-2009/40479.htm
(UK) Anti-terror raids: police weigh red faces against an atrocity
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/apr/23/anti-terror-raids-police
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6149535.ece
(UK) Terrorist raids: Government accused of 'dishonourable behaviour' by Muslim Council
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/5198685/Terror-raids-Government-accused-of-dishonourable-behaviour-by-Muslim-Council.html
(UK) David Miliband claims of US threat over torture case 'slippery', court told
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/23/david-miliband-binyam-mohamed-torture
(UK) Two in court over 2007 Warley honour killing
http://www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/news/Two-in-court-over-2007.5188744.jp
(Gaza/UK) UK Charity Commission investigating "Viva Palestina," George Galloway's Hamas support operation
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/04/22/one-more-for-charity/
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/03/28/what-is-the-point-of-the-charity-commission/
(UK) Embarrassment for police as terror suspects released
-- "Nine men detained in a major security operation intended to thwart what the Prime Minister
said was 'a very big terrorist plot' were released without charge tonight"
-- "released because there was no concrete evidence connecting them to terrorist activity"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6144111.ece
-- "Two remain in custody and are still being questioned"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/5196663/Terror-raids-nine-men-released.html
-- British police free nine Pakistanis held in terror raids
http://www.geo.tv/4-22-2009/40392.htm
(UK) Men plotted against UK publisher of Mohammad book
-- "Two men admitted on Tuesday plotting to firebomb the London home of the
publisher of a controversial novel about the Prophet Mohammad's child bride."
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2009/4/22/worldupdates/2009-04-21T194513Z_01_NOOTR_RTRMDNC_0_-391629-1&sec=Worldupdates
(UK) Standing Up For Hatred
-- "Daud Abdullah, the deputy secretary general of the Muslim Council of Britain, will be
one of the speakers at this weekend's national conference of the 'Stop the War Coalition'"
-- "backing jihad and the rank religious hatred of the Istanbul declaration amounts to
nothing more than 'support of the Palestinians'"
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/04/21/standing-up-for-hatred/
(UK) Britain to review all arms exports to Israel
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_BRITAIN_ISRAEL?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=MIDEAST&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2009-04-21-12-13-45
(UK) It's Cat Stevens at the mike but it's Islam holding court
http://www.smh.com.au/news/entertainment/music/cat-at-the-mike-but-islam-holds-court/2009/04/21/1240079665354.html
(UK) Call to make Islamist groups part of solution in building institutions
-- David Gardner at Chatham House think tank
-- "A leading writer on the Middle East has outlined the need for Islamist groups to be part
of the solution in building institutions, a legal framework, and to strengthen representative government"
http://www.app.com.pk/en_/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=74048&Itemid=2
(UK) Man jailed over terrorism charges -- Pa Modou Jobe
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/west_midlands/8009217.stm
-- Illegal immigrant working in Birmingham jailed for terrorism offense - Pa Jobe
--- Court: "The Crown's case is that the defendant at the time of arrest in December 2006
was in possession of what amounted to an arsenal of information of a radical Islamist nature
some of which crosses the line of criminal law."
http://www.birminghampost.net/news/west-midlands-news/2009/04/21/illegal-immigrant-working-in-birmingham-jailed-for-terrorism-offence-65233-23430498/
(UK) Preacher of hate IS linked to al-Qaeda -- Abu Qatada
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2385256.ece
(UK) Muslim group Tony Blair promised to ban calls for 'jihad' at London rally
-- "A leader of a radical Muslim group which Tony Blair promised to ban four years ago
has called on followers to support 'jihad' against Israel at a rally in London."
--- UK's Hizb ut-Tahrir: "There is only one solution to the occupation of Muslim lands, one
solution to the cries of the widows and the orphans, one solution to avenge the death of the
elderly and the children ... fight in the way of Allah those who fight you. Al-Jihad."
--- "A spokesman for the Home Office said that the group's status was being reassessed
in light of the latest remarks but said that the decision to proscribe an organisation must be 'proportionate'"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/5173319/Muslim-group-Tony-Blair-promised-to-ban-calls-for-jihad-at-London-rally.html
(UK) New calls to shut down Jihad group that Blair promised to ban
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1171601/New-calls-shut-Jihad-group-Blair-promised-ban.html
(UK) Press Release: Support for Jihad continues at former Abu Hamza Mosque
http://www.socialcohesion.co.uk/blog/2009/04/press-release-support-for-jihad-continues-at-former-abu-hamza-mosque.html
http://www.socialcohesion.co.uk/files/1239876381_1.pdf
--- "One of the trustees of the North London Central Mosque (aka Finsbury Park Mosque),
Mohammed Sawalha, supports jihad in Israel and attacks against her allies. It has been
reported that Mr. Sawalha was a signatory along with Muslim Council of Britain (MCB)
deputy director-general, Dr. Daud Abdullah, to a statement which supports jihad. However,
his connections with the North London Central Mosque were not revealed."
(UK) All public buildings to get advice on halting suicide bombers
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6122805.ece
UK Group Defines Jihad as 'Armed Resistance'
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.3011/pub_detail.asp
(UK) Britain isolated amid UN racism summit boycott
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/5182662/Britain-isolated-amid-UN-racism-summit-boycott.html
(UK) MI5's grannies fight Al Qaeda
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/95891/MI5-s-grannies-fight-Al-Qaeda
(UK) Pakistan condemns Home Office over student terror arrests
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1170661/Pakistan-condemns-Home-Office-student-terror-arrests.html
(UK) Police force tourists to delete photos of London buses 'to stop terrorism'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1170764/Police-force-tourists-delete-photos-London-buses-stop-terrorism.html
(UK) Come "Meet" Hamas' Khalid Meshaal At The House of Lords
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/04/16/come-meet-khalid-meshaal-at-the-house-of-lords/
(UK) Two freed in terror investigation
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/hampshire/7999898.stm
(Ireland) Police Service of Northern Ireland head leaving to become president of Association of Chief Police Officers
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/apr/16/orde-quits-northern-ireland-chief-constable
-- Sir Hugh Orde has previously called for negotiations with Al-Qaeda
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7426874.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/may/30/alqaida.terrorism
(Ireland) Azzam Tamimi, Hamas and the Taleban
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/04/15/azzam-tamimi-hamas-and-the-taleban/
(UK) Terror arrests: police granted more time for 'al-Qaeda plot' interviews
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6094380.ece
(UK) Pakistan asks for access to 'terror plot' suspects
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090415/wl_sthasia_afp/britainattackspakistan_20090415125023
(UK) Britain wants to deport Pak students to cover up its mistake: Wajid
http://www.geo.tv/4-15-2009/39902.htm
(UK) Extremist Becomes Chair of the Muslim Safety Forum
-- "the new 'Interim Chair' of the Muslim Safety Forum is Abdurahman Jafar."
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/04/15/extremist-becomes-chair-of-the-muslim-safety-forum/
(UK) New arrest over Warley honour killing
-- Pakistani husband Mian Shahid Mehmood killed
-- "execution-style honour killing back in February 2007"
http://www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/news/New-arrest-over-Warley-honour.5171494.jp
--- "their family had 'lost respect' after their sister Yasmin Bibi Rakhi married someone they had not chosen for her themselves."
http://www.stophonourkillings.com/?name=News&file=print&sid=2569
--- June 26, 2008: Life term for man who ordered 'honour killing' of Mian Shahid Mehmood
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2200331/Life-term-for-man-who-ordered-honour-killing-of-Mian-Shahid-Mehmood.html
(UK) Jailbust rant by fanatic
-- "Hate preacher Anjem Choudary has called on fellow fanatics to free Muslims from jail"
-- "On a secret recording obtained by The Sun, he rants that it is 'only a matter of time'
before the flag of Islam flies over Downing Street, the White House and the Kremlin in Moscow"
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2375670.ece?OTC-RSS&ATTR=News
(UK) Man to move UK court if arrested son deported
-- Pakistani Abid Naseer arrested
http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=172412
(UK) Where Is The 'Prevent' Cash Going? (continued)
-- Azzam Tamimi "is a former official spokesperson of the Muslim Brotherhood member
and has close links with Hamas. Indeed he has been described as 'Hamas' Special Envoy'"
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/04/14/where-is-the-%e2%80%98prevent%e2%80%99-cash-going-continued/
(UK) Police hunt 40-man Al-Qaida terror cell
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/76598/Police-hunt-40-man-Al-Qaida-terror-cell/
(UK) Manchester terror police call in bomb squad
-- "The bomb squad has been called in at a block of flats being searched in relation to an
alleged Easter bombing campaign against shopping centres in Manchester"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/5149763/Manchester-terror-police-call-in-bomb-squad.html
-- Bomb disposal squad called in to site at centre of Liverpool terror arrests
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1169625/BREAKING-NEWS-Bomb-disposal-squad-called-site-centre-Liverpool-terror-arrests.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/merseyside/7996982.stm
(UK) Student visa scam allowing terror suspects into Britain
-- "A suspected terrorist linked to an alleged al-Qaeda plot to attack Manchester was
a student at a bogus college that sold places on fake courses to hundreds of Pakistanis seeking entry to Britain."
-- "Manchester College of Professional Studies acted as a gateway to Britain for foreigners
willing to pay 50 pounds for the letter of admission that earned them a student visa."
-- "A former employee has told The Times that more than a hundred young Pakistani men,
most from the country's troubled North West Frontier Province, came to Britain after being enrolled as students at the college."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6088249.ece
(UK) Terrorists at large in UK?
-- "It is feared that as many as three dozen potential terrorists may have slipped through security nets and may be waiting to strike"
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\04\13\story_13-4-2009_pg7_13
-- Terror police in hunt for Brit bomb cell number 2
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/04/12/terror-police-in-hunt-for-brit-bomb-cell-number-2-115875-21272936/
(UK) 'Manchester terror plot' suspects pictured for first time
-- Manchester terror suspects Mohammad Ramzan and Janas Khan
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/5146445/Manchester-terror-plot-suspects-pictured-for-first-time.html
-- "Pakistani student alleged to be involved in Easter plot to blow up shopping centres revealed for the first time."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/5145160/Manchester-terror-plot-suspect-pictured-for-first-time.html
-- Student suspect in Al Qaeda North-West terror plot
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1169625/Pictured-Student-suspect-Al-Qaeda-North-West-terror-plot.html
-- Guardian: "Terror suspect's father says Islamophobia to blame for son's arrest"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/apr/13/terrorism-islamophobia-muslims-manchester-student
-- 'Manchester terror plot': families say Pakistani suspects are innocent
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/5147298/Manchester-terror-plot-families-say-Pakistani-suspects-are-innocent.html
(UK) Terror raid house owner's Al Qaeda links
-- Mohammed Benhammedi wanted
-- "in 2006, Mr Benhammedi, 42, had his assets and three property firms frozen
for his alleged role in financing the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1169366/Terror-raid-house-owners-Al-Qaeda-links.html
(UK) Pakistani 'terror plot suspects' to be deported rather than charged
-- "Most of the Pakistani men arrested last week in an anti-terrorist operation will be
deported rather than charged, senior counter-terrorism sources told The Times last night"
-- "Operation Pathway, the codename for the inquiry"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6083205.ece
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/world/arrested-pakistani-nationals-to-be-deported-uk-media-ha
(UK/Pakistan) NWFP: Scot 'in Pakistan terror arrest'
-- "Dundee-born James McLintock, who has changed his name to Yaqub Mohammed"
-- "being investigated over links to an alleged terror plot in northern England which was uncovered on Thursday"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/tayside_and_central/7996858.stm
-- Scot known as the 'Tartan Taliban' held in Pakistan
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/13/pakistan-scotland-james-mclintock
UK officials believe foiled attack was planned by Rashid Rauf
-- but Rashid Rauf reportedly killed months ago
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\04\13\story_13-4-2009_pg7_12
-- Is Alleged U.K Jihadist Rashid Rauf Alive or Dead?
--- "even if he's dead, U.S. and U.K. officials said it's possible the Easter plot was hatched prior to November 2008"
http://www.newsweek.com/id/193524
-- "Last week's raids were the result of a long investigation into a wider campaign plotted by an Al-Qaeda chief before his apparent death"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6078397.ece
-- Long War Journal: "Al Qaeda operative Rashid Rauf survived US strike"
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2009/04/al_qaeda_operative_r_1.php
(UK) 'Preacher of hate' to front Birmingham Islam seminar
-- "Anwar Al-Awlaki has been named as an Al Qaida supporter by the US Department of Homeland Security."
-- "But the Iman, an American citizen who currently lives in Yemen, is due to front a
two-day seminar on Islam in Birmingham over the Bank Holiday weekend of May 24-25"
http://www.sundaymercury.net/news/midlands-news/2009/04/12/preacher-of-hate-to-front-birmingham-islam-seminar-66331-23366788/
(UK) Muslim preacher attacks Easter -- Anjem Choudary
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/94621/Muslim-preacher-attacks-Easter
(UK) British Defense Ministry searching for missing hard drive
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=1990151&Language=en
-- Laptop with names of SAS missing
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/defence/5146702/Laptop-with-names-of-SAS-men-is-missing.html
(UK) Sadiq Khan: One Man MCB?
-- "Sadiq Khan is the 'Cohesion Minister' in the Department of Communities and Local Government."
-- "Khan effectively takes the angry Pakistani students' side"
-- writer states "I fear one way these words can be interpreted is this: 'why don't the jihadis attack the Americans and leave us Brits alone'"
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/04/12/sadiq-khan-one-man-mcb/
(UK) "During my three-month stay in England I met a surprising number of Muslims who shared Jan's fascination with the Taliban"
-- A British Taliban supporter brags of killing "prostitutes" in Pakistan, warns Britons
against speaking against Taliban by threatening families
-- "As for the police, Jan says he's never had problems with them. They seem to regard
him as a deeply religious man, he says, or at least as a harmless eccentric."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6077229.ece
(UK) Police get more time to question terrorism suspects
http://uk.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKTRE5377GY20090411?rpc=401&
UK police release 1 man arrested in terror raids
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_BRITAIN_TERROR_RAIDS?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=EUROPE&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2009-04-11-07-37-03
-- UK Terror Plot: Teenager Released Without Charge But Now In Custody Of UK Borders Agency
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Alleged-UK-Terror-Plot-Teenager-Released-Without-Charge-But-Now-In-Custody-Of-UK-Borders-Agency/Article/200904215260291?lpos=UK_News_First_Home_Article_Teaser_Region_2&lid=ARTICLE_15260291_Alleged_UK_Terror_Plot%3A_Teenager_Released_Without_Charge_But_Now_In_Custody_Of_UK_Borders_Agency
(UK) Trio arrested over bomb 'plot' may have used security jobs as a cover
-- "Several of the men arrested in connection with the alleged Easter suicide bombing plot may have taken jobs as security guards and delivery drivers as cover to scout potential targets, police suspect."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/5138275/Trio-arrested-over-bomb-plot-may-have-used-security-jobs-as-a-cover.html
-- UK terror suspects worked for airport cargo company -- "Cargo2Go"
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=1989818&Language=en
-- Terror suspects in 'Easter bomb plot' worked at Manchester airport
--- "At least one drove vans for a cargo company which has access to sensitive locations"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1169120/Revealed-Terror-suspects-Easter-bomb-plot-worked-Manchester-airport.html
(UK) Terror raid witness: 'I saw men filming terror target'
-- "A witness has described how he saw two Asian men filming shoppers at one of the alleged terror plot targets two weeks ago"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/5136858/Terror-raid-witness-I-saw-men-filming-terror-target.html
(UK) Terror bomb plot intelligence came from MI6 operatives in Pakistan
-- "Searches fail to find evidence of conspiracy"
-- "An informed source said the plot was 'al-Qaida driven'"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/apr/11/terror-arrests-pakistan-intelligence
-- Terror plot was al-Qaida driven, says UK anti-terror officials
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/Terror-plot-was-al-Qaida-driven-UK/articleshow/4389039.cms
(UK) 'Terror plotters' allowed to stay despite visa breaches
-- "At least two of the men suspected of being members of an alleged al-Qaeda cell had been allowed to stay in Britain despite allegedly breaching the conditions of their student visas"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/5137673/Terror-plotters-allowed-to-stay-despite-visa-breaches.html
(UK) How student visas to Britain became big business
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/11/student-visas-business
-- 50,000 granted UK student visas in five years
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\04\11\story_11-4-2009_pg7_33
(UK) Al-Qaeda grow more devious with '101 ways' into UK
http://news.scotsman.com/uk/AlQaeda-grow-more-devious-with.5163062.jp
(UK) Second Liverpool flat searched in hunt for Al Qaida bomb factory
http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-news/regional-news/2009/04/11/second-liverpool-flat-searched-in-hunt-for-al-qaida-bomb-factory-92534-23365806/
(UK) Liverpool: Officers reassure Muslim community leaders they will deal with any anti-terror backlash
http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-news/regional-news/2009/04/10/officers-reassure-muslim-community-leaders-they-will-deal-with-any-anti-terror-backlash-92534-23357430/
(UK) Banned cleric of hate invited to rant in UK
-- "Muslim cleric Sheikh Anwar al-Awlaki has been banned from the United States after he was accused of using taped lectures to encourage terrorist attacks"
-- "But the preacher of hate has been given the go-ahead to speak to an audience of hundreds at the three-day event in east London which is being held at a taxpayer-funded venue starting today."
-- A Tower Hamlets spokesman said "We sought advice from the Home Office. These enquiries did not present us with grounds to prohibit playing of the message."
-- "Those attending are required to register online and pay a fee up to 70 pounds which goes towards 'promoting Islam'"
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/94488/Banned-cleric-of-hate-invited-to-rant-in-UK
--- See also:
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/04/09/jihadi-preaching-in-tower-hamlets/
UK's Independent thinks terror threat is only about "Islamic fundamentalism and terrorism in Pakistan"
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/leading-articles/leading-article-britains-security-hinges-on-curbing-terrorism-in-pakistan-1667302.html
-- Comment: fails to grasp that Pakistan's problem is a microcosm of the global problem with Islamic supremacism
(UK) British raids suggest "blowback" from Pakistan
-- Hassan Abbas: "There is denial in Pakistan about the nature of the threat"
http://in.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idINLB3908820090411?rpc=401&
-- Comment: and not just in Pakistan
(UK) ABC gets around to reporting on UK Easter Bomb Plot
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=7307433&page=1
(UK) Al-Qaeda terror plot: searches continue over alleged plan to bomb Easter shoppers
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/5136227/Al-Qaeda-terror-plot-searches-continue-over-alleged-plan-to-bomb-Easter-shoppers.html
-- Al-Qaeda terror plot to bomb Easter shoppers
--- "An al-Qaeda cell was days away from carrying out an 'Easter spectacular'
of co-ordinated suicide bomb attacks on shopping centres in Manchester, police believe."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/5133535/Al-Qaeda-terror-plot-to-bomb-Easter-shoppers.html
-- Al-Qaida plot for mass casualties
http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/society/law_order/alqaida+plot+for+mass+casualties+/3078357
(UK) Police extend search in terrorism probe - to Liverpool
http://uk.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKTRE5377GY20090410?rpc=401&
(UK) Anti-terror searches continuing
-- "Police are continuing to search 10 properties across the north-west of
England in connection with an alleged planned terror bomb attack."
-- "They have found pictures of popular Manchester shopping centres and a nightclub, the BBC has learned"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7993748.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7994109.stm
(UK) Where terror raids took place
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7991936.stm
(UK) Terror raid CCTV released
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7994109.stm
(UK) Threat was too great to risk a delay to counterterrorism operation
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6069931.ece
(UK) Counter-terror role spins too many plates at a time
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6069908.ece
(UK/Pakistan) UK PM Brown clashes with Pakistan over terror suspects handed student visas by Home Office
-- "The scandalous exploitation of Britain's lax student visas rules by a
suspected Al Qaeda cell erupted into a huge diplomatic row today between Gordon Brown and Pakistan."
-- "The Prime Minister declared that Pakistan 'has to do more to root out
terrorist elements in its country' in the wake of the revelation that 11 of the 12 suspects had travelled to Britain from the country."
-- "But at least 10 of the 12 were allowed to enter by the Home Office after successfully applying for student visas."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1168879/Brown-clashes-Pakistan-terror-suspects-handed-student-visas-Home-Office.html
(UK) Student visa row steps up as immigration minister rejects Pakistan criticism
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6073135.ece
--- Pakistan hits back at Gordon Brown over student visas for terrorists
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6071949.ece
(UK) Student visa system is weakest link in border control
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6069949.ece
(UK) Terror plot: Neighbours surprise that 'such nice ordinary lads' had been arrested
--- Six named: Abid Nazeer (alleged ringleader), Sultan Sher, Hamza Shinwari, Abdul Khan, Tariq, Adil
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/5135393/Terror-plot-Neighbours-surprise-that-such-nice-ordinary-lads-had-been-arrested.html
(UK) British Columnist Shuiab Khan: "Condemn things? What on earth for?"
-- Khan: "I read one tabloid columnist wanting more people to come out and condemn the actions of extremists."
http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/comment/4282815.No_one_likes_to_be_associated_with_terrorism/
(UK) Telegraph's Con Coughlin: "The new enemy within is invisible"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/concoughlin/5133188/The-new-enemy-within-is-invisible.html
-- Comment: Only to those in denial regarding Islamic supremacism
(UK) Home Office "under fire for allowing two leading terrorist sympathizers to enter Britain"
-- Hezbollah's Hussein Al Hajj Hassah and Dyab Abou Jahjah "spoke at the House of Commons"
http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/news/250527/Home-Secretary-Jacqui-Smithrsquos-department-is-under-fire-for-allowing-two-leading-terrorist-sympathisers-to-enter-Britain-during-G20.html
(UK) Police feared 'Al-Qaida terror attack' on UK was planned for Easter
-- "Sources say attack would have taken place by end of Easter weekend"
-- "Gordon Brown describes suspected plot as 'very big'"
-- "Police guard addresses raided by counterterrorism officers"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/apr/09/al-qaida-terror-uk
--- Brown says terror plot is 'very big'
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/brown-says-terror-plot-is-very-big-1666369.html
--- PM Brown: "We know that there are links between terrorists in Britain and terrorists in Pakistan"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/5131249/Gordon-Brown-defends-anti-terrorism-operation-after-resignation-of-Bob-Quick.html
(UK) 'Terror gang' may have been 'plotting to blow up shopping centre and nightclub'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1168650/Terror-gang-plotting-blow-shopping-centre-nightclub.html
UK police arrest 11 Pakistanis in anti-terror raids [out of 12 arrested]
-- UK's Peter Fahy: "11 of them are Pakistani nationals. That is a matter of fact."
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/UK-police-arrest-11-Pakistanis-in-anti-terror-raids/articleshow/4381530.cms
-- UPI: most "on student visas"
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/04/08/Dozen-anti-terror-arrests-made-in-Britain/UPI-10461239232631/
(UK) Anti-terror swoops follow months of surveillance
--- "Speculation that night clubs were among targets"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/apr/09/anti-terror-operation-england
--- Security Leak Cost Terror Raid Cops 24 Hours
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Terror-Arrests-North-West-Police-Raids-But-Old-Trafford-Trafford-Shopping-Centre-Not-Targets/Article/200904215258652?lpos=UK_News_Carousel_Region_0&lid=ARTICLE_15258652_Terror_Arrests%3A_North_West_Police_Raids_But_Old_Trafford%2C_Trafford_Shopping_Centre_Not_Targets
--- Major MI5 operation against al-Qaeda endangered by security breach
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6061914.ece
(UK) "suspects spoke with Afghan accents"
-- spoke with Pashtun dialect used on both sides of Afghan/Pakistan border
-- 6 or 7 suspects reportedly "worshiped at the nearby Al-Falah mosque"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/5127951/Terror-blunder-suspects-spoke-with-Afghan-accents.html
(UK) where the suspects were arrested
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/5127998/Terror-blunder-where-the-suspects-were-arrested.html
(UK) Liverpool students tell of fears as anti-terror police closed in
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/apr/09/uksecurity-terrorism
(UK) Police chief quits over blunder
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7991307.stm
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6064547.ece
--- Britain's new top counterterrorism officer John Yates
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/apr/09/john-yates-metropolitan-police
(UK) British universities are 'real and serious' terrorism threat
-- "at least 48 campuses including Oxford, Cambridge, the London School of
Economics and Imperial College London had been infiltrated"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/5127178/Terror-blunder-British-universities-are-real-and-serious-terrorism-threat.html
(UK) Jihadi Preaching in Tower Hamlets - Anwar Al Awlaki -- Islamic supremacists are heroes of "ummah"
-- Awlaki: "jihad must be part of our programme of revival and change in the Muslim world"
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/04/09/jihadi-preaching-in-tower-hamlets/
http://www.anwar-alawlaki.com/?p=83
http://www.alwasatiyyah.com/courses.php?courseID=5
http://www.mcb.org.uk/events/viewevent.php?id=1171&y=2009&m=4
http://www.towerhamletsarts.org.uk/index.lasso?v=15
(UK) Anti and Pro Islamists on the Centre Left
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/04/09/anti-and-pro-islamists-on-the-centre-left/
(UK) Sharia law - Government remains indifferent
http://www.secularism.org.uk/sharia-law-government-remains-in.html
(UK) Hazma sons stole 1 million pounds worth of luxury cars to fund party lifestyle
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1168656/Hamza-sons-stole-1million-worth-luxury-cars-fund-party-lifestyle.html
(UK) 'US OK with UK's overture to Hizbullah'
-- "The Obama administration is "comfortable" with the British government's attempts to engage Hizbullah, a senior British diplomat asserts."
-- "Bill Rammell, Britain's minister of state for foreign and Commonwealth affairs,
said in a brief interview late last week that despite protests to the contrary, the new
US administration doesn't object to the fledgling contacts with the "political win" of the
Lebanon-based Shi'ite Muslim group, which also has a heavily armed militia."
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1238562907554&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
(UK) Sparkhill bookshop was the start of US Navy officer's link to terrorism
-- Hassan Abu-Jihaad
-- "Maktabah al Ansar book store in Sparkhill has been raided by counter-terror cops three times"
http://www.sundaymercury.net/news/midlands-news/2009/04/04/sparkhill-bookshop-was-the-start-of-us-navy-officer-s-link-to-terrorism-97319-23313001/
(UK) Cartoon strip depicts Christian boys as Islamaphobe thug
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/5107593/Cartoon-strip-depicts-Christian-boys-as-Islamaphobe-thug.html
(UK) Bunglawala, Brittain and Abu Qatada
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/04/04/bunglawala-brittain-and-abu-qatada/
(UK) Delusional British Guardian writer William Leith thinks the Osama Bin Laden is merely against "capitalism"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/apr/02/g20-osama-bin-laden
(UK) Abu Qatada issues rallying cry from prison
-- "The Palestinian preacher claims that his treatment has helped radicalise a new generation of young British Muslims"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6032196.ece
(UK) Deputy leader of Muslim group to sue Government in row over extremism
-- "Dr Daud Abdullah, deputy secretary-general of the Muslim Council of Britain,
has sent a solicitor's letter to Communities Secretary Hazel Blears demanding
a 'substantial' payout or he will drag the Government to court"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1167198/Deputy-leader-Muslim-group-sue-Government-row-extremism.html
-- Blears facing Muslim legal move
http://www.eveningleader.co.uk/latest-national-news/Blears-facing-Muslim-legal-move.5141753.jp
-- Blears takes on the MCB
http://www.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/3512746/blears-takes-on-the-mcb.thtml
(UK) Order made on 7/7 images release
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=1987972&Language=en
(UK) Discredited Contest
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/04/03/discredited-contest/
--- Britain's 'New' Counterterror Policy Is More of the Same - by Shiraz Maher
---- The U.K. isn't truly distancing itself from radical Muslims.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123862072017379861.html
(UK) Analyst: Oil recedes as terrorist target
http://www.ogj.com/display_article/358279/7/ONART/none/GenIn/1/Analyst:-Oil-recedes-as-terrorist-target/
(UK) Islamic bank launches Sharia'a mortgage in Scottish expansion
http://business.scotsman.com/bankinginsurance/Islamic-bank-launches--Sharia39a.5138209.jp
(UK) Guardian: "The demonisation of British Islamism"
--- "Mainstream Islamists such as Daud Abdullah are being attacked by both the government and religious extremists"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2009/mar/31/religion-islam
--- UK's Guardian believes that individuals who have supported killing British soldiers and Jews are being "demonized"
--- March 31, 2009: Hazel Blears has demanded that Muslim Council of Britain's (MCB) Daud Abdullah be sacked
--- "after he endorsed a pro-Hamas declaration that appeared to call
for violence against Jews and Israel and condone attacks on British troops"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6004850.ece
(UK) Bob Lambert Defends "British Islamists"
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/04/01/bob-lambert-defends-british-islamists/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2009/mar/31/religion-islam
(UK) Hezbollah Meets with Quakers
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/04/01/the-quakers-betray-george-fox-john-rees-disgraces-the-left/
(UK) £20,000 bill for Al Qaeda terrorist dumped on us - Cabdullah Ciise
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/92684/-20-000-bill-for-Al-Qaeda-terrorist-dumped-on-us-
(UK) Leeds: Police to check schools for militant Islamic pupils
http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/Police-to-check-schools-for.5127917.jp
(UK) Why Did The Metropolitan Police Gift A Mosque to a Supporter of Terrorism Against Britain?
-- "former Metropolitan Police officer Robert Lambert... pioneered
the strategy that Islamists who don't want to set off bombs in Britain can help to stop other Islamists who do"
-- aided "Mohammed Sawalha and his friends at the
Muslim Association of Britain" in gaining control of Finsbury mosque
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/03/31/why-did-the-metropolitan-police-gift-a-mosque-to-a-supporter-of-terrorism-against-britain/
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2008/12/17/how-the-met-got-it-wrong-on-terrorism/
--- April 1 lecture: "Islamists in Britain: Friends or Enemies?" with Robert Lambert MBE
http://educationet.org/messageboard/read.php?2,1175534338,1175534338#msg-1175534338
(UK) Government moves to isolate Muslim Council of Britain with cash for mosques
-- Hazel Blears has demanded that Muslim Council of Britain's (MCB) Daud Abdullah be sacked
-- "after he endorsed a pro-Hamas declaration that appeared
to call for violence against Jews and Israel and condone attacks on British troops"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6004850.ece
--- Then suddenly Daud Abdullah reportedly has a change in heart!
---- Report: "Daud Abdullah Now Opposes the Killing of Jews"
http://www.hurryupharry.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/statement.pdf
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/03/31/daud-abdullah-now-opposes-the-killing-of-jews/
(UK) Woman sentenced for jihad leaflet
-- Shella Roma pleaded guilty to pamphlet asking Muslims "Will you go to Jihad (holy war)?"
-- "sentenced to a community order"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7972580.stm
-- community order punishments
http://www.cjsonline.gov.uk/offender/community_sentencing/index.html
(UK) Apology call in M65 terror arrest
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/lancashire/7971488.stm
(UK) Not one, but two Hezbollah Representatives
-- "The 'Stop the War Coalition' are holding a public meeting on the 30th March
at [Quaker] Friends Meeting House entitled 'Solidarity with the struggle for Peace and Justice in the Middle East'"
--- Dyab Abu Jahjah and Lebanese Hezbollah MP Hussein El-Hajj Hassan
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/03/29/not-one-but-two-hezbollah-representatives/
(UK) Hezbollah MP to meet with UK Parliament in Britain
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3693488,00.html
--- Other press reports that this is MP Hussien Haj Hassan
(UK) Hate Preacher: I Want Sharia Law In Britain -- more from Anjem Choudary
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/91891/Hate-preacher-I-want-Sharia-law-in-Britain
(UK) Two hundred British schoolchildren identified as potential terrorists - some as young as 13
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/5063910/Two-hundred-British-schoolchildren-identified-as-potential-terrorists.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/police-identify-200-children-as-potential-terrorists-1656027.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/mar/28/children-extremist-terrorism-uk-polic
(UK) Charity Commission 'must monitor extremist links'
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/charity-commission-must-monitor-extremist-links-1656031.html
(UK) Former terror suspect Binyam Mohammed 'admitted weapons training'
-- "admitted undergoing weapons and explosives training in Afghanistan"
-- but "referred to having seen something on the construction of an H-bomb on a file in a computer that was a joke"
-- says "never intended to engage in terrorism"
-- MI5 quoted as stating "Mr Mohammed was a liar"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article5990025.ece
(UK) Jacqui Smith Interview: 'I know where balance lies with civil liberties and security
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/5061422/Jacqui-Smith-Interview-I-know-where-balance-lies-with-civil-liberties-and-security.html
(UK) Special investigation: The horrifying campaign of abuse, lies and threats that ruined the career of a headteacher - and her school
-- "One hundred and twenty years later, two officials from Shah Jahan
pursued a 'hidden agenda' forcibly to transform a local, secular primary school into an Islamic faith school."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1165424/Special-investigation-The-horrifying-campaign-abuse-lies-threats-ruined-career-headteacher--school.html?ITO=1490
(UK) Michael Nazir-Ali steps down as Bishop of Rochester
-- "Decision thought to be influenced by direction of Church of England under Rowan Williams"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/5065601/Michael-Nazir-Ali-steps-down-as-Bishop-of-Rochester.html
--- Nazir-Ali intends "to work in Pakistan"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article5991632.ece
(UK) Governement urged to reconsider Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) boycott
http://www.hillingdontimes.co.uk/news/asianspotlight/spotlight/4241606.Governement_urged_to_reconsider_MCB_boycott/
-- Hazel Blears -v- The MCB
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/03/27/hazel-blears-v-the-mcb/
(UK) I was a victim of libel tourism - by Rachel Ehrenfeld
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/libertycentral/2009/mar/27/freedom-of-speech-al-qaida
(UK) 'Nazi' claim by Muslim firebrand
-- "Anjem Choudary yesterday compared the outrage over his hate-fueled anti-British speeches with the Nazi's persecution of Jews"
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/91374/-Nazi-claim-by-Muslim-firebrand
(UK) Hilton hotel axes hate preachers conference after abuse of soldiers
-- "A London hotel has cancelled a conference that had been due to feature
exiled Islamic hate preacher Omar Bakri and the ringleader of a protest against homecoming British soldiers"
-- "The event was organised by the London School of Sharia, set up after Bakri's
Al-Muhajiroun group was banned under terrorism laws drawn up in the wake of the 7/7 bombings."
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23667262-details/article.do?ito=newsnow&
(UK) Second Muslim group faces having links severed with Government over extremism row
-- "The Mosques and Imams National Advisory Body, a central plank of Labour's
anti-extremism strategy, has been dragged into the dispute."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1164891/Second-Muslim-group-faces-having-links-severed-Government-extremism-row.html
(UK) Twice-cleared British 'bomb plotter' sought after police raid 'orphanage' they claim is Islamic terror training camp
-- Dr Faisal Mostafa
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1164844/Twice-cleared-British-bomb-plotter-sought-police-raid-orphanage-claim-Islamic-terror-training-camp.html?ITO=1490
(UK) Dirty bomb alert: Terror attack could be imminent
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/03/25/dirty-bomb-alert-terror-attack-could-be-imminent-115875-21226063/
(UK) G20 summit: London prepares for lockdown
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/g20-summit/5050079/G20-summit-London-prepares-for-lockdown.html
(UK) U.S. President Barack Obama drops meetings during Britain visit amid security concerns
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/g20-summit/5047394/President-Barack-Obama-drops-meetings-during-Britain-visit-amid-security-concerns.html
(UK) Spy database to monitor your every move on Facebook and MySpace
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1164688/Spy-database-monitor-Facebook-MySpace.html
(UK) GFH advised UK Sharia'a equity fund breaks UK all companies sector top 10
http://www.ameinfo.com/189864.html
(UK) A Dinner for Extremists at City University
-- including Anwar al Awlaki, Haitham Al Haddad
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/03/25/a-dinner-for-extremists-at-city-university/
-- Anwar al Awlaki's "44 Ways To Support Jihad"
http://www.hurryupharry.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/awlaki.pdf
-- Haitham Al Haddad - "saluting the 'victory' of Hamas in the Gaza conflict"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-QBz_7_AvM&
(UK) Dentist drove car at police woman
-- Omer Butt previously "refused to treat a Muslim patient unless she wore a headscarf"
-- Brother of "Hassan Butt achieved notoriety when he claimed to have
recruited hundreds of British Muslims to fight alongside the Taliban in Afghanistan in the wake of September 11"
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1104736_dentist_drove_car_at_police_woman
(UK) Britain's first sharia-compliant newspaper
http://www.spectator.co.uk/the-magazine/business/3473821/britains-first-shariacompliant-newspaper.thtml
(UK) Scottish Islamic Foundation: 'Defend Daud Abdullah'
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/03/25/scottish-islamic-foundation-%E2%80%9Cdefend-daud-abdullah%E2%80%9D/
(UK) Guardian: "Hazel Blears's standoff with the MCB over the views of Daud Abdullah
is not only misguided but sets a dangerous precedent"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/mar/25/hazel-blears-daud-abdullah
-- Warm words, dud deeds
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/mar/25/counter-terrorist-strategy
-- A shameful lead
http://www.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/3471351/a-shameful-lead.thtml
(UK) The Guardian's lead editorial calls sharia law 'mainstream'
http://media.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NDdiZDNiNTU1NzY3Yjk0YjJkMjgwZGUyN2MzODdkOWE=
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/mar/25/counter-terrorist-strategy
(UK) Anti-extremism strategy not productive: UK Muslim body
-- Muslim Council of Britain (MCB)
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\03\26\story_26-3-2009_pg7_6
(UK) 'Threat Of Britons Trained By Al Qaeda'
-- "Pakistan has monitored more than 20 Britons believed to have spent time with radical militant groups and then returned to the UK"
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Pakistan-Britons-Who-Trained-With-Extremists-Linked-To-Al-Qaeda-And-The-Taliban-Dossier/Article/200903415247530?lpos=World_News_Second_Home_Page_Article_Teaser_Region_3&lid=ARTICLE_15247530_Pakistan%3A_Britons_Who_Trained_With_Extremists_Linked_To_Al_Qaeda_And_The_Taliban_Dossier
-- 20 extremists back in UK after Pakistan training
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\03\25\story_25-3-2009_pg1_2
(UK) Pakistan: US Terror Attack Fears 'Is Boosting Surveillance Of Pakistanis In Britain'
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Pakistan-US-Terror-Attack-Fears-Is-Boosting-Surveillance-Of-Pakistanis-In-Britain/Article/200903415247451?lpos=UK_News_Second_Home_Page_Article_Teaser_Region_4&lid=ARTICLE_15247451_Pakistan%3A_US_Terror_Attack_Fears_Is_Boosting_Surveillance_Of_Pakistanis_In_Britain
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\03\25\story_25-3-2009_pg1_3
(UK) Anti-terror strategy highlights threat of small 'terrorist groups'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/5041633/Anti-terror-strategy-highlights-threat-of-small-terrorist-groups.html
(UK) Government warns of nuclear terror threat - dirty bomb, chemical, nuclear threats
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/5044007/Government-warns-of-nuclear-terror-threat.html
-- Rising threat of dirty bomb attack on UK, says Jacqui Smith
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article5966489.ece
-- UK: Nuclear, chemical terror threat growing
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/03/24/britain.terrorism/index.html?section=cnn_latest
-- UK faces greater threat of 'dirty bomb'
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/uk-faces-greater-threat-of-dirty-bomb-1653414.html
-- "The Contest strategy is divided into four strands - Prevent, Pursue, Protect and Prepare"
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/UK-Terrorism-Threat-Government-Warns-Chemical-Or-Nuclear-Attack-More-Realistic/Article/200903415247802?lpos=UK_News_First_Home_Article_Teaser_Region_3&lid=ARTICLE_15247802_UK_Terrorism_Threat%3A_Government_Warns_Chemical_Or_Nuclear_Attack_More_Realistic
--- Comment: Forgot "Procrastinate" on Defying Islamic Supremacism
(UK) Independent commentary Simon Carr says British Jihadists are "they are lively in their love of death"
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/simon-carr/simon-carr-perhaps-pointless-programmes-promote-paranoia-1653413.html
(UK) Shopping centre staff will be trained to deal with terror attacks
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/5041804/Shopping-centre-staff-will-be-trained-to-deal-with-terror-attacks.html
-- Terror Warning After Botched Attack In Israel
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Israel-Terror-Attack-Warning-After-Botched-Bombing-In-Haifa-Ehud-Olmert-Says-Huge-Disaster-Avoided/Article/200903415247220
(UK) Intel agencies warn of danger during G20 meetings - Terror attack rated 'highly likely'
-- in London next week
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=92635
(UK) 6 arrested over violent London protests against Israel's Gaza offensive
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1073538.html
(UK) Hazel Blears cuts ties to Muslim Council of Britain after it refuses to condemn controversial senior member
-- yet another article on this
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1164613/Hazel-Blears-cuts-ties-Muslim-Council-Britain-refuses-condemn-controversial-senior-member.html?ITO=1490
--- Guardian's Brian Whitaker: "Labour's actions against the
Muslim Council of Britain destroy any credibility its engagement policy might have had"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/mar/24/islam-politics
(UK) Home Office: "Taking a new approach to counter-terrorism"
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/about-us/news/taking-new-approach-ct
--- Guardian: "'The government's new anti-terror strategy plays into the hands of the extremists'"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/mar/25/muslims-terrorism-policy-opinions
(UK) Sharia Councils Spark Debate In Britain
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=96162078
(UK) Arts leaders upset about UK screening of visas to weed out terrorists
--- fears that will keep "exceptional talent" out
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/opera/5036345/Terrorism-law-cuts-to-the-heart-of-the-arts.html
(UK) Additional reports on UK govt threatening to cut ties with Muslim Council of Britain (MCB)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/mar/23/muslim-council-britain-gaza
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article5962256.ece
--- Hazel Blear's letter
http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-files/Guardian/documents/2009/03/23/blears__letter.pdf
(UK) MINAB's Extremist
-- "One of the four founding members of MINAB is the Muslim Association of Britain,
which is the British franchise of Hamas/Muslim Brotherhood"
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/03/23/minabs-extremist/
(UK) Man quizzed over suspicious device on Emirates plane
-- "passenger found a note implying there may be a suspicious device
on board the Emirates flight EK 011 from Dubai 10 minutes before landing"
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=1984924&Language=en
-- Comment: is this why the UK Quilliam Foundation
(given 1 million UK pounds) no longer has pro-Sharia,
pro-Hezbollah, wife-beating apologist Grand Mufti Ali Gomaa on their website at "About Us" as a "respected scholar"?
http://www.quilliamfoundation.org/about-us.html
-- previously called pro-Sharia, pro-Hezbollah, wife-beating apologist Grand Mufti Sheik Ali Gomaa a "Muslim scholastic giant"
-- August 18, 2008 - Quilliam Foundation and Misdirection on Egypt's Grand Mufti Ali Gomaa
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/098.html
(UK) Airliner evacuated at London airport
-- "Explosives experts are searching an Emirates airliner at London's Gatwick Airport following a report of a "suspicious device" on board, police told CNN on Sunday"
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/03/22/uk.gatwick.airliner/index.html
(UK) Muslim terrorist living in the Midlands
--- Faraj Hassan Al-Sa'idi "listed on the United Nations Sanctions Committee’s permanent register of Al Qaida and Taliban members, and has had his assets frozen by the UN."
http://www.sundaymercury.net/news/crime-news/2009/03/22/muslim-terrorist-living-in-the-midlands-66331-23201047/
(UK) Government shuns Muslim Council over link with Hamas
-- leaked letter "shows that the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, Hazel Blears, wrote to the Muslim Council of Britain, calling for Dr Daud Abdullah to resign"
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/government-shuns-muslim-council-over-link-with-hamas-1651323.html
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/03/22/muslim-council-of-britain-out-in-the-cold-again/
-- the MCB's response:
http://www.mcb.org.uk/article_detail.php?article=announcement-781
(UK) Report claims al-Qaeda can recruit in UK at street level
http://www.sundayherald.com/news/heraldnews/display.var.2497079.0.report_claims_alqaeda_can_recruit_in_uk_at_street_level.php
(UK) Brown warns of enduring al-Qaida threat to UK
-- "Prime minister heralds 60,000-strong civilian counter-terrorism force trained to act against extremists"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/mar/22/brown-counter-terrorism-al-qaida
-- UK to update counter-terrorism strategy
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/03/22/2522949.htm?section=justin
-- Gordon Brown's UK: "We are about to take the war against terror to a new level"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/mar/22/gordon-brown-terrorism
--- Comment: yet still has not acknowledged Islamic supremacism
(Hamas) Australian press provides sympathetic coverage of Hamas in "Staring into the heart of Hamas"
http://www.smh.com.au/world/staring-into-the-heart-of-hamas-20090320-94ev.html?page=-1
-- but when Hamas leader Khalid Mishal is asked "Will the [Hamas] charter be rewritten?"
(which includes, in Article 32, acceptance of apocryphal Protocols of Elders of Zion promoted by Nazis and in Hitler's Mein Kampf)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas#The_Hamas_Charter_.281988.29
-- Mishal's response: "Not a chance."
http://www.smh.com.au/world/staring-into-the-heart-of-hamas-20090320-94ev.html?page=-1
(UK) All homosexuals should be stoned to death, says Muslim preacher of hate
-- more from Anjem Choudary "who wants to see Britain ruled by Sharia law"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1163510/All-homosexuals-stoned-death-says-Muslim-preacher-hate.html?ITO=1490
--- Mandy would be stoned to death under Sharia law
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2332942.ece?OTC-RSS&ATTR=News
--- Hate preacher: We'd hang mandy for being gay
----- "vowed to hang Business Secretary Lord Mandelson for being homosexual"
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/73650/HATE-PREACHER-We-d-hang-Mandy-for-being-gay-/
(UK) 'Wake up before it's too late': Hate preacher Omar Bakri warns of another 7/7 terror attack
-- Bakri: "You want to declare war against us? We will declare Islam against you."
-- Article also recount Bakri's history of rejecting democracy, British law,
calling for Sharia, and calling for death of homosexuals
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1163510/Wake-late-Hate-preacher-Omar-Bakri-warns.html?ITO=1490
--- Carry on insulting UK troops, say preachers
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23665174-details/article.do?ito=newsnow&
(UK) Walthamstow: Radical Muslims warn of violence
-- Choudary: "It is a very dangerous thing to grow up in the UK. Under Sharia law,
people will be educated about the harm and evils of alcohol, promiscuity, homosexuality"
http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news/4220440.WALTHAMSTOW__Radical_Muslims_warn_there_will_be_violence/
--- Hatred In Walthamstow
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/03/20/hatred-in-walthamstow/
(UK) Terror suspects still in UK despite Home Secretary's vow
-- "Eleven terror suspects are still in the UK five months after the Home Secretary vowed to deport them"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/5022889/Terror-suspects-still-in-UK-despite-Home-Secretarys-vow.html
(UK) Labour isn't holding up-to-date information on where taxpayers' money is going to 'prevent extremism'
http://conservativehome.blogs.com/centreright/2009/03/labour-isnt-holding-uptodate-information-on-where-taxpayers-money-is-going-to-prevent-extremism.html
(UK) Radical Preacher Probed Over Call to Hide Terror Clues -- Anjem Choudary
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,509795,00.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1163133/Islamic-hate-preacher-Anjem-Choudary-probed-hide-terror-clues.html
(UK) Home Office fails to shut down a single extremist website in two years
-- "The Home Office has failed to shut down a single terrorist
website despite a pledge to do so from Tony Blair four years ago"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/defence/5017764/Home-Office-fails-to-shut-down-a-single-extremist-website-in-two-years.html
(UK) £60,000 for Muslim hurt by police in terror raid -- Babar Ahmad
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1162908/60-000-Muslim-hurt-police-terror-raid.html
(UK) Ghaffur calls for Muslim 'preachers of hate' to be banned from television
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23664386-details/Ghaffur+calls+for+Muslim+%27preachers+of+hate%27+to+be+banned+from+television/article.do
(UK) Head accused of 'Islamophobia' wins £400,000 after being forced out by Muslim governors
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1163194/Head-accused-Islamophobia-wins-400-000-forced-Muslim-governors.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/5017550/Head-teacher-who-suffered-stress-from-racism-accusations-wins-400000-damages.html
(UK) Islamic Bank of Britain launches Fixed Term account
http://www.bankingtimes.co.uk/19032009-islamic-bank-of-britain-launches-fixed-term-account/
UK's Sun: "Aiming for harmony in the UK"
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/woman/real_life/article2324882.ece
(UK) Muslim fanatic who shouted abuse at troops given police protection -- Yousaf Bashir
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/5001106/Muslim-fanatic-who-shouted-abuse-at-troops-given-police-protection.html
http://www.policeoracle.com/news/Fury-Over-Police-Protection-Of-Muslim-Fanatic_18709.html
(UK) Poll: 60pct in UK unconvinced about Afghan mission
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2009/03/16/europe/EU-Britain-Afghanistan-Poll.php
-- PDF of British poll results
http://www.comres.co.uk/resources/7/Radio5Live%20Poll%20Results%20FULL%20Mar09.p
(UK) 'There's no honour in killing,' top judge tells Muslim family in test case
-- "A senior judge yesterday condemned the notion of honour killings
as an affront to English law. Lord Justice Wall declared that 'they are acts
of simply sordid criminal behaviour' and 'had nothing to do with any concept of honour known to English law'. "
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1162409/Theres-honour-killing-judge-tells-Muslim-family-test-case.html
-- Judge says 'honour' crimes have no place in English law
-- "One of the children had been set on fire by her mother who also
tried to burn down their house in an attempt to incriminate her sister-in-law."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/5001399/Judge-says-honour-crimes-have-no-place-in-English-law.html
(UK) Thousands of girls mutilated in Britain
-- "The NHS is offering to reverse female circumcision amid
concerns that there are 500 victims a year with no prosecutions"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article5913979.ece
--- Case study: Female circumcision, the daughter
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article5914011.ece
-- Case study: female circumcision, the husband
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article5914026.ece
(UK) Hate cleric leads jihad cash appeal
-- "Anjem Choudary, who led protests against returning British
troops, has urged his followers to send money to 'mujaheddin'"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article5908534.ece
-- Firebrand risks jail in call for jihad cash
--- "He has previously made no secret of his demands that
the country be placed under sharia - Islamic law. This would
mean all women would have to wear veils, adulterers would be stoned to death and drunks whipped in public."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article5908551.ece
-- British cleric fundraises for militants
--- "Anjem Choudary, the former head of the banned British
group al-Muhajiroun, told his followers in a recording to stop
spending their money on their families and instead sent it to Muslim soldiers waging holy war"
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/03/15/British_cleric_fundraises_for_militants/UPI-28081237163935/
-- Anjem Choudary investigated by police over mujahideen fundraising
--- Choudary: "You have opportunity to carry dawah [spreading the word]
to society... and you have money that can go towards the dawah, you have
money that can go towards the mujahideen."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/4995827/Anjem-Choudary-investigated-by-police-over-mujahideen-fundraising.html
(UK) Minister beaten after clashing with Muslims on his TV show
-- "A Christian minister who has had heated arguments with
Muslims on his TV show has been attacked and warned: 'If you go back to the studio, we'll break your legs.'"
-- Reverend Noble Samuel "based at Heston United Reformed Church, West London"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1162039/Minister-beaten-clashing-Muslims-TV-show.html
(UK) Johnson vows to stop funding Muslim group with links to controversial blogger
-- "London mayor says money to Muslim Safety Forum will be halted" Azad Ali
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/mar/13/muslim-safety-forum-boris-johnson
--- Comment: How about Home Office RICU coordination?
(UK) Government adviser on Islamic terror arrested after man is stabbed at his home
-- Inayat Bunglawala "is one of the most prominent members of
the Muslim Council of Britain, an organisation which advises the Government on extremism and counter-terrorism"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1162072/Government-adviser-Islamic-terror-arrested-man-stabbed-home.html
--- Note recent news reports have described Inayat Bunglawala
as "former spokesman for the Muslim Council of Great Britain," now leading "Engage"
--- Engage's Inayat Bunglawala on Equality and Liberty
http://britishjihad.com/blog1/2009/02/engage_contest.html
(UK) Jihad Chic Comes to London
http://www.newsweek.com/id/189241
(UK) Anjem Choudary: Brits 'live just like animals'
--- therefore seeks Sharia law for UK
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2319808.ece?OTC-RSS&ATTR=News
-- the other side of hate preacher 'Andy' Choudary
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1161909/Swilling-beer-smoking-dope-leering-porn-hate-preacher-Andy-Choudary.html
-- Preacher studied law at Southampton University
http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/4203208.Extremist_preacher_was_city_university_student/
(UK) Daily Mail: "Britons who HATE Britain: The Muslim extremists hell-bent on segregation rather than integration"
-- "A number of the extremists attend a mosque in Bury Park and,
at one time or another, their group has gone under different names:
One Nation, Muslims Against British Atrocities, The Saviour Sect
(anyone who does not follow their path is 'damned') and now Ahlus Sunnah Wal Jamaah."
--- "Ahlus Sunnah Wal Jamaah (ASWJ) operates mainly through an invitation- only internet forum set up in 2006"
--- "One journalist who penetrated ASWJ found recordings of Osama Bin Laden on the website"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1161855/Britons-HATE-Britain-The-Muslim-extremists-hell-bent-segregation-integration.html?ITO=1490
(UK) America angered by Britian's 'secret' talks with Hezbollah
-- another report by London Times on this
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article5904412.ece
(UK) Hezbollah's Ibrahim Moussawi was "awarded a PhD in
Political Islam from Birmingham University two years ago"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/4986476/Ibrahim-Moussawi-denied-visa-over-Hezbollah.html
(UK) Anjem Choudary: "I want to see flag of Allah flying over Downing St"
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23661857-details/article.do?ito=newsnow&
--- Anjem Choudary: 'Britain's most reviled man? I wear that badge with pride'
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23661850-details/%C2%91Britain%C2%92s+most+reviled+man+I+wear+that+badge+with+pride%C2%92/article.do
(UK) Islamic fanatic Ibrahim Moussawi barred from entering Britain
-- Daily Mail: "Jacqui Smith has ruled the spokesman for the
terrorist organisation Hezbollah should not be allowed to travel
here - despite him making at least two previous visits to the UK on her watch"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1161754/Exclusive-Islamic-fanatic-Ibrahim-Moussawi-barred-entering-Britain.html
--- Not likely a coincidence: March 12, 2009: "US criticizes UK's vow to talk to Hezbollah"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/4982046/Special-relationship-strained-US-criticises-UKs-vow-to-talk-to-Hezbollah.html
(UK) Report states only UK minister opposed to Ibrahim Moussawi visa was Hazel Blears
http://www.thejc.com/articles/ministers-welcome-voice-hizbollah
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/03/13/hazel-blears-was-only-moussawi-opponent/
(UK) One Law for All event a success, but BBC softens us up for sharia
--- "BBC has responded this week with a disgracefully one-sided promotion of sharia for Britain"
http://www.secularism.org.uk/one-law-for-all-event-a-success.html
Commentaries:
(UK) It is time for some of the self described moderates to prove themselves - by Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens
-- regarding Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) leaders support for Hamas
http://www.socialcohesion.co.uk/blog/2009/03/it-is-time-for-some-of-the-self-described-moderates-to-prove-themselves.html
(UK) The Muslim Association of Britain's tortured logic -- on Sudan
http://waugh.standard.co.uk/2009/03/the-muslim-association-of-britains-tortured-logic.html
(UK) Bluewater bomb fantasist hospital target threats -- Saeed Ghafoor
-- Saeed Ghafoor was convicted for car bomb plot at UK Bluewater shopping center, now calls for hospital bombing attacks
-- "I'm a Muslim. I support Al Qaeda."
http://www.gravesendreporter.co.uk/content/kent/reporter/news/story.aspx?brand=GVSROnline&category=news&tBrand=gvsronline&tCategory=news&itemid=WeED12%20Mar%202009%2014%3A47%3A17%3A147
UK approves visit of Hezbollah official -- Hezbollah's Ibrahim Moussawi to speak in London March 25
-- "Britain on Thursday approved the visit to the country of Hizbullah official Ibrahim Moussawi to address a seminar on political Islam at the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies."
-- Hezbollah's "Ibrahim Moussawi to address seminar at University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies"
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1236764172136&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
-- "British officials granted senior Hizbullah member Ibrahim Moussawi a visa to visit the country on Thursday"
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/130406
-- See also report with background and additional stories at:
http://britishjihad.com/blog1/2009/03/uk_approves_ibrahim_moussawi.html
-- Betrayed By This Labour Government
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/03/12/betrayed-by-this-labour-government/
-- and Jawa Report and Atlas reports
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/196785.php
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/03/briticide-brits-ban-mp-wilders-welcome-extreme-hezbo-muslim-jihadi-.html
(UK) Anti-terror planning "poor", MPs
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=1982377&Language=en
(UK) Canadian man jailed for failed UK bomb plot - Momim Khawaja
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/canadian-man-jailed-for-failed-uk-bomb-plot-1643638.html
-- see also Canadian news below
(UK) London: Mayor gives £30,000 of taxpayers' money to Muslim group led by 'extremist'
-- Muslim Safety Forum's "Azad Ali praises a spiritual leader of al Qaeda on his blog, denies the Mumbai attacks were "terrorism" and quotes, apparently approvingly, a statement advocating the killing of British troops in Iraq"
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23661320-details/article.do?ito=newsnow&
--- also coordinated with UK Home Office and Home Office's RICU - same RICU leading UK counterterror policy, and advising U.S.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1120831/Muslim-civil-servant-suspended-killing-British-troops-justified-blog.html
http://74.6.239.67/search/cache?ei=UTF-8&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mcb.org.uk%2Fjobs%2Fjob_details.php%3Fjob_id%3D1551&fr=yfp-t-501&u=mcb.org.uk/jobs/job_details.php%3Fjob_id%3D1551&d=YhF8XJ2uSV2g&icp=1&.intl=us
--- Additional reports on Azad Ali:
http://britishjihad.com/blog1/2009/01/azad_ali_jan_23_2009.html
http://britishjihad.com/blog1/2009/01/azad_ali_jan_18_2009.html
--- January 23, 2009 - Azad Ali - Oh No He Didn’t, Oh Yes He Did!
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/01/23/azad-ali-oh-no-he-didnt-oh-yes-he-did/
(UK) Muslim protester who works as baggage handler at Luton Airport has security pass suspended
-- Jalah Ahmed called British soldiers "butchers"
-- "said to have once joked he was the nephew of Osama bin Laden and was also allegedly questioned over pictures of passenger jets"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1161404/Muslim-protester-works-baggage-handler-Luton-Airport-security-pass-suspended-hurling-abuse-troops.html
(UK) One law for all -- article on Maryam Namazie
-- who has "had her share of death threats, including one of decapitation"
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/story.html?id=1379415
(UK) Ahmed freed on appeal
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/mar/12/lord-ahmed-appeal
-- Fury as Labour peer jailed for texting at the wheel minutes before fatal crash to be freed after serving just 17 days
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1161531/Fury-Labour-peer-jailed-texting-wheel-minutes-fatal-crash-freed-serving-just-17-days.html
Commentaries:
Farewell to Britain - by Frank Gaffney, Jr.
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.2703/pub_detail.asp
(UK) 'Cowards who can't fight': Muslim hate preacher taunts grieving families of friendly-fire victims -- Anjem Choudary
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1160958/Cowards-fight-Muslim-hate-preacher-taunts-grieving-families-friendly-victims.html
-- Muslim Preacher Mocks Fallen British Soldiers After Homecoming Parade Protest
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,508686,00.html
-- Melanie Phillips: Labour's disastrous policy is radicalising a whole new generation of Muslims
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1161188/MELANIE-PHILLIPS-Labours-disastrous-policy-radicalising-new-generation-Muslims.html
(UK) Muslim group pledges more protests against UK soldiers
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/mar/11/muslim-group-anti-war-protests
UK Study: "Web's Role in Terrorism May Be Overstated"
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,508909,00.html
U.K. Targets Port-Smuggling Risks After Mumbai Terror Attacks
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601091&sid=acSE1WbV3D10&refer=india
Commentaries:
(UK) Stop pandering to enemies of our way of life - by Ruth Dudley Edwards
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/4975163/Stop-pandering-to-enemies-of-our-way-of-life.html
(UK) Melanie Phillips: Labour's disastrous policy is radicalising a whole new generation of Muslims
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1161188/MELANIE-PHILLIPS-Labours-disastrous-policy-radicalising-new-generation-Muslims.html
(UK) Are Muslim radicals trying to provoke a civil war in Britain?
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/con_coughlin/blog/2009/03/11/are_muslim_radicals_trying_to_provoke_a_civil_war_in_britain
-- Comment: Con Coughlin never imagines that Islamic supremacists simply mean to conquer UK
(UK) Britain is now harbouring a menacing enemy within
http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/88777
--- Comment: "now"???
(UK) Tolerance and the intolerant
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/leading_article/article5891253.ece
(UK) We'll Never Surrender
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/88828/We-ll-never-surrender
Meantime... while UK is worried about the "intolerant"... and "not surrendering"...
(UK) Crossing over to Islamic banking
-- "Sharia-compliant finance is prospering in Britain"
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article5889624.ece
(UK) Muslim anti-war protesters abuse British soldiers as 'baby killers' during homecoming parade
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1160958/Muslim-anti-war-protesters-abuse-British-soldiers-baby-killers-homecoming-parade.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/defence/4968576/Muslim-extremists-shout-abuse-at-British-soldiers-during-home-coming-march.html
http://www.thelondonpaper.com/cs/Satellite/london/news/article/1157160236784?packedargs=suffix%3DArticleController
--- Two held during parade protests -- BBC video and article
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7935679.stm
--- YouTube Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_ygCc9qlWM&
--- JihadWatch report
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/025185.php
(UK) Online extremism tactics "crude", report
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=1981728&Language=en
(UK) 'Terror abroad' retrial ruled out
-- "A man accused of orchestrating terror attacks in Pakistan from his home in London will not face a retrial."
-- "Hyrbyair Marri, 40, was accused of being a key supporter of the banned Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA)."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7935991.stm
Commentaries:
Will Sharia Courts in the UK Sabatoge The Forced Marriage Act? by Victoria Golshani
http://www.rightsidenews.com/200903093938/culture-wars/will-sharia-courts-in-the-uk-sabatoge-the-forced-marriage-act.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/4962802/British-born-Muslims-supplied-equipment-to-al-Qaeda.html
-- Three jailed for equipping militants overseas
--- "Three British Muslims were jailed on Monday for sending equipment to militants fighting on the Afghan and Pakistan border."
--- all from Birmingham: Mohammed Nadim, Shabir Mohammed, and Shahid Ali
--- "A fourth Birmingham man, Abdul Ishaq Raheem, 32, was jailed for failing to disclose information about an act of terrorism."
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20090309/tuk-uk-britain-equipment-fa6b408.html
(UK) £90m anti-terrorism project is fanning the flames of extremism
-- Report: ""some within government and the police service believe that only nonviolent radicals, otherwise known as 'political Islamists,' possess the necessary 'street cred' to control angry young Muslims"
-- Report: "plausible and well-mannered radicals, often representing themselves as moderate, are welcomed with open arms, however hardline their underlying philosophy"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/4957666/90m-anti-terrorism-project-is-fanning-the-flames-of-extremism.html
(UK) Inquiry to check faith schools are teaching right from wrong
-- "thought to be a response to recent criticism of some Muslim schools, or madrassas"
-- "Some pupils 'not prepared for life in British society'"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/article5877732.ece
Related News:
(UK) 'Isn't Auschwitz the name of a beer?'
-- "Survey of UK secondary school pupils reveals a quarter don't know purpose of the Nazi death camp"
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1236603389024&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
-- Auschwitz is a beer, schoolchildren tell researchers
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/4957314/Auschwitz-is-a-beer-schoolchildren-tell-researchers.html
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/025148.php
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXYbMcYYOT8&
UK Former SAS chief in Afghanistan slams 'worthless' war
http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display_news.asp?section=World_News&subsection=United+Kingdom+%26+Europe&month=March2009&file=World_News2009030812722.xml
-- SAS chief says MoD has 'blood on its hands'
--- UK's Morley: "The operations that we are conducting are so worthless. It's just crazy to think we hold that ground or have any influence on what goes on beyond the bases."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/defence/4951208/SAS-commander-says-MoD-has-blood-on-its-hands-over-Snatch-Land-Rovers.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7929785.stm
-- "accused of advocating attacks on the Royal Navy if it tries to stop arms for Hamas being smuggled into Gaza"
-- "Dr Daud Abdullah, deputy director-general of the Muslim Council of Britain, is facing calls for his resignation, after it emerged that he is one of 90 Muslim leaders from around the world who have signed a public declaration in support of Hamas and military action."
-- Guardian Obserber reporter believes Abdullah "has helped counter extremism in the country's mosques"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/mar/08/daud-abdullah-gaza-middle-east
(UK) Financial Secretary to the Treasury "Stephen Timms: Provide Banking Services to Interpal!"
-- "Interpal is a charity which has been proscribed by the US Treasury, which has identified it as part of the Hamas funding machinery"
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/03/07/stephen-timms-provide-banking-services-to-interpal/
-- U.S. Treasury: "Interpal, headquartered in the UK, has been a principal charity utilized to hide the flow of money to HAMAS. Reporting indicates it is the conduit through which money flows to HAMAS from other charities, e.g., the Al Aqsa Foundation, and that it oversees the activities of other charities. "
http://www.ustreas.gov/press/releases/js672.htm
-- July 9, 2008 - London Times: Israel bans British group over links to Hamas -- Interpal, also known as the Palestinian Relief and Development Fund
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article4293935.ece
(UK) Campaigners will seek arrest of Islamic radical
-- "Campaigners from the Centre for Social Cohesion have pledged to seek an arrest warrant for Dr Ibrahim Moussawi, an Islamic extremist, who is due to visit Britain this March"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/4953470/Campaigners-will-seek-arrest-of-Islamic-radical.html
(UK) Hizbullah: UK talks can't be secret
--"British Foreign Office denies pursuing closed-door talks; Miliband says UK will press disarmament"
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1236269363400&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
(UK) Another report by Guantanamo Bay ex-detainee Binyam Mohamed on alleged torture by Moroccans
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1160238/How-MI5-colluded-torture-Binyam-Mohamed-claims-British-agents-fed-Moroccan-torturers-questions--WORLD-EXCLUSIVE.html
(UK) Hundreds expected at anti-sharia demo in London
http://timescolumns.typepad.com/gledhill/2009/03/hundreds-expected-at-antisharia-demo-in-london.html
Commentaries:
(UK) Telegraph: "Sensitivity to religion cannot dictate the course of the law -- Consistency demands that Hizbollah's spokesman be banned from entering Britain"
-- regarding Ibrahim Moussawi
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/telegraph-view/4954427/Sensitivity-to-religion-cannot-dictate-the-course-of-the-law.html
--- Comment: Ignores the larger issue that is UK is negotiating with Hezbollah, that UK has larger "consistency" problems than only Ibrahim Moussawi
(UK) Melanie Phillips: "Beware the new axis of evangelicals and Islamists"
http://www.melaniephillips.com/articles-new/?p=649
http://www.spectator.co.uk/the-magazine/features/3409686/beware-the-new-axis-of-evangelicals-and-islamists.thtml
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/025129.php
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1159901/Familys-fury-legal-blunders-left-husband-free-stab-wife-death--despite-warnings-kill-her.html
--- "Using both hands to squeeze her windpipe he told her to read her Koran adding: 'Read whatever other stuff you need to read now. This is your final hour.' The arrival of his brother stopped the attack but Mannan left shouting: 'I'm going to get a knife and when I return I'm going to slaughter you."
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_U54NM9QE5VY/SbF5P8PhWMI/AAAAAAAAGVY/OnqppsFQ-SQ/s1600-h/DailyMailWhitewash.jpg
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&q=%22Using%20both%20hands%20to%20squeeze%20her%20windpipe%20he%20told%20her%20to%20read%20her%20Koran%22&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wn
(UK) Gym club banned from holding classes at girls school after Muslim parents complain about boy members
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1159992/Gym-club-banned-holding-classes-girls-school-Muslim-parents-complain-boy-members.html?ITO=1490
(UK) British Union promotes lobby for Gaza
http://www.pcs.org.uk/en/news_and_events/news_centre/index.cfm/id/CD942B97-9961-436A-AF91E0319F22C60C
(UK) Scotland: Markets need morality, Gordon Brown tells Labour conference
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/financialcrisis/4949681/Markets-need-morality-Gordon-Brown-tells-Labour-conference.html
(UK) Government Capitulating to Islamic Law if Shari'ah Finance Regulations Changed as Proposed
-- "if they change the current financial regulations to accommodate Shari'ah Finance and issue sukuk bonds, following recommended changes to the Legislative Framework for the Regulation of Alternative Finance Investment Bonds (Sukuk) as proposed"
http://www.earnedmedia.org/clc0306.htm
Commentaries:
(UK) "Labour Goverment To Allow Hezbollah's Moussawi Into The United Kingdom"
-- NOTE: this is writer's speculation based on willingness of UK to negotiate with "political" branch of terror group Hezbollah - not a press report of something that has actually happened per se
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/03/06/labour-goverment-to-allow-hezbollahs-moussawi-into-the-united-kingdom/
(UK) Call to ban Islamic meeting - Hizb ut-Tahrir
http://www.lutontoday.co.uk/545/Call-to-ban-Islamic-meeting.5034541.jp
(UK) One Law for All Campaign against Sharia Law in Britain
-- March 7 - London's Trafalgar Square from 330-430pm
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/03/03/one-law-for-all-campaign-against-sharia-law-in-britain/
http://www.onelawforall.org.uk/
(UK) Banned cleric Omar Bakri addresses conference at London primary school
--- "Omar Bakri, the radical cleric banned from Britain, has addressed a conference at a primary school in London in which he called for the country to become an Islamic state"
--- "Bakri told his followers: 'The existence of the Islamic state is a necessity for justice to be established... Islam is the future'"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/4903920/Banned-cleric-Omar-Bakri-addresses-conference-at-London-primary-school.html
(UK) Quilliam Foundation: We want a more British Islam
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2009/mar/02/religion-islam-quilliam-imams
http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/anya-hart-dyke
(UK) Al Muhajiroun Holds a Segregated March
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/03/01/al-muhajiroun-holds-a-segregated-march/
-- on UK for Islam leaflet, "You'll note that the telephone number on that leaflet is the same one used by Al Muhajiroun and Anjem Choudhry’s Society of Muslim Lawyers - an Al Muhaj front - in the late 1990s"
http://www.hurryupharry.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/islam4ukleaflet.jpghttp://www.hurryupharry.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/islam4ukleaflet.jpg
(UK) Former British resident: 'Wage Jihad against the Jews' -- Zaghloul al-Naggar
http://timescolumns.typepad.com/gledhill/2009/02/former-british-resident-wage-jihad-against-the-jews.html
UK terror attack 'rehearsal'-- emergency services exercise
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7916756.stm
(UK) Catholic Church slams new code of conduct forcing teachers to promote Islam
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1158406/Catholic-Church-slams-new-code-conduct-forcing-teachers-promote-Islam-gay-rights.html?ITO=1490
Commentaries:
(UK) Which is worse - Islamic terrorism or Muslim ghettos? by Damian Thompson
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/damian_thompson/blog/2009/03/01/which_is_worse__islamic_terrorism_or_muslim_ghettos
(UK) Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Why Muslims will not fight for freedom
-- "They ignore campaigns for the good of all, refusing to accept that non-Muslims are equal"
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/yasmin-alibhai-brown/yasmin-alibhaibrown-why-muslims-will-not-fight-for-freedom-1635153.html
(UK) Scotland perfectly positioned to cash in on Islamic financial products
http://www.sundayherald.com/business/businessnews/display.var.2492469.0.scotland_perfectly_positioned_to_cash_in_on_islamic_financial_products.php
-- "The Special Immigration Appeals Tribunal said Friday that three Algerian men and one Jordanian man could be released on bail. All four had previously been held pending deportation to their homelands."
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2009/02/27/europe/EU-Britain-Terror-Suspects.php
-- Judges free four terror suspects as Home Secretary blasts court over fresh risk to public security
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1157382/Judges-free-terror-suspects-Home-Secretary-blasts-court-fresh-risk-public-security.html
(UK) 'We gave US al-Qaida suspects'
http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/politics/international_politics/we%20gave%20us%20alqaida%20suspects/3002657
(UK/Lebanon) Ibrahim Moussawi Appointed Hezbollah's Media Relations Officer
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/02/26/ibrahim-moussawi-appointed-hezbollahs-media-relations-officer/
http://www.iloubnan.info/politics/actualite/id/31753
-- February 26, 2009: Ibrahim Moussawi to advise UK government officials on foreign policy and security issues next month
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1155778/Civil-servants-ready-pay-2-000-cash-hear-Islamic-extremist-preach.html?ITO=1490
UK: Islamists lecturing on political Islam
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2009/02/uk-islamists-lecturing-on-political.html
UK diplomat suspended for 'hate-speech'
-- "The Foreign Office's Rowan Laxton was arrested last month for an alleged anti-Semitic rant"
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1235410736256&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Commentaries:
(UK) Liberal fascism - by Melanie Phillips
-- "the now common analogy that is drawn between Israel and the Nazis, or Gaza and the Warsaw Ghetto, as used by such Israel-haters as George Galloway, Jenny Tonge, the British Muslim Initiative and others"
-- "tarring it [Israel] as a Nazi state delegitimises it and thus advances the agenda of its destruction"
http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/3392771/liberal-fascism.thtml
(UK) "British Muslims... resent the fact that the rest of society often sees them mainly as potential extremists"
http://www.economist.com/world/britain/displayStory.cfm?story_id=13186100&source=hptextfeature
(UK) Individual argue British Muslims need to create a "native British Islamic culture"
-- Fail to grasp the larger issue that all free peoples need to respect equality and liberty for a functioning democracy
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/letters/article5810936.ece
(UK) Prince of Wales calls for 'bridges' to be built between faiths
-- at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/4837248/Prince-of-Wales-calls-for-bridges-to-be-built-between-faiths.html
(UK) Polygamy UK: This special Mail investigation reveals how thousands of men are milking the benefits system to support several wives
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1154789/Polygamy-UK-This-special-Mail-investigation-reveals-thousands-men-milking-benefits-support-wives.html
(UK) Binyam Mohamed: Britain too cold after Guantanamo
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/4837171/Binyam-Mohamed-the-British-resident-released-from-Guantanamo-Bay-tells-friends-UK-is-too-cold.html
UK acknowledges 2 rendition cases
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090226/ap_on_re_eu/eu_britain_rendition
(UK) Terrorism experts share knowledge
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/7912133.stm
(UK) Hezbollah to advise UK Government on fighting terrorism
-- "Civil servants ready to pay £2,000 each (of your cash) to hear Islamic extremist preach"
-- Ibrahim Moussawi lectures "are targeted at Whitehall officials who deal in foreign affairs and extremism"
-- Ibrahim Moussawi to lecture at "the Political Islam event at the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1155778/Civil-servants-ready-pay-2-000-cash-hear-Islamic-extremist-preach.html?ITO=1490
--- "Another speaker at the event is the UK-based extremist Dr Kamal Helbawy, a former spokesman for the Muslim Brotherhood"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1155778/Civil-servants-ready-pay-2-000-cash-hear-Islamic-extremist-preach.html?ITO=1490
---- Comment: doesn't the Daily Mail know that Kamal Helbawy is viewed as a so-called "counterterrorist"?
----- See: "Former Muslim Brotherhood spokesman El-Helbawy speaks as 'British terrorism expert'"
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/unitedstatesaction/message/19078
----- Helbawy also viewed as "really respected" by British journalists in "counterterrorism" such as Paul Cruickshank and Peter Bergen
http://www.newsweek.com/id/45335
http://www.lawandsecurity.org/muslim_brotherhood.cfm
(UK) Islamic extremist exposed by Sunday Mercury set to visit UK -- Ibrahim Moussawi
--- "he was allowed to travel to the UK in February 2008 and proceeded to address rallies in London, Birmingham and Bristol"
http://www.sundaymercury.net/news/midlands-news/2009/02/25/islamic-extremist-exposed-by-sunday-mercury-set-to-visit-uk-66331-23011453/
--- Ibrahim Moussawi was allowed to tour UK in 2008 making
speeches all over the country - previous calls to prevent this fell on deaf ears
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1196847295423&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1569640/Ban-Hizbollah-TV-boss-from-UK,-say-Tories.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/philipjohnston/3555683/Labour%2C-extremism-and-a-friend-of-Hizbollah.html
U.K. foreign secretary: Talking with Hamas 'the right thing to do'
--- more appeasement of Islamic supremacism from David Miliband
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1066933.html
(UK) Great Britain sued by Palestinian organizations over arms sales to Israel
http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2009/eu_palestinians0166_02_25.asp
(UK) Transatlantic jet plot retrial: Air plot 'had foreign mastermind'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7910124.stm
http://www.news.com.au/travel/story/0,23483,25108635-5014090,00.html?from=public_rss
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\02\26\story_26-2-2009_pg7_39
-- related story
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7895598.stm
(UK) Interpal's US terrorism designation blamed for Lloyd's Bank decision
-- "This is because Lloyds TSB, like many other banks, has dealings with the United States, and so we have no option but to comply with US government economic sanction laws…The US has classified Interpal as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist which means that Lloyds TSB cannot provide any services to Interpal."
http://www.charityfinance.co.uk/home/content.php?id=2603&pg=15&cat=58
-- Comment: Lloyds whines that it is all America's fault... not Interpal's fault for funding Hamas
(UK) Islamic state conference billed for Vale Farm Sports Centre, in Wembley
-- by Islamic supremacist group Islam for the UK
-- "Amjem Choudary, a spokesman for the group, said the wrong venue had been deliberately advertised to stop the event being banned"
-- Choudary: "What we tend to do is book two venues - one where we don't want the event to take place and one where the event is going to take place, which we don't advertise."
http://www.harrowtimes.co.uk/news/newsheadlines/4150560.Islamic_state_conference_billed_for_Wembley/
(UK) Minister opens mosque's new Islamic library
http://www.eastlondonadvertiser.co.uk/content/towerhamlets/advertiser/news/story.aspx?brand=ELAOnline&category=news&tBrand=northlondon24&tCategory=newsela&itemid=WeED25%20Feb%202009%2017%3A58%3A28%3A880
(UK) Will Labour allow THIS Muslim hardliner with links to Hezbollah into Britain?
-- "Ibrahim Moussawi, a known hardliner with links to Hezbollah, has been invited to speak at a London university"
-- "Editor for the newspaper of Lebanon-based terrorist organisation Hezbollah, he is a former political editor of the Iranian-backed group's TV station"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1154827/Will-Labour-allow-THIS-Muslim-hardliner-links-Hezbollah-Britain.html?ITO=1490
--- UK Home Office has previously allowed Hezbollah's Ibrahim Moussawi to speak throughout UK
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1196847295423&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1569640/Ban-Hizbollah-TV-boss-from-UK,-say-Tories.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/philipjohnston/3555683/Labour%2C-extremism-and-a-friend-of-Hizbollah.html
(UK) Terrorist suspects claiming unemployment benefits
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/4799494/Terrorist-suspects-claiming-unemployment-benefits.html
(UK) Reports of Muslims poisoning food with human waste
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/025006.php
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/019951.php
http://www.local6.com/news/5182853/detail.html
http://www.thisisgloucestershire.co.uk/gloucestershireheadlines/Man-accused-waging-spray-war/article-721336-detail/article.html
U.K: Analysts find new culprit for "radicalization": Old people
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/025010.php
-- UK: Islamic group slams 'out of touch' imams
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2009/02/uk-islamic-group-slams-out-of-touch.html
-- Mosques 'fail to tackle radicals'
---- "97% of imams were born abroad"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7907037.stm
UK: Muslims first, British second-- with BBC video links
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2009/02/uk-muslims-first-british-second.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lswFMzD_hVU&
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvAhN8iEnGo&
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YLWCgRrSgI&
(UK) Discussion on Islamic finance begins in UK
http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=275405&version=1&template_id=48&parent_id=28
Commentaries:
(UK) We let radical groups settle in our midst – so this is no surprise - by Kim Sengupta
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/kim-sengupta-we-let-radical-groups-settle-in-our-midst-ndash-so-this-is-no-surprise-1631353.html
(UK/U.S.) Freed Guantanamo detainee accuses U.S. of torture -- Ethiopian Binyam Mohamed with British residency
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090223/ts_nm/us_britain_guantanamo_detainee
--- Released Guantanamo inmate to report regularly to police - voluntary measures
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/feb/23/binyam-mohamed-return-uk
--- Returned Guantanamo man held under anti-terror laws
---- "He was detained under Schedule 7 Port and Border Controls, contained within the Terrorism Act 2000, following the arrival of the aircraft at RAF Northolt shortly after 1300 GMT. The man has not been arrested."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090223/wl_uk_afp/usbritainethiopiaattacksguantanamo
--- Binyam Mohamed back in UK
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/cuba/4787164/Binyam-Mohamed-back-in-UK-claiming-torturers-linked-to-British-agents-Guantanamo.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article5790314.ece
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1152505/Guantanamo-Briton-arrives-home-vows-expose-UKs-role-torture.html
--- UK Foreign Minister Miliband: Binyam release is the 1st step towards shared goal to close Guantanamo
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=1978153&Language=en
--- Binyam Mohamed: The false martyr - by Thomas Joscelyn
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2009/02/binyam_mohamed_the_f.php
--- February 6, 2009 report on Binyam Mohamed plot for terror attacks in U.S., role with Taliban, and reports of training to develop dirty bomb
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1135491/Revealed-The-truth-Briton-tortured-Guantanamo-Bay.html?ITO=1490
(UK) Jihad books were in library
- "library service was stocking books which encouraged jihad and the murder of non-Muslims, a Government-backed report has revealed"
http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/news/Jihad-books-library/article-718981-detail/article.html
(UK) Sharia Finance: HSBC targets sharia in UK
-- "HSBC is making a raft of sharia-compliant funds available to UK investors for the first time by restructuring them into a single, Luxembourg-domiciled offering"
http://www.ftadviser.com/InvestmentAdviser/Investments/Region/FrontierMarkets/News/article/20090223/a7001eb2-ff62-11dd-ac57-00144f2af8e8/HSBC-targets-sharia-in-UK.jsp
(UK) Al Nisa report: "More criticism for Preventing Violent Extremism" (PVE) poject
http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/3350
http://www.pickledpolitics.com/pictures/documents/pve_response_alnisa.pdf
(UK) Home Office/RICU Letter by Stephen Rimmer - "Allegations Made in the [BBC] Panorama Programme 'Muslim First - British Second' on Monday 16 February
-- "there is no hidden agenda in Prevent" organization
http://www.pickledpolitics.com/pictures/documents/homeoffice_pve_response.pdf
(UK) Farmers aim for halal meat market
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/west_midlands/7906109.stm
(UK) Guantanamo man 'can settle in UK' - Binyam Mohamed
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7903330.stm
--- Binyam Mohamed: The false martyr - by Thomas Joscelyn
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2009/02/binyam_mohamed_the_f.php
--- February 6, 2009 report on Binyam Mohamed plot for terror attacks in U.S., role with Taliban, and reports of training to develop dirty bomb
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1135491/Revealed-The-truth-Briton-tortured-Guantanamo-Bay.html?ITO=1490
(UK) Rights Court Halts Extradition of Radical Muslim Cleric from Britain -- Abu Qatada
-- "The European Court of Human Rights says it has asked Britain to halt the extradition of a radical Muslim cleric and suspected al-Qaida member, Abu Qatada, from Britain to Jordan"
http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-02-21-voa17.cfm?rss=europe
(UK) Exeter: Holy books to stay separated
http://www.thisisexeter.co.uk/education/Holy-books-stay-separated/article-714775-detail/article.html
(UK) Pakistan's The News: "Blast in Eastern London" -- NOTE report has not been confirmed by any other news source
"LONDON: Blast has been reported in Eastern London on Saturday."
http://www.thenews.com.pk/updates.asp?id=69278
http://www.geo.tv/2-21-2009/35658.htm
Commentaries:
(UK) Joan Smith: Beyond the psychotic drivel, Qatada is serious about jihad
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/joan-smith/joan-smith-beyond-the-psychotic-drivel-qatada-is-serious-about-jihad-1628837.html
(UK) Binyam Mohamed: The false martyr - by Thomas Joscelyn
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2009/02/binyam_mohamed_the_f.php
(UK) Muslim Baby Boom
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/70359/Muslim-baby-boom-/
(Netherlands/UK) Wilders files appeal against UK ban
http://www.radionetherlands.nl/news/zijlijn/6182741/Wilders-files-appeal-against-UK-ban
Commentaries:
(UK) Schooling children to hate our values - by Amanda Platell
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1151301/AMANDA-PLATELL-Schooling-children-hate-values.html
Propaganda:
(UK) Guardian's Seumas Milne attacks draft concept to challenge Islamic supremacism in UK
--- Seumas Milne: would be "most transparent folly"... "to label 'extremist' any British Muslim who supports armed resistance anywhere, including the Palestinian territories; favours sharia law; fails to condemn attacks on British occupation troops in Iraq or Aghanistan; regards gay sex as sinful; or supports the restoration of a pan-Islamic caliphate in the Muslim world"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/feb/19/terrorism-policy-labour-stella-rimington
(UK) Left-Wing Group says Civitas report of Islamic supremacism in UK schools "endorses mind control over Muslims"
http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/3304
(UK) Islamic fundamentalism promoted on websites at some Muslim schools in the UK, think tank finds
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/4699505/Islamic-fundamentalism-promoted-on-websites-at-some-Muslim-schools-in-the-UK-think-tank-finds.html
-- Related reports:
http://www.civitas.org.uk/press/prcs87.php
http://www.civicsociety.co.uk/MusicChessandOtherSins17Feb09.pdf
(UK) Polygamy: Muslim peer says issue has been avoided because of 'cultural sensitivity'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/4733171/Polygamy-Muslim-peer-says-issue-has-been-avoided-because-of-cultural-sensitivity.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1151087/Labour-failed-polygamy-fear-offending-muslims-says-peer.html
(UK) Muslim Engage organization leader condemns report of plans to consider new draft "Contest 2" code
-- Engage's Inayat Bunglawala (former spokesman for the Muslim Council of Great Britain) says that calling for British Muslims to respect equality, reject caliphate, reject jihad, and not promote Sharia "would be counterproductive and class most Muslims as extremists"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/feb/17/counterterrorism-strategy-muslims
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/02/17/who-is-an-extremist/
-- Engage web site
http://www.iengage.org.uk/
-- Inayat Bunglawala also a writer for UK's Guardian
---- "In August 2005, Inayat was appointed by the Home Office as the Convenor of a working group on Tackling Extremism"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/2007/jun/03/inayatbunglawala
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/about-us/news/tacklilng-extremism?version=2
-- August 20, 2005: "Top job fighting extremism for Muslim who praised bomber"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1496621/Top-job-fighting-extremism-for-Muslim-who-praised-bomber.html
-- Inayat Bunglawala states Osama Bin Laden "was a freedom fighter"
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/01f7156e-12a9-11da-8cc3-00000e2511c8,Authorised=false.html?_i_location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcms%2Fs%2F0%2F01f7156e-12a9-11da-8cc3-00000e2511c8.html%3Fnclick_check%3D1&_i_referer=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%3B_ylt%3DA0geu8cu8ppJAGgBFydXNyoA%3Fp%3DUK%2BHome%2BOffice%2B%2522Inayat%2BBunglawala%2522%26y%3DSearch%26fr%3Dyfp-t-501&nclick_check=1
-- Inayat Bunglawala: "Calling for establishing a state with Islamic values should not be a crime"
http://www.islamonline.net/English/News/2006-07/18/05.shtml
-- British Muslims who object to homosexuality could be classed as extremists
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-11206.html
--- Pakistan Daily: "Leaked UK Government Proposals Label Core Aspects Of Islam as 'Extremist'"
http://www.daily.pk/world/europe/9473-leaked-uk-government-proposals-label-core-aspects-of-islam-as-extremist.html
February 19, 2009 - Guardian: "Labour's cricket test for British Muslims" by ENGAGE's Inayat Bunglawala
--- Bunglawala: "One point that is becoming clearer by the day is that the 'extremists' as defined by Contest 2 are no longer a fringe element but rather those who believe in the fundamental aspects of Islam, ie the majority."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/feb/18/islam-labour-contest-2
(UK) Muslim parents unaware of 'hardline' teaching at some Islamic schools
-- "Today's Civitas report warns, however, that with more than 100 private Islamic schools, and many other state-educated pupils receiving extra tuition in weekend or evening madrassa lessons, many Muslim children are being exposed to fundamentalist teaching."
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23647399-details/Muslim+parents+unaware+of+%27hardline%27+teaching++at+some+Islamic+schools/article.do
-- Civitas Press Release: Think-tank calls for vetting of Muslim schools to eliminate fundamentalists
--- "'the Holy Prophet stated the person who plays chess, is like the one who dips his hands in the blood of a swine (pig)', and condemns 'the evil system of the Western culture'"
http://www.civitas.org.uk/press/prcs87.php
-- Civitas Full Report: "Music, Chess and Other Sins"
http://www.civicsociety.co.uk/MusicChessandOtherSins17Feb09.pdf
(UK) Inspectors 'ignoring Muslim schools' failures'
-- "Inspectors are ignoring failures in Muslim schools because they do not want to cause offence, according to a think-tank"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/education/article5769239.ece
(UK) Daily Telegraph: Double standards that mock a tolerant society - Muslims must not be singled out for special treatment
-- "We report today that, as part of the Government's strategy to fight 'violent extremism,' schoolchildren are being encouraged to imagine they are terrorists plotting the July 7 atrocities."
-- "it is ridiculous and dangerous to ask impressionable young people – some of them Muslim – to produce an imaginary justification for Islamist murder"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/telegraph-view/4700609/Double-standards-that-mock-a-tolerant-society.html
--- Related report
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2009/feb/19/july-bombers-teaching-pack
--- "Tahir Alam, of the Muslim Council of Great Britain, said: 'This isn't any different from any educational tool people use all the time. Pupils imagine they're poets and write a poem, or imagine they're living in the 12th century. If children are asked what the justification of bombings might be, they might talk about foreign policy or other grievances.'"
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/pupils-study-77-attacks-from-bombers-viewpoint-1627062.html
(UK) We must stop Muslim schools teaching that integration is a sin -- Denis MacEoin
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/4700709/We-must-stop-Muslim-schools-teaching-that-integration-is-a-sin.html
(UK) Muslim preacher Anjem Choudary calls for people who get drunk to be flogged
--- "made the remarks on his website Islam4UK, which argues that Britain should become an Islamic state ruled by Sharia law"
--- Choudary: ""Islam is undeniably the only real solution for Britain's problems"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/4695824/Muslim-preacher-Anjem-Choudary-calls-for-people-who-get-drunk-to-be-flogged.html
(UK) Wahhabism at Regent’s Park: the continuing saga
--- continuing Islamic supremacism at London Central Mosque at Regent's Park
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/02/18/wahhabism-at-regents-park-the-continuing-saga/
-- continues to sell books by Islamic supremacists:
---- Explanation of Important Lessons (For Every Muslim) by former Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia Abdul-Aziz bin Abdullah bin Baz
http://www.darussalam.com/product_info.php?products_id=315
---- Among the Punishments and Remedies for Sin: Further Selections from the Illness and the Cure - by Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya (aka Al-Jawziyyah)
http://www.darussalam.com/product_info.php?cPath=71_5&products_id=1199
---- An Explanation of Four Principles of Shirk -by Abu Ammar Yasir Qadhi
http://www.darussalam.com/product_info.php?products_id=982
---- read the entire article for more
(UK) More criticism of proposed code that would call for British Muslims to support equality and liberty, reject Sharia, caliphate, and jihad
--- "Labour's cricket test for British Muslims" by ENGAGE's Inayat Bunglawala
--- Bunglawala: "One point that is becoming clearer by the day is that the 'extremists' as defined by Contest 2 are no longer a fringe element but rather those who believe in the fundamental aspects of Islam, ie the majority."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/feb/18/islam-labour-contest-2
---- see additional reports on Inayat Bunglawala
http://britishjihad.com/blog1/2009/02/engage_contest.html
(UK) Prominent Jews accuse Royal Court play of demonizing Israelis
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/4691647/Prominent-Jews-accuse-Royal-Court-play-of-demonising-Israelis.html
(UK) Report: "Government cracks down on college extremists"
-- "crackdown" consists of skills secretary John Denham telling UK colleges to watch for graffiti and "extremist material online"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2009/feb/18/crackdown-college-extremists-terrorism
--- while Islam4UK promotes "Islamic Courses at the London School of Shari'ah"
---- see also Adrian Morgan's "UK: A decade of radical Islam on college campuses"
http://www.speroforum.com/site/article.asp?id=6569
http://www.fsmarchives.org/article.php?id=559672
http://www.fsmarchives.org/article.php?id=562994
(UK) Foreign Office minister Lord Malloch-Brown: UK failing to tackle anti-Semitism
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/4681358/Foreign-Office-minister-Lord-Malloch-Brown-UK-failing-to-tackle-anti-Semitism.html
So is Britain really going to break with the Muslim Brothers? -- by Melanie Phillips
http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/3365496/so-is-britain-really-going-to-break-with-the-muslim-brothers.thtml
(UK) Muslim Engage organization leader condemns report of plans to consider new draft "Contest 2" code
-- Engage's Inayat Bunglawala (former spokesman for the Muslim Council of Great Britain) says that calling for British Muslims to respect equality, reject caliphate, reject jihad, and not promote Sharia "would be counterproductive and class most Muslims as extremists"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/feb/17/counterterrorism-strategy-muslims
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/02/17/who-is-an-extremist/
-- Engage web site
http://www.iengage.org.uk/
-- Inayat Bunglawala also a writer for UK's Guardian
---- "In August 2005, Inayat was appointed by the Home Office as the Convenor of a working group on Tackling Extremism"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/2007/jun/03/inayatbunglawala
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/about-us/news/tacklilng-extremism?version=2
-- August 20, 2005: "Top job fighting extremism for Muslim who praised bomber"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1496621/Top-job-fighting-extremism-for-Muslim-who-praised-bomber.html
-- Inayat Bunglawala states Osama Bin Laden "was a freedom fighter"
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/01f7156e-12a9-11da-8cc3-00000e2511c8,Authorised=false.html?_i_location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcms%2Fs%2F0%2F01f7156e-12a9-11da-8cc3-00000e2511c8.html%3Fnclick_check%3D1&_i_referer=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%3B_ylt%3DA0geu8cu8ppJAGgBFydXNyoA%3Fp%3DUK%2BHome%2BOffice%2B%2522Inayat%2BBunglawala%2522%26y%3DSearch%26fr%3Dyfp-t-501&nclick_check=1
-- Inayat Bunglawala: "Calling for establishing a state with Islamic values should not be a crime"
http://www.islamonline.net/English/News/2006-07/18/05.shtml
-- Hizb ut-Tahrir complains of fears that "UK Government to Compel Muslims to adopt secular liberal values"
http://www.hizb.org.uk/hizb/press-centre/press-release/leaked-uk-government-proposals-label-core-aspects-of-islam-as-extremist.html
-- British Muslims who object to homosexuality could be classed as extremists
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-11206.html
--- Pakistan Daily: "Leaked UK Government Proposals Label Core Aspects Of Islam as 'Extremist'"
http://www.daily.pk/world/europe/9473-leaked-uk-government-proposals-label-core-aspects-of-islam-as-extremist.html
(UK) Asim Siddiqui: "How to categorise every Muslim as an extremist"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/feb/17/terrorism-islam
--- Siddiqui trustee of UK's City Cirle group on British Muslim issues
http://www.thecitycircle.com/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/asimsiddiqui
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asim_Siddiqui
--- City Circle event this week in UK on February 20: "Resistance - the Essence of Islamic Revolution"
http://www.thecitycircle.com/more.php?ann_id=143
(UK) Islamic finance is booming in face of Western credit crunch
http://www.birminghampost.net/birmingham-business/birmingham-business-news/legal-business/2009/02/18/islamic-finance-is-booming-in-face-of-western-credit-crunch-65233-22949964/
(UK) Scotland: Imams to join police in fighting gangs
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2009/02/scotland-imams-to-join-police-in.html
British law professor on Pakistan Sharia law - "Is Sharia the answer?"
-- British professor Shaheen Sardar Ali is "a professor of law at the University of Warwick, UK"
http://dawn.net/wps/wcm/connect/Dawn%20Content%20Library/dawn/the-paper/editorial/is+sharia+the+answer
-- biography for British university professor Shaheen Sardar Ali -- consults for NORAD, UNICEF
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/law/staff/academic/ali/
(UK) Libraries told to move books in response to complaints that Quran is not on top shelf
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1148363/Libraries-Bible-shelf-sop-Muslims.html
Commentaries:
England's Muslim Spleen - Brits ban a foe of Islamism -- by John O'Sullivan
http://www.nypost.com/seven/02162009/postopinion/opedcolumnists/englands_muslim_spleen_155468.htm
(UK) Archbishop of Canterbury: Society is coming round to my views on sharia
-- Rowan Williams claims "a number of fairly senior people" in UK now support institutionalizing Sharia law in UK
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/4631128/Archbishop-of-Canterbury-Society-is-coming-round-to-my-views-on-sharia.html
---- A drift of misunderstanding in Londonistan - by Melanie Phillips
http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/3363346/a-drift-of-misunderstanding-in-londonistan.thtml
---- Rowan Williams is right to say the public supports him over Sharia. (The Saudi Arabian public, that is.) -- by Damian Thompson
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/damian_thompson/blog/2009/02/16/rowan_williams_is_right_to_say_the_public_supports_him_over_sharia_the_saudi_arabian_public_that_is
Commentaries:
UK: The Ghost of a Supremacist-Appeased Future - by Jeffrey Imm
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/125.html#3
(UK) A drift of misunderstanding in Londonistan - by Melanie Phillips
http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/3363346/a-drift-of-misunderstanding-in-londonistan.thtml
(UK) Rowan Williams is right to say the public supports him over Sharia. (The Saudi Arabian public, that is.) -- by Damian Thompson
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/damian_thompson/blog/2009/02/16/rowan_williams_is_right_to_say_the_public_supports_him_over_sharia_the_saudi_arabian_public_that_is
Geert Wilders and the Fight for Europe - Does defending Western values constitute "inciting hatred"? -- by Bat Yeor
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZGVhOWZlNjk4N2E0NDk1NDgwYWRhNzlhMTdmNWZlNjI=
UK conference to "emphasise the need for all Muslims worldwide to struggle as much as they can for the sake of Allah (SWT) to implement the Shari'ah on the earth"
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/024855.php
(UK) Police opening office within mosque
http://www.beverleyguardian.co.uk/latest-york-and-humberside-news/Police-opening-office-within-mosque.4982291.jp
(UK) Project to help growing Muslim community -- to help Muslim convert women
http://new.eveningnews24.co.uk/content/News/story.aspx?brand=ENOnline&category=News&tBrand=enonline&tCategory=news&itemid=NOED14%20Feb%202009%2009%3A33%3A01%3A473
(UK) Surge of anti-Semitic attacks in UK
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3671416,00.html
UK Paper: Boycott Israeli Government with Lieberman -- London-based Arabic-language Al-Quds Al-Arabi newspaper
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/129946
(UK) Islamic finance accelerates into motor policies -- expansion of Sharia in UK
http://www.independent.co.uk/money/insurance/islamic-finance-accelerates-into-motor-policies-1622160.html
(UK) New counter-terrorism campaign - featuring "prominent Muslims"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/7891152.stm
Commentaries:
(UK) Labour bares its appeaser's teeth to unbending Muslims -- by Minette Marrin
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/minette_marrin/article5733899.ece
(UK) BBC - Video: Muslim First, British Second
http://news.bbc.co.uk/panorama/hi/front_page/newsid_7888000/7888467.stm
(UK) What happened to the book burners? -- regarding those in UK who burned Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses
--- Aki Nawaz: "I don't really care what non-Muslims think - I think what the Muslims did had to be done."
--- Ishtiaq Ahmed says UK has benefited: "People became more aware about the presence of Muslims, more aware of their sensibilities regarding their faith"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7883308.stm
--- see also London Times' "Burning Satanic Verses lit the flame for better race relations" -- by Sunny Hundal
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article5720319.ece
(UK) Few attend UK screening of Wilders' film
http://www.radionetherlands.nl/news/zijlijn/6175108-Few-attend-UK
-- Fitna broadcast in House of Lords: "Only five peers -- and no MPs -- were among the 30 people who attended last night's screening"
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23641599-details/Islam%2C+hate+and+free+speech/article.do
(UK) BBC Hides Report on Bias
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/129932
(UK) Rolling road blocks will be in place for holy parade
http://www.hillingdontimes.co.uk/news/asianspotlight/spotlight/4117412.Muslim_parade_date_set_for_High_Wycombe/
Commentaries:
IFPS: The House of Lords Speech: What Wilders Would Have Said If the UK Allowed Free Speech
-- Geert Wilders: "you cannot run away from history, you cannot escape the dangers of ideologies that are out to destroy you. Denial is no option"
-- Geert Wilders: "Will Britain offer submission or perseverance? Freedom or slavery?"
http://www.internationalfreepresssociety.org/2009/02/the-house-of-lords-speech-what-wilders%E2%80%99-would-have-said-if-the-uk-allowed-free-speech/
Wall Street Journal: Britain Bans One of Islam's Critics
By detaining Geert Wilders, the U.K. undermines its own values.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123447930283579567.html?mod=
(UK) Banning Wilders plays into the hands of our Islamist enemies - by Charles Moore
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/charlesmoore/4615504/Banning-Wilders-plays-into-the-hands-of-our-Islamist-enemies.html
(UK) Debate in House of Lords on the UK government's justification for barring Wilders from the country
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/024815.php
http://news.parliament.uk/2009/02/geert-wilders/
(UK) "Preserving 'Harmony' for Islamic Radicals" - by Andrew McCarthy
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MDVhODU5MDQ2OTg5OGNmOWJkNjk3MTRlYTg4MGJjZjM
Propaganda:
(UK) Guardian: Wilders' ban is in Britain's best interests -- by Nazir Ahmed
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/feb/13/geert-wilders-extremists-liberty-central
(UK) Evening Standard: Islam, hate and free speech
-- "for anyone to use that right of free speech purely to provoke trouble risks threatening the very atmosphere in which free speech is possible"
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23641599-details/Islam%2C+hate+and+free+speech/article.do
(UK) Guardian: "Geert Wilders? Good riddance" - by Chris Huhne
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/feb/13/geert-wilders-liberty-central
(UK) Closing the door on Geert Wilders - by Clive Davis
http://www.spectator.co.uk/clivedavis/3353811/closing-the-door-on-geert-wilders.thtml
(UK) BBC apology as radio guests swear about politician Geert Wilders
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/tv-radio/bbc-apology-as-radio-guests-swear-about-politician-1608627.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1143878/BBC-new-swearing-row-Radio-5-guests-Dutch-MP-w--.html
(UK) "Burning Satanic Verses lit the flame for better race relations" -- by Sunny Hundal
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article5720319.ece
Images of Demonstrations Against Geert Wilders
http://www.spitsnieuws.nl/archives/foto/2009/02/wilders_wacht_geen_warm_welkom.html
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/024808.php
(UK) "Anti-Islam Dutch Lawmaker Sent Back to Netherlands Amid U.K. Ban"
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,491505,00.html
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Politics/Geert-Wilders-Dutch-MP-Banned-From-UK-Is-Sent-Back-To-Holland-From-Heathrow-Airport/Article/200902215221965?lpos=Politics_Carousel_Region_0&lid=ARTICLE_15221965_Geert_Wilders%2C_Dutch_MP_Banned_From_UK%2C_Is_Sent_Back_To_Holland_From_Heathrow_Airport
http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/84535
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/02/geert-wilders-arrested-refused-entry.html
http://www.geertwilders.nl/
-- PDF of UK February 10, 2009 Letter to Wilders
http://www.foxnews.com/projects/pdf/wilders_letter.pdf
(UK) "Mr Wilders said: 'I am in a detention centre at Heathrow ... I am detained. They took my passport. I will not be allowed to enter the country. They will send me back within a few hours.'"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article5718039.ece
(UK) Dutch MP Geert Wilders deported after flying to Britain to show anti-Islamic film
--- "ban was supported by the Muslim Council of Great Britain"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/4603165/Dutch-MP-Geert-Wilders-deported-after-flying-to-Britain-to-show-anti-Islamic-film.html
(UK) Dutch MP banned over anti-Islam film is to be sent back home from Heathrow
--- "Speaking from Heathrow, Mr Wilders branded Gordon Brown the 'biggest coward in Europe' and said freedom of speech in Britain had been 'set back centuries'."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1141622/Dutch-MP-arrives-Heathrow-booted-Britain-anti-Islam-film.html
(UK) Wilders: "It's a very sad day for freedom of speech in the UK"
--- Lord Pearson: "The film isn't offensive unless you are a violent Islamist."
--- BBC: "The Lords screening went ahead as planned, despite Mr Wilder's non-attendance."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7885918.stm
--- Video: Banned Dutch MP held at Heathrow
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7886491.stm
(UK) Muslim peer who invited terror suspect to visit Parliament
-- "Muslim peer [Lord Ahmed] at the heart of the opposition to extremist Dutch politician Geert Wilders's visit once invited an Al Qaeda terror suspect to visit Parliament."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1142862/Muslim-peer-invited-terror-suspect-visit-Parliament.html?ITO=1490
(UK) Security Minister "Lord [Alan] West" [of Spithead]: "I certainly don't think we are guilty of appeasement in any way whatsoever."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article5718039.ece?token=null&offset=12&page=2
--- Same UK Security Minister Alan West that has called for talks with Al-Qaeda
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7299888.stm
--- More on Alan West
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/101.html#T05
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/UK_Strategy_Sources.htm#003
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_West,_Baron_West_of_Spithead
(UK) Just 4 parents forced head to resign over Muslim assemblies
http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/84465
(UK) Outrage at 'Muslim only' Domino's pizza
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/69327/Outrage-at-Muslim-only-Domino-s-pizza/
Dutch govt 'regrets' British decision on far-right Dutch MP
http://www.thenews.com.pk/updates.asp?id=68408
Dutch protest Britain's ban of right-wing lawmaker
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2009/02/10/europe/EU-Netherlands-Britain-Lawmaker-Barred.php
International Free Press Society (IFPS): An Open Letter to the Government of the UK
http://www.internationalfreepresssociety.org/2009/02/an-open-letter-to-the-government-of-the-uk/
Commentaries:
UK: How Britain, the cradle of liberty, is sleepwalking towards cultural suicide - by Melanie Phillips
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1141806/MELANIE-PHILLIPS-How-Britain-cradle-liberty-sleepwalking-cultural-suicide.html
Andrew Bostom Commentary on Geert Wilders
http://www.andrewbostom.org/blog/2009/02/11/geert-wilders-and-the-mendacious-very-little-green-craven-one-and-his-mindless-minions/
UK: Whatever happened to free speech? - by Philip Johnston
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/philipjohnston/4604985/Whatever-happened-to-free-speech.html
(UK) 'Let them arrest me': Dutch MP vows to defy Home Office ban and fly to Britain to show anti-Islam film
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1141622/Let-arrest-Dutch-MP-vows-defy-Home-Office-ban-fly-Britain-anti-Islam-film.html
-- Image of UK letter sent to Geert Wilders
http://www.dianawest.net/Portals/0/Geert%20Letter.jpg
(UK) Diplomatic row after Jacqui Smith bans from Britain Dutch MP who planned to show anti-Islam film at House of Lords
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1141622/Diplomatic-row-Jacqui-Smith-bans-Britain-Dutch-MP-planned-anti-Islam-film-House-Lords.html
(UK) Daily Mail reports UK Home Office spokesman as stating:
"The Government opposes extremism in all its forms. It will stop those who want to spread extremism, hatred and violent messages in our communities from coming to our country."
"We endorse the original condemnation of the film 'Fitna' by the Dutch Government, and feel that it serves no constructive purpose."
"The British Government has absolutely no connection with any screening of this film that may take place in the House of Lords or anywhere else in the UK. It is a matter for the House of Lords or any other venue as to whether they choose to show it."
"Freedom of speech is a fundamental right, but one that must be used responsibly and not as a cover for causing offence and division. We fully appreciate the sensitivities around the portrayal of any religious figure or text."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1141622/Diplomatic-row-Jacqui-Smith-bans-Britain-Dutch-MP-planned-anti-Islam-film-House-Lords.html
--- see also August 31, 2008: British Government Efforts against "Extremists" Ignores Jihad and Islamic Supremacism
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/101.html
(UK) Lord Ahmed on Banning Geert Wilders: "It would be unwise to have him in the UK because this man's presence would cause hatred"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7882953.stm
(UK) Controversial anti-Muslim MP banned from the UK because of public order fears
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/netherlands/4582982/Controversial-anti-Muslim-MP-banned-from-the-UK-because-of-public-order-fears.html
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/00213dde-f7a0-11dd-a284-000077b07658.html?nclick_check=1
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article5709892.ece
(UK) Yes, Wilders is highly controversial but freedom dies if we ban him from addressing our Parliament -- by Melanie Phillips
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1141806/MELANIE-PHILLIPS-Yes-Wilders-highly-controversial-freedom-dies-ban-addressing-Parliament.html
(UK) Re: Brits ban Wilders - by Mark Steyn
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZmM1NTcwNGQzMzA3ZDE2MTZlZjUwYTNiMjE1ZTlhZGY=
(UK) Spectator: Britain capitulates to terror
http://www.spectator.co.uk/the-magazine/arts/3344161/britain-capitulates-to-terror.thtml
(UK) Is Geert Wilders inconsistent in calling for banning the Qur'an and defending free speech?
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/024800.php
--- References:
--- NYT's "Totally Tolerant, Up to a Point" by Ian Buruma
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/30/opinion/30buruma.html?_r=3&scp=2&sq=Ian%20Buruma&st=cse
(UK/Netherlands) Wilders to travel to Great Britain despite ban
http://www.radionetherlands.nl/news/international/6171838/Wilders-to-travel-to-Great-Britain-despite-ban
--- Defiant Wilders to travel to Britain despite ban
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/024799.php
http://www.telegraaf.nl/binnenland/3225518/__Wilders_gaat_confrontatie_aan__.html
--- Far-right Dutch MP ignores Britain on entry refusal
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090211/wl_uk_afp/netherlandspoliticsislambritain_20090211135757
(UK/Netherlands) "Dutch protest Britain's ban of right-wing lawmaker" -- on Geert Wilders
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2009/02/10/europe/EU-Netherlands-Britain-Lawmaker-Barred.php
(UK) BBC should not keep Israeli bias report secret according to Lords
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/media/4591752/BBC-should-not-keep-Israeli-bias-report-secret-according-to-Lords.html
(UK) Birmingham: Domino's Pizza outlet bans pork in favour of halal menu
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/foodanddrinknews/4590251/Dominos-Pizza-outlet-bans-pork-in-favour-of-halal-menu.html
(UK) Woman saved from forced marriage in Pakistan by new UK law
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/4590895/Woman-saved-from-forced-marriage-in-Pakistan-by-new-UK-law.html
Commentaries:
Who's Committing Crimes against Humanity? by Janet Levy
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/02/whos_committing_crimes_against.html
A Geert Wilders Defense Journal Entry - by Gary H. Johnson, Jr.
http://unitedagainstislamicsupremacism.wordpress.com/2009/02/10/a-geert-wilders-defense-journal-entry/
UK Government Web Site: UK top for Islamic finance in the West
http://www.ukinvest.gov.uk/OurWorld/4042212/en-GB.html
-- A World Centre For Islamic Finance
http://www.ukinvest.gov.uk/Feature/4030756/en-GB.html
(UK) British Muslim delegation visiting Algeria and Morocco
http://www.app.com.pk/en_/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=67661&Itemid=39
(UK) Islamophonic: Converting to Islam
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/audio/2009/feb/02/islamophonic-converting-islam
Commentaries:
(UK) Daily Telegraph: "Muslim parents should accept the law of the land "
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/telegraph-view/4579793/Muslim-parents-should-accept-the-law-of-the-land.html
--- Another Muslim ghetto takes shape as head teacher is 'forced out' for opposing Islamic assemblies -- by
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/damian_thompson/blog/2009/02/10/another_muslim_ghetto_takes_shape_as_head_teacher_is_forced_out_for_opposing_islamic_assemblies_
(UK) Britain's a world-leader in sharia banking - but we haven't grasped the sinister and dangerous implications - by Melanie Phillips
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1141087/Britains-world-leader-sharia-banking--havent-grasped-sinister-dangerous-implications.html?ITO=1490
-- UK Government Web Site: UK top for Islamic finance in the West
http://www.ukinvest.gov.uk/OurWorld/4042212/en-GB.html
-- A World Centre For Islamic Finance
http://www.ukinvest.gov.uk/Feature/4030756/en-GB.html
(UK) British diplomat arrested over 'anti-Semitic' rant
-- Senior Foreign Office diplomat Rowan Laxton publicly ranted "f***ing Israelis, f***ing Jews" and saying that Israeli soldiers should be "wiped off the face of the Earth"
-- Laxton has "served in Pakistan and Afghanistan" and is "in charge of UK diplomatic policy in South Asia, directly briefing David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article5693687.ece
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/4564216/Foreign-Office-diplomat-arrested-over-anti-Semitic-rant.html
--- High-ranking Foreign Office diplomat arrested over anti-Semitic gym tirade
----- UK Foreign Office: "It is too early to comment"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1139249/High-ranking-Foreign-Office-diplomat-arrested-anti-Semitic-gym-tirade.html
(UK) Britain's Islamic finance sector bigger than Pakistan's, report claims
-- "$18billion (£12bn) in assets of Britain's Islamic banks dwarf those of some states where Islam is the main religion, including Pakistan, Bangladesh, Turkey and Egypt"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/4569263/Britains-Islamic-finance-sector-bigger-than-Pakistans-report-claims.html
(UK) Headteacher forced to resign after being branded racist for trying to axe separate assemblies for Muslims
-- "She wanted to hold assemblies for all the pupils, which would include all faiths."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1139653/Headteacher-forced-resign-branded-racist-trying-axe-separate-assemblies-Muslims.html
(UK) Head 'forced out' over ban on Muslim assemblies
-- Additional report by London Times
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/education/article5697694.ece
(UK) Protests continue in Mosque row
http://www.hillingdontimes.co.uk/news/asianspotlight/spotlight/4113070.Protests_continue_in_Mosque_row/
(UK) Muslim mothers given web advice
-- "course is being funded by the government under its preventing violent extremism initiative"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/7878413.stm
UK: 12-year-old Jewish girl terrorized by "youths" chanting "Kill all Jews" and "Death to Jews"
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/024769.php
http://www.thejc.com/articles/schoolgirl-terrorised-mob
(UK) Christian nurse row: now teachers could be disciplined for discussing religion
-- "There is a witch hunt against Christians"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/4557794/Christian-nurse-row-now-teachers-could-be-disciplined-for-discussing-religion.html
(UK) Osama Bin Laden's niece to play London gig
http://www.nme.com/news/wafah-dufour/42644
Propaganda:
(UK) "Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: 'Satanic Verses' forced me to declare myself a Muslim"
-- "The arguments over freedom of expression though were disingenuous. There is no absolute freedom."
-- "Muslim believers like me... can belong to no exclusive camp or side"
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/yasmin-alibhai-brown/yasmin-alibhaibrown-lsquosatanic-versesrsquo-forced-me-to-declare-myself-a-muslim-1604607.html
(UK) Christian foster mother struck off after Muslim girl converts
-- "even though the girl made her own decision to change religion when she was 16"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/4557618/Christian-foster-mother-struck-off-after-Muslim-girl-converts.html
--- Foster parent who has looked after 80 children struck off...because a Muslim girl in her care became a Christian
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1138701/Foster-parent-looked-80-children-struck--Muslim-girl-care-Christian.html
(UK) Peaches Geldof in Islam TV show
-- move in with Muslim family in Morrocco for documentary "A Beginner's Guide to Islam"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/5221262.stm
(UK) Muslim doll to teach children Quranic Arabic to go on sale in Asda
-- "A 'Muslim Doll' to help Asian immigrant children learn Quranic Arabic will on sale in Asda next month, as the supermarket group launches a major drive into the ethnic market"
-- "Farzana Rahman, the founder of Desi Doll Company, which makes the dolls... a former Goldman Sachs banker"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/4539475/Muslim-doll-to-teach-children-Quaranic-Arabic-to-go-on-sale-in-Asda.html
--- "Asda is a British supermarket chain"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asda
(UK) Helphire teams up with Shariah-compliant insurer -- Salaam Halal Insurance
http://www.fleetnews.co.uk/news/story/Helphire-teams-up-with-Shariah-compliant-insurer/49372
http://www.postonline.co.uk/public/showPage.html?validate=0&page=post_login2&url=%2Fpublic%2FshowPage.html%3Fpage%3D837872
(UK) Muslim prisoners at top security jail double in two years
-- additional report
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/4537785/Muslim-prisoners-at-top-security-jail-double-in-two-years.html
(UK) Sharia Councils Spark Debate In Britain
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=96162078
(UK) Headscarf thief strikes in London
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/4536871/Headscarf-thief-strikes-in-London.html
(UK) Police adopt uniform hijab
-- "Police have opened the door to female Muslim recruits by incorporating the hijab into the uniform"
http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/news/Police-adopt-uniform-hijab/article-660197-detail/article.html
(UK) Britain offers to accept Palestinians who fled Iraq
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/palestinianauthority/4527498/Britain-offers-to-accept-Palestinians-who-fled-Iraq.html
(UK) Cat Stevens still performs as Yusuf Islam
http://www.monstersandcritics.com/people/news/article_1458001.php/Cat_Stevens_still_performs_as_Yusuf_Islam_
(UK) MP wants Government debate after Muslim prisoner numbers double
http://www.wisbech-standard.co.uk/content/wisbech/news/story.aspx?brand=CATOnline&category=NewsWisbech&tBrand=HertsCambsOnline&tCategory=newslatestWIS&itemid=WEED05%20Feb%202009%2014%3A56%3A47%3A820
(UK) Prince of Wales praised at Mosque visit
http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/Prince-praised-at-Mosque-visit.4950486.jp
(UK) Wales: Headteacher sues for Islamophobic accusations
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2009/02/wales-headteacher-sues-for-islamophobic.html
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2009/02/05/welsh-head-sues-her-bosses-in-landmark-race-case-91466-22858910/
--- "She also says she was 'harassed' by the four-strong team as they demanded the pupils be taught more about Allah and Islam"
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/68577/-100-000-battle-of-head-who-stood-up-to-muslim-bullies-/
(UK) NHS staff face sack if they discuss religion
-- "Christian nurse... was suspended after she offered to pray for an elderly patient"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/4530384/NHS-staff-face-sack-if-they-discuss-religion.html
(UK) Star: "St. Valentine's Day Massacre"
-- reports on rants on Valentine's Day by British Islamic supremacist Anjem Choudary
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/posts/view/68212/EXCLUSIVE-St-Valentine-s-day-massacre/
http://www.anorak.co.uk/media/201679.html
(UK) The intimidation of the House of Lords
-- "Wilders has been re-invited to speak and screen his film in the Lords later this month."
http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/3317931/the-intimidation-of-short
-- Wilders re-invited to speak at the House of Lords!
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/024698.php
(UK) Birmingham at heart of growth in Islamic finance
http://www.birminghampost.net/birmingham-business/birmingham-business-news/financial-business-news/2009/02/04/birmingham-at-heart-of-growth-in-islamic-finance-65233-22846652/
(UK) BBC payout to Muslim over charity cash libel
-- Hanif Malik "has accepted substantial undisclosed libel damages and his legal costs over a claim on Newsnight that Children in Need money was passed to the 7/7 bombers"
http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/BBC-payout-to-Muslim-over.4939426.jp
(UK) Muslim father who encouraged son to flog himself for religious ceremony escapes jail
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1132382/Muslim-father-encouraged-son-flog-religious-ceremony-escapes-jail.html?ITO=1490
(UK) March 7, 2009: International Women's Day in London - Sharia Law, Sexual Apartheid and Women's Rights
http://www.onelawforall.org.uk/events.html
http://www.onelawforall.org.uk/
(UK) Lord Ahmed threatens Parliament into submission
-- in response to House of Lords' member plan to invite Geert Wilders and screen Fitna
-- reportedly planned to "threatened to mobilise 10,000 Muslims to prevent Mr Wilders from entering the House and threatened to take the colleague who was organising the event to court"
http://archbishop-cranmer.blogspot.com/2009/01/lord-ahmed-threatens-parliament-into.html
--- UK parliament calls off screening controversial film Fitna
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\01\24\story_24-1-2009_pg7_44
--- "Lord Ahmed termed the decision as 'a victory for the Muslim community'"
http://www.app.com.pk/en_/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=65842&Itemid=2
(UK) Hiscox and Groupama in Islamic insurance launch
http://www.postonline.co.uk/public/showPage.html?validate=0&page=post_login2&url=%2Fpublic%2FshowPage.html%3Fpage%3D836912
(UK) BMB Islamic picks up top Sharia award
http://ftadviser.com/FinancialAdviser/Mortgages/Products/News/article/20090129/fc17101a-e70a-11dd-bc23-00144f2af8e8/BMB-Islamic-picks-up-top-Sharia-award.jsp
(UK) PriceWaterhouseCooper Maintains Blog on Sharia Finance for Guidance
http://pwc.blogs.com/islamicfinance/2009/01/conventional-and-shariah-compliant-mortgages.html
(UK) Cambridge: Study of Muslim women in Europe
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2009/01/cambridge-study-of-muslim-women-in.html
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/Muslim_women_feel_secure_in_Europe/articleshow/4045189.cms
-- Report
http://www.kingbaudouinfoundation.org/publication.aspx?id=241206&LangType=1033
(UK) Yusuf Islam performs song for Gaza (aka Cat Stevens)
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/entertainment&id=6624848&rss=rss-wabc-article-6624848
--- Yusuf Islam and Salman Rushdie
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/015294.php
--- May 23, 1989: Cat Stevens Gives Support To Call for Death of Rushdie
http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/04/18/specials/rushdie-cat.html?_r=6&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=login&oref=slogin&oref=login
(UK) BBC and Sky News Refuse to Air 'Give to Gaza' Clips
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/129612
(UK) Gaza donations double after DEC aid appeal screened
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/media/article5599384.ece
(UK) Muslim Council of Britain Boycotts Holocaust Memorial Day Again
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/01/26/muslim-council-of-britain-boycotts-holocaust-memorial-day-again/
--- Guardian "news brief" (scroll down)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/jan/26/5
(UK) Scottish Islamic Foundation (SIF) tightens stranglehold over Scottish Muslims
--- SIF's Osama Saeed promotes caliphate, Sharia law, censorship -- seeks UK govt funds to promote
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/01/26/scottish-islamic-foundation-tightens-stranglehold-over-scottish-muslims/
Commentaries:
(UK) The charities are guilty, not the BBC - by Andrew Roberts
-- "The Corporation is right not to run the Gaza appeal. Oxfam and others are clearly anti-Israel"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article5586716.ece
(UK) The Muslim Council of Britain's disgusting decision to boycott Holocaust Memorial Day - by James Forsyth
http://www.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/3292011/the-muslim-council-of-britains-disgusting-decision-to-boycott-holocaust-memorial-day.thtml
(UK) Archbishop of Canterbury criticises BBC decision not to run Gaza aid appeal
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/4338060/Archbishop-of-Canterbury-criticises-BBC-decision-not-to-run-Gaza-aid-appeal.html
-- July 19, 2008: Christian doctrine offensive to Muslims, says Archbishop of Canterbury
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2419430/Christian-doctrine-offensive-to-Muslims-says-Archbishop-of-Canterbury.html
-- February 9, 2008: Adopt sharia law in Britain, says the Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1578017/Adopt-sharia-law-in-Britain-says-the-Archbishop-of-Canterbury-Dr-Rowan-Williams.html
(UK) "Anti-war activists occupy BBC offices"
--- "until the national broadcaster agreed to air a charity fundraising appeal for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip"
http://www.dawn.com/2009/01/26/top8.htm
(UK) Ex-Christian sets up project to help those new to Muslim faith
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2009/01/26/ex-christian-sets-up-project-to-help-those-new-to-muslim-faith-91466-22777696/
(UAE/UK) British mother convicted of adultery in Dubai flees with her two children
http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/index.php/world/16878-british-mother-convicted-of-adultery-in-dubai-flees-with-her-two-children
(UK) Pressure grows over BBC Gaza appeal
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23627518-details/Pressure+grows+over+BBC+Gaza+appeal/article.do
--- BBC flayed over refusal to broadcast Gaza appeal
http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=268602&version=1&template_id=38&parent_id=20
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1058245.html
(UK) Terror police chief's limo firm is banned from offering trips
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1127225/Terror-police-chiefs-limo-firm-banned-offering-trips.html
(UK) Church of England (CoE) schools with only Muslim pupils
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/article5576412.ece
(UK) Evening Standard: Right-wing author is banned from Islam talk
--- Douglas Murray, director of Centre for Social Cohesion, banned from debate on Islam
--- Standard: "right-wing writer has been banned from chairing a debate on Islam at the London School of Economics today amid security fears"
--- Standard: "The LSE asked Mr Murray not to attend in the interest of public safety as his presence could provoke further unrest"
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23626820-details/Right-wing+author+is+banned+from+Islam+talk/article.do
---- Civil liberties group calls for resignation of Prof Janet Hartley
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/alex_singleton/blog/2009/01/23/civil_liberties_group_calls_for_resignation_of_prof_janet_hartley
UK: 44% of Muslims against integration
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2009/01/uk-44-of-muslims-against-integration.html
-- Daily Star Report: "Ghetto Britain"
--- on UK Equalities and Human Rights Commission poll
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/66597/Ghetto-Britain/
--- Daily Mail Graphic of Poll Results
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/01/20/article-0-031CE3E9000005DC-387_468x448_popup.jpg
--- Associated Daily Mail Report: "Religion divides us more than race, say Britons"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1123176/Religion-divides-race-say-Britons.html
----- Results in text:
----- Question: "Communities should be free to develop along separate lines and not forced to integrate"
------- Muslim Reponse - 44 percent agree
----- Question: "I would be happy for my child to marry someone from another religion"
------- Muslim Reponse - 60 percent disagree
---- New Commission poll shows British institutions need to 'keep up with Obama generation'
http://www.equalityhumanrights.com/en/newsandcomment/Pages/keepupwithObamageneration.aspx
(UK) Azad Ali - Oh No He Didn't, Oh Yes He Did!
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/01/23/azad-ali-oh-no-he-didnt-oh-yes-he-did/
http://blog.islamicforumeurope.com/?p=148
http://blog.islamicforumeurope.com/?p=98
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1120831/Muslim-civil-servant-suspended-killing-British-troops-justified-blog.html
UK: Muslims walking into Jewish-owned shops and saying, "I'm going to kill you"
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/024540.php
--- UK: London - More Anti-Semitic Attacks in Golders Green
http://www.vosizneias.com/26119
(UK) Islamic protest to hold anti-Gaza rally in East End -- Hizb ut-Tahrir
http://www.eastlondonadvertiser.co.uk/content/towerhamlets/advertiser/news/story.aspx?brand=ELAOnline&category=news&tBrand=northlondon24&tCategory=newsela&itemid=WeED23%20Jan%202009%2015%3A33%3A58%3A117
(UK) Seminar: Women of Hizb ut-Tahrir Britain Examine Why Gaza is not defended
http://www.hizb.org.uk/hizb/press-centre/press-release/seminar-women-of-hizb-ut-tahrir-britain-call-on-muslim-armies-to-defend-gaza.html
(UK) BBC scuppers TV fundraising appeal for Gaza
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article5568735.ece
(UK) Financial jihad: Large UK bank may fall into control of Middle East investors
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/024515.php
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/4309296/Barclays-may-lose-control-to-Gulf-investors.html
Propaganda:
(UK) Guardian: "Rachel North: 'I don't believe British people bought into authoritarianism'"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/libertycentral/video/2009/jan/22/rachel-north-civil-liberties
-- no concern by Guardian regarding the erosion of human equality and liberty by Islamic supremacism
(UK) "Government gives 1m pounds to anti-extremist think-tank Quilliam Foundation"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article5549138.ece
See Also:
-- January 13, 2009: Quilliam Foundation Guardian Commentary by James Brandon Attacks Mark Steyn, Melanie Philips and calls her writing "crazed rhetoric"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jan/13/islam-uksecurity
http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/james-brandon
-- January 11, 2009: Quilliam Foundation's Ed Husain: "As a British Muslim, it is so frustrating that no one seems to understand our anger"
--- Quilliam's Husain: "Many urged me to calm Muslim anger, but why should I? If this does not make me and other Muslims angry, then what could?"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jan/11/israel-palestine-islam
--- On the other side from civilisation - by Melanie Phillips
http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/3197296/on-the-other-side-from-civilisation.thtml
---- Press release: Quilliam Foundation calls for UK Government to pressure Israel to stop military operations
http://www.quilliamfoundation.org/index.php/component/content/article/374
---- "Britain has a duty to Arabs" - by Ed Husain
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/dec/30/israelandthepalestinians-middleeast
---- Gaza invasion could spark extremism in Britain: Muslims
http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-71379.html
http://uk.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUKTRE5072Z520090108?rpc=401&feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews&rpc=401
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jan/08/open-letter-gaza-gordon-brown-israel
---- Maajid Nawaz defended the rights of Jihadists in Afghanistan and Iraq under the Geneva Convention
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/107.html#Quilliam
---- Quilliam Foundation and Misdirection on Egypt's Grand Mufti Ali Gomaa
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/098.html
---- Quilliam Foundation's Ed Husain Argues for new proposed UK Sharia "contract" on women's rights to deal with rape and forced marriages
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/aug/20/islam.religion
----- ignorning existing UK laws
http://www.lawcom.gov.uk/docs/consent.pdf
(UK) Boy Scouts adopt Islamic pledge
-- can replace "God" with "“Allah, the Most Beneficent and the Most Merciful"
http://www.christian.org.uk/news/20090120/scouts-adopt-islamic-pledge/
(UK) Authors: "Muslim areas NOT 'breeding ground' for terrorism"
-- Professor Ludi Simpson and Dr Nissa Finney from The University of Manchester
-- new book 'Sleepwalking to segregation? Challenging myths about race and migration'
http://www.hillingdontimes.co.uk/news/asianspotlight/spotlight/4060422.Muslim_areas_NOT__breeding_ground__for_terrorism/
(UK) "Terror attacks can 'lower suicide rates' according to doctor" -- Dr Emad Salib
http://www.thisischeshire.co.uk/news/4058041.Terror_attacks_can__lower_suicide__rates_according_to_doctor/
(UK) Police move on Undercover Mosque film 'regrettable' say MPs
http://www.sundaymercury.net/news/midlands-news/2009/01/18/police-move-on-undercover-mosque-film-regrettable-say-mps-66331-22716134/
(UK) Girl's parents 'still suspects' in murder probe
-- teenager Shafilea Ahmed
-- "The Ahmed family are unhappy with speculation that Shafilea may have been the victim of an 'honour killing.'"
http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/Girl39s-parents-39still-suspects39-in.4887068.jp
(UK) Gaza crisis is having 'profoundly unhealthy' effect on UK Muslims, minister warns -- Shahid Malik
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/jan/12/foreignpolicy-israelandthepalestinians
(UK) Warning over Jewish attacks
-- "Anti-Semitism monitors The Community Security Trust says there were 150 incidents in the 18 days since the conflict in Gaza began"
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2140693.ece?OTC-RSS&ATTR=News
(UK) London: Starbucks smashed and looted as anti-Israel protests turn to violence
-- "Up to 200 rioters tracked by a police helicopter as they ransack coffee shops in central London"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/4279688/Starbucks-smashed-and-looted-as-anti-Israel-protests-turn-to-violence.html
(UK) Race row at top Scots private school after Muslim kids are asked about Jews
--- Muslim Students at Top Private School Asked if They Hate Jews
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/2009/01/14/race-row-at-top-scots-private-school-after-muslim-kids-are-asked-about-jews-86908-21039465/
(UK) Jew-hatred in London: Protesters depict "the Jew" eating dead babies
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/024380.php
(UK) Muslim prison gangs on the rise as inmates seek safety in numbers
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article5509740.ece
(UK) The hunt for Britain's most powerful Muslim women
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article5519490.ece
Propaganda:
(UK) Quilliam Foundation Guardian Commentary Attacks Mark Steyn, Melanie Philips and calls her writing "crazed rhetoric"
--- James Brandon attacks writers, analysts who challenge Islamic supremacism
--- James Brandon calls for the "need for the right to rein in its extremists is growing urgent"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jan/13/islam-uksecurity
---- "James Brandon is a senior research fellow at the Quilliam Foundation"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/james-brandon
This is the same Quilliam Foundation:
(UK) Quilliam Foundation's Ed Husain: "As a British Muslim, it is so frustrating that no one seems to understand our anger"
--- Quilliam's Husain: "Many urged me to calm Muslim anger, but why should I? If this does not make me and other Muslims angry, then what could?"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jan/11/israel-palestine-islam
--- On the other side from civilisation - by Melanie Phillips
http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/3197296/on-the-other-side-from-civilisation.thtml
---- Press release: Quilliam Foundation calls for UK Government to pressure Israel to stop military operations
http://www.quilliamfoundation.org/index.php/component/content/article/374
---- "Britain has a duty to Arabs" - by Ed Husain
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/dec/30/israelandthepalestinians-middleeast
---- Gaza invasion could spark extremism in Britain: Muslims
http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-71379.html
http://uk.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUKTRE5072Z520090108?rpc=401&feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews&rpc=401
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jan/08/open-letter-gaza-gordon-brown-israel
---- Maajid Nawaz defended the rights of Jihadists in Afghanistan and Iraq under the Geneva Convention
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/107.html#Quilliam
---- Quilliam Foundation and Misdirection on Egypt's Grand Mufti Ali Gomaa
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/098.html
---- Quilliam Foundation's Ed Husain Argues for new proposed UK Sharia "contract" on women's rights to deal with rape and forced marriages
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/aug/20/islam.religion
----- ignorning existing UK laws
http://www.lawcom.gov.uk/docs/consent.pdf
(UK) Islamists target teen crime gangs in London
-- "Scotland Yard fears Muslim extremists are recruiting members inside prisons"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/jan/11/muslim-extremists-crime-gangs-london
(UK) Thousands Protest For Israel -- in London and Manchester
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20090111/tuk-thousands-protest-for-israel-45dbed5.html
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1054494.html
--- 'The rockets must stop - full stop'
----- "Israeli ambassador to Britain addresses some 35,000 people at pro-Israel rally in Trafalgar Square"
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1231424919890&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
(UK) Gaza protesters clash with police in London
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/4215031/Gaza-protesters-clash-with-police-in-London.html
(UK) Quilliam Foundation's Ed Husain: "As a British Muslim, it is so frustrating that no one seems to understand our anger"
--- Quilliam's Husain: "Many urged me to calm Muslim anger, but why should I? If this does not make me and other Muslims angry, then what could?"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jan/11/israel-palestine-islam
(UK) Guardian/Observer: "Leading British Jews call on Israel to halt 'horror' of Gaza"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/11/gaza-israel-letter-british-jews
--- Letter in Observer signed by Rabbi Dr Tony Bayfield, Sir Jeremy Beecham, Professor David Cesarani, Professor Shalom Lappin,
Michael Mitzman, Baroness Julia Neuberger, Rabbi Danny Rich, Rabbi Professor Marc Saperstein, Rabbi Dr Michael Shire, Sir Sigmund Sternberg, Paul Usiskin.
---- stating "we believe that only negotiations can secure long-term security for Israel and the region"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/11/gaza-israelandthepalestinians
(UK) Presenter sacked for 'supporting the Bible's teachings' on radio
-- "Rev Mahboob Masih was sacked for offending Muslims by defending Christianity on air"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/4213994/Presenter-sacked-for-supporting-the-Bibles-teachings-on-radio.html
UK Report: "Fury at Simpsons' Muslim terror plot" - television show to be broadcast Sunday night
-- "A Sky1 spokesman added: 'At the end of the show, all the issues are resolved and Homer realises the error of his ways.'"
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/65221/Fury-at-Simpsons-Muslim-terror-plot/
(UK) Muslim leader condemns Prince Harry for 'paki' remark
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article5493665.ece
(UK) Quilliam Foundation Defends Itself: "Putting the record straight"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jan/09/uksecurity-terrorism
--- See also:
--- On the other side from civilisation - by Melanie Phillips
http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/3197296/on-the-other-side-from-civilisation.thtml
---- Press release: Quilliam Foundation calls for UK Government to pressure Israel to stop military operations
http://www.quilliamfoundation.org/index.php/component/content/article/374
---- "Britain has a duty to Arabs" - by Ed Husain
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/dec/30/israelandthepalestinians-middleeast
---- Gaza invasion could spark extremism in Britain: Muslims
http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-71379.html
http://uk.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUKTRE5072Z520090108?rpc=401&feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews&rpc=401
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jan/08/open-letter-gaza-gordon-brown-israel
---- Maajid Nawaz defended the rights of Jihadists in Afghanistan and Iraq under the Geneva Convention
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/107.html#Quilliam
---- Quilliam Foundation and Misdirection on Egypt's Grand Mufti Ali Gomaa
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/098.html
---- Quilliam Foundation's Ed Husain Argues for new proposed UK Sharia "contract" on women's rights to deal with rape and forced marriages
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/aug/20/islam.religion
----- ignorning existing UK laws
http://www.lawcom.gov.uk/docs/consent.pdf
(UK) Legal expert argues for recognition of sharia law - Baroness Butler-Sloss
http://www.secularism.org.uk/105294.html
(UK) Police: Spotter could be bin Laden's brother
http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/topstories/4037585.Police__Spotter_could_be_bin_Laden___s_brother/
(UK) Islam week to build understanding
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/gloucestershire/7821842.stm
--- "British Muslims meet to learn about jihad"
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/jonathanwynnejones/blog/2009/01/09/british_muslims_meet_to_learn_about_jihad
(UK) Jihadists hijack radio station website because they dislike Christian British pop star
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/024301.php
--- Muslim extremists hijack radio station's website 'because they hate Cliff Richard
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1109707/Muslim-extremists-hijack-radio-stations-website-Cliff-Richard-songs.html
(UK) Muslims in religious parade
http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/local/localbrad/4033857.Muslims_in_religious_parade/
(UK) Police officer resigns over internet blog where he listed 'Muslims and chavs' as the things that most annoyed him
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1109622/Police-officer-resigns-internet-blog-listed-Muslims-chavs-things-annoyed-him.html
(UK) Birmingham-based Islamic charity appeals for £2million for victims of Gaza bombings - Islamic Relief Worldwide
http://www.birminghampost.net/news/west-midlands-news/2008/12/31/birmingham-based-islamic-charity-appeals-for-2million-for-victims-of-gaza-bombings-65233-22579224/
--- Jeffrey Imm: Islamic Relief Worldwide Group Linked to Jihadist Organizations
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/003.html
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6625
--- 2006: Israel: British national arrested for assisting Hamas
http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Terrorism-+Obstacle+to+Peace/Terrorism+and+Islamic+Fundamentalism-/British+national+arrested+for+assisting+Hamas+29-May-2006.htm
Commentaries:
(UK) On the other side from civilisation - by Melanie Phillips
--- on Quilliam Foundation
http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/3197296/on-the-other-side-from-civilisation.thtml
---- See Also:
---- Press release: Quilliam Foundation calls for UK Government to pressure Israel to stop military operations
http://www.quilliamfoundation.org/index.php/component/content/article/374
---- Britain has a duty to Arabs" - by Ed Husain
------ referencing "Israel’s massacre of innocent Palestinians"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/dec/30/israelandthepalestinians-middleeast
August 18, 2008 - Quilliam Foundation and Misdirection on Egypt's Grand Mufti Ali Gomaa - by Jeffrey Imm
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/098.html
August 31, 2008 - British Government Efforts against "Extremists" Ignores Jihad and Islamic Supremacism - by Jeffrey Imm
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/101.html
January 18, 2009 British Jihad News
In this war, Islamists have found a shared strategy. We haven't
--- "David Miliband is misguided to claim that the terrorist threat is disaggregated and heterogeneous, writes Matthew d'Ancona"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/matthewd_ancona/4278595/In-this-war-Islamists-have-found-a-shared-strategy.-We-havent.html
---- See also "Resistance is Survival" by Jeffrey Imm
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/120.html
http://anti-jihad.org/blog/2009/01/resistance-is-survival/
(UK) Muslim civil servant suspended over 'killing British troops is justified' blog
-- Treasury official Azad Ali
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1120831/Muslim-civil-servant-suspended-killing-British-troops-justified-blog.html
-- "As a former chairman of the influential Muslim Safety Forum and the current head of its counter-terrorism work-team, he works with the Home Office, senior police officers and the Security Services trying to combat extremism."
-- "Azad Ali is considered a high profile 'moderate' Muslim who is trustee of the East London Mosque & London Muslim Centre, among many posts"
-- "Mr Ali's friends on the Facebook website include former Guantanamo Bay inmate Moazzam Begg, Inayat Bunglawala of the Muslim Council of Britain, and journalist and Muslim convert Yvonne Ridley"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1120831/Muslim-civil-servant-suspended-killing-British-troops-justified-blog.html
---- Surprise! "Moderate" Muslim in British government turns out to be a jihadist!
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/024453.php
--- MCB lists Muslim Safety Forum (MSF) Azad Ali advertisement for MSF individual to coordinate with UK Home Office RICU
http://www.mcb.org.uk/jobs/job_details.php?job_id=1551
--- Muslim Safety Forum (MSF) lists Azad Ali as Public Relations/Press Contact, provides contact information
http://muslimsafetyforum.org/press-media/msf-press-release-election-7th-june-2007.html
--- November 25, 2008 -- Harry's Place: "Azad Ali: I Am Working For A Hamas Caliphate"
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2008/11/25/azad-ali-i-am-working-for-a-hamas-caliphate/
--- November 20, 2008 -- Harry's Place: "Azad Ali: The Jihad Lover and the Civil Service"
----- Azad Ali cites the words of Azzam fils in calling for killing of American and British soldiers
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2008/11/20/azad-ali-the-jihad-lover-and-the-civil-service/
--- September 24, 2006 - Muslim Safety Forum (MSF)'s Azad Ali calls for UK police to review potential raids with Muslim groups
----- "Azad Ali, chairman of the MSF, said: 'The major concern that came to us from Muslims was that the intelligence was flawed -- the raid was on assumption and nothing else. This will allow independent scrutiny of intelligence.'"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article648982.ece
--- April 26, 2006 - Azad Ali calls for police hunt for protestors praising July 7 bombers as "disproportionate"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2006/apr/26/muhammadcartoons.world
---- See also: "British Home Office's RICU Seeks to Discredit Al-Qaeda, But Not Jihad"
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/101.html#T01
(UK) ISNA's Ingrid Mattson Promoted on UK Home Office-Supported "Radical Middle Way"
-- Note October 2008 report
http://www.radicalmiddleway.co.uk/videos.php?id=23&t=1&art=133&a_id=23
http://www.radicalmiddleway.co.uk/scholars.php?id=1&art=32
(UK) Palestinians to vent their fury in London all week
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23609382-details/Palestinians+to+vent+their+fury+in+London+all+week/article.do
-- 5,000 demonstrators and riots in Londonistan over Gaza
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/024141.php
-- Telegraph: "People around the world take part in demonstrations protesting against the Israeli strikes in Gaza"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/worldnews/4014460/People-around-the-world-take-part-in-demonstrations-protesting-against-the-Israeli-strikes-in-Gaza.html
(UK) Tony Blair to visit Middle East in attempt to broker peace
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/4028387/Tony-Blair-to-visit-Middle-East-in-attempt-to-broker-peace.html
--- December 23, 2008: "'I regularly read the Koran, practically every day,' Blair told the interviewer. He said the Prophet Mohammed had been 'an enormously civilizing force.'"
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/247584,blair-says-faith-is-vital-to-understand-middle-east.html
(UK) Man flies to Pakistan using sister's passport -- Kasim Raja from Birmingham Airport
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article5410319.ece
http://thenews.jang.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=154472
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008\12\30\story_30-12-2008_pg1_
UK: 'Jesus was a Muslim'
--- "On its website, Islam For The UK calls for Islamic Shari'ah law to be implemented in Britain, and condemns those Muslims who take part in Christmas celebrations"
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2008/12/uk-jesus-was-muslim.html
--- (UK) Extremists Target Church
---- "Islamic extremists have been condemned after plastering Burton streets with stickers bearing the slogan 'Jesus was a Muslim' - one day before Christmas."
---- "The stickers - believed to originate from fundamentalist Muslim group Islam For The UK, as they included the group's website address"
http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/burtonmail-news/DisplayArticle.asp?ID=377068
(UK) London: Muslim groups clash in bid to take over empty council offices
http://www.eastlondonadvertiser.co.uk/content/towerhamlets/advertiser/news/story.aspx?brand=ELAOnline&category=news&tBrand=northlondon24&tCategory=newsela&itemid=WeED29%20Dec%202008%2019%3A05%3A12%3A190
(UK) Muslim teacher in carol concert tirade is made Ofsted inspector -- Israr Khan
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-407795/Muslim-teacher-carol-concert-tirade-Ofsted-inspector.html
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2008/12/uk-hardliner-muslim-chosen-as-schools.html
(UK) Anjem Choudary says Jesus Christ would be arrested under UK terrorism laws
--- Choudary previously called for Pope to be executed
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/63812/Muslim-nuts-brand-Jesus-a-terrorist-/
http://www.sundaymercury.net/news/midlands-news/2008/12/27/muslim-extremists-claim-jesus-christ-would-have-been-locked-up-in-prison-66331-22559169/
(UK) British Foreign Secretary David Miliband voices 'grave concern' over Israeli attacks on Gaza Strip
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/4014027/David-Miliband-voices-grave-concern-over-Israeli-attacks-on-Gaza-Strip.html
(UK) Google Street View 'to be launched in Britain in spring'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/google/4013150/Google-Street-View-to-be-launched-in-Britain-in-spring.html
--- December 19, 2008: How Google Earth helped Mumbai attackers
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/How_Google_Earth_helped_terrorists/articleshow/3862879.cms
UK: BBC's "favorite" Muslim organization launches "witch-hunt" against Muslims who helped expose hate literature in UK mosques
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/024108.php
--- MPAC launches a witchhunt against 'Zio-Con' Muslims
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/damian_thompson/blog/2008/12/28/mpac_launches_a_witchhunt_against_ziocon_muslims
(UK) Scotland Yard arrest 10 protesters outside Israeli embassy
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=1963515&Language=en
--- Anti-Israeli protests across Europe
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/12/28/europe/EU-Europe-Gaza-Reaction.php
UK: "For The First Time In Decades Religion Is Molding Public Life In This Country; That Religion Isn't Christianity"
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/195602.php
Commentaries:
(UK) Indulgence of Islam is harming society - by Damian Thompson
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/3965637/Indulgence-of-Islam-is-harming-society.html
(UK) Blair says faith is vital to understand Middle East '
--- "'As well as that, one is interested in other religions. One's motivation is greater. I regularly read the Koran, practically every day,' Blair told the interviewer. He said the Prophet Mohammed had been 'an enormously civilizing force.'"
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/247584,blair-says-faith-is-vital-to-understand-middle-east.html
(UK) Over 60 per cent of Britain's Muslim schools have extremist links, says draft report
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/damian_thompson/blog/2008/12/17/exclusive_over_60_per_cent_of_britains_muslim_schools_have_extremist_links_says_draft_report
--- report "When Worlds Collide" - "written by Denis MacEoin in response to a commission from Civitas"
(UK) Archbishop of Canterbury 'laughs' at controversy over Sharia law
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/damian_thompson/blog/2008/12/18/archbishop_of_canterbury_laughs_at_controversy_over_sharia_law
--- Interview: Rowan Williams
http://www.newstatesman.com/religion/2008/12/williams-archbishop-lambeth
(UK) Mother told to take down her Christmas lights... in case they offend her non-Christian neighbours
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1094868/Mother-told-Christmas-lights--case-offend-non-Christian-neighbours.html
(UK) After 130 years of fundraising, Salvation Army told to stop rattling collecting tins because it might 'offend other religions'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1094807/Sally-Army-told-stop-rattling-collecting-tins--offend-religions.html
(UK) Prison bans chapel crucifix to avoid offending Muslims
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1094901/Prison-bans-chapel-crucifix-avoid-offending-Muslims.html
(UK) Imam Irfan Chishti: Parents 'share blame' for madrassa beatings
http://www.theasiannews.co.uk//news/s/1086201_parents_share_blame_for_madrassa_beatings
(UK) 'Forced marriage' daughter gets protection - Humayra Abedin
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,24826912-23109,00.html
--- Forced marriage doctor 'was drugged in Bangladeshi psychiatric clinic'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/bangladesh/3851698/Forced-marriage-doctor-was-drugged-in-Bangladeshi-psychiatric-clinic.html
(UK) Islamic Bank of Britain launches dedicated website for advisers
http://ftadviser.com/FTAdviser/Mortgages/Products/Specialist/News/article/20081216/b685b872-cb84-11dd-a7ab-00144f2af8e8/FTA-IslamBank-200-DW.jsp
-- UK Government launches consultation on Islamic finance in the UK
http://europenews.dk/en/node/17396
(UK) Some Imams 'biased against women'
--- "A Muslim think tank has found some UK Imams discriminate against women when enforcing Islamic Sharia law."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7783627.stm
(UK) British Prison Bans Crucifix From New Chapel to Avoid Offending Muslim Inmates
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,467306,00.html
(UK) Blind man turned away from Indian restaurant after owner says guide dog is against his Muslim beliefs
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1095583/Blind-man-turned-away-Indian-restaurant-owner-says-guide-dog-Muslim-beliefs.html
(UK) Birmingham Muslims 'made to feel guilty' about Western lifestyles
http://www.birminghampost.net/news/west-midlands-news/2008/12/12/birmingham-muslims-made-to-feel-guilty-about-western-lifestyles-65233-22465617/
(UK) "Non-Muslim children will be taught Arabic and study the Koran under plans for a new faith school"
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/62092/Learn-the-Koran-muslims-bid-to-teach-your-kids/
(UK) Muslim lawyer Anjem Choudary brands Christmas 'evil'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3699565/Muslim-lawyer-Anjem-Choudary-brands-Christmas-evil.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1093414/Christmas-pathway-hell-Muslim-lawyers-extraordinary-rant-evil-celebration.html
(UK) Britain targets phony Afghan asylum seekers
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081209/ap_on_re_eu/eu_britain_immigration
(UK) Teachers 'beat and abuse' Muslim children in British Koran classes
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article5315021.ece
--- Madrassas case study: a brave face, then the tear
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article5314736.ece
--- Law to protect the young must cover madrassas as well
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article5314757.ece
(UK) Al Jazeera to produce children's show with Welsh language channel S4C
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mandrake/3691108/Al-Jazeera-to-produce-childrens-show-with-Welsh-language-channel-S4C.html
(UK) Prison cops in 5 hour Muslim riot
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2018421.ece
(UK) Muslim Public Affairs Committee UK (MPACUK): "Understanding The Philosophy Of Muslim Violence"
http://www.mpacuk.org/content/view/5140/102/
-- MPACUK uses video of Black Panther Stokely Carmichael to justify calls for violence by Islamic supremacism
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGisMOY6M4c&eurl=http://www.mpacuk.org/content/view/5140/102/&feature=player_embedded
--- historical challenge of identity-based supremacism justifying violence
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/090.html
-- Background on Black Panther Stokely Carmichael
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1516
-- Wikipedia on Black supremacy ideology
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_supremacy
-- SPLC article on Black Supremacism: "Black Supremacists"
http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=705
-- SPLC on Black Separatist Active U.S. Hate Groups, includes New Black Panther Group
http://www.splcenter.org/intel/map/type.jsp?DT=3
UK: Campaigners welcome force marriage legislation
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2008/12/uk-campaigners-welcome-force-marriage.html
(UK) Asian police chief to sue Scotland Yard
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/dec/07/scotland-yard-police-chief-sue-descrimination
Propaganda:
UK Guardian: Inayat Bunglawala: "Our stake in free speech"
-- Inayat Bunglawala defends Hizb-ut Tahrir while claiming support for Universal Declaration of Human Rights
--- "Inayat Bunglawala is an Advisor on Policy and Research at ENGAGE, an initiative designed to encourage British Muslims to interact more effectively in politics and the media in the UK"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/dec/06/humanrights-islam
http://www.iengage.org.uk/
-- In fact both Hizb-ut Tahrir and other Islamic supremacists are against the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
-- this is why Islamic supremacists created the Sharia-based, Islamic supremacist "Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam"
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/090.html#A
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/instree/cairodeclaration.html
(UK) Campaign against Sharia law in Britain to be launched at the House of Lords - on December 10
http://www.secularism.org.uk/campaignagainstsharialawinbritai.html
(Gambia) British missionaries in Gambia spend seventh day in prison
--- "after being accused of spreading sedition in the Muslim state"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/gambia/3567113/British-missionaries-in-Gambia-spend-seventh-day-in-prison.html
--- British missionary couple in Muslim African country face months in jail 'hell hole' after being charged with sedition
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1092040/British-missionary-couple-Muslim-African-country-face-months-jail-hell-hole-charged-sedition.html
--- London Times report
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article5293461.ece
---- Related Reports:
----- October 2007: Gambia: Jammeh Calls for Islamic Solidarity
http://foehammer.net/2007/10/jammeh-calls-for-islamic-solidarity-while-blaming-the-west.html
http://allafrica.com/stories/200710170786.html
----- Gambia Tourist Support: Shariah the Debate
http://www.gambiatouristsupport.com/Sharia.htm
(UK) London Times: "Keeping the faith"
--- on UK business schools offering a Master's degree program on Sharia Finance
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/management/masterclass/article5279874.ece
(UK) Muslims welcome UK plans to extend equality to cover religion -- Muslim Council of Britain (MCB)
http://www.mathaba.net/rss/?x=613068
(UK) School cancels Christmas nativity in favour of Muslim Eid celebrations
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/christmas/3545246/School-cancels-Christmas-nativity-in-favour-of-Muslim-Eid-celebrations.html
-- Primary school cancels nativity play because it interferes with Muslim festival of Eid
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1091594/Primary-school-cancels-nativity-play-interferes-Muslim-festival-Eid.html
(UK) Police and Muslims to swap roles so officers can be more sensitive
http://news.scotsman.com/latestnews/Police-and-Muslims-to-.4750170.jp
(UK) Muslim prayer rooms should be opened in Catholic schools, say church leaders
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1091218/Muslim-prayer-rooms-opened-Catholic-schools-say-church-leaders.html
(UK) Anti-Israel carol service condemned by religious leaders -- St James's Piccadilly
--- "Among the guests were Baroness Tonge, the Liberal Democrat peer who was sacked from the party's front bench in 2004 after saying she 'understood' why Palestinians became suicide bombers and that she would consider becoming one if she were Palestinian"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/3541118/Anti-Israel-carol-service-condemned-by-religious-leaders.html
--- Anti-Zionist parody of a Christmas Carol to be sung in St James's, Piccadilly
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/damian_thompson/blog/2008/11/11/antizionist_parody_of_a_christmas_carol_to_be_sung_in_st_jamess_piccadilly
UK Guardian: "Islamic finance sector needs more sharia scholars"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/feedarticle/8104979
(UK) London warms to Islamic finance
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/1128/p06s02-wogn.html
--- "Sharia 'could have averted [financial] crisis'"
http://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/sharia-039could-have-averted-crisis039
UK should shift security agenda, think tank
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=1956514&Language=en
(UK) British Muslim talent feted by Prince Charles
http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2008/11/27/60916.html
(UK) Guardian: "Weak states are major threat to British security, report warns"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/nov/27/uk-security-terrorism
(UK) Make Sharia part of UK law, says QC -- Stephen Hockman QC
--- Daily Express: "Sharia law will 'inevitably' become part of the legal system and work should begin now to incorporate it into British law, a leading barrister said last night."
--- Daily Express: "Stephen Hockman, QC, former chairman of the Bar Council, spoke at a meeting organised by the website Islam4UK, where another speaker was Anjem Choudary, former head of banned fanatical group al-Muhajiroun."
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/72992/Make-Sharia-part-of-UK-law-says-QC
-- Sharia law should be introduced into legal system, says leading barrister
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/3523672/Sharia-law-should-be-introduced-into-legal-system-says-leading-barrister.html
---- July 5, 2008: Former chair of Bar Council calls for sharia rules in English law
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1032080/Former-chair-Bar-Council-calls-sharia-rules-English-law.html
---- Chambers Of Stephen Hockman QC
http://www.courtserve.net/directories/chambers/fbs0000115/6pump-court-details.htm
(UK) Interpal bank closure delayed until new year - January 30, 2009
http://www.charityfinance.co.uk/home/content.php?id=2411&pg=15&cat=58
--- UK Government officials have raised funds for Interpal
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article4293935.ece
--- Interpal linked to funding for Hamas terrorist organization
http://www.fsmarchives.org/article.php?id=491661
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.636/pub_detail.asp
(UK) "On BBC America, a compelling drama about Muslim intolerance" -- BBC America's "Britz"
http://www.newspress.com/Top/Article/article.jsp?Section=LIFE&ID=565409857554808848
--- "At one point, Nasima even lashes out at viewers, saying they cannot be considered innocent victims of terrorism because 'you keep electing this government.'"
--- "after joining MI-5, Sohail finds himself on the receiving end of discriminatory police practices, proclaiming, 'This is exactly why people are getting radicalized.'"
--- "focus is on Sohail's sister, Nasima.... [who] crusades against what she sees as oppressive government policies stemming from the American 9/11 and British 7/7 attacks (a poster in her room features a picture of President Bush and the words 'World's 1 Terrorist')."
------ BBC America Website for "Britz"
http://bbcamerica.com/content/345/about.jsp
Reports on Kamal Al-Hilbawi (aka Helbawy) and Growing Challenge of Counterterrorism Think Tanks' Infiltration
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/unitedstatesaction/message/18928
(UK) MEMRI: "British Islamist Kamal Al-Hilbawi and Liberal Nabil Yassin Debate: Are Israeli Children Legitimate Military Targets?"
http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD212908
--- NOTE name also spelled as "Helbawy"
--- Dr. Kamal Al-Hilbawi: "I believe that every Israeli civilian is a future soldier.... Even if he is a child."
--- MEMRI: "Dr. Kamal Al-Hilbawi, introduced on the program as director of the London Center for the Study of Terrorism, and political analyst Dr. Nabil Yassin. Dr. Hilbawi is also former spokesman of the international Muslim Brotherhood in the West. The debate aired on BBC Arabic TV on October 17, 2008"
---- Video Clip:
http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/1922.htm
---- Video Transcript
http://www.memritv.org/clip_transcript/en/1922.htm
--- "Asharq al-Awsat talks to Sheikh Dr Kamal al-Hilbawi, former spokesman of the Muslim Brotherhood in Europe and founding member of the Muslim Association of Britain"
http://www.asharqalawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=3&id=13028
--- Kamal Al-Hilbawi aka Kamal El-Helbawy web site
http://www.khelbawy.com/home.html
--- Harry's Place: Hilbawi "also is an adviser to the Global Civilization Study Center in London and chairman of the Center for the Study of Terrorism.' The website of the GCSC is 'under construction.'"
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2008/11/24/british-islamist-says-israeli-children-are-legitimate-targets/
----- Centre for the Study of Terrorism
http://www.cfsot.com/index.php?thm=home
----- Centre for the Study of Terrorism - Dr Kamal el-Helbawy - Chairman
http://www.cfsot.com/index.php?thm=staff
---- "Dr Kamal is the chairman of Centre for the Study of Terrorism (CFSOT) since the inception in 2006."
http://www.khelbawy.com/link.html
----- Global Civilisation Study Center
http://gcsclondon.com/
--- Hilbawi mentioned in HLF trial testimony
http://www.investigativeproject.org/article/788
--- Hilbawi listed in HLF unindicted co-conspirators - Page 4, item 22
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/documents/Attachment+A+(List+of+Unindicted+Co-conspirators).pdf
--- 1998: Islamic Militants on the Lecture Circuit in the United States
http://www.steveemerson.com/article/100
---- Paul Cruickshank sought Muslim Brotherhood's Kamal Helbawy in October 2006 meeting in New York University Law SchoolCenter for Law and Security
http://www.lawandsecurity.org/muslim_brotherhood.cfm
http://www.newsweek.com/id/45335
------ "When Newsweek asked Mr. Cruickshank about why Kama el Helbawy wasn't allowed in the United States, Cruickshank was baffled, stating that '[h]e's a really respected guy... [h]e's very influential within the Muslim community in Britain and his name is recognized throughout the world.'"
---- U.S. Homeland Security denied entry to Muslim Brotherhood's Kamal Helbawy
http://www.newsweek.com/id/45335
---- in 2008 Kamal El Helbawy was praised by Paul Cruickshank and Peter Bergen as Muslim Brotherhood contact in British Finsbury mosque recruiting "moderates"
http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=702bf6d5-a37a-4e3e-a491-fd72bf6a9da1
----- More on Paul Cruickshank comments on Capitol Hill in September 2008
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/107.html#Cruickshank1
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/107.html#Cruickshank2
----- More on Peter Bergen comments on Capitol Hill in September 2008
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/107.html#Bergen
--- Helbawy speaks on America and the War on Terror at London Muslim Centre (LMC)
http://www.ihrc.org.uk/show.php?id=2485
--- October 18, 2008 - BBC: Helbawy representing "Centre for the Study of Terrorism"
http://worldhaveyoursay.wordpress.com/2008/10/16/talking-points-17th-october/
--- Kashmir Herald: "On June 19-21, 1991, the virginia-based United Association for Studies and Research (UASR) co-sponsored one of the largest gatherings of Islamist militants ever held in the US. Kamal Hilbawi, the leader of Muslim brotherhood of Egypt, openly incited terrorist attacks against the Jews."
http://kashmirherald.com/featuredarticle/HowAmericaSoftPeddlesIslamicFundamentalism.html
--- August 2007 - Think Tank Directors Spy a Potential Enemy Within - by Elaine Monaghan
----- links to Jamestown Foundation
------ "Jamestown board member Diana Denman found the Helbawy connection sinister enough to suspect that Abedin’s present affiliation with the Centre for the Study of Terrorism could mean the Jamestown Foundation had been infiltrated by Islamists"
http://public.cq.com/docs/cqw/weeklyreport110-000002566958.html
(UK) Whitemoor jail: Prison staff 'drove 40 miles to buy £3,500 worth of takeaway curries for Muslim inmates'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1088883/Prison-staff-drove-40-miles-buy-3-500-worth-takeaway-curries-Muslim-inmates.html?ITO=1490
(UK) Blog Article on Channel 4 Documentary: Divorce Shariah Style
http://muslimmotherhood.blogspot.com/2008/11/channel-4-documentary-divorce-shariah.html
http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=7551240419498830429
--- Channel 4 web sites for February 2008 report
http://www.channel4.com/culture/microsites/C/can_you_believe_it/debates/divorce.html
http://www.channel4.com/culture/microsites/C/can_you_believe_it/debates/divorce1.html
http://www.channel4.com/culture/microsites/C/can_you_believe_it/debates/divorce2.html
http://www.channel4.com/culture/microsites/C/can_you_believe_it/debates/divorce3.html
(UK) Forced marriage cases up by 80pc this year as investigators find parents using 'bounty hunters'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3496442/Forced-marriage-cases-up-by-80pc-this-year-as-investigators-find-parents-using-bounty-hunters.html
(Pakistan/UK) UK Diplomats dash to rescue 15-year-old British girl from threat of forced marriage in Pakistan -- Shafaq Malik
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/3501442/Diplomats-dash-to-rescue-15-year-old-British-girl-from-threat-of-forced-marriage-in-Pakistan.html
--- FM fires forced marriage warning ahead of Pakistan visit
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081123/wl_uk_afp/britainpakistandiplomacymarriageabuse_081123061459
(UK) Muslims to be offered Sharia-compliant pensions by Government
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/pensions/3496730/Muslims-to-be-offered-Sharia-compliant-pensions-by-Government.html
(UK) British FM David Miliband urges Obama to embrace 'new multilateralism'
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008\11\22\story_22-11-2008_pg7_50
--- Miliband calls for Muslim support
http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/Miliband-calls-for-Muslim-support.4721752.jp
http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/34Humility-for-Iraq-mistakes34-.4721062.jp
--- April 22, 2008: UK strongly condemns anti Islam propaganda in Europe: Miliband
http://www.paktribune.com/news/index.shtml?199668
--- see also August 31, 2008 British Government Efforts against "Extremists" Ignores Jihad and Islamic Supremacism
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/101.html
http://www.investigativeproject.org/article/759
(UK) Youths 'want to debate terrorism'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/bradford/7743476.stm
-- See also:
-- A July 2008 poll of British Muslim students shows that 32 percent believe that killing in the name of religion is justifiable (another 15 percent are "not sure") and 40 percent were supportive of introducing Sharia law to Britain
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4407115.ece
http://www.socialcohesion.co.uk/pdf/IslamonCampus.pdf
(UK) Mosque teacher convicted of sexually abusing girls
--- "Mahmood Qadri attacked the children at Edinburgh's Polwarth Mosque while supposedly helping them learn the Koran"
--- tried to flee to Pakistan
http://news.scotsman.com/latestnews/Mosque-teacher-convicted-of-sexually.4718025.jp
(UK) Family Law, Minorities and legal Pluralism: Should English Law give more Recognition to Islamic Law?
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/law/lawnews/showart.php?id=159
--- UK: Sharia Judge Argues in Favor of Polygamy in English Law.....
http://www.weaselzippers.net/blog/2008/11/uk-sharia-judge-argues-in-favor-of-polygamy-in-english-law.html
(UK) Mosque tutor accused of abusing girls
http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/edinburgh/Mosque-tutor-accused-of-abusing.4713494.jp
(UK) MI6 launches ethnic minority recruitment drive
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3487147/MI6-launches-ethnic-minority-recruitment-drive.html
Yemen 'faces crisis as oil ends'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7739402.stm
(UK/Malaysia) Government seen helping Islamic finance
http://www.iht.com/articles/reuters/2008/11/18/business/OUKBS-UK-GATEHOUSE-ISLAMIC.php
(UK) Britain grapples with role for Islamic justice
-- "They argue that the Islamic tribunals' proceedings are secretive, with no accountability and no standards for judges' training or decisions. Critics also point to cases of domestic violence in which Islamic scholars have tried to keep marriages together by ordering husbands to take classes in anger management, leaving the wives so intimidated that they have withdrawn their complaints from the police."
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/11/19/europe/19shariah.php
(UK) Islamic bank of Britain told to cease dealings with charity linked to Hamas
--- "In an email to supporters, Interpal said: 'Islamic Bank of Britain has offered us total support but is apparently powerless in this situation, throwing into question the autonomy of Britain's burgeoning Islamic finance sector.'"
http://www.birminghampost.net/birmingham-business/birmingham-business-news/financial-business-news/2008/11/18/islamic-bank-of-britain-told-to-cease-dealings-with-charity-linked-to-hamas-65233-22285933/
--- UK Members of Parliament have previously sought to raise funds for Interpal
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article4293935.ece
UK: North London Central Mosque voted 'Best Islamic Center'
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2008/11/uk-north-london-central-mosque-voted.html
(UK) Islamofascists Cheer Arrival of Sharia Law in Britain While Taunting Pat Condell
http://muslimsagainstsharia.blogspot.com/2008/11/islamofascists-cheer-arrival-of-sharia.html
(UK) Missing Natalie Bracht and daughters made getaway in 'Muslim dress'
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article5179426.ece
(UK) 300,000 foreigners wrongly allowed into UK every year
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/3478049/300000-foreigners-wrongly-allowed-into-UK-every-year.html
(UK) Muslim peer Lord Ahmed faces court over death crash
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3478927/Muslim-peer-Lord-Ahmed-faces-court-over-death-crash.html
(UK) Islamic Supremacist Hizb ut Tahrir Distributes 50,000 Messages to Launch Campaign
-- new campaign titled "Expose the Undeclared War on Pakistan"
http://www.hizb.org.uk/hizb/press-centre/press-release/hizb-ut-tahrir-distributes-50000-messages-to-launch-campaign.html
--- Hizb-ut Tahrir objecting to fight against Islamic supremacist terrorism in Pakistan
http://www.war-on-pakistan.info/home/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/pakistan-leaflet.pdf
UK: Swindon Muslims surprised by faith school initiative
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2008/11/uk-swindon-muslims-surprised-by-faith.html
(Sharia Finance) Sharia bank ups Diamondcorp stake
http://www.growthcompany.co.uk/news-and-comment/813472/sharia-bank-ups-diamondcorp-stake.thtml
(UK) Abd Al-Bari 'Atwan, editor-in-chief of the London daily Al-Quds Al-Arabi: In an Arab Country, Obama Would Be Told, 'You Are a Slave'; 'We Arabs Are The Epitome of Racism'
http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD211308
Commentaries:
(UK) Britain through the looking glass - by Melanie Phillips
http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/2626781/britain-through-the-looking-glass.thtml
UK: Labor MP Stephen Timms praises Muslims for bringing faith to Britain
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2008/11/uk-mp-praises-muslims-for-bringing.html
http://www.saudigazette.com.sa/index.cfm?method=home.regcon&contentID=2008110320957
(UK) Muslim killed Catholic girl in love bond with flatmate
http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/Muslim-killed-Catholic-girl-in.4684216.jp
(UK) Three new Islamic banks grow steadily
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/3bef4caa-ae91-11dd-b621-000077b07658.html?nclick_check=1
UK-based Centre for Social Cohesion thinktank: Muslim free speech protection call
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7718715.stm
--- "centre said they had suffered violence and intimidation for criticising Islam or seeking reform"
http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/world/muslim+free+speech+protection+call/2805757
--- Victims of Intimidation: Freedom of Speech within Europe's Muslim Communities
http://www.socialcohesion.co.uk/pdf/VictimsofIntimidation.pdf
(UK) Council of Ex-Muslims holds conference in London: Political Islam, Sharia Law and Civil Society
http://europenews.dk/en/node/15862
-- Full report
http://www.iheu.org/node/3302
-- Maryam Namazie's opening address
http://www.iheu.org/node/3301
(UK) £165,000 to protect Muslim young from extremism
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2008/11/08/165-000-to-protect-muslim-young-from-extremism-91466-22209010/
(UK) Muslim men 'think they have God-given right to beat wives', claims female Muslim medic
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/3397490/Muslim-men-think-they-have-God-given-right-to-beat-wives-claims-female-Muslim-medic.html
--- Fatima Husain: "Some Muslim men think they have a God-given right to be physically violent to their spouses. I see the result of all this when they are admitted as my patients."
--- Fatima Husain reports of seeing "Muslim women coming for treatment with strangle marks around their necks and bruises on their pregnant bumps"
--- Also reports "that problems develop because many followers of Islam are fearful of discussing sex, contraception and infertility"
(UK) An insult to Islam? - artist and Muslim Sarah Maple gets death threats
http://www.londoninformer.co.uk/london-news/london-columnists/london-matters/2008/11/07/an-insult-to-islam-113489-22207891/
Commentaries:
Islam is the reason British teachers are suddenly happy to teach creationism - by Damian Thompson
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/damian_thompson/blog/2008/11/07/islam_is_the_reason_british_teachers_are_suddenly_happy_to_teach_creationism
(UK) British Muslims congratulate Obama on election
http://www.mathaba.net/rss/?x=610926
(UK) Internet black boxes to record every email and website visit
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3384743/Internet-black-boxes-to-record-every-email-and-website-visit.html
UK Telegraph: "Barack Obama victory allows Britain to love US again"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/barackobama/3387760/Barack-Obama-victory-allows-Britain-to-love-US-again.html
--- UK's History of Covenant of Security for Islamic Supremacists
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/UK_Strategy_Sources.htm#020
--- UK Polls and Studies Showing Growing Islamic Supremacism in UK:
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/UK_Strategy_Sources.htm#006
--- May 29, 2008 - Daily Telegraph: "Barack Obama wins over anti-Bush Britain: US election 2008"
---- "Some 35 per cent of British people questioned by YouGov agree that the US is now a 'force for evil' in the world"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/2049487/Barack-Obama-wins-over-anti-Bush-Britain-US-election-2008.html
---- Poll Details:
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/documents/UK_poll_US_as_force_for_evil.xls
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/00674/Country-by-country__674785a.xls
--- June 3, 2008 related article
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/2049446/Barack-Obama-beats-John-McCain-in-European-vote-US-election-2008.html
(UK) BBC: "UK aid combats radical schooling"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7709359.stm
(UK) Muslim doctor suspended over 'homophobic letter'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3375615/Muslim-doctor-suspended-over-homophobic-letter.html
(UK) Lord Bingham: 'no reason' to exclude Sharia
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article5071727.ece
(UK) Muslims protest at extremism initiative
-- "more than 1,000 Muslims in Reading who object to the local steps being taken under the Government’s Preventing Violent Extremism (PVE) strategy launched this year"
http://www.getreading.co.uk/news/s/2038443_muslims_protest_at_extremism_initiative
(UK) NatWest introduces Sharia-compliant mortgage
http://www.homemove.co.uk/news/02-11-2008/natwest-introduces-sharia-compliant-mortgage.html
(UK) London Times: "Quietly changing minds to take sting out of Islamist extremism"
--- article on Azeem Ibrahim who will provide so-called "accredited de-radicalisation courses"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article5061775.ece
(UK) Townsfolk destroy Palin effigy with explosives
-- more from "our allies" - exploding the effigy of an American governor
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/02/palin.effigy.burn/index.html
(UK) Muslim leaders praise new MRI scan plan
http://www.burytimes.co.uk/news/radcliffenews/3804921.Muslim_leaders_praise_new_MRI_scan_plan/
(UK) Caterer sues police over sausages
-- "Muslim catering manager has accused the Metropolitan Police of religious discrimination as he was told he may have to handle sausages and bacon"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/7704835.stm
--- Muslim chef sues Met police after being asked to cook sausages and bacon for '999 breakfasts'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1082446/Muslim-chef-sues-Met-police-asked-cook-sausages-bacon-999-breakfasts.html
(UK) Airline launched to cater for British Muslims -- Air Sylhet
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/3328090/Airline-launched-to-cater-for-British-Muslims.html?source=rss
(UK) Death threat to Muslim artist
http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/3810881.Death_threat_to_Muslim_artist/
Commentaries:
(UK) Despite reassurances to the contrary, the Government is permitting sharia law to creep into Britain
http://www.secularism.org.uk/despitereassurancestothecontrary.html
(UK) Omar Bakri -- Carry blade says hateful Bakri
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1859083.ece
-- Sun: "Omar Bakri sparked outrage last night by ordering Muslim teens to carry KNIVES. "
-- Omar Bakri: "Legally, it's not allowed but Islamically it's OK."
(UK) Justice Secretary Jack Straw says Muslims can use sharia law in UK
http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/Straw-says-Muslims-can-use.4643677.jp
-- English law reigns supreme over sharia, says Straw
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/lawreports/joshuarozenberg/3286766/English-law-reigns-supreme-over-sharia-says-Straw.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1081613/Jack-Straw-Muslim-courts-ALWAYS-remain-subservient-English-law.html?ITO=1490
UK: Islamic finance intermediation explored in world economic crisis
http://www.mathaba.net/rss/?x=610137
(UK) Somali youth was killed 'in row over alcohol and Islam'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/oct/28/ukcrime
-- Muslim alcohol row led to killing
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/merseyside/7695911.stm
(UK) Cohabiting and Islamic marriages
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/letters/article5032544.ece
(UK) Two Muslim women accuse City firm of religious discrimination
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3275445/Two-Muslim-women-accuse-City-firm-of-religious-discrimination.html
(UK) Muslim worker loses out in Tesco booze bid
http://www.thisisderbyshire.co.uk/news/Muslim-worker-loses-Tesco-booze-bid/article-433978-detail/article.html
(UK) Seal of approval for Sharia councils?
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article5030649.ece#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=989864
(UK) Scotland: Conference planned for discussion on Islam and Jihad - University of Edinburgh
http://tabsir.net/?p=703
-- John Esposito to address
(UK) Religious law 'subservient' to family courts, says minister -- UK Justice Minister Bridget Prentice
--- "But the Government fails to persuade non-Muslims that sharia is no threat to English common law"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/lawreports/joshuarozenberg/3265271/Religious-law-subservient-to-family-courts-says-minister.html
--- Prentice's written answer in Parliament
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200708/cmhansrd/cm081023/text/81023w0020.htm
--- Unanswered questions on sharia
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/oct/27/sharia-law
(UK) Sharia rulings on divorces and disputes to be rubber-stamped by English courts
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/3258965/Sharia-rulings-on-divorces-and-disputes-to-be-rubber-stamped-by-English-courts.html
-- Sharia rulings 'can go to courts'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7690809.stm
-- Islamic courts cleared to deal with family and divorce disputes as Government endorses sharia
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1080509/Islamic-courts-cleared-deal-family-divorce-disputes-Government-endorses-sharia.html
-- Family courts can accept sharia law
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3062461.html?menu=
(UK) £86million scheme to prevent Muslim radicalisation is 'gravy train' for local groups
--- "critics claim large sums of money are being given to projects that do not meet its specific objectives, and are being handed out to community groups without councillors considering them first."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/labour/3255325/86million-scheme-to-prevent-Muslim-radicalisation-is-gravy-train-for-local-groups.html
(UK) Mass commemorates Christians murdered in Iraq
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/3260053/Mass-commemorates-Christians-murdered-in-Iraq.html
Propaganda:
UK think-tank condemned for offensive dossier on Muslims
-- Policy Exchange criticized
http://www.mathaba.net/rss/?x=609845
UK: Bakri accuses Muslims of supporting British troops
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2008/10/uk-bakri-accuses-muslims-of-supporting.html
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1834561.ece
(UK) British soldier accused of spying for Iran 'used black magic to protect Nato chief from the Taliban'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1080019/British-soldier-accused-spying-Iran-used-black-magic-protect-Nato-chief-Taliban.html
(UK) 'Reformed terrorist' on race abuse charge -- Hassan Butt
http://www.pendletoday.co.uk/latest-north-west-news/39Reformed-terrorist39-on-race-abuse.4621066.jp
(UK) Mohamed al Fayed quizzed over child sex assault allegations
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article4993008.ece
(UK) Law lords say sharia is 'arbitrary and discriminatory'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/lawreports/joshuarozenberg/3239938/Law-lords-say-sharia-is-arbitrary-and-discriminatory.html
(UK/Lebanon) Woman who fled Islamic law granted asylum in UK
--- "A Lebanese mother and her child who fled to Britain to avoid being separated under their country's Islamic law can stay in the country, Britain's highest court ruled Wednesday"
--- "She told immigration officials her allegedly abusive ex-husband would gain custody of their child under Lebanon's Sharia law, which only allows divorced mothers custody of their children until their 7th birthday, at which point custody reverts to the father."
--- "Her application was denied in 2005, but she appealed to the House of Lords, Britain's supreme court. In a submission to the court made in June, human rights group Liberty argued that the Lebanese law 'amounts to a flagrant breach of the mother's (and child's) rights.'"
-- "The court agreed, calling the woman a fugitive from Sharia law."
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article5003008.ece
http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_2414161,00.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081022/ap_on_re_eu/eu_britain_lebanon_asylum_case_2
UK looks to become a global provider of Islamic finance
http://www.mortgagestrategy.co.uk/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=175223
(UK) Prudential admits eyeing AIG assets as it reassures investors
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/insurance/3235018/Prudential-admits-eyeing-AIG-assets-as-it-reassures-investors.html
--- US bailing out AIG while it expands its Sharia Finance business
http://anti-jihad.org/blog/2008/10/sharia-bailout/
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/108.html
(UK) Drive to sell halal car insurance to British Muslims
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/881c8f68-9e40-11dd-bdde-000077b07658.html?nclick_check=1
(UK) Muslim website to target mainstream advertisers
http://www.brandrepublic.com/News/855122/Muslim-website-target-mainstream-advertisers/
Propaganda:
(UK) Guardian: "Could sharia car insurance save you a fortune?"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2008/oct/21/motorinsurance-insurance
October 19, 2008 - UK Islamic News
(UK) Scotland: Muslim leader says youth need more time to integrate
http://www.sundayherald.com/news/heraldnews/display.var.2461505.0.muslim_leader_says_youth_need_more_time_to_integrate.php
(UK) Met's most senior Muslim woman 'ostracised even from coffee run' -- Yasmin Rehman
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article4969448.ece
(UK) BBC on Sharia Finance: "Finance with a moral foundation"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7677181.stm
(UK) Muslim converts 'not Islamic enough' for their adopted son to have a brother
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article4965528.ece
(UK) Ex-Muslim Conference attacks Sharia Law proposals
http://www.secularism.org.uk/102570.html
Commentaries:
(UK) The Guardian's love affair with the Koran -- by Damian ThompsonOctober 17, 2008 - UK Islamic News
(UK) Muslim service led by woman in UK draws protests
-- AP: "Critics said Wadud shouldn't have led the service, because she is a woman and because men and women attended. Muslim practice holds only men should lead services in which men are present."
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1222017563115&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/oxfordshire/7676239.stm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/3212112/Protests-expected-as-woman-leads-Muslim-prayers-in-Britain-for-first-time.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/oct/17/religion-islam-women-prayers
(UK) Muslim postal workers demand extra breaks to pray five times a shift
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/66460/Muslim-postal-workers-demand-extra-breaks-to-pray-five-times-a-shift
(UK) 1,000 foreign prisoners not deported because Government does not know country
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/3210675/1000-foreign-prisoners-not-deported-because-Government-does-not-know-where-they-are-from.html
Commentaries:
(UK) The real roots of extremism - "Foreign policy decisions often arouse popular anger but it is naive to blame them for militant Islamism" - by Ghaffar Hussain
--- "the Islamist struggle is not motivated by grievances or a sense of oppression but rather by an ideology that seeks to dominate"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/oct/17/islam-religion
(UK) Free to think for themselves -- by AC Grayling
-- "At a gathering of courageous ex-Muslims, the value of rational thought and personal choice were triumphantly reaffirmed"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/oct/16/religion-islam-humanism-secularism-conway-hall
(UK) Teach children what Muslims did for us, says UK Schools Minister Jim Knight
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/education/3209469/Teach-children-what-Muslims-did-for-us-says-minister-Jim-Knight.html
UK Muslims stage protest over being questioned at airports
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/023113.php
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/7669187.stm
(UK) The BBC will tackle Islam differently to Christianity, admits its Director General
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1077816/The-BBC-tackle-Islam-differently-Christianity-admits-Director-General.html?ITO=1490
(UK) Campaigners want Islamic comic banned from show - because of Leo Muhammad's association with Nation of Islam
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23573727-details/article.do?ito=newsnow&
(UK) Sharon Maguire turns her focus to Osama bin Laden in Incendiary
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/london_film_festival/article4949629.ece
(UK) Shari'a Law Called 'Racist, Backward' at Meeting of Ex-Muslims -- Council of Ex-Muslims
http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=37341
(UK) Muslims and Christians do not fully understand each other says Rowan Williams
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article4935536.ece
UK: Deobandi/Church of England cooperation guidelines
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2008/10/uk-deobandichurch-of-england.html
http://www.asianimage.co.uk/news/display.var.2460037.0.deobandi_association_to_signup_to_guidelines.php
(UK) Benefits fraud probe launched into claims made by ex-wife of radical Islamic preacher Omar Bakri
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1077115/Benefits-fraud-probe-launched-claims-ex-wife-radical-Islamic-preacher-Omar-Bakri.html?ITO=1490
(UK) Fury over doll's 'Islam message' -- same Fisher-Price doll in UK
--- report that "stores in America have removed the doll"
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1801567.ece
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/3191347/Talking-Fisher-Price-doll-accused-of-promoting-Islam.html
(UK) Fury as Islamic Trust wins mortuary bid
http://www.surreyherald.co.uk/surrey-news/news-surrey/2008/10/13/fury-as-islamic-trust-wins-mortuary-bid-86289-22022582/
(UK) Scotland: Church of Scotland backs Islamic sharia law court -- additional report
http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Church-of-Scotland-backs-Islamic.4578904.jp
(UK) Muslims rebuffed over sharia courts -- Sadiq Khan - "Gordon Brown's new minister for race relations has attacked sharia courts, insisting that the Muslim community in Britain is not 'advanced' enough to have its own legal system."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article4926612.ece
--- "At some stage in the future I do not rule out the possibility that the Muslim diaspora in this country may be advanced enough. But now is not the right time."
(UK) Daily Mail: "Sharia law is 'not fit for the UK', says a Labour Muslim MP"
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/article-1056794/Sharia-law-fit-UK-says-Labour-Muslim-MP.html
(UK) Scotland: Church of Scotland backs Islamic sharia law courts -- Rev Ian Galloway
http://news.scotsman.com/latestnews/Church-of-Scotland-backs-Islamic.4578904.jp
--- Rev Ian Galloway: "Sharia not to be feared"
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/opinion/Sharia-not-to-be-feared.4578766.jp
(UK) Primary school to serve pupils halal meat whether they're Muslim or not
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1076248/Primary-school-serve-pupils-halal-meat-theyre-Muslim-not.html
(UK) Staff 'fears' over Muslim inmates
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7662525.stm
--- U.K. Prisons Official Urges Action Again Extremists
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601102&sid=ar4JIdvZqKPM&refer=uk
----- "Staff members are reluctant to engage with these prisoners and challenge 'inappropriate behavior,' allowing Muslim prisoners to 'police themselves'"
--- Inmates 'Forced Into Radicalism'
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Muslim-Prison-Gangs-Forcing-Inmates-Into-Islamic-Radicalism/Article/200810215117385
--- U.K.: Official report details concerns among prison staff about aggressive Islamic proselytizing and "radicalization"
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/023043.php
(UK/UAE) High demand for world's first Islamic helpline could see centres opened across the globe
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1076174/High-demand-worlds-Islamic-helpline-centres-opened-globe.html
-- Dial M for Mufti to quiz first Islamic helpline -- dial up a fatwa
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article4916648.ece
October 9, 2008 - UK Islamic News
(UK) Scotland: Sharia courts set to bring Muslim law to bear in Scottish cities
--- Qamar Bhatti, director of the Muslim Arbitration Tribunal (MAT) says goal to have Sharia courts in Edinburgh and Glasgow.
http://news.scotsman.com/latestnews/Sharia-courts-set-to-bring.4573444.jp
(UK) Scotland - Edinburgh Evening News: "Sharia law set for the Capital"
http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/edinburgh/Sharia-law-set-for-the.4574527.jp
(UK) Civil servant 'who left files on train' to appear in court -- Richard Jackson - relating to Al-Qaeda and Iraq
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/3161573/Civil-servant-who-left-files-on-train-to-appear-in-court.html
U.K.: Muslim prisoners get new clothes if cells are searched with dogs
http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/023034.php
(UK) Primary pupils at risk from extremists, warns Ed Balls -- "Children aged under 11 are at risk of being radicalised" per UK Schools Secretary
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/education/3159621/Primary-pupils-at-risk-from-extremists-warns-Ed-Balls.html
---- report titled "Learning Together to be Safe"
----- promotes UK Home Office's "Radical Middle Way" and attacks "Islamophobia"
http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/publications/violentextremism/downloads/DCSF-Learning%20Together_bkmk.pdf
http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/publications/violentextremism/toolkitforschools/
--- What is the extremism 'toolkit'?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/7658657.stm
(UK) £4.68m funding puts schools in front line against extremism -- "anti-extremism 'tool kit' to fight terror, racism and bullying"
-- "broadening the school curriculum to include teaching about Islamic culture, history and religion"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/education/article4906643.ece
(UK) "Birmingham Muslims advise Government on ending prejudice"
http://www.birminghampost.net/news/west-midlands-news/2008/10/07/birmingham-muslims-advise-government-on-ending-prejudice-65233-21988018/
(UK) "Baroness Warsi: Labour's Young Muslim Advisory Group is patronising and divisive" -- "The creation of a group of young Muslims to advise ministers on extremism and discrimination has been condemned as divisive and patronising by a leading Muslim peer"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/labour/3155177/Baroness-Warsi-Labours-Young-Muslim-Advisory-Group-is-patronising-and-divisive.html
(UK) Muslim youths to advise ministers -- "group of young British Muslims are being named as advisers to ministers as part of a drive against extremism"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7656108.stm
(UK) Islamic school 'unfair admission'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/7656486.stm
(UK) CNN Interviews on "Jewel of Medina": Firebombs and free speech
http://securityfiles.blogs.cnn.com/2008/10/03/firebombs-and-free-speech-update/
-- Anjem Choudary: "I think certainly, you know there will be consequences for her"
(UK) Islam4UK: Out With UK law, in With Islamic Law -- by Lee Hancock
http://www.rightsidenews.com/200810052144/global-terrorism/islam4uk-out-with-uk-law-in-with-islamic-law.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf1pklusEAU
-- Abu Waleed: "we the shabab (youth) will wake up here in the West and we will bring the Sharia here to the UK."
-- Abu Uzair: "We don't live in peace with you anymore. The banner has risen for jihad inside the UK, which means it's allowed for bombers to attack."
(UK) Sky Satellite Television Broadcasts Pakistan Program Calling for Death of Ahmadi Muslim Sect (my title)
--- On program "Aalim Online, available in Britain on Sky Channel 815" - Dr Saeed Ahmad Innayatullah said Ahmadis were "Wajb-ul-Qatal" (liable for death)
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/islamic-sect-complaint-highlights-ofcoms-increasing-impotence-952289.html
(UAE) UK Ex-Pats on "Deal with Devil" in living in UAE (my title)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/oct/05/middleeast.gender
(UK) Author Sherry Jones defiant over controversial book about Prophet Mohammed's child bride
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3135933/Author-Sherry-Jones-defiant-over-controversial-book-about-Prophet-Mohammeds-child-bride.html
--- Sherry Jones has second novel complete "The Battle of the Camel," over schism in Islam between Sunni and Shiite
(UK) Muslim MP becomes justice minister -- Shahid Malik promoted as part of cabinet reshuffle
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/oct/04/labour
--- MP Malik 'relishing new justice role'
http://www.beverleyguardian.co.uk/latest-york-and-humberside-news/MP-Malik-39relishing-new-justice.4559606.jp
-- July 5, 2008: London Times - "The Sharia debate: we can't all be equal under different laws"
----- Shahid Malik: "'If you ask Muslims today what do they feel like,' he says, 'they feel like the Jews of Europe.'"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/matthew_parris/article4272421.ece
http://muslimsagainstsharia.blogspot.com/2008/07/sharia-debate-we-cant-all-be-equal.html
--- MPACUK: "Shahid Malik Signs Early Day Motion"
http://www.mpacuk.org/content/view/3714/34/
--- MPACUK: "Minister told to stay away from Islam event by Labour officials"
---- "[Malik] had been told that among the organisers were people associated with Hamas"
http://www.mpacuk.org/content/view/4800/102/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jul/14/islam.race
--- August 14, 2007 interview
http://www.asharqalawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=3&id=9886
Wikipedia on Shahid Malik:
--- "his constituency was home to the ringleader of the 7/7 attacks, Mohammad Sidique Khan"
--- "written articles on the Holocaust and been a supporter of the UK's Holocaust Memorial Day"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shahid_Malik
(UK) News: Muslim row MP gets immigration job in Brown reshuffle -- Phil Woolas
http://www.thelondonpaper.com/cs/Satellite/london/news/article/1157155589785?packedargs=suffix%3DArticleController
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1068767/Minister-infuriated-Muslims-charge-immigration-policy.html
--- "Muslim Public Affairs Committee condemned his appointment. A spokesman said: 'Phil Woolas has a track record of insensitive, inappropriate outbursts that have verged on Islamophobia.'"
October 4, 2008 - UK Islamic News
(UK) Non-Muslims turn to Islamic Bank as a safe option
http://www.birminghampost.net/birmingham-business/birmingham-business-news/other-uk-business/2008/10/03/non-muslims-turn-to-islamic-bank-as-a-safe-option-65233-21962049/
(UK) Ban Muslim headscarves, say teachers
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/education/primaryeducation/3122961/Ban-Muslim-headscarves-say-teachers.html
(UK) YouTube censors comedian's anti-Sharia video called 'Welcome to Saudi Britain'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3130883/YouTube-censors-comedians-anti-Sharia-video-called-Welcome-to-Saudi-Britain.html
--- Pat Condell video removed for "terms of use violation"
(UK) Petition to: Stop Islamic Sharia Law being used in Great Britain
http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/sharialawuk/
(UK) Muslims in UK celebrate Eid-ul-Fitr with traditional zeal
--- call for "liberation" of Kashmir
http://www.pakistantimes.net/2008/10/02/top5.htm
(UK) Mother is denied pill by Muslim pharmacist -- "because of his religion"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3129625/Mother-is-denied-pill-by-Muslim-pharmacist.html
(UK) Runners and riders for Met Police top job
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article4874631.ece
--- includes Sir Hugh Orde who called for negotiations with Al-Qaeda
--- "Time to talk to al-Qaida, senior police chief urges"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/may/30/alqaida.terrorism
--- "Britain 'could talk to al-Qaeda' "
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7426874.stm
(UK) Scotland Yard commissioner resigns
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/10/02/europe/EU-Britain-Police-Chief.php
(UK) London News: Islington firebomb victim Martin Rynja suspends plans to publish controversial book about prophet Mohammed -- "The Jewel of Medina"
http://www.thelondonpaper.com/cs/Satellite/london/news/article/1157155497990?packedargs=suffix%3DArticleController
--- "Alan Jessop, a sale representative for Gibson Square in the US, told the Bookseller website: 'He is in good spirits, but has put publication in suspended animation while he reflects and takes advice on what the best foot forward is.'"
-- Guardian: Muhammad novel publisher undeterred by firebomb attack (earlier report?)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/sep/29/jewel.of.medina.firebomb
(UK) New Shariah-compliant insurance company implements ISO solution to process personal injury motor claims
http://www.targetwire.com/iba/2008/09/30/iso158/iso158_uk.html
Propaganda:
(UK) Daily Telegraph: "Salman Rushdie taught liberals to hate Islam" -- by Christopher Howse
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/christopher_howse/blog/2008/10/01/salman_rushdie_taught_liberals_to_hate_islam
--- decries the "secularist haters of Islam pretend that that they have a sacred principle of their own, which is freedom of speech, freedom to publish"
September 30, 2008 - UK Islamic News
(UK) Nine-year-old brides saved by authorities from being married off in Muslim weddings
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1063605/Nine-year-old-brides-saved-authorities-married-Muslim-weddings.html?ITO=1490
(UK) Muslim fork lift driver sues Tesco after handling booze
http://www.personneltoday.com/articles/2008/09/29/47681/muslim-fork-lift-driver-sues-tesco-after-handling-booze.html
(UK) Birmingham private Islamic school's bid to become state-funded
http://www.birminghampost.net/news/west-midlands-education-news/2008/09/29/birmingham-private-islamic-school-s-bid-to-become-state-funded-65233-21923520/
(UK) London Times: "Salman Rushdie unrepentant about Satanic Verses"
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/clive_james/article4856150.ece
(UK) Muslim gang firebombs publisher of Allah novel, Martin Rynja -- additional report
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4837994.ece
(UK) Publisher of Controversial Book on Prophet Muhammad Closes Office Over Security Concerns -- "The Jewel of Medina" publisher closes office as a "precautionary action"
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,430923,00.html
(UK) Anger Over Islamic 'Porn' Comment -- more on "The Jewel of Medina" book
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/The-Jewel-of-the-Medina-Call-For-Apology-Over-Mohammed-Book-Review/Article/200809415108926?f=rss
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/The-Jewel-of-the-Medina-Call-For-Apology-Over-Mohammed-Book-Review/Article/200809415108926?lpos=UK_News_News_Your_Way_Region_0&lid=ARTICLE_15108926_The_Jewel_of_the_Medina%3A_Call_For_Apology_Over_Mohammed_Book_Review
Commentary:
(UK) The Devil in Miss Jones – 'The Jewel of Medina' Exposed - by Adrian Morgan
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.1318/pub_detail.asp
--- Sherry Jones previous quote: "To claim that Muslims will answer my book with violence is pure nonsense."
September 29, 2008 - UK Islamic News
(UK) Mohammed novel: Academic faces calls to apologise over 'pornographic' remarks
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/3102416/Mohammed-novel-Academic-faces-calls-to-apologise-over-pornographic-remarks.html
(UK) Conservatives would ban sharia courts, says shadow minister
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/conservative/3096229/Conservatives-would-ban-sharia-courts-says-shadow-minister.html
Commentary:
(UK) Scotland: SNP making wrong deal with Muslims
http://www.sundayherald.com/oped/opinion/display.var.2453823.0.snp_making_wrong_deal_with_muslims.php
September 26-27, 2008 - UK Islamic News
(UK) Radical cleric's message to Britain after his daughter is exposed as a pole-dancer: 'You will pay a heavy price' - Omar Bakri Mohamed angry at news stories
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1062375/Radical-clerics-message-Britain-daughter-exposed-pole-dancer-You-pay-heavy-price.html
-- Related reports
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,428484,00.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3083855/Cleric-Omar-Bakris-daughter-is-a-pole-dancer.html
(UK) Abu Hamza's YouTube poem -- Abu Hamza, the radical Muslim cleric, has appeared n a YouTube video reciting a poem glorifying martyrdom
--- seeks "Death, eagerly for the sake of Allah"
--- Telegraph reports it "posted on a site run by a London-based Egyptian exile listed in the US as a 'global terrorist'"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3073084/Hate-cleric-Abu-Hamza-in-YouTube-poem-from-prison.html
(UK) London's Olympic Park toilets to turn away from Mecca out of respect for Islamic law
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1061051/Londons-Olympic-Park-toilets-turn-away-Mecca-respect-Islamic-law.html
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1222017381278&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3073768/London-2012-Olympic-toilets-will-not-face-Mecca.html
(UK) Devout Muslim spared jail over child flogging -- gets suspended sentence
-- Syed Mustafa Zaidi "prohibited from allowing or encouraging anyone under the age of 16 to beat themselves during the next 12 months"
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/devout-muslim-spared-jail-over-child-flogging-941200.html
-- Man sentenced over Shia flogging
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/manchester/7634275.stm
(UK) Muslims told to 'learn English'
http://www.southlondon-today.co.uk/tn/News.cfm?id=17579
(UK) British "Top 100 Left-Wingers" include Ken Livingston - long-time appeaser to Islamic supremacists
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/labour/3052281/Top-100-left-wingers-25-1.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/labour/3051858/Top-100-left-wingers-50-26.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/labour/2988841/Top-100-left-wingers-75-51.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/labour/2988795/Top-100-left-wingers-100-76.html
Sir Paul McCartney faces extremist threats at Israel concert -- another report
--- "radical Islamist cleric has warned McCartney that he will earn the enmity of the Muslim world for playing the gig in Tel Aviv as part of the celebrations to mark Israel's 60th birthday"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article4813972.ece
(UK) BBC: "Is English law related to Muslim law?"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7631388.stm
-- BBC discusses "theory that the Templars modelled the Inns of Court on Muslim ideas"
(UK) Gunman who shot rival before praying in mosque jailed
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3061620/Gunman-who-shot-rival-before-praying-in-mosque-jailed.html
Commentary:
(UK) Sharia courts are extending their reach -- The longer we acquiesce in the spread of Islamic law in Britain, the more it will happen - by Stephen Pollard
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article4798887.ece
(UK) Sharia law challenges British justice - by Michael Nazir-Ali
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/09/21/do2103.xml
-- Rt Revd Dr Michael Nazir-Ali is the Bishop of Rochester
UK Muslim demands shari'a-compliant sentence
http://www.suntimes.com/lifestyles/blogentries/index.html?bbPostId=B9VsocurZJYZCz4domQia5T30Cz7P2fHoBFE1uBEcYrERFEQkB&bbParentWidgetId=B8XscaNGcc9qz4i1oSqmw36f
--- Religious views cause sentencing 'difficulties' -- Noreen Shah
http://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/news/3615179.Religious_views_delay_sentencing/
(UK) Petition to: Stop Islamic Sharia Law being used in Great Britain. Number10.gov.uk
http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/sharialawuk/
(UK) Sharia Law Invades Britain, a Fatwa Is Issued Against Sir Paul McCartney (!)–and Hollywood Hoists the Islamic Flag -- by Phyllis Chesler
http://pajamasmedia.com/phyllischesler/2008/09/15/sharia-law-invades-britain-a-fatwa-is-issued-against-sir-paul-mccartney-and-hollywood-hoists-the-islamic-flag/
(UK) Counterterrorism Blog's Daveed Gartenstein-Ross -- Has Britain "Adopted Islamic Law"?
-- states "These sharia courts are not designed to apply criminal law"
http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2008/09/has_britain_adopted_islamic_la_1.asp
-- However, reports state that UK sharia courts have been used on criminal cases
-- September 14, 2008 - Daily Telegraph: Criminal sharia judgments
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/christopher_howse/blog/2008/09/14/criminal_sharia_judgments
--- "In six cases of domestic violence, according to Sheikh Faiz-ul-Aqtab Siddiqi, of the Muslim Arbitration Tribunal, judges ordered the husbands to take anger management classes and mentoring from community elders. There was no further punishment."
(UK) Sharia in Britain
http://pryce-jones.nationalreview.com/post/?q=OTY5YzI5NmQzZWYyNThiMzgyZDA1YWQzMGQ3YmJiNmE=
(UK) Islamic Bank offers new sharia products -- Birmingham-based Islamic Bank of Britain plc
http://www.birminghampost.net/birmingham-business/birmingham-business-news/legal-business-financial/2008/09/19/islamic-bank-offers-new-sharia-products-65233-21858981/
September 18, 2008 - UK Islamic News
(UK) What do Sharia courts mean for Britain's belief in equality under law?
http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/society/religion/what+do+sharia+courts+mean+for+britains+belief+in+equality+under+law/2458507
(UK) Omar Bakri's son attempts to claim back £14,000
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2979255/Omar-Bakris-son-attempts-to-claim-back-14000.html
(UK) British Muslims suffer from 'victim mentality': Labour MP
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080917/wl_uk_afp/britainmuslimreligion_080917113358;_ylt=Ahpsk9NQzIYKqLRszcfccp9X6GMA
(UK) Anorak: "Celebrating 9-11 With The UK's Islamists In Residence"
http://www.anorak.co.uk/war-on-terror/190268.html
Commentaries:
UK: Sharia law superceding British law - by Robert Spencer
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/022743.php
Britain Adopts Sharia - by Serge Trifkovic
http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/?p=731
(UK) Law against religious discrimination needed, says Muslim minister -- Labour MP Sadiq Khan
-- Sadiq Khan: equality bill must tackle "Islamophobia in the workplace"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/2968985/Law-against-religious-discrimination-needed-says-Muslim-minister.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/muslim-mp-calls-for-religious-equality-law-931982.html
-- See also:
--- September 13, 2008: Radical Muslims warn of another 9/11
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2826537/Radical-Muslims-warn-of-another-911.html
--- September 13, 2008: 'Have more babies and Muslims can take over the UK' hate fanatic says, as warning comes that 'next 9/11 will be in UK'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1054909/Have-babies-Muslims-UK-hate-fanatic-says-warning-comes-9-11-UK.html
--- July 27, 2008: London Times: A third of Muslim students back killings - Radicalism and support for sharia is strong in British universities
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4407115.ece
(UK) Sharia courts operating in Britain -- another report
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2957428/Sharia-law-courts-operating-in-Britain.html
(UK) Stamp duty land tax should be removed now to encourage the UK's fledgling Islamic finance industry to grow, says Ernst & Young
--- Ernst and Young's Eglinton: "An active UK capital market, issuing and trading in sukuk, will support and strengthen London's early lead position as a centre for Islamic finance."
http://www.ey.com/global/Content.nsf/UK/Media_-_08_09_16_DC_-_Stamp_duty_land_tax
Shariah Finance Watch: "The Infidels are buying into the Shariah Finance Scam"
http://www.shariahfinancewatch.org/blog/2008/09/15/the-infidels-are-buying-into-the-shariah-finance-scam-this-is-why-this-blog-is-so-important-why-you-must-share-it-with-your-friends-and-why-we-need-to-stop-this-trend-that-promotes-shariah/
(UK) England is most crowded country in Europe
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/2967374/England-is-most-crowded-country-in-Europe.html
(UK) New York Post's report on Jihadist threat on Paul McCartney for Israel trip
http://www.nypost.com/seven/09162008/news/worldnews/beatle_jihad_furor_129298.htm
(UK) Muslim Tory was given job because of her religion, says minister
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/conservative/2970350/Muslim-Tory-was-given-job-because-of-her-religion-says-minister.html
Commentaries:
(UK) No longer one law for all - by Melanie Phillips
http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/2084146/no-longer-one-law-for-all.thtml
-- Melanie Phillips: "if this continues Britain will break up as a unitary state governed by one law for all. Sharia law should be stopped, not condoned or encouraged. No other minority in Britain either wants or is permitted to live under an alternative legal system. This is the way a society fractures -- and then goes under."
(UK) A Conservative government must exclude sharia 'courts' from British justice
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/damian_thompson/blog/2008/09/16/a_conservative_government_must_exclude_sharia_courts_from_british_justice
(UK) London Times: "Islamic finance moves into mainstream as investors seek ethical alternatives"
-- "Our correspondent looks at the steady rise of Sharia-compliant banking across Britain"
-- "global Islamic finance market is growing at 15 per cent a year and is expected to be worth $1,000 billion by 2010"
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/banking_and_finance/article4761133.ece
(UK) Foreign students double in a decade, says Universities UK
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/education/2963365/Foreign-students-double-in-a-decade-says-Universities-UK.html
(UK) Sharia Law gets 'OK' in Britain -- additional reports
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1687576.ece
-- Islamic sharia courts in Britain are now 'legally binding'
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/article-1055764/Islamic-sharia-courts-Britain-legally-binding.html?ITO=1490
-- Muslim courts have heard 100 cases in Britain
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/61476/Muslim-courts-have-heard-100-cases-in-Britain
-- British Sharia tribunals gain new powers
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2008/09/14/British_Sharia_tribunals_gain_new_powers/UPI-53041221405891/
(UK) Revealed: UK's first official sharia courts
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article4749183.ece
-- "Islamic law has been officially adopted in Britain, with sharia courts given powers to rule on Muslim civil cases."
-- Muslim Arbitration Tribunal
http://www.matribunal.com/index.html
(UK) Sharia courts operating in Britain -- Sharia courts have been operating in Britain to rule on disputes between Muslims for more than a year, it has emerged.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2957428/Sharia-law-courts-operating-in-Britain.html
-- "Five sharia courts have been set up in London, Birmingham, Bradford and Manchester and Nuneaton, Warwickshire. The government has quietly sanctioned that their rulings are enforceable with the full power of the judicial system, through the county courts or High Court."
-- Criminal sharia judgments
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/christopher_howse/blog/2008/09/14/criminal_sharia_judgments
--- "In six cases of domestic violence, according to Sheikh Faiz-ul-Aqtab Siddiqi, of the Muslim Arbitration Tribunal, judges ordered the husbands to take anger management classes and mentoring from community elders. There was no further punishment."
(UK) Mosque head: Tablighi Jamaat is harmless -- Leading Glasgow Muslim says sect linked to terror plots victim of 'Islamophobia'
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article4748867.ece
(UK) 'Have more babies and Muslims can take over the UK' hate fanatic says, as warning comes that 'next 9/11 will be in UK'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1054909/Have-babies-Muslims-UK-hate-fanatic-says-warning-comes-9-11-UK.html
(UK) Channel 4 faces wrath of Grand Ayatollah over 'anti-Shia' film
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art-and-architecture/news/channel-4-faces-wrath-of-grand-ayatollah-over-antishia-film-928786.html
(UK/Israel) Paul McCartney told to cancel Israel concert
-- McCartney: "I was approached by different groups and political bodies who asked me not to come here. I refused. I do what I think, and I have many friends who support Israel"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/2823405/Paul-McCartney-told-to-cancel-Israel-concert.html
(UK) Senior Asian Yard officer under investigation
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/2827099/Senior-Asian-Yard-officer-under-investigation.html
(UK) Britain: Muslim policewoman may sue police
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=1.0.2479589235
(UK) Protest threat over Met race row
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/7610385.stm
(UK) The Sheikhs Take on the Oligarchs in British Football
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,577956,00.html
Scotland: New Muslim organization to engage in civic life
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2008/09/scotland-new-muslim-organization-to.html
(UK) BBC to air Rushdie fatwa documentary
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/sep/11/bbc.salmanrushdie
(UK) Outrage over 'Muslim Massacre' computer game
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1054380/Outrage-Muslim-Massacre-game.html
(UK) Met is sued by its top Muslim woman
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23553436-details/article.do?ito=newsnow&
(UK) British policeman who donned Bin Laden costume faces reprimand
http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/uk/news/article_1429926.php/British_policeman_who_donned_Bin_Laden_costume_faces_reprimand_
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4725532.ece
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00397/BinLaden360_397185a.jpg
-- Colin Terry "who is on secondment to the Foreign Office, made the bizarre outfit choice just a few days before the seventh anniversary of the September 11 attack"
-- no doubt he didn't think that there was anything wrong with that...
-- UK Jury Ruling on Jihadists Ignores Plot to Bomb Transatlantic Jets Headed to America
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/103.html
-- British Government Efforts against "Extremists" Ignores Jihad and Islamic Supremacism
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/101.html
-- UK: New Documentary to Show Growing Islamic Supremacism in Mosques
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/100.html
(UK) Chief Superintendent who dressed as Bin Laden is sent to Afghanistan
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1054289/Chief-Superintendent-dressed-Bin-Laden-sent-Afghanistan.html
-- perhaps for negotiations?
-- March 29, 2008 - Daily Telegraph: We must talk to the Taliban, says UK Defense Secretary Des Browne
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/03/29/nbrowne129.xml
-- December 26, 2007 - Daily Telegraph: Britain in secret talks with the Taliban
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1573687/Britain-in-secret-talks-with-the-Taliban.html
-- December 13, 2007 - Daily Telegraph: UK Government backs Taliban talks
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1572337/Government-backs-Taliban-talks.html
(UK) Gordon Brown to invite Gaddafi to London
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article4712488.ece
(UK) Publisher plans Jewel of Medina author tour - Sherry Jones
http://www.thebookseller.com/news/66788-rynja-plans-jewel-author-tour.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/2706549/Andrew--Lloyd-Webber-says-political-correctness-is-stifling-creativity.html
http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/022614.php
(UK) Gordon Brown backs Barack Obama for US president
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/barackobama/2713150/Gordon-Brown-backs-Barack-Obama-for-US-president.html
(UK) Muslim police chief suspended in race row
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,24323411-23109,00.html
(UK) Sharia Law alive and well in the UK
http://www.thelondondailynews.com/sharia-alive-well-p-1295.html
(UK) The car insurance that obeys sharia rules
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2008/09/08/ymsharia108.xml
(UK) Sikhs and Hindus accuse the BBC of pro-Muslim bias
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/film-tv/news/sikhs-and-hindus-accuse-the-bbc-of-promuslim-bias-13963998.html
(UK) Sharia law at Muslim college in Nuneaton
http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/north-warwickshire-news/2008/09/08/sharia-law-at-muslim-college-in-nuneaton-92746-21701799/
-- Halima Aziz after 9/11 attacks: "I'm a friend of Bin Laden's"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2690303/Lawyer-wins-record-600000-race-claim-payout-from-CPS.html
-- September 13, 2001 Daily Telegraph: Britain is 'safe haven' for world terrorism -- "there are some within it [the British Muslim community] who will be celebrating"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1340357/Britain-is-%27safe-haven%27-for-world-terrorism.html
-- Other friends of Bin Laden's after 9/11 attacks:
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/09/10/sept.11.ukposter/
(UK) London firm launches Sharia-based equity fund
http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/Story.asp?Article=228126&Sn=BUSI&IssueID=31169
(UK) Muslim wrongly accused of being a terrorist wins £14,000 compensation
-- Mohammed Hussain: "okay to kill American soldiers....Hitler was brilliant. He should have finished off the Jews"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2669454/Muslim-wrongly-accused-of-being-a-terrorist-wins-compensation.html
http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/022540.php
(UK) Islamic finance poised for big growth
http://www.saudigazette.com.sa/index.cfm?method=home.regcon&contentID=2008090516372
(UK) The Economist goes Dhimmi and Supports Shariah Finance
http://www.shariahfinancewatch.org/blog/2008/09/05/the-economist-goes-dhimmi-and-supports-shariah-finance/
(UK) Cervical cancer immunization plans may exclude Muslim girls
http://www.hsj.co.uk/news/2008/09/timing_of_hpv_vaccine_during_holy_month_criticised.html
(UK) Economist: "Islamic finance - Savings and souls"
http://www.economist.com/finance/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12052687
(UK) Saudi Arabia Spent $75 Billion to Spread Shariah-Type of Islam - Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fd2atmHJQN4
http://governmentdirt.com/saudi_arabia_spent_75_billion_to_spread_shariahtype_of_islam
-- excerpt from "Undercover Mosque: The Return"
(UK) MPs too scared to talk about forced marriage 'in case they lose Muslim votes'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/2661385/MPs-too-scared-to-talk-about-forced-marriage-in-case-they-lose-Muslim-votes.html
(UK) Prisoner bosses spend £25,000 on lunchboxes for Ramadan
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2680265/Prisoner-bosses-spend-25000-on-lunchboxes-for-Ramadan.html
-- "Muslim terrorists and criminals have been given £25,000 worth of lunch boxes to keep their meals warm during Ramadan."
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1645588.ece
(UK) Controversial 'child bride of Muhammad' novel finds UK publisher
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/sep/03/2?gusrc=rss&feed=networkfront
http://www.thebookseller.com/news/66332-gibson-square-to-publish-jewel-of-medina.html
http://www.propertywire.com/news/features/islamic-finance-london-hub-middle-east-200809031504.html
(UK) Arsenic warning over holy water -- Zam Zam water
http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/society/health/arsenic+warning+over+holy+water/2442227
http://britishjihad.com/blog1/2008/09/undercover_mosque_the_return.html
(UK) Undercover Mosque: The Return Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUu_g85GOqE
(UK) Documentary reveals hidden side of British mosque where extremist women urge Muslims to kill non-believers
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1051073/Caught-camera-Hidden-British-mosque-female-preachers-urge-Muslims-kill-non-believers.html?ITO=1490
(UK) Muslim radiographer loses job after refusing to bare her arms
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/health/2662473/Muslim-radiographer-loses-job-after-refusing-to-bare-her-arms.html
by Jeffrey Imm
In the global war against Jihad, the United Kingdom is a key battlefield of vital importance to American national security. British Jihadists have planned or attempted three mass casualty terrorist attacks on the United States homeland - led by Dhiren Barot, Richard Reid, and a team of jihadists who sought to target transatlantic jets from UK to Washington DC, New York, Chicago, and San Francisco. The national security debates over American homeland security must not lose sight of the continuing threat of Islamic supremacists in the United Kingdom to the United States and other nations.
But the past several weeks have shown a willingness of British government agencies to ignore the basis behind such Jihadist threats. This has been seen in the recent MI5 report that states that Jihadists are not "religious zealots" and that there is "no single pathway" to Jihad, ignoring the ideology of Islamic supremacism. This has also been seen in the British Home Office's inconsistencies in trying to discredit Al-Qaeda, while promoting an individual who calls for Jihad in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Israel. Such combined denial and inconsistencies should be troubling to Americans.
On further inspection, these actions are part of a larger challenge for the British government and for American national security in honestly addressing and confronting the Islamic supremacist ideology behind Jihad. Recent studies have shown that many young British Muslims continue to believe violence is justified by religion, and over the past several months, some Americans have finally seen excerpts from videotapes from British Jihadists in the August 2006 transatlantic jet terror plot - where such Britons justify their actions based on an Islamic Jihad against America.
The British government will not recognize the terms "Jihad" or "Islamist terrorist," and claims that it has a "counter-radicalization" process in place to discourage "extremism" and the use of violence. British "counter-radicalization" tactics fail to identify an ideology that such "extremists" embrace, making such tactics of questionable value at best. America should rightly be skeptical of such British "counter-radicalization" tactics, given the long history of British tolerance and appeasement of Islamic supremacists, both before and after 9/11. Instead, such British "counter-radicalization" tactics are being promoted in the United States, and being recommended by American analysts to our policy makers, military, and legislators.
Islamic supremacism in the United Kingdom is not just a British problem. It remains a near and present threat to America's national security and the security of our allies. Furthermore, as British tactics are being promoted to be used in the United States as well, such tactics must be examined in the larger war of ideas against Jihad and Islamic supremacism. As the British Channel 4 Dispatches documentary "Undercover Mosques-The Return" will show, Islamic supremacist preaching continues in British mosques thought to be "dedicated to moderation"; the UK Guardian, Daily Telegraph, London Times, Daily Mail all have reports on such Islamic supremacist hatred, segregationist views, and calls to violence being taught in mosque preaching to adults and children. This is the same Islamic supremacism and hatred revealed in the Channel 4's previous documentary "Undercover Mosques." It is clear that the war of ideas is being lost in the key battlefield of the United Kingdom, because the British government and its leaders refuse to acknowledge who and what the enemy ideology of Islamic supremacism is. Americans must not only learn lessons from their shortcomings for our own national security, we also must not repeat such British mistakes ourselves.
On the following pages, I have summarized the challenge at multiple levels of the British government, the impact of refusing to understand the supremacist nature of the Jihadist ideology we face, and the political blinders that keep many British leaders (and increasingly American leaders) from recognizing that there is no way to compromise with Islamic supremacism. Ultimately, like any supremacist ideology, as shown in America's history in fighting white supremacism in the 20th century, we must declare a confrontational war of ideas at every level to combat Islamic supremacism. I have divided this analysis into the following major topics:
1. British Home Office's RICU Seeks to Discredit Al-Qaeda, But Not Jihad
2. Discussions with British Home Office's RICU on Terror Lexicon and Supremacism
3. British MI5 Report's Willful Blindness on Islamic Supremacism
4. Why MI5 Report Seeks to Ignore Islamic Supremacism in Britain
5. UK Security Minister Views UK as "World Leader" Against Terrorism
6. The Challenge of Britain's "Northern Ireland Conflict" Perspective towards Jihad
7. British "Counter-Radicalization" and Impact on American Counterterrorism
8. Why Americans Must Reject British Tactics of "Counter-Radicalization" and Denial on Islamic Supremacism
Sources and Related Documents
August 31, 2008 - London Times: Women preachers at moderate mosque 'urge faithful to kill gays'
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article4641082.ece
August 31, 2008 - JihadWatch.org: Filmed at a top U.K. mosque: "Loyalty is only to the Muslim, not to the kaffir [disbeliever]"
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/022478.php
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Politics/?id=1.0.2445510466
(UK) Devout Muslim guilty of making boys beat themselves during Shia ceremony -- Syed Zaidi
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article4620487.ece
(UK) Muslim council chiefs ban ALL members from 'tea and sandwiches' in meetings which take place during Ramadan
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1050165/Muslim-council-chiefs-ban-ALL-members-tea-sandwiches-meetings-Ramadan.html
(UK) Telegraph report on demographics (my title)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2644914/Fewer-than-two-thirds-of-babies-are-registered-white-British.html
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1064167_boys_cannot_legally_consent_to_flogging
UK academic union posts link to anti-Semitic article -- on former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke's web site
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1219572133936&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
-- Jenna Delich, member of the British academic union that voted to reintroduce a boycott of Israeli academia
http://www.menafn.com/qn_news_story_s.asp?StoryId=1093209302
(UK) Sharia courts rule on sex lives in Britain
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2625090/Sharia-courts-rule-on-sex-lives-in-Britain.html
-- "Among the mosques to receive funding is the Green Lane mosque in Small Heath. The Channel 4 Dispatches programme exposed hate preaching at this mosque. A preacher, Abu Usama, urged that homosexuals be thrown from mountains."
http://www.sundaymercury.net/news/midlands-news/2008/08/25/council-spending-3million-in-the-fight-against-muslim-extremism-66331-21599047/
(UK) Scotland: When Muslims look to Shari'ah principles, the law of Scotland can be quite accommodating
http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/John--Fotheringham--When.4422319.jp
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1063910_boys_happy_to_flog_themselves
http://www.wigantoday.net/latest-north-west-news/Boys-happy-to-flog-themselves.4420554.jp
(UK) Scotland Yard says its top Muslim officer is suing
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/08/22/europe/EU-Britain-Police-Discrimination.php
(UK) Channel 4 announces return of Undercover Mosque -- documentary to show that Islamic supremacism, calls for killing, continue to spread in UK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/aug/22/channel4.islam?gusrc=rss&feed=uknews
(UK) Manchester: Boys 'happy to flog themselves'
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1063910_boys_happy_to_flog_themselves
(UK) Censored: imam of Dibley is banned from ITV
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article4587798.ece
-- "lawyers said it might be culturally insensitive"
Commentaries:
British Submission -- by Douglas Stone
http://frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=F5BFAB45-7CB7-4FEB-8BF3-7E75014BE5BB
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/aug/20/islam.religion
-- ignorning existing UK laws
http://www.lawcom.gov.uk/docs/consent.pdf
-- while Quilliam Foundation's Maajid Nawaz defends Egyptian Grand Mufti Sheik Ali Gomaa
http://counterterrorismblog.org/2008/08/quilliam_responds.php
-- and Gomaa calls for the death penalty for adultery, and takes a relativistic view towards wife-beating
http://www.memritv.org/clip_transcript/en/1586.htm
http://www.memritv.org/clip_transcript/en/1154.htm
-- see also Jeffrey Imm article
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.924/pub_detail.asp
UK: Pharmacy to offer Ramadan service
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2008/08/uk-pharmacy-to-offer-ramadan-service.html
http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?c=Article_C&pagename=Zone-English-News/NWELayout&cid=1218650346187
(UK) Manchester: Teenagers forced to flog themselves, court told -- during Muslim ceremony
http://www.wigantoday.net/latest-north-west-news/Teenagers-forced-to-flog-themselves.4405208.jp
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/manchester/7568953.stm
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23541517-details/article.do?ito=newsnow&
http://www.thenational.ae/article/20080816/BUSINESS/957576411/-1/ART
(UK) Sharia car insurance: For the first time, Muslims can buy policies in line with Islamic law
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1045959/Sharia-car-insurance-For-time-Muslims-buy-policies-line-Islamic-law.html
(UK) Man goes on trial accused of encouraging two boys to flog themselves during Muslim ceremony in Britain
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1046370/Man-goes-trial-accused-encouraging-boys-flog-Muslim-ceremony-Britain.html?ITO=1490
(UK) The Sham of Women's Rights Under the Shari'a -- by D. L. Perry
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/08/the_sham_of_womens_rights_unde.html
http://muslimsagainstsharia.blogspot.com/2008/08/sham-of-womens-rights-under-sharia.html
(UK) British anti-Americanism 'based on misconceptions'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/2575395/British-anti-Americanism-based-on-misconceptions.html
(UK) Shariah Finance: alburaq launches UK 'Halaal' savings plan
http://www.ifaonline.co.uk/public/showPage.html?page=ifa2006_articleimport&tempPageName=810047
(UK) British security laws are eroding human rights, says UN -- Government has been criticized by the United Nations for introducing laws that have stifled freedom of expression in the UK.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2561251/British-security-laws-are-eroding-human-rights-says-UN.html
(UK) CounterterrorismBlog.org's Michael Jacobson provides Quilliam Foundation's Maajid Nawaz response to criticism on Mufti Ali Goma and others on Quilliam web site: "Mufti Ali Goma must stand innocent until proven guilty"
http://counterterrorismblog.org/2008/08/quilliam_responds.php
-- False Reports of Jihadists "Quitting" or Abandoning Islamic Supremacism -- by Jeffrey Imm
http://counterterrorismblog.org/2008/07/false_reports_on_jihad.php
-- Quilliam Foundation - About Us
http://www.quilliamfoundation.org/about-us.html
-- March 6, 2008 - U.S. News and World Report: Egypt's Grand Mufti Counters the Tide of Islamic Extremism
http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/world/2008/03/06/egypts-grand-mufti-counters-the-tide-of-islamic-extremism.html
--- portrayed Sheik Ali Gomaa as "moderate" calling for "sharia law... [as] the best antidote to Islamic extremism"
-- MEMRI: The New Egyptian Mufti - Dr. Sheikh 'Ali Gum'a: Opinions About Jihad, Supporting Suicide Bombings, and Forbidding Muslims in the U.S. Military From Fighting Other Muslims
http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=sd&ID=SP58003
-- MEMRI: In Interview, Egyptian Mufti Ali Gum'a Questioned On Treatment of Women in Islam, Blames 'Secularists' For Terrorism Worldwide
http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=sd&ID=SP175507
-- MEMRI: The Mufti of Egypt: The True Face of the Blood-Sucking Hebrew Entity has Been Exposed
http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=sd&ID=SP125506
http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/Story.asp?Article=226122&Sn=BUSI&IssueID=31146
(UK) Sharia Finance: Gatehouse sees more UK Islamic investment banks
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008\08\13\story_13-8-2008_pg5_26
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2546788/Suicide-bomber-novel-censored-from-Muslim-writing-competition-claims-author-Max-Malik.html
http://www.thebookseller.com/news/64997-malik-claims-censorship.html
-- "An author who won last year's Muslim Writer of the Year Award has claimed his new book was "censored" from this year's competition because it tackled subjects "unpalatable" to Britain's Islamic community like suicide bombings"
(UK) Muslim Writers awards deny censorship of 'unpalatable' novel
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/aug/13/muslim.awards.malik
-- Britain is stepping up its campaign against so-called "honor-related violence." CNN's Paula Newton reports
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2008/08/10/newton.uk.honor.violence.cnn
-- Video addresses case of "Banaz Mahmod, 20, an Iraqi Kurd from south London, was killed and buried in a suitcase in Birmingham in April 2006."
-- August 6 court found her cousin and his friend accused of hiding her body - released due to insufficient evidence
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/7546184.stm
http://www.thelondonpaper.com/cs/Satellite/london/news/article/1157154253541?packedargs=suffix%3DArticleController
-- UK Karma Nirvana charity - survivors of forced marriage and 'honour'-based violence
-- Project founder and director Jasvinder Sanghera
http://www.karmanirvana.org.uk/
Newslinks: "Honour Killings"
http://www.newsnow.co.uk/h/Current+Affairs/Ethnic+Issues/Honour+Killings
Newslinks: "Honor Killings"
http://www.newsnow.co.uk/h/?JavaScript=1&search=honor+killing
News: StopHonourKillings.com
http://www.stophonourkillings.com/?name=News
Honor Killings in Muslim majority countries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honour_Killings#Muslim_majority_countries
UK's first 'sharia-compliant' MasterCard launched for Muslims -- launched today in London
http://www.24dash.com/news/Communities/2008-08-11-MasterCard-launches-UKs-first-sharia-compliant-credit-card-for-Muslims
http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/business_money/shariacompliant+mastercard+launch/2392782
UK: Sharia prepaid card
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2008/08/uk-sharia-prepaid-card.html
http://www.asianimage.co.uk/news/display.var.2422427.0.shariacompliant_card_launched.php
(Scotland) SNP gives more funding to ally's Islamic group
http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/latestnews?articleid=4375178
(UK) Is this the beginning of a new European Islam? -- Urmee Khan
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/urmeekhan/blog/2008/08/08/is_this_the_beginning_of_a_new_european_islam
-- argues that segrational Sharia law can be modified so that "Muslim women in Britain will be guaranteed equal rights"
-- refuses to acknowledge that they already have such rights now under British law
(UK) British Muslims Protest for "Shariah for China" (my title)
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/damian_thompson/blog/2008/08/08/a_cunning_plan
http://wa2.images.onesite.com/blogs.telegraph.co.uk/user/hermione_hoby/protestors3.jpg.jpg
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2518720/New-Sharia-law-marraige-contract-gives-Muslim-women-rights.html
--- Dr. Usama Hasan: "It is high time that Muslim women enjoy the same rights and freedoms under Islamic law as they do under present legal systems in the UK."
--- Never occurs to Hasan that British women all have the same rights under UK legal system, since Sharia seeks separtist law.
(UK) Some good news about Sharia law -- by Janet Daley
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/janet_daley/blog/2008/08/08/some_good_news_about_sharia_law
-- claims Sharia law changes "could mark the beginning of a new phase in the integration of what is now Britain's largest religious minority."
(UK) Muslim marriage contract 'revolutionary' for UK women
http://www.theasiannews.co.uk/news/s/1061862_muslim_marriage_contract_revolutionary_for_uk_women
(UK) Additional Report: Publisher Random House has pulled a novel about Islam over protest fears
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2521794/Publisher-Random-House-has-pulled-a-novel-about-Islam-over-protest-fears.html
(UK) Trial of men accused of Banaz Mahmod 'honor killing' collapses -- due to "lack of evidence"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article4474218.ece
(Afghanistan/UK) British Muslims 'fighting with Taliban in Afghanistan'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/2485750/British-Muslims-fighting-with-Taliban-in-Afghanistan.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article4448024.ece
(Afghanistan/UK) 'UK Muslims fighting alongside Taliban'
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008\08\03\story_3-8-2008_pg7_25
(UK) Prince Harry's security raised following al-Qaeda threat
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News/PoliticsNation/Prince_Harrys_security_raised_following_al-Qaeda_threat/rssarticleshow/3321191.cms
(UK) Spy-in-sky patrols over British cities in hunt for Taliban fighters
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/article-1041011/MI5-launch-spy-sky-UK-manhunt-British-Taliban-fought-Afghanistan.html?ITO=1490
(UK) Blair: Inter-faith dialogue does address root causes of terrorism
http://www.newsabahtimes.com.my/nstweb/fullstory/20294
http://www.thestar.co.uk/rotherham/Lessons-on-Islam-for-hospital.4339407.jp
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2008/jul/28/fashion.women
http://www.huliq.com/65176/ftsejse-launches-shariah-top-40-index
Standard Chartered Bank announces Islamic Online Treasury (OLT) proprietary foreign exchange (FX) trading and hedging platform
http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display_news.asp?section=Business_News&subsection=Local+Business&month=July2008&file=Business_News2008073004817.xml
(UK) Britain tightens visa rules for overseas students
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/07/30/europe/EU-Britain-Foreign-Students.php
(UK) British hacker loses extradition appeal
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2008/07/30/British_hacker_loses_extradition_appeal/UPI-28871217422750/
(UK) Shariah-compliant insurer launched
http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/business_money/shariahcompliant+insurer+launched/2362327
(UK) Disabled married off for entry into the UK
http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/2195
http://www.stophonourkillings.com/?name=News&file=article&sid=2877
-- Disabled youngsters forced into marriage to provide passports
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/disabled-youngsters-forced-into-marriage-to-provide-passports-878256.html
(UK) Diplomats rescue British teenager from forced marriage - Nasrin Begum
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4394909.ece
(UK) Forced to marry her cousin at 17 - Shazia Qayum
http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/article4386899.ece
(UK) Salman Rushdie locked in cupboard while fatwa police protection team went to pub
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/2463429/Salman-Rushdie-locked-in-cupboard-while-fatwa-police-protection-team-went-to-pub.html
(UK) Channel 4 Qur'an documentary disappoints Muslims -- Muslim scholars have accused a Channel 4 documentary about the Qur'an of being "disappointing, misleading, even defamatory".
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/2465174/Channel-4-Quran-documentary-disappoints-Muslims.html
(UK) All air passengers to give their fingerprints ... but is the reason security or simply to raise profits for the duty-free shops?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1038879/All-air-passengers-fingerprints---reason-security-simply-raise-profits-duty-free-shops.html
(UK) Sharia Law Already in the UK
http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/postglobal/islamsadvance/2008/07/sharia_law_already_in_the_uk.html
(UK) Senior Muslim's warning over extremism drive -- says anti-extremism drive "implies there is a widespread problem"
http://www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/news/localnews/display.var.2409015.0.senior_muslims_warning_over_extremism_drive.php
(UK) Forced to marry her cousin at 17
http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/article4386899.ece
(UK) Treat Muslims better, Britain told by UN -- Britain has been told by the United Nations to challenge negative public views towards the Muslim community.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2457699/Treat-Muslims-better%2C-Britain-told-by-UN.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1038460/You-nicer-Muslims-Britain-told-UN-human-rights-chiefs.html
(UK) British opposition leader eyes 'Sharia law for bike theft' - David Cameron
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5j_Hy2XcwPUwXohexq4o9TL6Ykc0g
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article4381034.ece
http://www.mondovisione.com/index.cfm?section=news&action=detail&id=75990
(UK) Muslims take police to task over stop-and-search procedures
http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/other/display.var.2405282.0.Muslims_take_police_to_task_over_stopandsearch_procedures.php
(UK) Government drops plan to allow Muslim schools to police themselves
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/education/2439866/Government-drops-plan-to-allow-Muslim-schools-to-police-themselves.html
(UK) Lebanese woman appeals deportation order to keep her son - update - appeal against a deportation order that would lead to her losing custody of her son under Sharia law to an allegedly violent husband
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article4378759.ece#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=989864
(UK) Met chief in race storm gave advice on 7/7 film 'off record'
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/article-1037226/Met-chief-race-storm-gave-advice-7-7-film-record.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2310761/Airliner-terror-plot-accused-admit-minor-charges.html
-- video excerpts (April 2008 London Times) - Waheed Zaman: "you will be killed... you will be bombed" and Arafat Khan called for "floods of martyrdom operations"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article3671823.ece
(UK) Islamists launch PR 'war' against Western values -- Hizb ut-Tahrir
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/53238/Islamists-launch-PR-war-against-Western-values
(UK) Home Secretary warned by first group to be given ID cards that they will not improve security
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/2309749/Jacqui-Smith-warned-by-first-group-to-be-given-ID-cards-that-they-will-not-improve-security.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article4371678.ece
http://www.greaterkashmir.com/full_story.asp?Date=21_7_2008&ItemID=41&cat=1
-- In UK alone, 50,000 enter the fold every year
UK: Sharia crime courts
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2008/07/uk-sharia-crime-courts.html
-- revealed today that a teenage stabbing case among the Somali community in Woolwich had been dealt with by a sharia "trial"
-- The British sharia 'crime' court in a cafe where knifemen walk free
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-513020/The-British-sharia-crime-court-cafe-knifemen-walk-free.html
UK court to rule on Islamic law case
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080721/ap_on_re_eu/britain_lebanon_asylum_case_1;_ylt=Ang.n.CIdQn3EL.opjHPObjagGIB
-- Britain's highest appeals court is scheduled to decide this week whether a divorced woman and her son should be deported to Lebanon, where she claims her abusive husband will gain custody under Sharia law.
UK: Mars launches Asian cuisine line
http://www.just-food.com/article.aspx?ID=103154
Commentaries:
(UK) Your fawning offends Islam Archbishop... not your Christianity
http://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/
(UK) All state pupils may be taught Islamic traditions as part of compulsory citizenship lessons -- UK state school pupils are set to be taught Islamic traditions and values in compulsory citizenship lessons
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1036328/All-state-pupils-taught-Islamic-traditions-compulsory-citizenship-lessons.html
-- "instead of patriotism, pupils are taught to focus on diversity, globalization, and the role of the European Union and United Nations"
-- "David Conway, senior research fellow at the Civitas think-tank, said: 'Some will see this as another sign of a creeping process of Islamisation - an insidious process which plays down the Christian basis of our culture and encourages children to learn more and more about Islam's contribution.'"
-- 'I fear it will play into the hands of the small minority who want to see the Islamisation of Europe, and believe they will triumph through sheer numbers.'
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080718/music_nm/stevens_court_dc
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/18/2308341.htm?section=justin
-- from a news agency which reported he refused to talk to women at an awards ceremony who were not wearing a veil
(UK) Burkha wearing muslim refused on bus
http://www.wetherbynews.co.uk/wetherby/Burkha-wearing-muslim-refused-on.4300023.jp
-- driver told the family they were not allowed to board as the CCTV cameras would not be able to see the faces of the women, who were wearing a full veil
(UK) Archbishop of Canterbury 'should be trying to convert Muslims'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2304417/Archbishop-of-Canterbury-%27should-be-trying-to-convert-Muslims%27.html
(UK) Mosque hopes for guide dog rule
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/leicestershire/7511103.stm
(UK) 5 men illegally enter Britain on army trucks traveling from Kosovo
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/07/17/europe/EU-Britain-Stowaways.php
(UK) "As Muslims we have fully integrated into British society, but we have no desire to assimilate to an inferior culture"
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021816.php
http://fosterfriess.blogspot.com/2008/07/my-meetings-with-iraqi-shiite-clerics.html
http://www.socialcohesion.co.uk/blog/2008/07/dispatches_source_on_islamopho.html
(UK) Christian doctrine offensive to Muslim, says Archbishop of Canterbury -- bemoans the "offensive" nature of Christian trinity
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2303162/Christian-doctrine-offensive-to-Muslim%2C-says-Archbishop-of-Canterbury.html
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/article-1035420/Why-Christian-doctrine-offensive-Muslims-Archbishop.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jul/14/islam.race
(UK) TV drama portrays Muslim being beheaded by Christian
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=69500
(UK) New board of imams to tackle extremists
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article4322721.ece
(UK) Bishop refutes judge's Sharia comments
http://www.anglican-mainstream.net/2008/07/13/bishop-refutes-judge%E2%80%99s-sharia-comments/
Sharia law thin edge of wedge -- by Salim Mansur
http://www.edmontonsun.com/Comment/2008/07/12/6137496-sun.html
Vehicles for Creeping Sharia -- by Baron Bodissey
http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2008/07/vehicles-for-creeping-sharia.html#readfurther
-- (UK) New board of imams to tackle extremists
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article4322721.ece
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/51891/UK-Muslims-reject-Sharia
-- group web site
http://www.islamicpluralism.eu/
-- Daniel Pipes on "Stephen Schwartz and the Center for Islamic Pluralism"
http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2005/03/stephen-schwartz-and-the-center-for-islamic.html
(UK) Our survey shows British Muslims don't want sharia
http://www.spectator.co.uk//the-magazine/features/825601/our-survey-shows-british-muslims-dont-want-sharia.thtml
http://www.inspiremagazine.org.uk/news.aspx?action=view&id=2615
(UK) Boost for Davis as poll shows little public support for 42 days
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/jul/09/terrorism.daviddavis
(UK) This country to so pro-Muslim it is giving succour to the extremists who would destroy us -- by Melanie Phillips
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1033189/This-country-pro-Muslim-giving-succour-extremists-destroy-us.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/jul/07/law.civilliberties
(UK) Sniffer dogs may have to wear 'booties' in UK Muslim houses, mosques
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,23979619-5006003,00.html
-- Sniffer dogs to wear 'Muslim' bootees
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4276489.ece
-- Police puppy considered "ritually" unclean
http://timesonline.typepad.com/faith/2008/07/the-police-pupp.html
(UK) Newcastle deny Bin Laden link but Saudi buyers are interested
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2008/jul/07/newcastleunited.premierleague?gusrc=rss&feed=sport
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/article-1032693/Bin-Ladens-family-set-launch-bid-buy-Newcastle-United.html
(UK) Official Pandering to the Islamic Hardliners is Political Cowardice
http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/51445
(UK) The Jews of Europe are.. still the Jews
http://www.spectator.co.uk/the-magazine/business/820911/the-jews-of-europe-are-still-the-jews.thtml
(UK) "Tolerate sharia, yes, but never respect it" -- by Minette Marrin
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/minette_marrin/article4276471.ece
-- this commentary of "tolerance" reveals the true weakness of mainstream United Kingdom on this subject
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/damian_thompson/blog/2008/07/04/sharia_is_a_danger_to_us_all
(UK) Is cosying up to Muslim extremists the best way to defeat terrorism? - by Charles Moore
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/07/05/do0501.xml
(UK) The Sharia debate: we can't all be equal under different laws - by Matthew Parris
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/matthew_parris/article4272421.ece
(UK) Former chair of Bar Council calls for sharia rules in English law - Stephen Hockman QC called for sharia rules to be written into English law
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1032080/Former-chair-Bar-Council-calls-sharia-rules-English-law.html
(UK) Sharia will 'inevitably' become part of British law, says barrister Stephen Hockman QC: "It is vital and inevitable that sharia will become part of British law in some shape or form"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2247947/Sharia-will-%27inevitably%27-become-part-of-British-law%2C-says-barrister.html
(UK) Muslims in Britain should be able to live under sharia, says top judge - Lord Chief Justice Lord Phillips
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2242340/Muslims-in-Britain-should-be-able-to-live-under-Sharia-law%2C-says-top-judge.html
-- Full Text of Speech Published at East London Mosque in UK's Web Site
http://www.eastlondonmosque.org.uk/uploadedImage/pdf/EQUALITY%20BEFORE%20THE%20LAW03-07-2008.pdf
(UK) Case dismissed: Lord Chief Justice lays down law on Sharia
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article4265549.ece
(UK) Let UK Muslims live under partial Shariah: judge
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008\07\05\story_5-7-2008_pg7_9
(UK) Does Britain have space for Sharia?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/yourview/2243045/Does-Britain-have-space-for-Sharia.html
(UK) Schoolboys disciplined for 'refusing to pray to Allah'-- spokesman for Cheshire County Council said 'Educating children in the beliefs of different faiths is part of Cheshire's diversity curriculum'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2247388/Schoolboys-disciplined-for-%27refusing-to-pray-to-Allah%27.html
(UK) Schoolboys punished with detention for refusing to kneel in class and pray to Allah
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1031784/Schoolboys-punished-detention-refusing-kneel-pray-Allah.html
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=68785
(UK) British Muslims 'feel like the Jews of Europe'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2245450/British-Muslims-%27feel-like-the-Jews-of-Europe%27.html
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008\07\05\story_5-7-2008_pg7_10
If American leadership was looking for a case study on "what not to do" in addressing the challenge of Islamic supremacism, it would need to look no further than the United Kingdom. But in the chorus of denial on the challenge of Islamic supremacism, there are many who (frighteningly) believe that the United Kingdom offers ideas and research that could be valuable in counterterrorism measures in the United States. In fact, if America continues to pursue an approach of denial on Islamic supremacism, comparable to that of the United Kingdom's, it could well go down its same disastrous path.
The symptoms of the United Kingdom's disastrous policies on Islamic supremacism can be seen in the June 22, 2008 London Times where Sir Simon Jenkins writes that: "[t]he Taliban's chief objective is not world domination but a share of power in Afghanistan... [and that the Taliban] offer the best hope of beating Al-Qaeda." (Of course, the Taliban's objectives are to work towards a Sharia-based Islamic supremacist global caliphate, one country at a time, just as Al-Qaeda.) Such symptoms can also been seen in the recent comments by Sir Hugh Orde (frontrunner to be the next commissioner of Metropolitan Police) that UK should negotiate with Al-Qaeda. Most importantly, such symptoms can be seen in the repeated attempts by British Jihadists to commit mass casualty terrorist attacks in April 2001, December 2001, and 2006 on the United States homeland, and the position of the United Kingdom as the "focal point for Islamic terrorism across Europe." The disastrous United Kingdom approach to addressing Islamic supremacism has made it one of the most dangerous countries in the world, and a continuing serious threat to America's national security.
But among the chorus in denial on the threat of Islamic supremacism, the efforts of the United Kingdom to try to "engage" its Muslim community to discourage Muslims from "extremism" seem attractive. The UK Home Office's Jonathan Allen recently summarized this approach to a George Washington University panel on homeland security issues that Muslims don't need to agree with United Kingdom foreign policies to share UK's position on being against such "criminals" as Jihadists. Last winter, the United Kingdom government also developed its own "terror lexicon" where terms such as "Jihad," "Islamism," etc., would no longer be used, and the London police force started instructing its officers on Sharia law.
While there is a plethora of detail on tactics involving British Jihad and Islamism (much of which I address at the web site "British Jihad and Islamism Watch"), my focus in this article is on how the ideological challenges have failed in the United Kingdom, and why such failures must not be replicated to address tactical efforts in counterterrorism in the United States.
The United Kingdom strategies against Islamic supremacism have failed precisely because they have been consistently weak on the issue of Islamic supremacism as an ideology. Historically, the United Kingdom looked the other way for decades as Islamic supremacists infiltrated the United Kingdom, set up Islamic supremacist organizations, publicly threatened violence, and developed a European logistics base within the United Kingdom. The UK immigration policies were considered so lax that Osama Bin Laden applied for asylum to move to the UK in 1995 as a safe haven for his Al Qaeda operations, while Bin Laden was planning the "Bojinka plot". Had Bin Laden managed to immigrate to the UK, or had Dhiren Barot's British Jihadist gang managed to successfully attack New York City prior to the 9/11 attacks, it well may have been the United Kingdom that the U.S. had to deal with rather than Afghanistan.
During the decades of the United Kingdom's alleged "Gentleman's Agreement" with Islamic supremacists, other European nations were furious with UK's asylum for such supremacists and UK's unwillingness to crack down on this ideology. Many Europeans called the UK "Londonistan" due to its growing status as a logistics base, planning hub, and asylum center for Islamic supremacists throughout Europe. After the 9/11 attacks, Islamic supremacists such as al-Muhajiroun held conferences and rallies in "honor" of the "magnificent 19" who attacked America on 9/11, and Islamic supremacists became increasingly public and bold in their threats towards the Western world, encouraged by Al-Qaeda's attacks on America, and empowered by the UK's unwillingness to crack down on them.
It wasn't until the United Kingdom itself was attacked on July 7, 2005 in the London subway and bus bombings that the UK was sufficiently incentivized to "crack down" on Islamic supremacists. In a recent interview in Lebanon with Omar Bakri Mohammed, he stated that after the July 2005 bombings, the UK government "violated the 'Covenant of Security' (Aqd Al-Amaan) that had hitherto guaranteed peace between Muslims and the British state." But this did not last long. A few years after inconsistent efforts to crack down on Islamic supremacist organizations, the UK government concluded that it was facing a bigger problem than it could handle. The estimates of the numbers of Islamic supremacist terrorists and supporters being monitored by the UK MI5 domestic intelligence agency have varied - ranging from 1,200 to 4,000 -- but the fundamental problem is that the UK MI5 and the UK government feel overwhelmed by the task and gravity of their threat. (Of course, the UK has no historical experience in facing a challenge like the 4 million member Ku Klux Klan white supremacist terrorist group in the United States.)
So in an effort to reinvent old policy, today's UK has gone to a "War on Criminals" mode (since they won't use the word "Jihadists"), continuing to avoid recognizing the threat of Islamic supremacism as an ideology, and continuing to tolerate Islamic supremacist organizations (such as Hizb ut-Tahrir), while using terminology and public relations efforts (such as training Bobbies on Sharia) to convince British Muslims not to accept "extremism" or to support "criminals." In fact, this "new policy" is not much more different from the "old policy" on Islamic supremacist ideology, except that if Islamic supremacists make direct, public, and prosecutable threats, then they can expect to be arrested, at least until they are turned loose again.
This "new strategy" by UK is not intended to confront Islamic supremacism as an ideology at all, which is why the chorus of denial on Islamic supremacism find it so attractive. It is only intended to discourage and temporarily disrupt Islamic supremacist terrorist plots from being actualized on a rolling basis. What the UK government fails to appreciate is that it can't simply keep its ship of state afloat by endlessly bailing water as the hole in the bottom continues to grow larger. So with every new Sharia court established in the UK, with every new instance where British courts accepts Sharia, with every new pronouncement that Sharia law should be accepted, with every new comment that the Taliban and Al-Qaeda should be negotiated with, the empowerment of Islamic supremacism continues to grow as an ideology that can affect change within the United Kingdom. While the UK government believes that such "tolerance" and "understanding" of Islamic supremacism defuses violence, it fails to understand that weakness in its national values encourages others to gravitate to stronger, more defined values, such as Islamic supremacism.
Furthermore, the UK's history in conflict management over a foreign empire is one that ultimately concluded in constant defeat of Britain in region after region, resulting in a culture of conflict avoidance by the mid 20th century. Such conflict avoidance with Nazi Germany supremacists nearly cost the UK its national sovereignty, and those who demonize pre-WWII UK Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain should recognize that he represented a view common in British society at that time, and which has sadly been revitalized today.
While the chorus of denial on Islamic supremacism points to the UK experiments in "engaging" its Muslim society as a laudable example to be followed, it must be remembered that it is the American historical experience and commitment to sacrifice for the equality against supremacist organizations that is our most valuable lesson. It must be remembered that the UK continues to represent one of the greatest threats by Islamic supremacism towards the United States in the world - with repeated mass-casualty terrorist attack attempts by British Jihadists against the United States homeland. The last country (except perhaps for Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, or Iran) that the United States should seek to "learn lessons" from should be the United Kingdom.
Unlike the United States, the United Kingdom had no Abraham Lincoln, no Emancipation Proclamation, no Gettysburg Address, no words "all men are created equal" chiseled in marble in a memorial in the heart of its capital. It simply is not the same country as the United States. In America's Declaration of Independence from the United Kingdom, our fundamental differences were clearly stated in the defiant declaration of the ideal that "All Men Are Created Equal."
Our beloved values ensure that America's population knows what it means to be "American." Does the UK's population know what it means to be "British"? The UK's history in the Magna Carta is focused on "liberty," but not necessarily equality. Liberty is only half of the equation of freedom, equality is the other completing half of freedom that provides the values to truly challenge any supremacist ideology.
America's war on white supremacism and its consistent sacrifices for both liberty and equality provide the necessary and relevant historical examples on how to counter such threats and provide the basis for a declaration of independence from Islamic supremacist influences.
(UK) Muslims outraged at police advert featuring cute puppy sitting in policeman's hat
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1030798/Muslims-outraged-police-advert-featuring-cute-puppy-sitting-policemans-hat.html
UK: Women fleeing forced marriage and abuse betrayed by doctors, police
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2008/07/uk-women-fleeing-forced-marriage-and.html
(UK) Police embroiled in new race row after claims that at least 20 forces blocked inquiry into discrimination against Muslims
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/article-1030514/Police-embroiled-new-race-row-claims-20-forces-blocked-inquiries-discrimination-Muslims.html
(UK) Army to Woo British Muslims
http://www.modoracle.com/news/Army-to-Woo-British-Muslims_15993.html
(UK) 11th-hour bid to save family from threats - in Pakistan as "apostates" for leaving Islam
http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/11thhour-bid-to-save-.4234434.jp
(UK) Sharia-compliant mortgages are here - and they're not just for Muslims
http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2008/jun/29/mortgages.islam
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/article-1029887/Muslims-searched-sniffer-dogs-despite-religious-objections-say-police.html
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/50071/Sniffer-dogs-offend-Muslims
(UK) Church of England: Islam is real threat to church, says Synod member
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2205041/Islam-is-real-threat-to-church%2C-says-Synod-member.html
(UK) Britain's most senior Asian police officer claims to have 'secret dossier supporting his racism allegations'
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/article-1029875/Britains-senior-Asian-police-officer-claims-secret-dossier-supporting-racism-allegations.html?ITO=1490
(UK) Sir Ian Blair warns Muslim race row officer to step into line
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1029614/Sir-Ian-Blair-ca
(UK) Author Salman Rushdie receives controversial knighthood in Britain
http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/uk/news/article_1413249.php/Author_Salman_Rushdie_receives_controversial_knighthood_in_Britain
(UK) Sharia Law Now Recognized In London, UK Courts
http://www.thevoicemagazine.com/blog/worldnews/sharia-law-now-recognized-in-london-uk-courts/
(UK) Top Muslim policeman to sue Met for racism
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=192139&in_page_id=34
(UK) London: Hub of Islamic finance
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2008/06/london-hub-of-islamic-finance.html
http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?c=Article_C&pagename=Zone-English-News/NWELayout&cid=1213871134056
(UK) Islamic law plays a role in British legal system
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-sharia20-2008jun20,0,542811.story
(UK) Minister rejects fears of parallel legal system insisting Sharia law has no jurisdiction in Britain - Lord Bassam of Brighton
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1027910/Minister-rejects-fears-parallel-legal-insisting-Sharia-law-jurisdiction-Britain.html
(UK) Christianity 'could die out within a century'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2160495/Christianity-%27could-die-out-within-a-century%27.html
(UK) Qatada 'dubbed nightmare neighbour'
http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5jpsVlH6g7Kv7hxdASQT-oc2ykMtg
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1027300/How-I-nearly-lost-business-refusing-hire-Muslim-hair-stylist-wouldnt-hair.html
-- Muslim group Hizb ut-Tahrir later admitted that it had 'advised her' - Bushra Noah
UK becomes largest arms exporter
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=1917817&Language=en
(UK) Muslim woman refused job as a hairdresser because she wears a headscarf wins 4,000 pound payout
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1027029/Hairdresser-ordered-pay-4-000-Muslim-woman-refusing-job-wears-headscarf.html
(UK) Christian preachers to gather in Birmingham 'no-go' area
http://www.birminghammail.net/news/top-stories/2008/06/13/christian-preachers-to-gather-in-birmingham-no-go-area-97319-21070709/
(UK) Conference will look at positive role of UK Muslims
http://www.theasiannews.co.uk/news/s/1054314_conference_will_look_at_positive_role_of_uk_muslims
Dispatches: "From Jail to Jihad"
(UK) Dispatches: From Jail to Jihad
"Dispatches investigates the spread of Islamic extremism throughout British prisons and asks if today's prisoners will become tomorrow's terrorists"
http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/dispatches/from+jail+to+jihad/2288772
(UK) Critic's choice - Dispatches: From Jail to Jihad (Channel 4)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/06/17/nosplit/bvtv17critic.xml
(UK) New English Review: The Iconoclast: Dispatches: From Jail to Jihad (Channel 4) - by Mary Jackson
http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_display.cfm/blog_id/15413
VIDEO PORTION:
(UK) Dispatches "From Jail to Jihad" Video (5-part online video)
-- Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKOvg1ijZr0&feature=PlayList&p=BD7533285EA8A370&index=0
-- Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTwGzWrY3Jc&feature=PlayList&p=BD7533285EA8A370&index=1
-- Part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vw4d6ee_Ck&feature=PlayList&p=BD7533285EA8A370&index=2
-- Part 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9ICJ9t6Mdc&feature=PlayList&p=BD7533285EA8A370&index=3
-- Part 5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEABGx6d8nM&feature=PlayList&p=BD7533285EA8A370&index=4
(UK) First Sharia-compliant capital savings plan launched in the UK
http://www.citywire.co.uk/personal/-/news/money-property-and-tax/content.aspx?ID=305719
(UK) Mosque 'can be up in two years'
http://www.expressandstar.com/2008/06/13/mosque-can-be-up-in-two-years/
(UK) BBC defends fictional Muslim beheading by Christian in television program "Bonekickers"
http://www.teletext.co.uk/entertainment/news/166ced16619c4c3f8301c47531af2dd1/BBC+defends+Muslim+beheading.aspx
UK's first Shariah compliant capital protected savings product launched
http://www.theasiannews.co.uk/news/business/s/1053731_uks_first_shariah_compliant_capital_protected_savings_product_launched
(UK) British MP George Galloway to Hamas TV: I Pray for Obama's Safety; Come November, Arab "Puppet Presidents and Corrupt Kings May Discover That the Ground Has Moved Under Their Feet, Allah Willing"
http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD195608
http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/1785.htm
(UK) Visa curbs ultimatum targets 11 countries
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/091dccb6-37ea-11dd-aabb-0000779fd2ac.html?nclick_check=1
-- Brazil, South Africa, Malaysia, Botswana, Bolivia, Venezuela, Trinidad & Tobago, Mauritius, Lesotho, Namibia and Swaziland
June 13, 2008
(UK Politics) 42-Day Terror Detention Debate: Anti-Detention David Davis: My wife says I'm bonkers, but I had to take a stand
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1026124/David-Davis-My-wife-says-Im-bonkers-I-stand.html
-- pro-Davis Commentary in Daily Mail
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1026149/Lets-raise-caps-hats-helmets-bold-buccaneer-.html
June 12, 2008
(UK) Opponents vow to fight anti-terror plans
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080612/wl_uk_afp/britainpoliticsattackslaw_080612094229;_ylt=Arpw0KA8j_LQETNyjWf7B8ETv5UB
(UK) PM faces Lords block and legal challenges to 42-day detention law
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1025413/Brown-faces-Lords-block-legal-challenges-42-days-law.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article4119097.ece
(UK) Press slam Brown over 'hollow' anti-terror victory
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080612/wl_uk_afp/britainpoliticsattackslawpress_080612082003;_ylt=AvNPsjJcPQjJVLCFg7Ojid0Tv5UB
-- UK Telegraph Editorial: "42 day terror detention was a hollow victory for Gordon Brown"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/06/12/dl1201.xml
-- UK London Times Editorial: "42 days: Westminster for sale"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/leading_article/article4116434.ece
-- "Shadow Home Secretary David Davis stuns Parliament by resigning to fight by-election over 'strangulation of British freedoms'"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1025992/Shadow-Home-Secretary-David-Davis-stuns-Parliament-resigning-fight-election-strangulation-British-freedoms.html
42-day detention: the controversy
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/conservative/2116872/42-day-detention-the-controversy.html
Gordon Brown defends anti-terror vote tactics
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/2116170/Gordon-Brown-defends-anti-terror-vote-tactics.html
Conservatives would 'look hard' at reversing 42-day terror detention, says David Davis
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/conservative/2091955/Conservatives-would-look-hard-at-reversing-42-day-terror-detention%2C-says-David-Davis.html
Labour MP stands down from leftwing group over support for 42 days
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/jun/12/labour.terrorism
David Davis resigns over 42-days vote
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/video/2008/jun/12/david.davis.resignation
June 11, 2008
(UK) PM wins 42 day terror suspect detention vote
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/labour/2112131/Gordon-Brown-wins-42-day-detention-vote.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7449268.stm
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article4115300.ece
(UK) PM faces tight vote on terror detention
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080611/wl_uk_afp/britainpoliticsattackslaw_080611072326;_ylt=Akj5gN1mN96XlOawelF.s4UTv5UB
(UK) British Muslim Foundation opposes 42-day detention
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jun/11/civilliberties.terrorism
Commentary:
(UK) Britain's fateful vote
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1212659697735&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
(UK) Britain vs. Islamism
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1212041467536&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
(UK) Malaysian president Abdullah Badawi calls for British Muslims to live under sharia law
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/malaysia/2100495/Malaysian-president-Abdullah-Badawi-calls-for-British-Muslims-to-live-under-sharia-law.html
(UK) Israel's ambassador says Britain has become a hotbed of radical anti-Israeli feeling
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/2100428/Israel%27s-ambassador-says-Britain-has-become-a-hotbed-of-radical-anti-Israeli-feeling.html
(UK) 'Christianity should be sidelined'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/labour/2096385/Labour-Hazel-Blears-says-sidelining-of-Christianity-is-%27common-sense%27.html
-- "Communities Secretary Hazel Blears claims it is "common sense" for Christianity to be sidelined at the expense of Islam."
(UK) 'Political correctness' blocking attempts to protect Asian children
http://www.birminghampost.net/news/west-midlands-news/2008/06/09/political-correctness-blocking-attempts-to-protect-asian-children-65233-21044833/
(UK) Scotland: Muslims complain of being targeted by police
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2008/06/scotland-muslims-complain-of-being.html
(UK) Labour Party 'discriminates against Christians'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2085597/Christianity-%27discriminated-against-by-Gordon-Brown%27s-Government%27.html
-- Christianity is being discriminated against by the Government in favour of Islam and other minority faiths, according to a landmark Church of England report.
(UK) Church of England accuses Brown of favouring Islam and minority religions in damning report
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/article-1024823/Church-England-accuses-Brown-favouring-Islam-minority-religions-damning-report.html
(UK) Church of England Archbishop Williams affirms Christian-Muslim engagement might be strengthened and deepened
http://www.christiantoday.com/article/archbishop.affirms.christian.muslim.engagement/19279.htm
(UK) Church of England shelves debate on evangelizing Muslims
http://www.christiantoday.com/article/church.of.england.shelves.debate.on.evangelising.muslims/19271.htm
(UK) Army tackles ticking WWII German bomb that threatens east London
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1024468/Army-tackles-ticking-Blitz-bomb-threatens-east-London.html
(UK) British government says it favors stepping into Islamic finance
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/06/02/business/EU-FIN-ECO-Britain-Islamic-Finance.php
(UK) Prince Charles, defender of Islam -- by Fazile Zahir
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/JF04Ak01.html
(UK) Christian group says guidance needed on freedom of speech
http://www.birminghampost.net/news/west-midlands-news/2008/06/03/christian-group-says-guidance-needed-on-freedom-of-speech-65233-21013297/
(UK) Police defend PCSO after Christian preachers warned in Birmingham Muslim area
http://www.birminghammail.net/news/top-stories/2008/06/02/police-defend-pcso-after-christian-preachers-warned-in-birmingham-muslim-area-97319-21010878/
(UK) 'You can't preach the Bible here, this is a Muslim area': What police told Christians preachers
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1023483/You-preach-Bible-Muslim-area-What-police-told-Christians-preachers.html
Sharia assets reach 136 billion British Pounds Sterling - E&Y identifies over 500 Islamic funds
http://www.accountancymagazine.com/croner/jsp/Editorial.do?cache=true&BV_EngineID=cccfadeefddkllgcflgceggdfnfdgfh.0&channelId=-305535&contentId=967497&BV_SessionID=%40%40%40%401547607186.1212418881%40%40%40%40&BV_UseBVCookie=no
British Muslim delegation arrives in Pakistan
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008\06\02\story_2-6-2008_pg7_20
(UK) Christian preachers face arrest in Birmingham -- threatened with arrest for committing a "hate crime"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2058935/Police-advise-Christian-preachers-to-leave-Muslin-area-of-Birmingham.html
-- police community support officer ordered two Christian preachers to stop handing out gospel leaflets in a predominantly Muslim area of Birmingham
-- when the officer realized they were American, although both have lived in Britain for many years, he launched a tirade against President Bush and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
-- Mr. Cunningham: "He said we were in a Muslim area and were not allowed to spread our Christian message. He said we were committing a hate crime by telling the youths to leave Islam and said that he was going to take us to the police station."
(UK) London Times Columnist Max Hastings: "we admire Bin Laden for making the American military machine look ridiculous"
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/non-fiction/article4028910.ece
Terror and Consent: The Wars for the 21st Century by Philip Bobbitt
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/non-fiction/article4028910.ece?Submitted=true
(UK) London Times: "Terror law turns thousands of council officials into spies"
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article4036231.ece
(UK) London: Muslim TV producer accuses police of harassment
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2008/05/london-muslim-tv-producer-accuses.html
(UK) Imams invited to schools face vetting
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2056715/Imams-invited-to-schools-face-vetting.html
(UK) Poll - Majority of Britons view U.S. as a "force for evil"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/2049446/Barack-Obama-beats-John-McCain-in-European-vote-US-election-2008.html
- Poll spreadsheet
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/00674/Country-by-country__674785a.xls
(UK) Royal Marines advert 'portayed Malaysians as terrorists'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/malaysia/2054717/Royal-Marines-advert-%27portayed-Malaysians-as-terrorists%27.html
(UK) National Secular Society: Bishop of Rochester 'doing the BNP's work'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2050609/Bishop-of-Rochester-%27doing-the-BNP%27s-work%27.html
(UK) Cardinal urges Muslim leaders to oppose violent jihad
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/may/29/catholicism.islam
--- Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, the Pope's principal adviser on Islam: "The problem is that in the Qur'an you have good and bad jihad, so you choose."
--- see also Dhimmi Watch article
http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/021212.php
(UK) Bishop Nazir-Ali: Islam fills UK's 'moral vacuum'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2042169/Bishop-Michael-Nazir-Ali-Radical-Islam-is-filling-void-left-by-collapse-of-Christianity-in-UK.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1022491/Radical-Islam-filling--8216-moral-vacuum-8217-Britain-senior-bishop-warns.html?ITO=1490
(UK) Muslims set for holy march - hundreds of Muslims will celebrate the birth of Prophet Muhammad with a holy march in Peterborough on Sunday.
http://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/news/Muslims-set-for-holy-march.4118255.jp
(UK) London Times Article Celebrates 100th Anniversary of Caliphate as "Spiritual Guardian of Islam": "Return of the Caliphate" - Waqar Ahmad Ahmedi writes on British Ahmadi Muslims "celebrate the most important milestone in the Muslim world for decades: the 100th anniversary of the return of the Khilafat or Caliphate" -- as "spiritual guardian of Islam"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article4009417.ece
-- "for Ahmadis and many other Muslims, the Caliph is a spiritual not a worldly office. "Khalifa" means literally successor or guardian and thus the Caliph is charged with continuing the message and mission of the Prophet Muhammad, educating and reminding Muslims everywhere of their responsibilities to God, towards the rights of others, and the need for developing good morals."
(UK) Missing mum in Muslim gear
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1209456.ece
(UK) The Islamization of Britain -The Spectator
http://www.spectator.co.uk/the-magazine/arts/731751/the-islamisation-of-britain.thtml
(UK) Either Allah isn't on their side, or jihadis are just plain useless -- by Rod Liddle
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/rod_liddle/article3998871.ece
(UK) The Church of England Newspaper - "Religious trends and our religious future"
http://www.churchnewspaper.com/Editorial.aspx
"If recent reports of trends in religious observance prove to be correct, then in some 30 years the mosque will be able to claim that, religiously speaking, the UK is an Islamic nation, and therefore needs a share in any religious establishment to reflect this. The progress of conservative Islam in the UK has been amazing, and it has come at a time of prolonged decline in church attendance that seems likely to continue. "
"At all levels of national life Islam has gained state funding, protection from any criticism, and the insertion of advisors and experts in government departs national and local. A Muslim Home Office adviser, for example, was responsible for Baroness Scotland’s aborting of the legislation against honour killings, arguing that informal methods would be better. In the police we hear of girls under police protection having the addresses of their safe houses disclosed to their parents by Muslim officers who think they are doing their religious duty."
"While men-only gentlemen's clubs are now being dubbed unlawful, we hear of municipal swimming baths encouraging 'Muslim women only' sessions and in Dewsbury Hospitals staff waste time by turning beds to face Mecca five times a day -- a Monty Pythonesque scenario of lunacy, but astonishingly true. Prisons are replete with imams who are keen to inculcate conservative Islam in any inmates who are deemed to be culturally 'Muslim': the Prison service in effect treats such prisoners as a cultural block to be preached to by imams at will. Would the Prison service send all those with 'C of E' on their papers to confirmation classes with the chaplain?! We could go on."
"The point is that Islam is being institutionalised, incarnated, into national structures amazingly fast, at the same time as demography is showing very high birthrates. Charles Taylor's new and classic work on the Secular Age charts the rise of the secular mindset and what he calls the 'excarnation' of Christianity as it is levered out of state policy and structures. Christianity is now regarded as bad news, the liberal elite’s attack developed in the 1960s took root in the educationalist empire, and to some extent even in areas of the church. "
JihadWatch.org - Church of England: UK will be "Islamic nation" in 2038
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021208.php
(UK) Church of England row over Muslim conversion
A row has erupted within the Church of England over calls for British Muslims to be converted to Christianity.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2028638/Church-of-England-row-over-Muslim-conversion.html
(UK) Church is not doing enough to convert UK Muslims, says bishop
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1021691/Church-doing-convert-UK-Muslims-says-bishop.html
UK: Queen won over by headscarf
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2008/05/uk-queen-won-over-by-headscarf.html
(UK) Muslim cleared of murdering BNP man -- "Habib Khan, 50, was dramatically cleared of murder after a court was told that he had endured a living hell of racism"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article3994996.ece
(UK) 50,000 People Convert To Islam Every Year In U.K.
http://www.thememriblog.org/urdupashtu/blog_personal/en/7550.htm
(UK) Son of extremist Muslim preacher Abu Hamza is arrested for 'helping in burglary'
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23486677-details/article.do?ito=newsnow&
(UK) Muslim Chemist Pill Ban
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/38598/Muslim-chemist-pill-ban/
(UK) Afghan hijacker found working at Heathrow 'ransacked travel agency in a rage'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1020508/Afghan-hijacker-working-Heathrow-ransacked-travel-agency-rage.html
UK Muslim charged with poisoning food, children's books with urine, feces
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021087.php
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/gloucestershire/7406976.stm
http://www.wiltsglosstandard.co.uk/news/latest/display.var.2281176.0.urine_attacker_remanded_in_custody.php
(UK) BNP activist fell on knife, claims Asian neighbor -- Muslim community elder Habib Khan denies murder, told a jury how years of residential hell resulted in him going for a his neighbor with a knife
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article3965292.ece
UK: Fulwood mosque gets go-ahead amid 'racist' row
http://www.lep.co.uk/news/Mosque-plan-gets-goahead-amid.4098829.jp
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2008/05/uk-fulwood-mosque-gets-go-ahead-amid.html
(UK) Muslim's fury at sex swap driving teacher
http://www.thestar.co.uk/news/Muslim39s-fury-at-sex-swap.4099748.jp
U.K. to Continue With Plans to Issue Islamic Bonds, Ussher Says
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601009&sid=aGi9CH04seQ4&refer=bond
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/868dec24-2513-11dd-a14a-000077b07658.html?nclick_check=1
(UK) Women married under Sharia discover they're not legally married
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2008/05/bolton-women-married-under-sharia.html
http://www.asianimage.co.uk/news/display.var.2279891.0.hundreds_of_muslim_women_may_not_be_married.php
(UK) Bolton: Birth of Mohammed celebrated
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2008/05/bolton-birth-of-mohammed-celebrated.html
http://www.asianimage.co.uk/news/display.var.2279441.0.celebrating_muslims_parade_through_bolton_streets.php
(UK) Scotland: First state-funded Islamic school to get go-ahead
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2008/05/scotland-first-state-funded-islamic.html
(UK) Synagogue walls daubed with anti-Jewish graffiti
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23484717-details/Synagog/ue+walls+daubed+with+anti-Jewish+graffiti/article.do
(UK) Britain Needs US-Style Think Tanks To Counter The Left's Grip On Universities
http://www.spectator.co.uk/print/the-magazine/the-week/704631/britain-needs-usstyle-think-tanks-to-counter-the-lefts-grip-on-universities.thtml
UK government to set up Young Muslims' Consultative Group
http://www.mathaba.net/rss/?x=592375
United Kingdom's Queen Elizabeth in Turkey
UK's Queen Elizabeth II visits mosque, listens to Quran recital
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080514/ap_on_re_mi_ea/turkey_britain_royal_visit_2;_ylt=Ag.Ib4_7fPopii6C5qQXH0PtfLkA
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/05/14/europe/EU-GEN-Turkey-Britain-Royal-Visit.php
-- her shoes removed and her head covered, the queen heard a religious scholar recite verses from the holy book at the 15th-century Green Mosque
UK's Queen dons a headscarf for Mosque visit
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article3934081.ece
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00337/queen1_337772a.jpg
Queen of scarves: HRH dons Islamic headgear as she visits a Turkish mosque
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=566135&in_page_id=1811
http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/05_04/GreecequeenAP_468x652.jpg
(UK) The media's warnings of extremism were right
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article3934805.ece
(UK) Scotland: Islamic law 'to influence UK system' -- leading member of the Catholic Church in Scotland has predicted that elements of Islamic law will inevitably be incorporated into the British legal system over time
http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/news/display.var.2272176.0.Islamic_law_to_influence_UK_system.php
(Turkey) UK's Queen Elizabeth II visits mosque, listens to Quran recital
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080514/ap_on_re_mi_ea/turkey_britain_royal_visit_2;_ylt=Ag.Ib4_7fPopii6C5qQXH0PtfLkA
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/05/14/europe/EU-GEN-Turkey-Britain-Royal-Visit.php
-- her shoes removed and her head covered, the queen heard a religious scholar recite verses from the holy book at the 15th-century Green Mosque
(Turkey) UK's Queen dons a headscarf for Mosque visit
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article3934081.ece
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00337/queen1_337772a.jpg
(Turkey) Queen of scarves: HRH dons Islamic headgear as she visits a Turkish mosque
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=566135&in_page_id=1811
http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/05_04/GreecequeenAP_468x652.jpg
(UK) Queen heads for Turkey - and a sticky diplomatic moment as President's wife wears Islamic headscarf
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=566135&in_page_id=1811&ito=1490
(UK) London: Islamists march -- undated video from Glen Jenvey
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2008/05/london-islamists-march.html
(UK) Islamic Bank of Britain to tighten Sharia compliance
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/8f882470-1e1f-11dd-983a-000077b07658.html?nclick_check=1
(UK) Islamic school gets go-ahead -- Pendle Council
http://www.pendletoday.co.uk/nelsonnews/Islamic-school-gets-goahead.4069367.jp
UK: Proposal to ban cousin marriages
http://www.thestatesman.net/page.news.php?clid=8&theme=&usrsess=1&id=203518
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2008/05/uk-proposal-to-ban-cousin-marriages.html
(UK) Anti-terror police arrest Muslim author and former al-Qaida recruiter as he boards flight to Pakistan -- Hassan Butt
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=565303&in_page_id=1770&ito=newsnow
(UK) Terror Police Quiz 'Al Qaeda Recruiter' -- Hassan Butt
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/skynews/20080511/tuk-terror-police-quiz-al-qaeda-recruite-45dbed5.html
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-1315640,00.html?f=rss
http://icbirmingham.icnetwork.co.uk/sundaymercury/news/tm_headline=police-quiz-terror-suspect-exposed-by-the-sunday-mercury%26method=full%26objectid=20896974%26siteid=50002-name_page.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/may/11/uksecurity
UK: New Saudi-financed Islamic study centers -- at University of Cambridge and the University of Edinburgh
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2008/05/uk-new-saudi-financed-islamic-study.html
http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?c=Article_C&pagename=Zone-English-News/NWELayout&cid=1209357387388
UK: Halal fast food franchise launches
http://www.asianimage.co.uk/news/display.var.2241639.0.fast_food_franchise_hits_streets.php
(UK) Police aim for more Muslim staff
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4032987.stm
(UK) Scotland: Muslim Police Association proposed -- "to improve understanding of the faith and to tackle Islamophobia"
http://icscotland.icnetwork.co.uk/news/scottish/tm_headline=muslim-police-association-proposed%26method=full%26objectid=20887155%26siteid=50141-name_page.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/glasgow_and_west/7391852.stm
(UK) 'More Muslims than Christians by 2035' - Practicing Muslims will outnumber worshipping Christians in Britain within 30 years
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1936418/Practising-Muslims-%27will-outnumber-Christians-by-2035%27.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article3890080.ece
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=564722&in_page_id=1770
UK: Mosque renovates, Qibla points to Mecca
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2008/05/uk-mosque-renovates-qibla-points-to.html
http://www.asianimage.co.uk/news/display.var.2254438.0.change_in_direction_for_mosque.php
(UK) Stop pandering to Muslims says 'silent majority'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/may/02/islam.religion
UK: Muslim Girl Power
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2008/05/uk-muslim-girl-power.html
http://swindlemagazine.com/issue16/sarah-maple/
http://swindlemagazine.com/issue16/londons-muslim-girl-power/
UK: First independent Islamic insurance company
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2008/05/uk-first-independent-islamic-insurance.html
UK's first Islamic insurance firm OKed by FSA
http://www.myfinances.co.uk/news/insurance/car-insurance/uk-s-first-islamic-insurance-firm-oked-by-fsa-$1221074.htm
(UK) Sharia finance storms the City
http://www.accountancymagazine.com/croner/jsp/Editorial.do?cache=true&channelId=-305535&contentId=946579&BV_UseBVCookie=yes
(UK) Matalan posters outrage Muslims -- in advertising billboards "models have been covered in thick white paint to conceal bare flesh"
http://icbirmingham.icnetwork.co.uk/mail/news/2008/04/30/matalan-posters-outrage-muslims-97319-20841859/
(UK) Islamic bank of Britain grows despite credit squeeze
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/17cf33f2-1482-11dd-a741-0000779fd2ac.html?nclick_check=1
(UK) London mayor hopefuls battle for Muslim vote
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080429/wl_uk_afp/britainvotereligionmuslim_080429092627;_ylt=ArZT6D15w7dtWwADgDkWsqsTv5UB
(UK) BBC 'censored Christian party broadcast' -- regarding Tablighi Jamaat mosque
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article3835551.ece
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=562718&in_page_id=1770
(UK) Quilliam Foundation: a thoughtful think-tank?
Two writers debate the merits of a new Muslim-and-secular collective that aims to 'revive Western Islam and unite against extremism'.
http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/5036/
(UK) British Muslim 'bullied' for becoming a Christian -- Nissar Hussein
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/28/nmuslim128.xml
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article3828082.ece
(UK) Stop being crusader, police told Christian convert
an officer made the comment after he reported a threat to burn down his house if he did not repent and return to Islam
http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/Stop-being-crusader-police-told.4029765.jp
http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/bradford/bradfordnews/display.var.2231787.0.i_was_told_stop_being_a_crusader.php
(UK) Pro-Islamists reject "dangers of Islamism espoused by the Quilliam Foundation"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/apr/26/uksecurity
-- Quilliam Foundation April 25, 2008 article
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/apr/25/islam.uksecurity
(UK) Doherty turning to Islam in jail
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/bizarre/article1092186.ece
http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/352574/cs/1/
(UK) Airline terror plot: 'Bomber hid jihad books in baby's cot' -- Abdulla Ahmed Al
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1082351.ece
(UK) July 7 bomb plot trial: Surveillance video of July 7 bomb plotters
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/23/nplot123.xml
(UK) High Court: Freezing assets of terror suspects 'unlawful and unconstitutional'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/24/nterror224.xml
(UK) Terror suspects win legal challenge over assets: court -- suspected Jihadists under control orders get assets freed
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080424/wl_uk_afp/britaincourtattacks
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=561725&in_page_id=1770
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/04/24/2227093.htm?section=justin
(UK) Terror prisoner threatens to sue to get deported to India: Sabeel Ahmed
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/apr/24/immigrationpolicy.immigration
(UK/Pakistan) Extremists target woman with death threats -- Jemima Khan, former wife of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf Chairman Imran Khan threatened for supporting Quilliam Foundation
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008\04\24\story_24-4-2008_pg1_8
JihadWatch.org: UK: New Muslim think-tank says it will challenge the jihad ideology with the true, peaceful Islam
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/020771.php
(UK) British minister says Clinton's 'obliterate' Iran tone imprudent
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080423/wl_uk_afp/usvoteclintoniranbritain_080423165917;_ylt=AuByNz.7cU7zuRgK5qU6XbZSw60A
(UK) Bishop tells Muslims 'you're in denial'
http://www.ilfordrecorder.co.uk/content/redbridge/recorder/news/story.aspx?brand=RECOnline&category=newsIlford&tBrand=northlondon24&tCategory=newsilford&itemid=WeED24%20Apr%202008%2009%3A21%3A25%3A617
(UK) 'Safety' fear halts St George's parade
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/21/ngeorge121.xml
(UK) St. George's Parade Scrapped.. in case it upsets Muslims
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/35580/St-George-s-parade-scrapped-in-case-it-upsets-Muslims/
UK: Supermarket enters halal market, butchers concerned
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2008/04/uk-supermarket-enters-halal-market.html
(UK) Ken Livingstone defends his extremist backer
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/21/nmayor121.xml
(UK) Boris defends stance on Islam
http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/north-east-news/uk-and-world-news/2008/04/20/boris-defends-stance-on-islam-84229-20791783/
(UK) Yvonne Ridley wins payout from Islam Channel
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/apr/21/pressandpublishing3?gusrc=rss&feed=media
(UK) Petition opposes mosque proposal -- in suburb of Nottingham
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/nottinghamshire/7358157.stm
(UK) New Daily Mail Web Site
http://beta.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html
(UK) Father and son banned from council swimming pool for not being Muslims
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=560231&in_page_id=1770&ct=5
(UK) Archbishop of Canterbury says Middle East Christians are suffering persecution because of 'American global project' -- same Rowan Williams who calls for Sharia law in UK
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=560192&in_page_id=1770
(UK) Suicide bomb backer leads group trying to win Muslim votes for Ken Livingstone -- Azzam Tamimi
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=560055&in_page_id=1770
-- Related Web Links
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/open_letter/2008/01/supporting_ken_livingstone_as.html
http://www.muslimsforken.blogspot.com/
(UK) Bin Laden son fights for right to live in Britain
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/apr/15/osamabinladen.saudiarabia?gusrc=rss&feed=uknews
(UK) Teacher accuses Islamic school of racism
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/education/article3746920.ece
"Colin Cook told the tribunal in Watford that pupils were taught from Arabic books that likened Jews and Christians to “monkeys” and “pigs” at The King Fahad Academy, which is funded and run by the Saudi Arabian Government."
(UK) Segregated Swimming Rescheduled Again
http://hurryupharry.bloghouse.net/archives/2008/04/15/segregated_swimming_rescheduled_again.php
(UK) Britain launches helpline for victims of forced marriages
http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/347616/cs/1/
(UK) 'Muslim governors hatched race campaign to force me out', says headteacher sacked for being Islamophobic
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=559158&in_page_id=1770
(UK) BBC chief Mark Thompson warns of 'over-cautious' Islam coverage
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article3724384.ece
UK: Influence of moving to the UK on maternal health behaviours
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=558745&in_page_id=1770&ito=1490
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2008/04/uk-influence-of-moving-to-uk-on.html
(UK) Phone insurance firm reveals Sharia rules policy
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/10/sharia_rules/
(UK) Welcome to the Halal Inn: Britain's first alcohol-free Islamic pub
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=558639&in_page_id=1770&ito=newsnow
(UK) Two million Muslims now live in Britain and 10,000 are millionaires, reveals Home Secretary Jacqui Smith during visit to Pakistan
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=557929&in_page_id=1770
(UK) Muslim sex offenders could opt out of treatment because its against their faith
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=558091&in_page_id=1770&ito=newsnow
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/08/nmuslim108.xml
(UK) Jihad with money -- Melanie Phillips on Sharia Finance
http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/597641/jihad-with-money.thtml
(UK) Men cleared of Sharia Law protest
http://www.thestar.co.uk/news/Men-cleared-of-Sharia-Law.3954745.jp
(UK) Rushdie: I was deranged when I embraced Islam
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article3689883.ece
(UK) Gang of three jailed over 'honour killing'
http://www.thestar.co.uk/news/Gang-of-three-jailed-over.3937037.jp
(UK) Commentary: A Britain without honour or shame -- Melanie Phillips
http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/586091/a-britain-without-honour-or-shame.thtml
(UK) Church of England leader calls for building of mosques to be banned because of risk 'Britain will become an 'Islamic state'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=553014&in_page_id=1770&ito=newsnow
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/02/nsynod102.xml
(UK) Anti-homophobia books removed from Muslim schools
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/02/nsynod202.xml
(UK) BBC is too scared of Islam, says UK comic
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article3663195.ece
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/02/nislam102.xml
(UK) Report: Non-Muslims Deserve to Be Punished -- East London Mosque Imam Abdul Makin
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,344409,00.html
-- Islam-Watch.org: London Imam's Attempt to Carry Out Sunna Gone Awry -- cites Anjem Choudhary
http://www.islam-watch.org/AyeshaAhmed/London-Imam-Attempt-to-Carry-Out-Sunna.htm
-- BBC Anjem Choudary interview (video)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsa/n5ctrl/progs/05/hardtalk/choudary08aug.ram
http://youtube.com/watch?v=maHSOB2RFm4&feature=related
(UK) Salon sued by Muslim hairdresser in headscarf
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/01/nmulism101.xml
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/7324470.stm
March 31, 2008
(UK) Britain blazes a trail for Islamic investments
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/BUSINESS/03/28/muslim.ukbank/index.html
(UK) London: Bus driver kicks off passengers to pray
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article976258.ece
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2008/03/london-bus-driver-kicks-off-passengers.html
March 29, 2008
(UK) Philip Balmforth: the police worker who fought forced marriages -- Former inspector praised by MPs is facing the sack for speaking to The Times
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article3642686.ece
(UK) U.S. banks "missing a trick" with Muslim customers -- Britain leads the Western world in terms of Sharia-compliant banking
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/BUSINESS/03/28/sharia.banking/index.html
March 25, 2008
(UK) Fury over plan to let imams teach the Koran in state schools
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=544349&in_page_id=1770&ito=newsnow
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/7311178.stm
(UK) Imam: Amir Khan: 'a bad example to Muslims' -- Omar Bakri Mohammad: "He should not be wearing the [UK] flag because sovereignty is for God. His only allegiance should be to the Prophet Mohammed."
http://itn.co.uk/news/fe4c21f49efd431587d710b84fa85947.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=544448&in_page_id=1770&ito=newsnow
(UK) Muslims 'to outnumber traditional churchgoers' -- Muslims to outstrip Catholic and Anglican Sunday worshippers by 2020
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/03/25/nmuslims125.xml&CMP=ILC-mostviewedbox
(UK) Muslim Girl magazine goes digital for UK
http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=40653&c=1
March 19, 2008
(UK) Sharia phone marriage of autistic man 'invalid'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/03/19/nphone119.xml
March 18, 2008
(UK) Sharia products help Pru make as much profit in Asia as in UK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2008/mar/17/islamicfinance.insurance
March 15, 2008
(UK) Priest hurt in faith-hate attack
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7297901.stm
Associated News:
(UK) "Jihad in east Londonistan" - commentary on attacks on British churches and clergy
http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/560427/jihad-in-east-londonistan.thtml
-- Congregation in fear after faith-hate attack on canon
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article3564521.ece
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/03/17/nvicar117.xml
March 13, 2008
(UK) Sharia stamp duty loophole is closed
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/economics/budget_2008/article3542673.ece#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=989864
UK: RAF sets up no-go areas
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2008/03/uk-raf-sets-up-no-go-areas.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article3508223.ece
March 12, 2008
(UK) It's time to take a stand against Islam and Sharia -- Maryam Namazie, the head of the Council of Ex-Muslims in Britain, says that rights are for individuals, not religions or beliefs
http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/the_way_we_live/article3530256.ece
Council of Ex-Muslims in Britain
http://www.ex-muslim.org.uk
http://www.maryamnamazie.com
(UK) Chancellor Darling puts sharia bonds on hold -- so-called Sukuk bond
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/mar/12/islamicfinance.sharia.budget
(UK) Furor over 'citizenship oath' plan
http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=206735&version=1&template_id=38&parent_id=20
March 11, 2008
(UK) Cosmetics firm Lush criticized for products made in support of Guantanamo Bay prisoners (my title)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=530407&in_page_id=1770
http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/story/0,26278,23361025-5012550,00.html
-- Lush's Guantanamo Garden product
http://www.lush.co.uk/products/Guantanamo_Garden_3100.aspx
March 6, 2008
(UK) Muslim group to campaign for London "mega mosque"
http://uk.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUKL0688937120080306?rpc=401&feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews&rpc=401
(UK) Islamic bonds may give London leg up in Shariah finance
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1204546422079&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
March 5, 2008
(UK) Radical Muslim preacher caught on film giving advice on how to 'hoodwink' the Government over benefits
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=526483&in_page_id=1770&ito=newsnow
(UK) Britain To Close Sharia-Based Tax Loophole
http://www.postchronicle.com/news/business/article_212134392.shtml
(UK) JihadWatch: Guardian praises Hizballah supporter as "moderate" because he condemned attacks on Muslims; Reuters jumps on the bandwagon
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/020191.php
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/news/2008/03/why_was_a_moderate_muslim_voic.html
(UK) High Wycombe hosts Islamic parade -- celebrating the birth of Islamic prophet Muhammad
http://www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/news/localnews/display.var.2095326.0.high_wycombe_hosts_islamic_parade.php
UK: Church of England donates cash to aid Muslim prayer
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2008/03/uk-church-of-england-donates-cash-to.html
BBC launches Arabic TV news service
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article3478911.ece
March 4, 2008
(UK) Muslim pressure group wins anti-democracy vote -- persuaded by Dr Abdul Wahid's argument to reject democracy -- around 150 Muslims voted with the leader of the radical Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir that taking part in the political process is a waste of time
http://www.eastlondonadvertiser.co.uk/search/story.aspx?brand=ELAOnline&category=News&itemid=WeED27%20Feb%202008%2015:29:33:447&tBrand=ELAOnline&tCategory=search
(UK) Scholars offered Muslim degree
http://www.thisischeshire.co.uk/mostpopular.var.2080526.mostviewed.scholars_offered_muslim_degree.php
(UK) Sharia compliant funds in Ireland
http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=37765487&Channel_ID=65&Category_ID=235
(UK) London: Largest UK real estate Islamic financing scheme
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2008/03/london-largest-uk-real-estate-islamic.html
March 3, 2008
(UK) "Muslim Weekly" Apologizes to Daniel Pipes - Apologizes for repeating false allegation made by Tariq Ramadan about Daniel Pipes
http://www.meforum.org/press/1866
March 1, 2008
(UK) Report: "Ex-Islamists start moderate thinkthank"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/mar/01/islam.religion
February 29, 2008
(UK) British Muslims: "it depends if war is seen as a good cause" - some question motives in fight against Taliban
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article3463502.ece
February 27, 2008
(UK) Sharia finance: plenty of interest in no interest
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2008/02/26/cmsharia26.xml
(UK) Birmingham: Whitby backs expanding Islamic finance
http://icbirmingham.icnetwork.co.uk/birminghampost/business/2008/02/27/whitby-backs-expanding-islamic-finance-65233-20530867/
February 26, 2008
(UK) Sharia would create legal apartheid in Britain, says David Cameron
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article3438846.ece
(UK) Sharia law 'would undermine British society' -- David Cameron
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/26/nsharia126.xml
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=519090&in_page_id=1770&ito=newsnow
http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/uk/cameron+sharia+law+would+undermine+society/1657247
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7264740.stm
(UK) Tower Hamlets Funds Muslim Brotherhood Front Group
http://hurryupharry.bloghouse.net/archives/2008/02/25/tower_hamlets_funds_muslim_brotherhood_front_group.php
http://www.eastlondonadvertiser.co.uk/content/towerhamlets/advertiser/news/story.aspx?brand=ELAOnline&category=news&tBrand=northlondon24&tCategory=newsela&itemid=WeED22%20Feb%202008%2017%3A37%3A39%3A153
UK official: Koran has been politicized
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1203847455269&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
UK: Encouraging British/Saudi ties
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2008/02/uk-encouraging-britishsaudi-ties.html
(UK) Muslim medics refuse to roll up their sleeves in hygiene crackdown - because it's against their religion
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=519072&in_page_id=1770&ito=newsnow
February 25, 2008
(UK) Fascism and Islamism thrive in Bradford - report
http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/Fascism-and-Islamism-thrive-in.3810805.jp
UK: Why Sharia is better -- article in UK's "The Independent" defending Sharia law
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2008/02/uk-why-sharia-is-better.html
-- 'Sharia is not the problem'
http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/living/sharia-is-not-the-problem-785281.html
February 23, 2008
(UK) Report: The king who wanted Sharia England
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/graham_stewart/article3378885.ece
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/letters/article3412062.ece
(UK) Over half of Britons claim no religion
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article3412118.ece
February 22, 2008
(UK) Church of England donates cash to aid Muslim prayer
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article3412244.ece
UK: 'This is not England. It is Saudi Arabia'
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2008/02/uk-this-is-not-england-it-is-saudi.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=516703&in_page_id=1770
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/7257695.stm
February 20, 2008
(UK) Muslim school 'photocopied race hate textbooks before shredding them' -- school attended by children of Jihadist Abu Hamza
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=516703&in_page_id=1770
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/21/nfahad121.xml
(UK) Sharia loans already in Birmingham
http://icbirmingham.icnetwork.co.uk/birminghampost/business/2008/02/20/sharia-loans-already-in-birmingham-65233-20500289/
UK: Growth in Sharia mortgages
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2008/02/uk-growth-in-sharia-mortgages.html
http://www.yourmortgage.co.uk/showPage.html?page=3625040
February 18, 2008
"UK to issue west's first Islamic bonds"
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/fd3c3728-f0fc-11db-838b-000b5df10621.html?nclick_check=1
(UK) Sharia bonds may help to fill the public purse
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/17/nbonds117.xml
(UK) New sharia row over Chancellor's plans for 'Islamic bonds'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=515248&in_page_id=1770&ct=5
(UK) BBC: Islam and the apostasy debate
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7250532.stm
(UK) More British Muslims seek Sharia law
http://www.brunei-online.com/bb/mon/feb18w10.htm
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=24386
February 17, 2008
(UK) Commentary: When Islam and the Church of England unite
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/02/16/do1608.xml
February 16, 2008
(UK) Muslim groups prepare for Downing Street protest
http://itn.co.uk/news/abe52138f97fff773a999837b1fdd801.html
UK and Islamist Polygamy: Our British laws are there to protect Muslim women
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article3364401.ece
February 15, 2008
(UK) Assaults on Jews in UK hit record levels
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/14/njew114.xml
-- Full report on anti-Semitic attacks in Britain [pdf]
http://www.thecst.org.uk/docs/Incidents_Report_07.pdf
February 14, 2008
(UK) Commentary: One Nation Under Multiple Gods -- The British tabloids are right to bash the archbishop of Canterbury -- By Anne Applebaum
http://www.slate.com/id/2184196
(UK) Top judges in key ruling on sharia marriage
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/feb/10/religion.law2
(UK) Shop-owners sold chocolate cake sprinkled with human feces -- Saeed Hasmi and Jan Yadgari
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/019951.php
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=513621&in_page_id=1770
(UK) Official: 'No appetite' for Shariah in Britain
http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080214/FOREIGN/164497040/1001
February 13, 2008
(UK) Queen fears sharia law row could seriously damage the Church -- dismayed at the controversy caused by Dr Rowan Williams comments
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=514096&in_page_id=1770&ito=newsnow
(UK) Anxiety of Queen over sharia law controversy
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/13/nsharia113.xml#form
February 12, 2008
(UK) Williams won't back down over sharia
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/11/nbishop511.xmlhttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/11/nbishop511.xml
(UK) Commentary: Dr Rowan Williams's words were understood
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/02/12/dl1201.xml
February 11, 2008
(UK) Muslim scholar backs beleaguered archbishop -- Sheikh Suhaib Hasan, the secretary of the Islamic Sharia Council
http://uk.reuters.com/article/reutersEdge/idUKNOA14873320080211?rpc=401&
(UK) Archbishop of Canterbury to discuss controversy caused by his Sharia law remarks
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/02/11/europe/EU-REL-Britain-Shariah-Law.php
(UK) Archbishop's 'great integrity' hailed by PM
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/11/nbishop311.xml
(UK) Prime Minister gives his backing to Archbishop of Canterbury -- Archbishop Rowan Williams under fire for calling for use of Sharia law in UK
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article3350266.ece
(UK) Anglican Bishop: Christians don't go to heaven
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=56071
(UK) Commentary: Joan Smith: British women are already suffering from Islamic law
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/joan-smith/joan-smith-british-women-are-already-suffering-from-islamic-law-780407.html
February 10, 2008
(UK) Top judges in key ruling on sharia marriage -- Court to rule on validity of sharia marriage
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/feb/10/religion.law2
(UK) 'Unworldly' Archbishop Criticized -- over Sharia comments
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,91211-1304823,00.html?f=rss
(UK) Lord Carey slams Sharia views
http://www.viewlondon.co.uk/news/lord-carey-slams-sharia-views-18461413.html
(UK) Carey and Cardinal attack sharia plan
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/10/nsharia110.xml
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/10/nsharia610.xml
(UK) Sharia law may result in 'legal apartheid'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/10/nsharia110.xml&CMP=ILC-mostviewedbox
(UK) Saudi royal Prince Bandar Bin Sultan's assets frozen
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/engineering/article3340854.ece
(UK) London Times: "Minister warns of 'inbred' Muslims"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article3342040.ece
February 9, 2008
(UK) Muslims in Bristol are already practicing Sharia law despite it not being recognised by the British legal system
http://www.westpress.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=146242&command=displayContent&sourceNode=145920&contentPK=19823221&folderPk=75888&pNodeId=145833
(UK) This is Sharia in Britain, without the courts
http://www.spectator.co.uk/stephenpollard/493711/this-is-sharia-in-britain-without-the-courts.thtml?__id=c8db0d74d9bffa6c0eb55073cbb34c93
(UK) The Archbishop of Canterbury is 'shocked' by outcry over sharia law
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstories/2008/02/09/the-archbishop-of-canterbury-is-shocked-by-outcry-over-sharia-law-89520-20313436/
(UK) Archbishop faces calls to quit over Sharia row
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article3337961.ece
(UK) Archbishop defends sharia law comments
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/09/nsharia509.xml
(UK) Archbishop fends off Sharia criticism
http://www.christiantoday.com/article/archbishop.fends.off.sharia.criticism/16752.htm
(UK) Commentary: Sharia courts? Get off your knees, Archbishop
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/02/09/do0903.xml&CMP=ILC-mostviewedbox
(UK) Sharia in Britain? Read the response
http://www.newsnow.co.uk/cgi/NGoto/257138881?-14054
(UK) What role for sharia in the West?
http://www.economist.com/daily/news/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10673119&top_story=1
February 8, 2008
(UK) Archbishop's sharia comments:"Recipe for disaster"
http://uk.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKL0790681320080208?rpc=401&feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&rpc=401
(UK) Bishop: Impossible to have sharia law in UK
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/08/nrowan408.xml
(UK) Uproar over Archbishop's sharia law stance
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/08/nrowan308.xml&CMP=ILC-mostviewedbox
(UK) Sharia in Britain? We think not..
http://timesonline.typepad.com/faith/2008/02/sharia-in-brita.html
(UK) Commentary: Why the Archbishop is wrong about Sharia -- by Daniel Finkelstein
http://timesonline.typepad.com/comment/2008/02/the-archbishop.html
(UK) Archbishop of Canterbury 'should resign' over Sharia row
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article3335026.ece
-- Full Text of BBC Interview - Radio 4 World at One with Archbishop of Canterbury
http://www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/1573
(UK) Lawyers: Sharia can't trump English law -- Leading human rights lawyers are concerned that the adoption of elements of Islamic law could lead to clashing systems
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article3334760.ece#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=989864
(UK) Guardian Commentary: "Sharia law in Canada, almost"
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/news/2008/02/sharia_law_in_canada_almost.html
-- but it didn't happen - rejected in 2005:
September 12, 2005: Sharia law move quashed in Canada
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4236762.stm
(UK) Commentary: Have your loudspeakers. But not here -- by Daniel Finkelstein
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/daniel_finkelstein/article3315165.ece
February 7, 2008
(UK) Sharia law in UK is unavoidable - Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams backs sharia law for British Muslims -- "An approach to law which simply said - there's one law for everybody - I think that's a bit of a danger"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7232661.stm
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=512876&in_page_id=1770
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2254074,00.html
http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/national_news/index.var.181911.0.sharia_law_unavoidable_archbishop.php?
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/184118,sharia-law-should-be-introduced-in-britain-says-church-leader.html
February 6, 2008
(UK) Jail for the in-laws who turned a blind eye to arranged bride's murder
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23435866-details/Jail+for+the+in-laws+who+turned+a+blind+eye+to+arranged+bride%27s+murder/article.do
February 5, 2008
(UK) Pakistani and British Clerics Across the U.K. Teach the Significance Of Martyrdom During The Shia Holy Month Of Muharram
http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=IA42008
(UK) "Sharia is knocking on the door of Britain"
http://hurryupharry.bloghouse.net/archives/2008/02/05/sharia_is_knocking_on_the_door_of_britain.php
UK: Corporate Britain wakes up to halal
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2008/02/uk-corporate-britain-wakes-up-to-halal.html
UK: Gov't trying to stop email rumor on Holocaust teaching being banned
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2008/02/uk-govt-trying-to-stop-email-rumor-on.html
http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2008/02/05/229265/government-denounces-holocaust-ban-hoax.htm
http://uk.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKL0426774520080205?rpc=401&feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&rpc=401
(UK) Report: 1 in 4 Britons Think Winston Churchill Never Existed
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,328088,00.html
Dubai bank targets UK in bid to become world's largest Sharia lender
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/banking_and_finance/article3308189.ece
February 4, 2008
(UK) Commentary: "Does Islam fit with our law? Is a clash of civilisations looming? It’s now time to find the links rather than the conflicts between English and Islamic law"
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article3304719.ece
(UK) Muslims can claim benefits for several wives, say Ministers
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/33753/Muslims-can-claim-benefits-for-several-wives-say-Ministers
(UK) Visa changes would mean no right of appeal for failed applicants
http://www.theasiannews.co.uk/news/s/1035035_visa_changes_would_mean_no_right_of_appeal_for_failed_applicants
(UK) Porter fired in crucifix row -- covered up crucifix in prayer room
http://www.theasiannews.co.uk/news/s/1035025_porter_fired_in_crucifix_row
February 3, 2008
(UK) Female Muslim medics 'disobey hygiene rules' - say it is against their religion
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/03/nislam403.xml
(UK) Family of teen Muslim invited men to rape her
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article3295487.ece
February 2, 2008
(UK) Oxford: Religions collide under the dreaming spires
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=R2JSFMMDOM1ERQFIQMGSFF4AVCBQWIV0?xml=/news/2008/02/02/nmosque102.xml
February 1, 2008
(UK) Advisory group will enocurage Muslim women to play bigger role in society
http://www.theasiannews.co.uk/news/s/1034733_advisory_group_will_enocurage_muslim_women_to_play_bgiger_role_in_society
UK: Halal cosmetics
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2008/02/uk-halal-cosmetics.html
January 31, 2008
(UK) Muslim schools to conduct own inspections
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=KE3MUQTKEWGPHQFIQMGSFGGAVCBQWIV0?xml=/news/2008/01/31/nschools131.xml
January 30, 2008
(UK) Police probe Glasgow bride's death in Pakistan
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/30/wbride130.xml
January 28, 2008
(UK) Muslim police group is set up
http://iccoventry.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0150swarksnews/tm_headline=muslim-police-group-is-set-up%26method=full%26objectid=20394476%26siteid=50003-name_page.html
January 25, 2008
(UK) Lloyds TSB Bank launches Islamic Nostro account -- designed to comply with the principles of Shariah law
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/money/article721575.ece
January 24, 2008
(UK) Three Pigs story ruled "offensive to Muslims"
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/children/article3241394.ece
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=15ALLA5BAKNIPQFIQMFCFFOAVCBQYIV0?xml=/news/2008/01/24/ntales124.xml
January 23, 2008
(UK) MEMRI: Islamist Debate: Are Muslim U.K. Visa Holders and Muslim U.K. Citizens Permitted to Carry Out Attacks in Great Britain?
http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD182108
(UK) NPR: Many British Muslim Women Embrace Political Islam
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18025998&ft=1&f=3
(UK) Islamic Bank of Britain 'welcomes all ethical investors'
http://www.smartermoney.com/news/uk.aspx?finance=general_financial_news&article=Islamic-Bank-of-Britain-welcomes-all-ethical-investors-18434515
January 22, 2008
(UK) London top western center for Islamic finance: Report
http://mathaba.net/rss/?x=578942
January 21, 2008
(UK) 'We want to offer sharia law to Britain'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/20/nsharia_120.xml&CMP=ILC-mostviewedbox
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2008/01/uk-advocating-sharia-system.html
January 19, 2008
(UK) Jesuits warn against demonizing Muslims
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article3212730.ece
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article3206732.ece
(UK) Asylum seeker on fake passport worked for immigration service for a year
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=509115&in_page_id=1770
(UK) Ministry of Defense loses data of 600,000 would-be recruits
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=0ABMZPL2FAGJHQFIQMFSFFWAVCBQ0IV0?xml=/news/2008/01/19/ndata119.xml
January 16, 2008
UK: Shop bans hijab
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2008/01/uk-shop-bans-hijab.html
January 15, 2008
(UK) Muslim Marks & Spencer worker refuses to sell 'unclean' Bible book to grandmother
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=508263&in_page_id=1770&ito=newsnow
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/15/nms115.xml&CMP=ILC-mostviewedbox
January 14, 2008
(UK) Loudspeaker plan re-ignites 'call to prayer' row
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=YDZNEYSSVOGTXQFIQMFCFGGAVCBQYIV0?xml=/news/2008/01/14/nchurch214.xml
U.K. Muslim leader decries honor killings
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/2008/01/13/uk_muslim_leader_decries_honor_killings/9265/
January 13, 2008
(UK) Non-Muslim no-go zones: do they exist? 'I feel like an alien in my home town'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/13/nalien113.xml
(UK) Muslims must do more to integrate, says poll
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=EAT2UXGMNJSJDQFIQMGCFFWAVCBQUIV0?xml=/news/2008/01/13/nalien213.xml
(UK) Bin Laden's son applies for British visa -- to work as "peace activist"
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,23046270-401,00.html?from=public_rss
(UK) Bin Laden's son seeks life as UK country gentleman
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=59661
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,23046270-401,00.html?from=public_rss
January 12, 2008
(UK) Oxford bishop backs Islamic call to prayer
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/12/nislam112.xml
UK steps back from faith-schools plan -- Spread across country shelved over fear of creating new generation of Muslim extremists
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml%3Bjsessionid%3DU0WNDJ14S1QGVQFIQMGCFGGAVCBQUIV0?xml=/news/2008/01/11/nschool411.xml
January 11, 2008
(UK) Muslim marriage girl murdered, coroner says
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=MFUFWARMPRA1TQFIQMGCFGGAVCBQUIV0?xml=/news/2008/01/11/ninquest111.xml
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article3171311.ece
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article3171676.ece
(UK) It's time for Muslims to denounce extremists
http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/31146
January 10, 2008
(UK) Whistle-blower cleared over Islamist leaks (update)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article3162636.ece
January 9, 2008
(UK) Bishop responds to Muslim 'no-go areas' backlash
http://www.christiantoday.com/article/bishop.responds.to.muslim.nogo.areas.backlash/16082.htm
(UK) 'Hypocrite' Straw reprimands magistrate who walked out of court due to veiled Muslim defendant
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=506865&in_page_id=1770
(UK) Muslim Girl scared of forced marriage 'was strangled'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=SEGPCNXFFMCJTQFIQMGSFFWAVCBQWIV0?xml=/news/2008/01/09/nahmed109.xml
(UK) 'Family turned a blind eye' as teenage bride was beaten to death by arranged husband
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=506686&in_page_id=1770
(UK) Civil servant cleared as secrets case dropped
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article3159398.ece
January 7, 2008
(UK) Bishop warns of no-go zones for non-Muslims
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/global/main.jhtml;jsessionid=5PWMG115UEDSBQFIQMGCFF4AVCBQUIV0?xml=/global/2008/01/07/noindex/nislam106.xml
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=506419&in_page_id=1770&in_poll_id=20308
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,320507,00.html
(UK) Muslims call for 'no-go' CoE bishop to resign
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/07/nmuslim107.xml&CMP=ILC-mostviewedbox
(UK) Foreign Students who overstay visas 'not deported'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=4VAE13GDASLDFQFIQMGCFF4AVCBQUIV0?xml=/news/2008/01/07/nstudent107.xml
(UK) Report: UK Blogger to be Arrested for Shining the Light on Islamic Jihad
http://blogmeisterusa.mu.nu/archives/251202.php
(UK) Yorkshire: Mayor sparks controversy by saying Muslims "cause mayhem with explosives"
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2008/01/yorkshire-mayor-sparks-controversy-by.html
January 5, 2008
UK Muslim Leaders: 'Protect arranged weddings'
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article3129374.ece
(UK) 'I was shut in my room for refusing. My family still cross the street to avoid me'
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article3129014.ece
January 3, 2008
(UK) London: Muslim leaders back Livingstone as mayor
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/gla/story/0,,2234453,00.html
UK: Breaking the taboo on female genital mutilation
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2008/01/uk-breaking-taboo-on-female-genital.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.html?in_article_id=505796&in_page_id=1879
January 2, 2008
(UK) MP's Fears on Cash for Muslim Schools
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/30066/MPs-fears-on-cash-for-Muslim-schools
December 19, 2007
UK and Islamic finance
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/b7800bea-ad5f-11dc-9386-0000779fd2ac,Authorised=false.html?_i_location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcms%2Fs%2F1%2Fb7800bea-ad5f-11dc-9386-0000779fd2ac.html&_i_referer=
(UK) Farmers warned not to sell lambs to Muslims who want them for religious sacrifice
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=503410&in_page_id=1770
December 17, 2007
(UK) Reality television lifts veil on life as a temporary Muslim
http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/Reality-television-lifts-veil-on.3594052.jp
December 14, 2007
(UK) Guilding the Lily and Policy Exchange Report
http://hurryupharry.bloghouse.net/archives/2007/12/13/guilding_the_lily.php
(UK) Muslim bookshop considering legal action against think tank
http://www.ealingtimes.co.uk/news/asianspotlight/spotlight/display.var.1904043.0.muslim_bookshop_considering_legal_action_against_think_tank.php
(UK) Report: "Evidence of extremism in mosques 'fabricated'" -- BBC2 Newsight report on report by Policy Exchange
http://www.guardian.co.uk/religion/Story/0,,2226704,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_4670000/newsid_4679900/4679986.stm?bw=bb&mp=wm&news=1&bbcws=1
(UK) 'We've become a global village'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2007/12/13/do1303.xml
December 12, 2007
(UK) Britain's Lessons in Cultural Suicide -- by Adrian Morgan
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/global.php?id=1385864
(UK) Mohammed to beat Jack as top UK boys' name
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/12/11/nforeigner211.xml
(UK) One in five babies born to migrants in UK
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/12/12/nboom112.xml
(UK) Study finds foreigners in 80pc of new jobs
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/12/11/nforeigner111.xml
(Scotland) Half of Scots see Muslims as 'cultural threat' in wake of terrorist attacks
http://beta.thescotsman.scotsman.com/latestnews/Half-of-Scots-see-Muslims.3577137.jp
December 11, 2007
(UK) Barclays fund arm launches Shariah-compliant exchange-traded funds (ETFs)
-- Barclay's shariah panel includes Islamic scholar Dr Abu Ghuddah
http://uk.reuters.com/article/managerViews/idUKNOA05218920071210?rpc=401&
-- Abu Ghuddah also on the Shari'a Board of Al Baraka Investment and Development Corporation
http://www.meezanbank.com/en/Shariah_Board.aspx#ABU
-- Per Rachel Ehrenfeld: "The victims of 9/11 allege that this bank financed al Qaeda; although charges against the bank were dismissed, the victims contend that the bank, together with Saudi officials and businessmen, facilitated the attacks on America."
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?print=yes&id=9235
-- Abu Ghuddah also on Dow Jones Shariah Board
http://www.djindexes.com/mdsidx/index.cfm?event=showIslamicOverView#board
(UK) Teddy bear peer attacks fellow Muslims for 'victim culture' and failing to condemn terrorism
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23426873-details/Teddy+bear+peer+attacks+fellow+Muslims+for+%27victim+culture%27+and+failing+to+condemn+terrorism/article.do?ito=newsnow&
December 9, 2007
(UK) Muslim apostates threatened over Christianity
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/12/09/nmuslim109.xml&CMP=ILC-mostviewedbox
(UK) British teacher jailed in Sudan for naming a teddy bear Muhammad says she blames herself
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/12/09/europe/EU-GEN-Britain-Sudan-Teacher.php
December 8, 2007
(UK) Comment on BBC Position regarding blasphemy -- "Hell will freeze before a BBC Mohammed film"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml;jsessionid=KDVTPW2XF54Y3QFIQMFCFFOAVCBQYIV0?xml=/opinion/2007/12/08/do0805.xml
December 7, 2007
UK: Cheese company enters halal market
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2007/12/uk-cheese-company-enters-halal-market.html
December 6, 2007
(UK) Hospital chiefs make U-turn over NHS Muslim prayer beds
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23425588-details/Hospital+chiefs+make+U-turn+over+NHS+Muslim+prayer+beds/article.do?ito=newsnow&
December 5, 2007
(UK) British imam's daughter under police protection after converting to Christianity - due to death threats, woman using pseudonym Hannah
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article3006561.ece
(UK) British Nurses Told to Turn Muslims' Beds to Mecca
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,315103,00.html
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/27213/Nurses-told-to-turn-Muslims-beds-to-Mecca
December 4, 2007
(UK) London: Female Muslim brokers allege bias in client allocation
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2007/12/london-female-muslim-brokers-allege.html
November 29, 2008
(UK) British Muslims should protest teddy lunacy
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml;jsessionid=4ZUPKWIC3VO1DQFIQMFCFFWAVCBQYIV0?xml=/opinion/2007/11/29/do2901.xml
November 27, 2007
(UK) Telegraph: "Islamic finance"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/money/2007/11/27/cmsharia27.xml
November 26, 2007
(UK) Archbishop 'confused' about radical Islam
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/11/26/nbishop126.xml
(UK) North show gets to grips with Islam -- spa town of Harrogate to live under Shariah law for 3 weeks in television show
http://icnewcastle.icnetwork.co.uk/sundaysun/news/tm_headline=north-show-gets-to-grips-with-islam&method=full&objectid=20157158&siteid=50081-name_page.html
(Sudan) British teacher faces lashes in Sudan after class teddy bear is named 'Muhammad'
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article2947734.ece
(Sudan) British teacher held in Sudan over teddy bear's name -- accused of insulting Islam's Prophet by letting her class of 7-year-olds name a teddy bear Mohammed
http://africa.reuters.com/top/news/usnBAN640050.html
November 4, 2007
(UK) Brown faces clash over terror laws
http://news.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=1755222007
(UK) Mosques told to obey new code of conduct -- to combat "violent extremism"
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2205152,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=society
November 2, 2007
(UK) Islamic finance course to be offered next year
http://www.thisisjersey.com/business/business4.html
(UK) 21-year-old escapes jail after pulling off Muslim mother's headscarf
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=491415&in_page_id=1770&ito=newsnow
November 1, 2007
(UK) Teachers ordered to dress up as Muslims
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=490863&in_page_id=1770
(UK) Row over suicide bomber TV drama
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article2753853.ece
(UK) Migrant jobs fiasco: Official estimate goes from 800,000 to 1.5m in 24 hours
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=490319&in_page_id=1770&ct=5
October 24, 2007
(UK) "Asian" petrol station worker 'refused to serve Afghanistan war veteran because he was in uniform'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=489407&in_page_id=1770
October 23, 2007
(UK) 'Super mosque' go-ahead likely
http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/localnews/39Super-mosque39-goahead-likely.3402253.jp
October 20, 2007
(UK) "Folk artist Yusuf Islam to sing about deportation"
http://www.stereoboard.com/content/view/11845/9/
October 18, 2007
(UK) Martin Amis launches fresh attack on Muslim faith saying Islamic states are 'less evolved'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=488239&in_page_id=1770
UK: Airport supervisor suspended for offending Muslims by hanging picture of Jesus
http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/018434.php
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=486880&in_page_id=1770
(UK) Anger over plan to dig up 350,000 bodies in historic London cemetery for Muslim burial site
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=487017&in_page_id=1770&ito=newsnow
(UK) Extremist was hospital chaplain
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/7005526.stm
(UK) Britain: 'I was tortured' says Pakistani terror suspect Rangzieb Ahmed
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=1.0.1330715613
Other News:
(UK) Anti-terror chief to step down by year's end
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article2506045.ece
(UK) Report: Britain has plutonium for 17000 nuclear bombs
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/article2985983.ece
(UK) Hizb-ut-Tahrir Under Increasing Pressure in the UK
http://www.jamestown.org/terrorism/news/article.php?articleid=2373659
(UK) Teen arrested on terror charges -- Yorkshire police state - charges relateing to possessing and collecting information for terrorist act
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7001598.stm
(UK) Scotland: Muslim leaders: not enough work being done in extremism fight
http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/other/display.var.1694966.0.0.php
(UK) CTB Post: Operation Niche: The Conviction of Mohammed Atif Siddique -- by Evan Kohlmann
http://counterterrorismblog.org/2007/09/operation_niche_the_conviction.php
(UK) Terrorism: Scottish Muslim faces up to 15 years in jail
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=1.0.1315964343
(UK) Student 'was part of Canadian terror plot' -- addtl detail on role of Mohammed Siddique in Canada beheading plot
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article2477567.ece
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=2JD20R5BQYRRLQFIQMFSFFWAVCBQ0IV0?xml=/news/2007/09/17/nterror317.xml
(UK) BBC Newsround's al-Qaeda posting: why, oh why, did they do it?
http://biased-bbc.blogspot.com/2007/09/roy-greenslade-blogging-at-grauniad.html
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/greenslade/2007/09/bbc_newsrounds_alqaeda_posting.html
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/ukcorrespondents/holysmoke/sep07/newsround.htm
(UK) British man arrested on suspected link to al Qaeda -- Rangzieb Ahmed released by Pakistan, arrested by UK on returning to UK
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSL0790603620070907
(UK) Man 'willing' to help terrorists - trial of Abdul Patel - found with a manual for making bombs
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/6984114.stm
(UK) Scotland: Terror trial shown beheading film -- beheading of US citizen -- Mohammed Siddique trial
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/tayside_and_central/6983511.stm
(UK) Scotland: Terror trial sees Siddique papers praising suicide bombers -- Mohammed Siddique trial -- Evan Kohlmann quoted
http://news.scotsman.com/glasgow.cfm?id=1428672007
(UK) Hardline takeover of British mosques by Deobandis -- leading preacher Riyadh ul Haq loathes Western values and has called on Muslims to "shed blood" for Allah
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article2402973.ece
Taliban and Tablighi Jamaat are said to follow forms of Deobandism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deobandi
(UK) The homegrown Islamic cleric who loathes the British -- Riyadh ul Haq
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article2402998.ece
(UK) Islamic extremism 'spreading in UK'
http://www.viewlondon.co.uk/news/islamic-extremism-spreading-in-uk-18271589.html
(UK) Radical Islamic sect 'has half of Britain's mosques in its grip'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=480470&in_page_id=1770&ito=newsnow
(UK) Muslim leaders reject extremism claims
http://www.lep.co.uk/ViewArticle.aspx?sectionid=73&articleid=3184685
(UK) Library chiefs hit back at extremist Islamic books claim -- claim books are scholarly and historical
http://icbirmingham.icnetwork.co.uk/mail/news/tm_headline=library-chiefs-hit-back-at-islamic-books-claim%26method=full%26objectid=19749249%26siteid=50002-name_page.html
August 31, 2007
(UK) Fury at 'racism slur' in Muslim cemetery row
http://iclanarkshire.icnetwork.co.uk/reformer/news/tm_headline=fury-at-x2018-racism-slur-x2019-in-muslim-cemetery-row%26method=full%26objectid=19711010%26siteid=50144-name_page.html
August 27, 2007
(UK) Sleaze investigation over Muslim funds for Labour
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=477978&in_page_id=1770
August 22, 2007
(UK) Record numbers emigrate from UK
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/08/22/nleaving122.xml
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=477006&in_page_id=1770
(UK) Why are so many people emigrating from the UK?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=SJB4AQ1TH1X0NQFIQMFSFF4AVCBQ0IV0?view=BLOGDETAIL&grid=F11&blog=yourview&xml=/news/2007/08/22/view22c.xml
August 21, 2007
(UK) Scotland Mosque leaders blame UK foreign policy for extremism
http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/other/display.var.1631153.0.0.php
(UK) British Civics Class Asks, What Would Muhammad Do?
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/21/world/europe/21britain.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&ref=world
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/017849.php
August 20, 2007
UK more suspicious of Muslims than America and rest of EU
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/8fb36962-4eb5-11dc-85e7-0000779fd2ac.html
(UK) Britain: Population 'more suspicious' of Muslims
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Religion/?id=1.0.1217124093
(UK) A third of Britons believe: 'You can't be British AND Muslim'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=476542&in_page_id=1770&ito=newsnow
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22274269-401,00.html
(UK) Terror victims are BBC licence-payers, too
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2007/08/20/dl2001.xml
August 19, 2007
(UK) TV airing for Islam's story of Christ
http://www.guardian.co.uk/religion/Story/0,,2151358,00.html
(UK) ITV Documentary 'The Muslim Jesus' Draws Fiery Debate
http://www.christiantoday.com/article/itv.documentary.the.muslim.jesus.draws.fiery.debate/12497.htm
August 17, 2007
(UK) Muslim juror accused of wearing MP3 player under her hijab escapes punishment
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=475789&in_page_id=1770
August 16, 2007
(UK) The hijab-wearing 17-year-old Muslim girl hired as a community police officer
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=475574&in_page_id=1770
(UK) Is Britain policing or appeasing Islamic extremism?
http://conservativehome.blogs.com/torydiary/2007/08/is-britain-poli.html
(UK) Doctors should not eat in front of Muslims during Ramadan says Scottish NHS
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article2258664.ece
August 13, 2007
(UK) Mosques hire guards to protect worshippers as imam is attacked
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article2246685.ece
(UK) Scotsman.com News - Man charged over attack on Muslim cleric at mosque
http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1272972007
August 11, 2007
(UK) MPs "struggle to recognize Muslims in the Commons"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article2237462.ece
August 10, 2007
(UK) Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain
http://www.ex-muslim.org.uk/
August 6, 2007
(UK) Children told to copy lines from Muslim Call To Prayer - to practice their handwriting
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=473401&in_page_id=1770
(UK) Outcry as British Council quits Europe to woo Muslim world
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,2141835,00.html
August 2, 2007
(UK) Islamic education for all -- Great Britain plan would move toward 'religion of state'
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=56973
August 1, 2007
UK - Islam Channel biased
http://ussneverdock.blogspot.com/2007/08/uk-islam-channel-biased.html
(UK) Commentary: Meet the shadow minister for militant Islam -- Sayeeda Warsi
http://www.spectator.co.uk/the-magazine/features/118191/meet-the-shadow-minister-for-militant-islam.thtml
(UK) Fury at 'racism slur' in Muslim cemetery row
http://iclanarkshire.icnetwork.co.uk/reformer/news/tm_headline=fury-at-x2018-racism-slur-x2019-in-muslim-cemetery-row%26method=full%26objectid=19711010%26siteid=50144-name_page.html
(UK) Channel 4: Britain Under Attack from Jihad
http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/dispatches/britain+under+attack/656252
With Britain facing a 'severe' level of terror threat, Dispatches investigates the roots of Islamic extremism in the UK and examines the government's attempts to win the battle for British Muslims' hearts and minds
Reporter Phil Rees, an expert on Islamist violence, explores the Koranic teachings that lie behind the concept of jihad
Related Excerpt Video Clip
http://www.channel4.com/player/v2/player.jsp?showId=8169
(UK) Channel 4 Dispatches Britain Under Attack from Jihad - Video in 5 parts
Part 1:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=8W0rGaLdcA4
Part 2:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=nUuih-7hP8o&mode
Part 3:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=cq1ZZ3ZpHj0&mode
Part 4:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=4CQ9H_qmEIE&mode
Part 5:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Mwbf5JCSTzs&mode
For UK Viewers: Channel 4 On Demand (must be UK viewer)
http://www.channel4.com/4od/index.html
Roundup and update of UK terror investigation news stories for the week ending July 22:
British radicals 'are a danger to America'
The Daily Telegraph reported on the U.S. National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) and comments by DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff. The July 18, 2007 Telegraph story reported:
"Muslim radicals recruited to terrorism in Britain and Europe were labelled a major threat to US national security last night. The US homeland security secretary, Michael Chertoff, singled out extremists who have been radicalised in Britain as a danger to America. A report compiled by US security chiefs on the threat to their homeland concluded that British-based Muslims would regard 'the use of violence here as legitimate'. The findings will reinforce efforts by the US government to tighten up visa controls. Mr Chertoff is calling for visitors from the European Union who enter the US via the visa waiver scheme to register their personal details 48 hours before taking a transatlantic flight."
DHS Secretary Chertoff has previously warned of potential attacks on USA homeland from British Jihadists, and has been in discussions on visa issues for months with the UK government. The UK Foreign Office has stated, however, that the "visa waiver program is certainly not a 'loophole' ."
Earlier this month, links between British Jihadist investigations and threats against the USA included July 5 report that 45 doctors had used UK jihadist web site to make plans to attack US facilities such as the shipping facilities for USS John F Kennedy in Jacksonville, Florida, July 6 reports that two of the UK car bomb doctors sought work in Philadelphia, and July 4 report that AQ attacks in USA would follow attacks in UK.
4,000 in UK trained at terror camps.
Daily Telegraph reported that between 3,000 to 4,000 Islamists traveled from the United Kingdom to apparently pre-9/11 terrorist training camps in Afghanistan. The July 15, 2007 Daily Telegraph story reported stated that:
"Up to 4,000 Islamic extremists have attended terrorist training camps in Afghanistan before returning to Britain, security chiefs have revealed." The July 15, 2007 Daily Telegraph reported that "[a] senior security source said of the al-Qaeda camps: 'There are 3,000 to 4,000 people who went from the UK to Afghanistan and came back. The important question is, where are they now?' The figure is more than double the estimate of 1,600 which MI5 gave last autumn for the number of individuals actively involved in plotting terrorist attacks in the UK."
4,000 are UK terror suspects
The UK Sun reported that the number of Islamist terrorists increased to 4,000 active terrorists with 2,000 sympathizers. The July 17, 2007 UK Sun story reported:
"[the] number of suspected Muslim terrorists in the UK has multiplied nearly four times in seven months, security chiefs have been told. A staggering 2,000 active terrorists are under watch in Britain.And there are another 2,000 sympathisers. It is a massive rise from the 1,200 warned about by MI5’s former head seven months ago. The chiefs of MI5, Scotland Yard and MI6 were told the figure last week."
Missile Blueprint British Jihadist Imprisoned for 3 1/2 Years.
On July 18, Yassin Nassari was sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison for smuggling blueprints on how to build a missile into the United Kingdom. Per the July 18 Daily Telegraph report, in arresting Yassin Nassari "[p]olice discovered a mass of jihadi material on a laptop and removable hard drive including blueprints for an Al Qassam 1.5 rocket used by the Palestinian terror group Hamas." Yassin Nassari also had a letter from his wife urging him to conduct Jihad and hoping that their five month son would also be martyred. The UK court decided to accept his wife's contention that this was "creative writing". The Telegraph also provided partial illustratrations of the Nassari diagrams.
Hate Crimes British Jihadists Imprisoned.
The July 18 London Times reported the sentencing of four British Jihadists charged with hate crimes; protestors over the Muhammad cartoons included Mizanur Rahman, Umran Javed and Abdul Muhid sentenced to 6 years, Abdul Saleem sentenced to 4 years. Afterwards, the July 19 Daily Mail reported that dozens of veiled women gathered outside the Old Bailey to protest against the jail sentences given to four Muslim men for encouraging terrorism.
Hate Crimes British Jihadists in Court.
In a separate case, the July 17 Guardian reported that British Jihadists Abu Izzadeen (aka Omar Brooks) and Abdullah Hassan were in court on terrorism charges relate to hate speeches made at London's Regents Park mosque in 2004.
UK Car Bombs Suspect -- Dr. Sabeel Ahmed Update
Dr. Sabeel Ahmed's lawyer indicated in court on July 16 that he will plead not guilty to having information of material assistance in preventing the commission by another of an act of terrorism. Dr. Sabeel Ahmed was charged on July 14, and has been remanded in custody until August 13. On July 17, NDTV reported that "Sabeel Ahmed knew of his brother's involvement in the UK terror plot, reports say. Ahmed has been charged with not informing the police about the conspiracy. Sabeel was sent a text message by his brother Kafeel after the car bombs were planted in London but before the attack on Glasgow Airport. The message contained the password for an internet email account. Inside the email account was a folder containing Kafeel's last will and testament and instructions on what to say to the police." Engineer Kafeel Ahmed remains hospitalized under police guard.
UK Car Bombs Suspect -- Dr. Mohammed Asha Update
Per the July 19 Daily Telegraph, Dr. Mohammed Asha was charged on July 19 with has been charged with conspiracy to cause explosions. His wife was released without charge on July 13. Per the July 20 London Times, Dr. Mohammed Asha was remanded in custody to appear at the Old Bailey on July 27.
UK Car Bombs Suspect -- Dr. Mohammed Haneef Update
There have been a number of stories in the past week regarding Indian native Dr. Mohammed Haneef who has been detained in Australia: (a) one story regarding discrepancies in the reports on the SIM card linking him to Glasgow bomber Kafeel Ahmed, (b) one story regarding deportation status, and (c) one story regarding potential involvement in Australian attack plans.
Regarding the SIM card, the July 22 Daily Express reports that "Dr Haneef, 27, appeared in court in Brisbane last week after being charged with supplying a mobile phone SIM card to his cousin, Sabeel Ahmed, on a visit to the UK. The court was told Ahmed then passed the card on to his brother, Kafeel – the driver of the blazing Jeep driven into the airport terminal – and that the phone card had been found inside the wrecked car. But senior sources in Australia revealed the mobile phone card was actually with Ahmed in Liverpool at the time." Dr. Mohammed Haneef's lawyers are stating that errors in the government inquiry reports should result in his release.
The July 19 Times of India reported that Dr. Mohammed Haneef had chatted on the Internet with his cousin, accused UK terrorist Sabeel Ahmed, just days before the attack on Glasgow airport.
Regarding deportation, the July 22 DPA and Sun Herald reported that Dr. Mohammed Haneef was likely to be deported to India, rather than face trial in Australia on a charge of supporting terrorism. "Haneef had been in contact with his cousins, Sabeel and Kafeel Ahmed. The brothers are terrorism suspects now in custody in Britain. He left his SIM card with Sabeel when he left Britain last year. "
Regarding potential involvement with plots in Australia, the July 22 Times of India states that "Australian police denied newspaper reports on Sunday that they were investigating whether the Indian doctor Haneef detained on terror charges may have been plotting to blow up a high-rise building on the Gold Coast." The July 22 Herald Sun reported that "Australian Federal Police are examining images of a Gold Coast building and its foundations found in documents and photographs seized in a raid on Dr Haneef's Southport unit three weeks ago".
Half of UK Terror Suspects Arrested Since 9/11 Released Without Charge
On July 17, BBC reported that since 9/11, "Home Office statistics show 669 of the 1,228 people arrested in terrorist investigations were later freed." A July 9 Daily Telegraph story reported that "more than 40 separate terror court cases due to be heard" and "[m]ore than 100 suspects are awaiting trial in British courts for terrorist offences".
Three Arrests in Manchester under Terrorism Act
On July 18, BBC reported that "Three men have been arrested in Manchester for alleged terrorism-related activity. The three were arrested under the Terrorism Act 2000 and a fourth man was arrested under immigration legislation."
London Terror Police To Track Cars via CCTV Cameras
The July 17 London Times reported that "[p]olice in London are to be able to track vehicles entering the capital by accessing congestion charge cameras as a result of the 'enduring threat' of terrorist car bombings" and that the UK government "lifted restrictions on access to the cameras to enable the Metropolitan Police to view images in 'real time' from the 1,500 congestion charge cameras in the capital. "
UK Dirty Bomber and NYC Terror Plotter Dhiren Barot Returned to Prison
On July 12, AFP reported that, after being scalded with water and oil, British Jihadist Dhiren Barot "returned Saturday to his cell after hospital treatment for severe injuries suffered in prison" and that "[p]olice sources said Barot returned to Frankland Prison in Durham following treatment at Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary in northeast England, where he had been admitted on Monday".
UK Ambulance Crews Get Radiation Detectors
The July 22 Daily Mail reports that "Britain's ambulance crews have been issued with personal radiation monitors in response to the growing threat of 'dirty bomb' attacks by terrorists. "
UK "Oil" Suspects Released
The July 20 London Times reported that two Bristol terror suspects arrested for due to belief that they had posed 50 liters of' hydrogen peroxide, were released when the containers were found to hold vegetable oil. The arrests were related to a drug investigation.
UK Politics - English in Mosques.
UK's political news has an ongoing debate regarding actions to discourage extremism in mosques including greater control over foreign imams. BBC previously reported that over 50% of UK's imams are from Pakistan. The July 22 Daily Telegraph reported Muslim politician views that "Mosques should be banned from recruiting foreign preachers unless they speak excellent English, according to a senior Muslim politician"; this idea has been condemned by the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB). The July 22 Daily Telegraph also quotes the MP as stating that "MCB was 'hindering the fight against terrorism'."
Sources:
July 22, 2007 - Daily Express: Terror case 'botched' by Australians
July 22, 2007 - DPA: Australia to deport Indian doctor held over British bomb plot
July 22, 2007 - Times of India: Australia denies new claims against Dr. Mohammed Haneef
July 22, 2007 - Australian Herald Sun: Haneef plot probed
July 22, 2007 - AFP: Bomb plotter back in British cell after hospital care: police
July 22, 2007 - Daily Telegraph: Preach in English, Muslim peer tells imams
July 20, 2007 - London Times: Dr. Mohammed Jamil Asha remanded over failed car bombings
July 20, 2007 - London Times: Bristol terror suspects released
July 19, 2007 - Daily Telegraph: M6 doctor charged over car bomb plot
July 19, 2007 - The Times of India: Cousins chatted before UK terror attack
July 19, 2007 - Daily Mail: Veiled protest as race-hate Muslims are jailed
July 19, 2007 - Daily Telegraph: Drop-out is jailed for missile blueprints
July 18, 2007 - Missile blueprint smuggler 'celebrates' jail term
July 18, 2007 - Daily Telegraph: Yassin Nassari's Terror Blueprints
July 18, 2007 (updated July 19) - Daily Telegraph: British radicals 'are a danger to America'
July 18, 2007 - London Times: Four jailed for hate crimes at cartoon protest
July 17, 2007 Daily Mail: Jail for the Muslim with blueprint for rocket
July 17, 2007 - Guardian: Two Britons in court on terrorism charges
July 17, 2007 - London Times: Terror police to track capital's cars
July 17, 2007 - BBC: Half of terror suspects released
July 17, 2007 - UK Sun: 4,000 are UK terror suspects
July 17, 2007 - NDTV: 'Indian suspect knew UK terror plot'
July 16, 2007 - Australian News: Sabeel Ahmed will plead not guilty
July 15, 2007 - Daily Telegraph: 4,000 in UK trained at terror camps
July 9, 2007 - Daily Telegraph: Nuclear alert by ex-head of MI5
May 5, 2007 - Daily Telegraph: US pushes for visa control on Pakistani Britons
April 7, 2007 - Daily Telegraph: Britain 'could stage another September 11'
July 22, 2007
(UK) Preach in English, Muslim peer tells imams - MP states that the MCB was "hindering the fight against terrorism"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/07/22/nmosque122.xml
July 21, 2007
Washington Post has Pakistani Author Mohsin Hamid writes 'Why Do They Hate Us?' editorial - Pakistani Mohsin Hamid in London is author of "The Reluctant Fundamentalist", where character is inspired to hate the USA after 9/11
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/20/AR2007072001806.html
http://books.nationalreview.com/review/?q=ODIwM2JiNzhlZjMwMzlhZjZhZjI4ZGZkOWVjYjI3NTA=
http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=ODIwM2JiNzhlZjMwMzlhZjZhZjI4ZGZkOWVjYjI3NTA=
Mohsin Hamid's novel regarding 9/11 attacks: "caught up in the symbolism of it all...American [brought] to her knees" as lead character's face breaks into a smile
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1070525/asp/opinion/story_7813758.asp
Mohsin Hamid "plans to set his third novel in Britain and describe an "apocalyptic" attack on a city"
http://www.reuters.com/article/gc08/idUSL081015720070308?pageNumber=2
July 21, 2007
(UK) Islamic Finance: Financial firms gear up to serve wealthy Muslims
http://business.scotsman.com/finance.cfm?id=1137932007
(UK) Kuwaiti firm wants to set up Islamic bank in Britain
http://investing.reuters.co.uk/news/articleinvesting.aspx?rpc=401&type=allBreakingNews&storyID=2007-07-21T105625Z_01_L21383376_RTRIDST_0_SECURITIESHOUSE-BRITAIN-UPDATE-1.XML
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/business/2007/July/business_July616.xml§ion=business&col=
(UK) "Honour" gang laughed as victim suffered
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article2106311.ece
July 20, 2007
Islamic finance crown up for grabs -- London has been getting publicity in terms of it becoming a rival Islamic financial centre to the likes of the GCC countries, Southeast Asia and Pakistan
http://www.gulfnews.com/business/money/10140644.html
(UK) Islamic Bank of Britain News Release
http://www.londonstockexchange.com/LSECWS/IFSPages/MarketNewsPopup.aspx?id=1534845&source=RNS
July 18, 2007
(UK) George Galloway banned from Parliament for 18 days
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2007330161,00.html
London mayor denounces 'vicious' campaign against 'ficticious' mosque
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/07/17/europe/EU-GEN-Britain-Fictitious-Mosque.php
(UK) Half of terror suspects released - arrested in UK - have been released without charge
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6902522.stm
(UK Car Bomb Plots) Sabeel Ahmed will plead not guilty
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22084493-23109,00.html
(UK Car Bomb Plots) 'Indian suspect knew UK terror plot' - Sabeel Ahmed knew of his brother's involvement in the UK terror plot
http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20070019211&ch=7/17/2007%2010:26:00%20AM
(UK Car Bomb Plots) India pressures Australia over detained terror suspect - Dr. Mohammed Haneef
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070717/wl_sthasia_afp/britainattacksaustraliaindia_070717121649;_ylt=Apx0f1rQHvNOhawUZ4OgRyoTv5UB
(UK Car Bomb Plots) Dr. Mohammed Haneef's Lawyers release documents in terror case
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070717/ap_on_re_au_an/australia_britain_terrorism_45;_ylt=AtBfMj9nCxsYEb.AbTIKO6sTv5UB
(UK) Mail Strike Delayed Tesco Bomb Threat Letters
http://www.lse.co.uk/ShowStory.asp?story=OJ1739767E&news_headline=mail_strike_delayed_tesco_bomb_threat_letters
(UK) Hold terror suspects 'as long as it takes', says security minister
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=468889&in_page_id=1770
(UK) 4,000 are UK terror suspects
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2007320997,00.html
(UK) Two Britons in court on terrorism charges - Abu Izzadeen (aka Omar Brooks) and Abdullah Hassan -- relate to speeches made at London's Regents Park mosque in 2004
http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news/walthamforest/walthamforestnews/display.var.1547372.0.two_local_men_in_court_on_terrorism_charges.php
(UK) Terror police to track capital's cars
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article2091023.ece
(UK) George Galloway 'should be suspended'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/07/17/ngalloway717.xml
(UK) Commentary: The BBC used to stand for the best of British - but who'd trust Auntie now?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/columnists/columnists.html?in_article_id=468655&in_page_id=1772&in_author_id=256&in_check=N
Update and news roundup of UK terror plot investigation activities and related news:
UK Car Bomb Suspects Status: Three Charged, Three Released, Two Being Questioned:
UK Car Bomb Suspects Charged:
-- July 6, 2007: Iraqi Dr. Bilal Talal Samad Abdullah charged by UK with conspiracy to cause explosions. BBC reported freezing of his assets on July 11, 2007.
-- July 14, 2007: Dr. Sabeel Ahmed charged by UK under Section 38(B) of the Terrorism Act 2000 that he had information which he "knew or believed may be of material assistance in preventing the commission by another of an act of terrorism". BBC reports that Dr. Sabeel Ahmed has been remanded in custody until August 13, 2007. This same report indicates that "Dr. Sabeel Ahmed holds no tenancy agreement for his home in Ramilies Road, Liverpool, and has not applied to extend his working visa, the court also heard."
-- July 14, 2007: Dr. Mohammed Haneef charged by Australian police with providing "reckless support" to a terrorist organization. On July 16, an Brisbane, Australia magistrate released Dr. Mohammed Haneef on bail. The Australian reports that "federal prosecutors failed to convince a magistrate the Indian-born man was too dangerous to release." However, the Australian federal government then used immigration laws to keep Dr. Mohammed Haneef under detention. The Australian reported that Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews revoked Dr. Haneef's visa, and "citing 'national interest, national security' - said it was not appropriate for him to 'move freely in the community'. " Australian news media report that Dr. Haneef's lawyer would appeal this visa cancellation. On July 12, BBC reported that bureaucratic wrangling between India and Australia was hampering the inquiry into Dr. Mohammed Haneef.
UK Car Bomb Suspects Released Without Charge:
-- July 15, 2007 - two Paisley medical workers. BBC reports two car bomb suspects released: "Two men arrested in connection with the failed car bomb attacks in Glasgow and London in June have been released without charge. The men, aged 28 and 25, had been arrested by Strathclyde Police at the residences of the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley on 2 July."
-- July 13, 2007 - Marwa Asha. BBC reports that Marwa Asha, wife of Dr. Mohammed Asha, was released without charge
UK Car Bomb Suspects Still Being Questioned:
-- Dr. Mohammed Asha arrested June 30, 2007. BBC states that he "remains in custody at Paddington Green police station." London Times reports that "[p]olice have been given until July 21 to continue questioning".
-- Engineer Kafeel Ahmed remains hospitalized under police guard
UK Hospital Security Must Be Tightened.
Daily Telegraph and Sky News reported on the poor security in British NHS hospitals. The Daily Telegraph stated that "Poor security in hospitals could give terrorists working in the NHS easy access to deadly chemicals and viruses, an expert warned yesterday. Hospitals are 'just as vulnerable as any nightclub', a security management specialist based in a London hospital told the Health Service Journal." Sky News reported that security management specialist stated "Most hospitals give staff cards that let them into certain areas, but it's easy to lend someone your pass...That could give them access to X-ray machines, isotopes, chemicals and disease slides. It could be days before anyone realised a virus was missing.' "
UK Security Minister: UK monitoring 30 terror cells, 2000 suspects.
Australian News reported that UK Security Minister Alan West told BBC radio that "Britain's security services believe up to 30 Islamist militant cells are plotting attacks and they are monitoring 2000 suspects and another 2000 sympathisers". Security Minister West was reported as saying: "There are 30 that are actually being looked at very closely indeed because they have got to the stage where they are gathering materials and doing things which could lead in fairly short term to doing something if they wanted to. This means that effectively about 2000 individuals are being monitored in varying degrees of closeness and probably about another 2000 loosely connected to them. The scale of this whole thing is quite dramatic."
UK Missile Plans Terrorist Found Guilty
On July 13, the Khaleej Times reported that "Yassin Nassari, 28, was found guilty of possessing documents likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism...[t]he charges related to computer files on the hard drive of Nassari’s computer -- including plans for building a missile". Yassin Nassari's wife was found not guilty of of failing to disclose information to police. Khaleej Times reports "[a]mong the evidence produced in court was a letter written by El-Hor to Nassari in which she wrote she was proud of him and happy that Allah had granted him the chance to be a shaheed (martyr) in the cause of jihad, or holy war."
UK Suspected July 21, 2005 Al Qaeda Operative Free in London.
The July 15 London Times reports that a suspected Al-Qaeda operative for the July 21 bomb plots is walking freely in London. London Times states that "[suspected] Al-Qaeda operative who is believed by MI5 to have played a key role in the events leading up to the July 21 failed bombings is at liberty and living in east London. Mohammed al-Ghabra, a 27-year-old Syrian who has been given British citizenship, is said by security sources to have arranged for the leader of the failed 21/7 London suicide attacks to travel to Pakistan for terrorist training."
London Times reports that the British Treasury stated "Al-Ghabra has organised travel to Pakistan for individuals seeking to meet with senior Al-Qaeda individuals and to undertake jihad training. Several of these individuals have returned to the UK to engage in covert activity on behalf of Al-Qaeda. " British Treasury claimed it had information showing he had undertaken jihadi training at a terrorist camp in Kashmir.
UK Considering Restrictions on Offenders in Foreign Travel
The July 12 Guardian reported that UK Prime Minister "Gordon Brown is considering introducing restrictions on offenders traveling to Pakistan and other countries in an attempt to stop radical Muslims going abroad for training by terror groups" and that "[t]ravel to certain countries could be restricted, and those convicted of less serious crimes could be included in a ban". AP also reported that "Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has been ordered to examine possible restrictions on the travel of those convicted of terrorism and other offenses."
UK Terrorist Dhiren Barot Attacked in Prison
On July 15, 2007, Channel 4 reports that convicted British Jihadist terrorist Dhiren Barot was attacked in at the Frankland prison and scalded with hot water. Barot is serving a 40 year sentence. Barot's lawyer is calling for a special area for Muslim terrorists and "for Muslim prisoners to be given special rights in jail." Channel 4 has also provided a video on this report.
Debate on UK Detention Policies
The UK police have raised issues on the limitations of the 28 day detention policy. Sky News reports that the UK's Association of Chief Police Officers stated that "said police were struggling to operate within this limit [of 28 days for detention], stressing the global scale of terror investigations and the need to arrest suspects early.' " The police officers' organization representative stated that "police were 'up against the buffers' on the 28-day limit." The Daily Telegraph reported that "[a] senior police chief ignited a major row yesterday after calling for terror suspects to be kept in custody 'for as long as it takes' without charge."
The London Times also reports that the UK Security Minister Alan West is opposed to Parliament making decisions to amend laws to extend the detention period for terrorist suspects, and is advocating that such issues should only be dealt with by British courts.
Tablighi Jamaat and "Mega Mosque"
The July 15, 2007 Daily Express reported that the new "mega mosque" being planned for London "is being funded by the fundamentalist Tablighi Jamaat sect. One member of the sect is said to be Kafeel Ahmed, who was engulfed in flames when a Jeep laden with gas canisters crashed into a Glasgow Airport building two weeks ago. The 7/7 suicide bombers Mohammed Siddique Khan and Shehzad Tanweer attended the European headquarters of Tablighi Jamaat at Dewsbury, West Yorkshire."
UK Car Bomber Kafeel's dream was to build India housing complex where Shariat would rule.
Rediff India News reports the British car bomber Kafeel Ahmed "had a dream of constructing a housing complex on the outskirts of Bangalore where Shariat would have been the rule of law."
UK Former Jihadist Speaks Out.
Former British Jihadist Hassan Butt speaks out in the July 14 London Times, challenging British Muslims to deal with Jihadism in the UK. Butt states "[w]e can no longer turn a blind eye to the driving force behind terror attacks both at home and abroad. It should not matter how painful or embarrassing this admission may be, and nor should it matter how taboo this subject is."
UK Passport Issuance Control Sought
The Daily Mail, reporting over concerns in laxity in issuance of British passports, reported on July 12 that "[m]ore than a million British passports have been issued to immigrants over the past decade according to new Government figures. The 1,020,510 total - an average of 102,000 every year - means an immigrant is granted British citizenship every five minutes. Under current rules, even heinous criminals - including murderers and rapists - can be approved for a passport if they wait for a 'clear period' before applying."
Sources:
July 17, 2007 - The Australian: Canberra's court bypass traps doctor
July 16, 2007 - Australian news: Haneef lawyer to appeal visa cancellation
July 16, 2007 - Australian news: UK monitoring 30 terror cells, 2000 suspects
July 16, 2007 - BBC: Bomb accused remanded in custody
July 16, 2007 - London Times: Suspects released as police seek extended detention
July 16, 2007 - Daily Telegraph: Anger over call to hold suspects indefinitely
July 16, 2007 - Sky News: Police Demand Greater Powers On Terror
July 16, 2007 - London Times: Leave terror detention to courts, says Brown's new security minister
July 16, 2007 - Rediff India: Kafeel's dream was to build housing complex where Shariat would rule
July 15, 2007 - London Times: Fixer for 21/7 plot free in London
July 15, 2007 - Channel 4: Terrorist Barot 'attacked in prison'
Channel 4 Video on Dhiren Barot Attack -- alternate link
July 15, 2007 - Daily Express: Fears grow over "mega mosque"
July 15, 2007 - BBC: Two bomb attack suspects released
July 14, 2007 - The London Times: Muslim heads stuck firmly in the sand
July 13, 2007 - BBC: Woman in UK bomb probe released
July 13, 2007 - Khaleej Times: Husband guilty, wife freed in UK terrorism trial
July 13, 2007 - Daily Mail: Jailed terrorist fanatics 'should be treated as prisoners of war'
July 12, 2007 - BBC: Red tape holds up UK terror probe
July 12, 2007 - Guardian: Offenders may be prohibited from traveling to Pakistan
July 12, 2007 - AP: Travel bans considered to stop Britons from training for terrorism overseas
July 12, 2007 - Daily Telegraph: Hospitals 'must tighten security'
July 12, 2007 - Sky News: NHS: Could Terrorists Spread Killer Virus?
July 12, 2007 - UK News of World: Al Qaeda evil is spreading like a virus
July 12, 2007 - Daily Mail: Another foreigner gets a UK passport every five minutes
(UK) Four July 21 bombers sentenced to life - must serve a minimum of 40 years
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=XQ24U2Z4ORIJFQFIQMGSFFWAVCBQWIV0?xml=/news/2007/07/11/nterrortrial111.xml
(UK) Two men to face retrial over July 21st bomb plot
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/breaking-news/world/europe/article2754009.ece
(UK) July 21 Firefighter feared 'dirty bomb'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6251490.stm
(UK) The trail of terror leads to Pakistan
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=467566&in_page_id=1811
(UK) Police face awkward questions after surveillance fails to prevent attempted terror attacks
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/07/11/europe/EU-GEN-Britain-Terrorism-Intelligence.php
(UK) Abu Hamza fights US extradition
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6291494.stm
(UK) Abu Hamza inspired four to be suicide bombers
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/07/11/nplot511.xml
UK car bomb designs found in India
http://www.kuna.net.kw/home/Story.aspx?Language=en&DSNO=1002605
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/2194009.cms
(UK) Key suspect Kafeel Ahmed's horrific injuries present quandary for British terror investigators
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/07/11/europe/EU-GEN-Britain-Terrorism.php
(UK) Terror suspect's bank accounts frozen - Bilal Abdullah
http://www.kuna.net.kw/home/Story.aspx?Language=en&DSNO=1002602
(UK) Australia Terror detainee Dr Mohamed Haneef to be held until Friday
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22058074-29277,00.html
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Haneef_to_spend_two_more_days_in_detention/articleshow/2195078.cms
(UK) Thai police deny London bomb suspect claim
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070711/wl_nm/britain_security_thailand_dc_2;_ylt=AkNV_QO8zVMCbtdKRCdjH40Tv5UB
(UK) London car bomb plot suspect arrested in Thailand
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=467600&in_page_id=1770
(UK) London bomb suspect 'recently visited Thailand'
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2007/07/11/headlines/headlines_30040358.php
(UK) Thailand deports London car bomb suspect: police
http://abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/07/11/1976122.htm?section=justin
(UK) MEMRI: Arab Liberals on the 'Terrorist Doctors' Plot in the U.K.
http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD165007
(UK) Britain condemns al-Qaeda Rushdie threat
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22057512-23109,00.html
(UK) The 'peaceful' group linked to radical Muslims: Tablighi Jamaat
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/07/11/nplot711.xml
(UK) Commentary: On Planet Appeasement
http://www.melaniephillips.com/diary/?p=1584
(UK) Female genital mutilation a growing concern in Britain
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/07/11/europe/EU-GEN-Britain-Female-Circumcision.php
July 10 news roundup of UK terror plot investigation activities and related news:
Al Qaeda's Zawahiri Threatens Retaliation Against Britain for Rushdie Knighthood of Salman Rushdie, author of "The Satanic Verses". AP reports Ayman al-Zawahiri's 20 minute speech entitled "Malicious Britain and its Indian Slaves", threatened retaliation against UK for knighthood of Salman Rushdie. SITE Institute reports that "Zawahiri threatens that a 'very precise response' is in the stages of preparation, and addresses current Prime Minister Gordon Brown, stating: 'The policy of your predecessor has brought tragedy and defeat upon you, not only in Afghanistan and Iraq but also in the center of London. And if you did not understand, listen, we are ready to repeat it for you, with the permission of Allah. We are sure that you have quite understood it.' "
British Islamists and Jihadists "Rank-and-File" Are Educated Professionals. Newsweek publishes op-ed from former British Hizb ut-Tahrir radical Ed Husain: "The rank-and-file of Islamist organizations, the precursors to terrorism, are filled with activists with a technical education. The instructor of my first secret cell in Hizb ut-Tahrir in London was a town planner; my second cell-leader was a medical doctor. Even today, medical doctors manage the British arm of Hizb ut-Tahrir-a global Islamist political party working for the re-establishment of an Islamic caliphate: doctors Nasim Ghani, Abdul Wahid, and Nazreen Nawaz. Globally, the central leader of Hizb ut-Tahrir is a Jordan-based engineer, Abu Rishta. The story of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood is similar. When Islamists graduate to jihadist terrorism the profile is equally chilling." Ed Husain is author of "The Islamist: Why I Joined Radical Islam in Britain, What I Saw Inside and Why I Left"
Jury in British terrorism trial fails to convict two men. AP reports that UK jury failed to reach a verdict of remaining two July 21 bombing suspects: Manfo Kwaku Asiedu and Adel Yahya. Judge Adrian Fulford "dismissed the jury after less than two hours of deliberations. Fulford gave prosecutors until Wednesday morning to say whether they would seek a retrial of the two."
UK Police let the July 21 bombers slip the net. Daily Telegraph reported that "Police missed a string of opportunities to intercept four terrorists months before the botched suicide bomb attacks on July 21". "Muktar Ibrahim, 29, the leader of the suicide gang, was seen by officers on at least four occasions before the bombings, Woolwich Crown Court had heard and was on bail after being arrested on suspicion of extremism."
July 21 Bomber Allowed To Travel To Pakistan while facing charges. Sky News reports that "Questions are now being asked about how [Muktar] Ibrahim managed to leave the UK while facing charges over extremist behaviour. In 2004, the 29-year-old travelled to Pakistan in December to learn terrorist skills, despite being on bail. He was there at exactly the same time as July 7 bombers Mohammed Siddique Khan and Shehzad Tanweer, and stayed for three months. Two months earlier, the 21/7 mastermind had been charged with threatening behaviour for distributing extremist Islamic material in London. While abroad, a warrant was issued for his arrest after missing a court appearance." Sky News also has a video of the process of getting visa from UK to Pakistan.
Reuters provided a "Chronology of major terrorism trials in Britain".
July 21, 2005 Terrorists Had Plans of UK's Sizewell B Nuclear Plant. BBC reports: "Detailed plans of Sizewell B nuclear power station in Suffolk were found in anti-terror raids after the July 2005 bomb attacks, it has been revealed." The plans included layout of the nuclear plant that were provided by a nuclear expert in a public lecture. "The expert said he was told the notes about Sizewell were found in the back of a car connected to one of the 21 July bombers. The expert said nuclear plants 'are not prepared enough' for an attack either by terrorists on the ground or through terrorists crashing a plane into the power station. He said nuclear plants were designed to withstand accidents, not terrorist attacks."
India: Bin Laden Speeches, Jihadist Material Found in Kafeel Ahmed House. Times of India reports that police discovered "[i]nflammatory speeches by Osama bin Laden and anti-UK, anti-US propaganda material in three CDs found in an almirah at Kafeel Ahmed's house". Times of India also reports "Kafeel and his associates are believed to have visited Pakistan more than once to seek approval for the UK terror plot. Added to this, one of the main suspects, Bilal Abdulla, is suspected to have indoctrinated Kafeel and Sabeel." The Times of India reports that Indian counterterrorism officials "believe the Al-Qaida is recruiting young educated people who can be sent to the US and Europe to create terror. 'The US and Europe are closely monitoring Pakistan, Bangladesh and Arab countries. We believe Al-Qaida is trying to use Indian resources and infrastructure to create havoc in the US and Europe,' said a senior officer working on counterterrorist strategies. "
Times of India news story states that the newly discovered information "helped investigators get closer to the link between the UK terror plot and Al-Qaida." The Hindu newspaper reported, however, that "[a] senior official in a Central Intelligence agency told The Hindu late on Monday night that there was no proof to link Kafeel with the al-Qaeda. They believe that Kafeel was indoctrinated in the United Kingdom by an Iraqi doctor Abdullah Billal, who was said to be with him in the flaming jeep, the official said."
Indian Imam Says 2 UK Suspects Changed Recently. Guardian reports that Indian imam Mohammed Hassaan says that after Kafeel and Sabeel Ahmed moved to Britain, they changed. When they returned to visit from the UK, they attended a radical mosque in Bangalore, India.
India: 'Secret data' found in Car Bomber Kafeel Ahmed's Computer Hard Disk. Hindustan Times reports that "[e]xperts have succeeded in decoding 'secret information' stored in the hard disk of a computer seized from Kafeel Ahmed's home in Bangalore" and will "report on the disk's contents to Bangalore Police". It is believed that Kafeel Ahmed "stored 'project' data in the hard disk and protected it with a secret code that is difficult to decipher". "Kafeel, before leaving for Britain on May 5, had handed over the disk to his mother Zakia Ahmed, warning her that it contained some important information on his 'project'. Kafeel also asked his mother to ensure the safety of the disk and not to let it slip into anyone's hands."
India: UK attack linked to science hub strike? Hindustan Times reports that there may be links between the UK car bombers and a 2005 attack on an Indian science hub. "In Bangalore, investigators looked for connections between Kafeel Ahmed and the Iraqi doctor Bilal Abdulla...They worked on evidence that suggested Abdulla visited Bangalore to meet Kafeel and his brother Sabeel — a line of enquiry the police said could lead them to clues on the attack on the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in December 2005."
Australian Terrorism Probe Into UK Bomb Plot Heads to India. Hindustan Times and Bloomberg are reporting on this. Bloomberg states: "Australian police widened their investigation into a terrorist plot to detonate car bombs in the U.K. and sent a detective to India, the home country of three suspects in the case. The officer will 'liaise' with Indian authorities also probing" the bombings.
Australia: Dr. Mohammed Haneef's lawyer may appeal detention. The Australian reports: "The lawyer for a Gold Coast doctor being detained over the bungled British bomb plots says he may launch an appeal. Authorities want to hold Gold Coast doctor Mohamed Haneef as long as they can to ensure any links to British bomb plotters are thoroughly investigated, the government says. Dr Haneef has been held without charge under federal counter-terrorism powers since he was arrested trying to leave Brisbane international airport on a one-way ticket on July 2."
Australia Visa Cross-Checks System Moved Up to September. The Australian reports that a news security system upgrade that will perform visa cross-checks has been moved up from October to September. "Attorney-General Philip Ruddock said yesterday the new system of background checking for visa applicants, proposed on Sunday, would have likely detected a group of doctors who had similar country of origin, training and travel patterns."
Scotland: Petrol proof sought in new anti-terror measure. The Scotsman reports: "Filling stations in Edinburgh are vetting customers buying petrol in cans, as security is stepped up following the terror attack at Glasgow Airport. Police have said that anybody buying a can of petrol should now be asked for identification and quizzed over what they plan to use it for. They should also be asked to pay by credit or debit card, to ensure the purchase can be traced. Any staff who turn away a customer who refuses to co-operate have been promised police backing."
Sources:
AP: Zawahiri Threatens Retaliation Against Britain for Rushdie Knighthood
AP: Jury deadlocks on last 2 defendants in failed London transit attacks
CNN: Jury dismissed in UK terror plot
Daily Telegraph: Police let the July 21 bombers slip the net
Sky News: Cops Face Pressure Over 21/7 'Failings'
Sky News Video: Pakistan's Visa Process
Reuters: Chronology of major terrorism trials in Britain
BBC: Terrorists had plans of Sizewell
Times of India: UK terror plot: Cops see Al-Qaida link
The Hindu: 'No proof to link Kafeel with Al-Qaeda'
Guardian: Imam Says 2 UK Suspects Changed Recently
Hindustan Times: 'Secret data' found in Kafeel's computer hard disk
Hindustan Times: UK attack linked to science hub strike?
CBS: Burned UK Suspect Unlikely To Survive
Bloomberg: Australian Terrorism Probe Into U.K. Bomb Plot Heads to India
The Australian: Haneef's lawyer may appeal detention
The Australian: Terror evidence may be lost after 'bungle'
The Australian: New visa cross-checks ramp up scrutiny
Scotsman News: Petrol proof sought in new anti-terror measure
July 9 news roundup of UK terror plot investigation activities and related news:
Four Guilty of Conspiracy to Murder in July 21 Bomb Plot. BBC reports that '[f]our men have been found guilty of plotting to carry out suicide bombings on London's transport network on 21 July 2005. Muktar Said Ibrahim, 29, Yassin Omar, 26, Ramzi Mohammed, 25, and Hussain Osman, 28, were convicted of conspiracy to murder at Woolwich Crown Court. The jury will continue to consider verdicts on Tuesday for two others", who AP has identified as "Manfo Kwaku Asiedu and Adel Yahya". Per Sky News, [t]he terror cell attempted to detonate hydrogen peroxide and chapatti flour bombs covered in shrapnel on three tube trains and a bus on July 21, 2005. Their plan only failed at the last moment because of problems with the home-made explosives, hot weather, or mere "good fortune", Woolwich Crown Court heard." In addition, the Daily Mail indicates that the terror bombing failed due to incorrect calculations of bombing ingredients by the Jihadists. BBC has profiles of the 4 convicted terrorists: Muktar Said Ibrahim, Ramzi Mohammed, Yassin Omar, and Hussain Osman. The Daily Telegraph also has a profile of them.
40 British Jihadist Cases Yet To Be Heard; 100 Suspects. Daily Telegraph reports that the "more than 40 separate terror court cases due to be heard include Operation Gamble, an alleged plot to kidnap and video the beheading of a British soldier and Operation Overt, an alleged plan to blow up 10 US airliners." Former MI-5 Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller advises this includes "[m]ore than 100 suspects are awaiting trial in British courts for terrorist offences".
Nuclear alert by ex-head of MI5. Daily Telegraph reports statement from former MI-5 chief Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller: "It remains a very real possibility that they may, sometime, somewhere attempt a chemical biological, radiological or even nuclear attack".
Interpol: "UK's anti-terrorist effort is in the wrong century." Interpol has criticized UK for failure to share information with Interpol, and for UK's failure to use Interpol criminal database in reviewing immigrants to the UK. On Interpol's web site, Interpol chief Noble states "The UK has not shared its terrorist watch list with Interpol". Daily Telegraph reported that "The head of Interpol also accused the authorities of failing to check visitors to Britain against its global database of 11,000 suspected terrorists and further quotes Interpol chief Noble as saying 'The guys detained last week could be wanted, arrested or convicted anywhere in the world and the UK would not know'." The Daily Mail quotes Noble "The UK government really needs to catch up and realise that unless it consults global databases for passports, names and photographs then it risks letting dangerous people roam free." BBC states that the UK "Home Office has insisted border officials are aware of the list." Guardian reports: "Interpol said last night that the UK makes just 50 checks a month of the database; France by comparison makes 700,000 checks and Switzerland makes 300,000." BBC also stated the Interpol's chief stated that there was a "clear link between stolen passports and al-Qaeda linked terrorist activity. The UK's anti-terrorist effort is in the wrong century."
Daily Telegraph reports that "deep concerns were raised over the weekend that a loophole in visa controls for foreign students could have been letting in extremists without real checks." Daily Mail reports "it emerged thousands of visas are obtained by immigrants from terror hotspots for university courses which they then don't attend."
Other related UK news media stories today report British Jihadist car bomb suspects traveling to Pakistan, Britons going to South Africa without a visa and then going to Pakistan (which has previously been reported in the London Times), and Britons traveling to Bangladesh, and UK's outsourcing of immigrant checks to a private company in India.
UK's MI5 Risk Map of 219 Extremist Groups in UK. Daily Telegraph reports "[t]he security service is watching 219 groups, mostly in the Midlands and North. A 'risk map' of terrorist threats shows a total of 80 groups of extremists in the Midlands, 60 in Leeds, Bradford and Manchester and 35 in London. There are also 20 being watched on Merseyside, 12 in Scotland, 10 in Wales and two in Northern Ireland. Each network can involve more than a dozen people bringing the total to well over 1,600 - some estimates have put it as high as 3,000." Belfast Telegraph reports that "Northern Ireland has at least two of the networks, containing around 30 people".
UK Five Face Second Week of Questioning over Car Bomb Plots. Daily Mail reports: "Five terror suspects remained in police custody at London's high security Paddington Green police station. Police have been given more time to hold the four men and one woman." This includes Dr. Mohammed Asha, Marwa Asha, a 26 year old doctor from Bangalore, and two trainee doctors. KUNA reports that "Dr. Asha, Marwa Asha, and the 26-year-old doctor from Bangalore can be questioned until Saturday July 14. The two trainee doctors arrested at the Royal Alexandra Hospital can be held for a further day, until July 15."
Australia Extends Car Bomb Suspect Mohammed Haneef Inquiry: BBC reports that "Australian police have been granted an extra 48 hours to continue detaining an Indian doctor in connection with the suspected UK car bomb attacks." The Australian Federal Police stated that this "would allow 'for the analysis of material obtained during the course of the investigation by joint counter-terrorism teams'."
Australia: Police in Australia search bomb suspect's car and flat. The Daily Mail reports that "Police in Australia investigating the London and Glasgow bomb plots, today confiscated the car of one the suspects. The vehicle, belonging to Dr Mohammed Haneef was under examination as investigators search for vital clues linked to the bungled car bomb attempts. Police also executed a search warrant to further examine Dr Haneef 's top-floor apartment, close to the hospital where he worked on Queensland's Gold Coast."
India: Ongoing Investigation. Indian investigators seized computer of car bomber Kafeel Ahmed, per Associated Press, Bangalore's Commissioner of Police N. Achuta Rao stated that the "hard disk is being examined to ascertain the contents and possible connection to the UK incident and also regarding terrorist activity, if any, in India and elsewhere". AFP reports that "Police said on Monday they were questioning relatives and friends of three suspects held over the failed British car bombings but had made no formal arrests."
Car Bomber Kafeel Ahmed Worked in Jet Design. The International Herald Tribune reports that Kafeel Ahmed worked for much of last year as an aeronautical engineer" for Infotech Enterprises, "an Indian outsourcing company that designs aircraft parts for clients including Boeing and Airbus." IHT reports "that Ahmed might have had access to the design secrets of some top aircraft makers in the very period when his friends have told the Indian police that he was turning into a Islamic radical", and that Infotech Enterprise's clients included the UK Home Office.
India: UK Car Bomber Kafeel Ahmad linked with Tablighi Jamaat. NDTV reports regarding Tablighi Jamaat "is yet again in the news for its links with Glasgow plotter Kafeel Ahmad and his father in Bangalore" and that "Bangalore police have now revealed that Kafeel Ahmed's father was a member of the Tablighi Jamaat." In August 2006, after the failed British Jihadist transatlantic jet plot to attack the United States, the Hindustan Times identified a link between Tablighi Jamaat and several of the British terror suspects including Waheed Zaman. The Hindustan Times reported: "The relatives and friends of some of the 23 people arrested last week told the police that the detainees were followers of the Tablighi Jamaat, which is believed to control several mosques in Britain." The Hindustan Times continued: "This is not the first time that a terror plot has been linked to the Tablighi Jamaat. One of the 7/7 suicide bombers, Mohammad Sidique Khan, was a follower. Another, Shehzad Tanweer, had visited a mosque controlled by the Tablighi Jamaat in Leeds."
Pakistan: Car bomb suspect visited Pakistan. The Daily Telegraph reports that "[a]t least one of the alleged plotters of the London and Glasgow car bombings had spent time in Pakistan". This was discovered through delays in car bomb suspect taking a hospital post, and per Inverclyde Royal Hospital hospital: "[t]here were calls from him about the delay and he was in Pakistan at the time." Daily Telegraphs reports that "[t]he information suggests that the leaders of the gang may have been seeking approval from al-Qa'eda before going ahead with their plan." As the London Times has previously reported, British Jihadists can easily get to Pakistan through South Africa (and other African countries), as Britons flying to South Africa do not require a visa.July 8 news roundup of UK terror plot investigation activities and related news:
UK Security Minister Views 15-year Fight Against Terror. The Daily Telegraph reports that the UK's top security minister, Admiral Sir Alan West, has stated that the battle against terror in UK would be a 10 to 15 year battle. Security minister West "said the overall danger facing the country, from both home-grown and foreign terrorists, was at its greatest ever level and that a new approach was badly needed to tackle it." He summarized the UK anti-terror strategy as "the four Ps": "prepare, protect, pursue, prevent - but that the 'prevent' side, dealing with the radicalisation of young Muslims, was the most important..." and stating that he believes "it will take 10 to 15 years."
New UK bomb warnings. The Daily Star is reporting that "the security services now believe that the global Islamist terror network has more outrages primed to happen in the UK." Al-Qaida expert and author Neil Doyle tells the Daily Star that Jihadist web site inactivity is a sign of pending plots: "What terrorists do is issue a general alert as an instruction to everyone to shut their mouths."
British Police Report Identity of Principal Protagonists. The NYT is reporting that British police are stating the two "principal protagonists" in both the Glasgow bombing and the failed London car bombs are Dr. Bilal Abdulla and Kaleef aka Khalid Ahmed.
Bomber linked to Irish Al-Qaeda Jet Bomb Plot. The Observer reports that British Jihadist bomber Kafeel Ahmed was an associate of convicted Al-Qaeda terrorist Abbas Boutrab in Ireland. Boutrab was "headed up the cell that operated on the quiet both in Northern Ireland and the Republic. That cell included Kafeel Ahmed while he was a student at Queen's" University, "which viewed Ireland as a 'quiet base'." "Boutrab was arrested in Belfast during 2003 and convicted two years later for downloading information on how to blow up an airliner."
Suspect or Supects Communicated with Al-Qaeda in Iraq. London Times reports that one or more of London car bomb suspects had recently been in contact with Al-Qaeda in Iraq: "Scotland Yard’s Counter Terrorism Command SO15 is understood to have uncovered evidence that in the months leading up to the attacks one or more of the suspects communicated by telephone or e-mail with terrorist leaders in Iraq."
Modern militant 'recruits himself'. The Australian reports on analysis of the approach by the latest Jihadists, that rather than being recruited and groomed by Al Qaeda, that such Jihadists effectively "recruit" themselves.
International Investigation of London Bomb Plot. London Times reports on "Operation Seagram", which is the international investigation of the London bomb plots with active investigations in UK, Australia, India. In addition, due to communications between suspects and Al Qaeda in Iraq, the London Times also reports that "well-placed officials are investigating potential links with Al-Qaeda in Iraq." The Australian has developed a graphic of international plot ties.
Indian police hunt for 12 UK bomb suspects The Australian Sunday Mail reports that "police in the southern Indian city of Bangalore, home to three suspects held in the British bomb plot, are hunting 12 more people who may be linked to the conspiracy"... and that "police were interested in a man it named as Saleem Ahmed, adding investigators were also probing the possibility that fake Bangalore driving licences were used in the bomb plot." Three Indians originating from Bangalore have thus far been arrested in the plot: Dr. Sabeel Ahmed, his brother engineer Kafeel Ahmed, and Dr. Mohammed Haneef.
India: Jihadi CDs seized from Kafeel's home. The Times of India reports that "[d]ocuments and CDs containing jihadi propaganda material have been seized from the Bangalore home of Kafeel and Sabeel Ahmed, suspects in the failed British terror plot, city police sources said on Sunday. Police were also mum on reports that they were specifically looking for 12 people who could have formed a 'cell' along with Kafeel, a mechanical engineer, and Sabeel, a medical doctor."
UK: Kafeel Ahmed had left a suicide note at his Glasgow house. The Times of India reports: "A suicide note was found at the house near Glasgow where Ahmed had been staying since April," a security source was quoted as saying.
India: Car-Bomb Research Done in Bangalore. The Hindu reports that online activity of Glasgow bomber Kafeel Ahmed shows that he did research on car bombs in Bangalore, before returning to the United Kingdom.
Australia Ongoing Investigation, and Scrutiny of Overseas Bank Transactions. Australian news reports that "five doctors in Australia quizzed by federal police late last week over the UK bombing attempts have been released on the grounds they will be available for further questioning" and that Dr. Mohammed Haneef was still being detained. The Australia Courier-Mail reports that investigators are tracking overseas and local transactions from the bank accounts of Indian-born doctor Mohammad Haneef, and that "[e]ach overseas transaction is believed to be below $10,000 which would avoid any scrutiny from AUSTRAC – a Federal Government regulator of transactions of $10,000 or more."
Australia: Remote Car-Bomb Plot Report. The Australian Sunday Mail also reports that "suspects linked to the foiled car bomb attacks in London allegedly planned to blow up the devices using mobile phones in Australia" and that British police said "They intended to blow it up by remote control - by calling mobile phones in the car". In a different report in Australian news, the Australian Attorney-General "played down a report today suggesting that there was a plan for bombs in Britain to be activated by phone from Australia, stating that '[i]t probably misstates what is in the public arena'."
Shiraz Maher: Met Bomber Bilal Abdulla Through Cambridge Hizb ut-Tahrir. London Times reports that Shiraz Maher states that he met bomb Dr. Bilal Abdulla through Cambridge recruiting for Hizb ut-Tahrir. "Mostly we met in the cultural centre, the Shiraz Academy on Gilbert Road. One of those rooms was rented by the Hizb guy and this became the main focal point of where we would socialise, meet and discuss things." Shiraz further states "[a]nd so it was through my involvement with Hizb ut-Tahrir and its ideology of extremist political Islam that I came to befriend Bilal, the alleged would-be bomber. Without movements such as Hizb ut-Tahrir creating the moral imperatives to justify terror, people like Bilal wouldn’t have the support of an ideological infrastructure cheering them on."
Cambridge Islamic charity linked to car bomb suspect. The Daily Telegraph reports that Cambridge charity, the Islamic Academy, has been linked to the car bomb suspects. When living in Cambridge, Glasgow bomber Kafeel Ahmed "rented a room above the academy's offices and prayer chamber", and in the room next door was the Cambridge organizer for Hizb ut-Tahrir. Kafeel Ahmed's brother Dr. Safeel Ahmed and Dr. Bilal Abdullah were frequent visitors. Former radical Shiraz Maher witnessed this and stated "The HT (Hizb ut-Tahrir) guys and Bilal controlled, steered and directed the conversation...Kafeel listened more than he talked. He became more religious as he progressed." Daily Telegraph also reports that the leaders of the Islamic Academy have been viewed as "moderate". Daily Telegraph also reports that "Sejad Mekic, the imam at the Cambridge mosque which Abdullah also attended, gave a sermon on Friday condemning all acts of terror. However, he later said he had doubts that the incident at Glasgow airport was a terrorist attack, saying it could have been a car accident." When asked about the containers of gasoline found in the car, Imam Mekic stated that maybe the men were gasoline salesmen.
MI5 Agents To Spot Student Terrorists in Scotland. The Daily Express reports that "foreign students in Scotland will be spied on to ensure campuses do not become secret havens for potential terrorists... and [o]verseas applicants, particularly those enrolling for 'high risk' courses such as engineering or chemistry, will be kept under surveillance." Daily Express reports that one of the Jihadists in the Bali Bombing, Azahari Husin, had forged friendships while at Reading University. Moreover, "David Capitanchik, a terrorism expert at Robert Gordon University, in Aberdeen, said some groups have been active on British campuses since 9/11." In addition, the Daily Express states that a "study in 2005 warned that campuses in Scotland had already become a recruiting ground for Islamic fundamentalists."
Call for Information, Cooperation on Terror Suspects. Sky News reports that UK PM Gordon Brown is calling for "greater international sharing of information about possible terrorist suspects", especially across Europe. UK Security Minister West also "said preventing people being recruited to extremism was central to defeating terrorism and called for the public to inform on suspects".
UK Terror Suspect Monitoring Failing Due To Electronic Tag Failures. Daily Mail reports on the failure and unreliability of electronic tag devices used to monitor Islamist terror suspects who are under "house arrest" and control orders.
Convicted Terrorist Working as UK Traffic Warden. Daily Mail reports on a convicted Jihadist terrorist, Mustapha Boutarfa, who now has a job working as a UK traffic warden. Jihadist Mustapha Boutarfa was "jailed for his involvement in a bomb attack on the Paris Metro - which killed eight people and wounded 80". Daily Mail states "It was unclear why Boutarfa was allowed back into Britain. It is understood he lied about his criminal conviction when he applied for his job as a traffic warden."
Not In Their Name? BBC reports that the Muslim Council of Britain has advised UK Muslims that it is their "Islamic duty to co-operate with the police to ensure the safety of British citizens - Muslims and non-Muslims." Daily Telegraph questions the relative change of heart by the Muslim Council of Britain saying that "in the past, the MCB has seemed to be somewhat lukewarm about encouraging British Muslims to go to the police or security services with any suspicions they might have about friends or acquaintances who they think might be involved in terrorism. It is, after all, only nine months since Mr Bari issued a scarcely veiled threat to the authorities: he said that if the Government and 'some police officers and sections of the media' continued to 'demonise Muslims… Britain will have to deal with two million Muslim terrorists, 700,000 of them in London'."
The London Times reports that " 'We acknowledge that there is radicalisation taking place in our community,' said Daud Abdullah, deputy leader of the Muslim Council of Britain." Daily Telegraph also reports comments by former extremist Ed Husain that "None of the leading members of the MCB have condemned the hard-line anti-Western ideology of figures such as Syed Qutb", and that the Muslim Council of Britain does not denounce the terrorist group Hamas. Daily Telegraph also provides a graphic which summarizes statistical information on Muslims in the UK, as well as surveyed support among some British Muslims for suicide bombing, terrorism, and Sharia law.
Negative Reactions in Calls for British Muslim Protest Against Jihadism. The London Times reports on some negative response among British Muslims on calls for Islamic protest against Jihadist terrorism. "On the ummah.com forum a lively debate flourished. One participant, junaid368, asked: 'Shouldn't the Muslim community of UK protest [against] the recent terror attacks?' One response advised: 'Don't forget, if they [the alleged bombers] are Muslim, they are your brothers. Don't ever give the impression the kufr [nonMuslims] are more valuable.' And a user called AbuMubarak posted: 'Instead of kissing kufr butt, why don’t we go forth and tell them that they must worship Allah and fear the fire?' Another poster, Saadet, wrote: 'No Muslim should make any official condemnation of this incident . . .' " Per London Times: "But not all comments were negative. A contributor called Kal-El wrote: 'It's time to show the world that we are not barbaric people who lust for blood. I am sick and tired of my faith being tarnished in this way and . . . being labelled a terrorist simply because I am a Muslim.' "
London Times also reports: "Gordon Brown has dropped the use of the phrase “war on terror”, and Jacqui Smith, the home secretary, was careful not to single out Muslims or Islam when briefing MPs about the car bombing attempts."
Sources:
Daily Telegraph: Warning of 15-year fight against terror
BBC: Terror fight 'may take 15 years'
The Daily Star: New bomb warnings
Daily Telegraph: Nuclear alert by ex-head of MI5
The New York Times: British Identify Two "Principal" Suspects
Observer: Terror suspect's jet bomb plot link
London Times: Car bombs are linked with Iraq's Al-Qaeda
The Australian: Modern militant 'recruits himself'
The Australian: Graphic of International Plot Ties
Australian Sunday Mail: Indian police hunt for 12 UK bomb suspects
Times of India: Jihadi CDs seized from Kafeel's home
Times of India: 'Kafeel had left a suicide note at his house'
The Hindu: Was car-bomb designed in Bangalore?
Australia News: Doctors freed after terror questioning
Australia Courier-Mail: Focus on bomb plot transfers
Australian Sunday Mail: Car bomb 'to be detonated from Australia'
Daily Telegraph: Islamic charity linked to car bomb suspect
London Times: How I befriended a Glasgow bomb suspect and Islamic radical
Daily Express: MI5 Agents To Spot Student Terrorists
Sky News: PM Gordon Brown - 'Urgent' Need To Share Terror Information
Sky News: Call To Snitch On Terror Suspects
Daily Express: Tag fiasco: Failures in monitoring terror suspects
BBC: 'Islamic duty' to help UK police
July 7 news roundup of UK terror plot investigation activities and related news:
-- London Remembers July 7, 2005 Bomb Attacks. Sky News reports: "The second anniversary of the July 7 London bombings will be marked today by survivors and victims' relatives. Four suicide bombers killed 52 commuters and injured hundreds more in 2005. Hundreds were expected to gather at Kings Cross station shortly before 9am, when the first bomb exploded." DPA reports an analysis that states "Britain remains top terror target two years after July 7 attacks".
-- Dr. Bilal Abdulla Appears in Court. Per CNN, Dr. Bilal Abdulla appeared in court Saturday on charges linked to the failed car bomb plots in London and Glasgow. His next court appearance was set for July 27. His lawyers did not ask for bail. The charge against Dr. Abdulla specifies that the conspiracy began around the first of January 2007 and concluded at the start of this month, accused Abdulla of conspiring "with others to cause explosions of a nature likely to endanger life or cause serious injury to property in the United Kingdom."
-- Daily Mail Report: MI5 says Jihadists working for police. The Daily Mail and the Evening Standard report that UK's MI5 has drawn up a dossier on alleged Islamist extremists working for the police: "Up to eight police officers and civilian staff are suspected of links to extremist groups including Al Qaeda. Some are even believed to have attended terror training camps in Pakistan or Afghanistan. Their names feature on a secret list of alleged radicals said to be working in the Metropolitan and other forces." The papers go on to state that the alleged MI5 dossier was drawn up "amid fears that individuals linked to Islamic extremism are taking advantage of police attempts to increase the proportion of ethnic staff", but that UK police cannot dismiss them as information is based on classified intelligence. The papers also state "one suspected jihadist officer working in the South East has been allowed to keep his job despite being caught circulating Internet images of beheadings and roadside bombings in Iraq. He is said to have argued that he was trying to 'enhance' debate about the war. " Sky News is also now reporting this story.
-- Indian police: E-mails, internet chats of terror suspects probed. The Times of India reports that the "police team probing the Bangalore link of the UK terror plot has begun scrutinising the e-mails, internet chats and other communication modes of three suspects- Sabeel, Kafeel and Mohammed Haneef."
-- Australia: Dr. Haneef talked of car bombs; Iran involvement?. Daily Mail reports that Indian doctor Dr. Mohammed Haneef held "discussion on car bombings with other suspects. Investigators in Australia disclosed that the conversation was monitored during anti-terror operations and passed on to the Security Services." In the same report, the Daily Mail states that " 'significant' links between the bomb plot, the terror cell and Iran are being investigated after intelligence was uncovered indicating a 'Tehran involvement'."
-- Australia: Dr. Haneef questioning continues, five other Indian doctors released. Times of India reports today that Dr. Haneef is still in custody and being questioned, and it separately reports that five other Indian doctors in Australia have been released. The Australian has a different story titled "Six doctors questioned as terror net widens".
-- Australia: Hizb-ut-Tahrir faces ban. The Australian reports today that "Attorney-General Philip Ruddock will ask security agencies to reinvestigate the radical Muslim group Hizb ut-Tahrir after revelations that the British men arrested over the foiled car bomb plot were closely linked to members of the group in London." Hizb-ut-Tahrir is legal in UK and Australia.
-- UK Counterterror Analysts Surprised by Doctor Jihadists. Both the Daily Telegraph and the London Times are running articles about the suprise to British counterterrorism analysts that Jihadists are not uneducated and poor. The Daily Telegraph has an article "The textbook terrorists" and the London Times has an article "The unexpected profile of the modern terrorist: 26, from a caring family, married, with children, graduate". Daily Telegraph reports: "'The one overwhelming thing was that [these attacks] defied all of our assumptions,' Peter Neumann, the director of the Centre for Defence Studies at King's College, London. But the backgrounds of the alleged terrorists come as no surprise to Ed Husain, a former member of the extremist Hizb ut-Tahir organisation." Husain tells the Daily Telegraph: "Al-Qa'eda is filled with people who are graduates from medical and engineering colleges. They regard scripture like a textbook, manual or medical handbook. In their minds, there is no room for any humanity based nuance or even alternative arguments. They have the arrogance of their advanced education, consider themselves to be above the rest, and to be absolutely right."
-- Terror Suspect told family "the time has come now". Daily Telegraph reports on Dr. Kafeel Ahmed advising his family hours before Glasgow attack that "the time has come now", and also reports on social network Internet site called Orkut where a bombing suspect placed " a series of messages had been left in the run-up to the attack by a user calling himself 'mujahid' [holy warrior]."
-- Britons find comedy in Jihadist terror attacks. London Times and ABC News both did stories on how some Britons found comedy and humor in the failed Jihadist terror attacks. London Times reports that "Paul Stokes, the Mash’s co-editor, said: 'It helps that nobody died in the attack'".
Sources:
Sky News: London Remembers July 7 Bomb Attacks
DPA: Analysis: Britain remains top terror target two years after July 7 attacks
CNN: Suspect charged in UK bomb attempts
Daily Mail: Eight Al Qaeda fanatics working for the police (but they don't dare sack them)
Evening Standard: Eight Al Qaeda fanatics working for the police (but they don't dare sack them)
Sky News: Al Qaeda Extremists 'Working In Police'
Times of India: E-mails, internet chats of terror suspects probed
Daily Mail: Terror-case doctor talked of car bombs
Times of India: Five Indian doctors released, Haneef not charged yet
Times of India: Haneef continues to be quizzed; remains in custody in Aus
The Australian: Six doctors questioned as terror net widens
The Australian: Radical group faces ban
Daily Telegraph: The textbook terrorists
Daily Telegraph: Terror suspect told family 'time had come'
London Times: Airport hit by suicide bombers? You’ve got to laugh...
ABC News: Chin Up: British Papers Poke Fun at Terror
July 6 news roundup of UK terror plot investigation activities and related news:
First Car Bomb Terror Plot Charge. Daily Telegraph reports that prosecutors have given the approval to police for Dr. Bilal Abdulla to be the first Jihadist car bomb suspect to be charged over Glasgow and London attacks. "Crown Prosecution Service said it was advising Scotland Yard to charge Bilal Abdulla with conspiring to cause explosions."
British Prime Minister Says Investigators Figuring Out Terrorist Cell. RFERL and other media have reported that "British Prime Minister Gordon Brown says investigators have "got to the bottom of the cell" responsible for last week's attempted car bombings in London and Glasgow. Brown said the incidents were 'designed to cause maximum carnage.'"
London Times: Bombing plots "were carried out with bin Laden's blessing". The London Times is exclusively reporting that "The London and Glasgow bomb plots were carried out with the approval of Osama bin Laden, the al-Qaeda leader, a top foreign intelligence source said last night. 'It was an established fact from Day 1 that al-Qaeda was behind this and it was planned by its followers in Great Britain with bin Laden's blessing,' the source told The Times. British security officials were more guarded, saying that it was too early to say whether the plot was masterminded by some foreign hand or hatched in Britain."
UK Bombs plot investigators look at role of al-Qaida cells in Iraq. London Guardian states that "MI5 and MI6 were yesterday investigating the role of al-Qaida cells in Iraq as they began to build up a picture of the foreign contacts of those involved in the plot to bomb London and Glasgow."
UK: "Sleeper Agent" Omar Altimimi sentenced to 9 years in prison. As Sky News reports: "Failed asylum seeker Omar Altimimi has been sentenced to nine years in jail after being discovered with a collection of terror manuals." London Times reports that Altimimi had instructions on "how car bombs can be detonated at the entrances to buildings via remote control" and that he "hoarded car bomb manuals". The London Times also reports that, in addition to instructions on various types of suicide bombing techniques, that Altimimi had "poisonous cyanide gas using tablet capsules which would kill humans within minutes, a shopping list of common substances for use in home-made bombs and a “chilling” reference to the use of radioactive radium in explosives." Prosecutors believe that Altimimi was linked to the Dhiren Barot British Jihadist group through connections with convicted terrorist Junade Ferouze. Reuters also reports that Manchester police called Altimimi a sleeper agent, and was likely planning to attack nightclubs and airports.
UK Bombers Connection in Cambridge and Links to Hizb-ut-Tahrir. The Australia reports today that four of the UK car bomb suspects spent time working or studying, "where some of them socialised and prayed with members of the radical group Hizb ut-Tahir." Dr. Bilal Abdulla, Dr. Mohammed Asha, 26, and his wife, Dana (Marwah) "worked together at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge in 2005." Dr. Kafeel Ahmed "studied as an engineer at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge at that time and is believed to have made the group's bombs. Dr Ahmed previously had been named as a doctor whose first name was Khalid. His brother Sabeel Ahmed, who was arrested in Liverpool, visited him in Cambridge and met his friends. Hizb ut-Tahir member Shiraz Maher told the BBC's Newsnight program the men seized in Glasgow shared the group's beliefs and associated with followers in Cambridge." BBC program "Politics of Terror" first reported that the Cambridge cell of Hizb-ut-Tahrir tried to recruit Dr. Bilal Abdulla.
U.K. terror suspects made U.S. inquiry. AP reports that the "FBI confirmed Friday that two suspects in the failed car bombings in Britain had contacted a clearinghouse for foreign doctors about working in the United States". AP reports "Mohammed Asha and another suspect had contacted the Philadelphia-based Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates, but apparently did not take the test for foreign medical school graduates". Mohammed Asha was arrested on the M6 highway Saturday night along with his wife. Philadelphia Inquirer also has news report on this subject.
Australia Five ex-NHS doctors quizzed over UK bombs. Daily Telegraph reporter in Australia reports that police are questioning four doctors in western Australia and 1 doctor in Sydney, as well as confiscating computer equipment. Per the Telegraph: "All five had previously worked in the NHS in Britain and had come into contact with Mohamed Haneef" - who was the Australian doctor who attempted to leave the country. Also per the Telegraph: "Police in Western Australia seized evidence, including computers and telephones, from two hospitals, one in the state capital, Perth, the other in the Outback gold mining town of Kalgoorlie." BBC provides a timeline on the Australian investigative activities.
Australian Dr. Haneef still being questioned. London Times reports that "[y]esterday a judge in Queensland granted Australian police and a senior British counter-terrorism officer an extra 96 hours to question Dr Haneef. Police are examining more than 30,000 files on Dr Haneef’s laptop computer and a Sim card mobile phone device he left with one of the British bomb suspects.".
Indian police question doctors' families. DPA reports that the "Crime Branch of the Bangalore police launched a full investigation into the terrorist plot, and on Thursday night questioned the family of Kafeel Ahmed and Sabeel Ahmed, both brothers, who are among the eight suspects in the case".
Indian doctor tells family he is working on confidential global warming project. The Times of India reports that Dr. Kafeel Ahmed told his family that "I am involved in a large scale confidential project. It is about global warming. I cannot reveal the details. It involves a lot of travelling. I have to present a lot of papers at various places. The project has to be started in the United Kingdom. After starting it there, I will come back to Bangalore and continue it from here." Dr. Kafeel Ahmed is being treated for burns in Glasgow attemped car bombing. Times of India also reports that "He had also told his mother and sister that his earlier presentation failed and asked them to pray for him this time." Investigators are tying to decipher if this is referring to to a terrorist attack. Guardian reported today that Dr. Kafeel Ahmed was being transfered to a specialist burns unit and is still in critical condition.
Terror Profiling Not Permitted by UK Police. Daily Express reports that "officers carrying out spot checks at key sites have been told not to target people based on their ethnicity or age." Police officer source told the Daily Express: "At the moment we are stopping middle class, white pensioners and while we are searching their vehicle another car with four men of Middle Eastern or Asian appearance goes sailing past towards the airport and we have missed them."
Follow-up on Stolen NHS syringes used in failed car bomb attacks. The Daily Mail has a follow-up story on stolen NHS syringes used in the London car bombs. ABC reported this on July 4 afternoon.
Australia and UK Doctors looking for work. Dr Khalid Ahmed and his brother Sabeel both sought medical work in Australia, per Australian news media.
NHS recruitment substandard compared to other nations. Daily Mail is reporting that UK National Health Service recruitment standards are substandard, and that "two of the suspects in the car bomb plot who got jobs as doctors with the NHS were turned down by Australia because of their stricter controls."
UK Imams largely come from Pakistan. BBC and the Daily Telegraph did reports on foreign countries that imams are sourced from, with statistics showing a large number from Pakistan.
Sources:
Daily Telegraph: Glasgow terror plot police charge first suspect
RFERL: British PM Says Investigators Figuring Out Terrorist Cell
London Times: Bombing plots "were carried out with bin Laden's blessing"
Guardian: Bombs plot investigators look at role of al-Qaida cells in Iraq
Sky News: Terror Plotter Jailed For Nine Years
London Times: 'Clean skin terrrorist' guilty of hoarding car bomb manuals
AP: British court convicts man of having terrorist manuals, and money laundering
Reuters: Britain convicts al-Qaida "sleeper" agent Omar Altimimi
The Australian: Cambridge ring linked to bombs
BBC Video "Politics of Terror" focuses on Hizb ut Tahrir
AP: U.K. terror suspects made U.S. inquiry
The Philadelphia Inquirer: Sources: 2 in plot explored U.S. jobs
Daily Telegraph: Five ex-NHS doctors quizzed over UK bombs
London Times: Fresh terror raids on Australian hospitals
BBC: New Australia raids over UK bombs
Deutsche Presse-Agentur: Indian police question family of UK terrorist plot suspects
Times of India: I'm working on confidential project on global warming, Kafeel told parents
Guadian: Glasgow suspect moved to burns unit
Daily Express: Terror Search Fiasco
Blog: UK Police: Look Out For People Doing Things
Daily Mail: Stolen NHS syringes used in failed car bomb attacks
ABC News: Exclusive: U.K. Terror Plot -- Why the Bombs Failed
Australia News: Terror suspect doctors sought work in Queensland
BBC: Few UK imams 'come from Britain'- only 8 per cent
Related BBC graphic:
Daily Telegraph: Only 6pc of imams are native English speakers
(UK) British Cleric: 'Al-Qa'eda leader told me of bomb plot -- Canon Andrew White warned in April
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=PQUTIRTG3VI2DQFIQMGCFFWAVCBQUIV0?xml=/news/2007/07/04/nterror204.xml
(UK) 'Those Who Cure You Will Kill You'
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-1273642,00.html
(UK) Full Text Of Vicar's Terror Warning Email
"He told me that they were going to start killing in the UK then the USA"
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-1273646,00.html
UK terror police find suicide note
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/07/04/london.investigation/index.html
(UK) Investigators: Scotland and London Bomb Attempts Linked to Same Two Men
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=3342018&page=1
(UK) Bomb suspects on MI5 files
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=34DI4PBVRCP5LQFIQMFSFGGAVCBQ0IV0?xml=/news/2007/07/03/nterror104.xml
(UK) NHS terror plot: police investigate global email network used by 'bombers'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=466035&in_page_id=1770&ct=5
BBC: UK 'spooks' under fire in papers
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6268132.stm
(UK) Strict new checks for foreign NHS doctors
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/07/04/npmqs104.xml
(UK) Brown orders doctors probe after British bomb plot
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070704/ts_nm/britain_bomb_dc_71;_ylt=AsPwkyIGxK2.TzbnP2sD7cYwuecA
(UK) British: Bombing suspects recruited here
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/2007/07/04/british_bombing_suspects_recruited_here/7567/
(UK) Evidence suggests terror suspects hatched plot in Britain
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/07/03/europe/EU-GEN-Britain-Terrorism.php
(UK) Yard sends terror detective to Australia
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/07/04/nterror904.xml
(UK) Country on high alert as 7/7 anniversary looms
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070704/wl_uk_afp/britainattacks_070704082833;_ylt=AnZjpbxGoPCxrHNa5zGYOLUwuecA
(UK) British police downgrade 2 Blackburn terrorism arrests to drug cases
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/07/04/europe/EU-GEN-Britain-Terror-Arrests.php
(UK) Scotland: Muslim leaders organise anti-terror rally
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article2023003.ece
(UK) Terror suspects "hate violence"
http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/society/law_order/terror+suspects+hate+violence/586922#fold
(UK) NHS Muslim medics fear backlash from arrests
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article2023025.ece
(UK) Commentary: If 'Islamist' is out, what do we call them?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2007/07/04/do0405.xml
UK-based trio admit inciting terrorism over Web - police said on Wednesday: Younes Tsouli ("Terrorist 007"), Waseem Mughal, Tariq al-Daour
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070704/wr_nm/britain_security_internet_dc
(UK - July 21 Trial) 21/7 jury retires for fifth day
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6260688.stm
Other News:
UK: Muslim doctors meet Conservative Shadow ministers
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2007/07/uk-muslim-doctors-meet-conservative.html
July 4, 2007
London Guardian: Them and us - When Muslims feel their whole way of life is under attack, there is a defensive refusal to acknowledge our problems.
Author: Salma Yaqoob
Essential point: UK's Jihadist problem is due to its foreign policy issues
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/salma_yaqoob/2007/07/them_and_us.html
Salma Yaqoob is the vice-chair (and founder) of Respect – The Unity Coalition and a Birmingham City Councillor. She is also is the head of the Birmingham Stop the War Coalition and a spokesperson for Birmingham Central Mosque.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salma_Yaqoob
Reported: Salma Yaqoob has been a writer for Trends magazine, which includes Hamas posters with AK-47s, and quotes from the Qu'ran
http://hurryupharry.bloghouse.net/archives/2007/07/06/the_islamic_republic_of_great_britain.php
http://hurryupharry.bloghouse.net/archives/2007/07/05/a_free_gift_from_harrys_place_and_inayat_bunglawala.php
Salma Yaqoob is also the author of "Rule Islamia - The Islamic Republic of Great Britain".
http://britishjihad.com/blog1/Salama_Y.pdf
(UK) Terror timeline: The foiled car bombs
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=FC4MFRK1YIQHFQFIQMFSFFOAVCBQ0IV0?xml=/news/2007/07/02/nterror1002.xml
(UK) Seven doctors held over al-Qa'eda bomb plot
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=D3WIEGW4GMA4BQFIQMFSFFOAVCBQ0IV0?xml=/news/2007/07/03/nterror103.xml
(UK) Bomb plot: 12 NHS staff among terror suspects
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=465796&in_page_id=1770&ct=5
(UK) Doctor arrested in Australia over UK terror plot
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article2018878.ece
(UK) Gold Coast doctor arrested over UK bomb plot -- arrested as he tried to board a flight to Singapore
http://www.abc.com.au/news/stories/2007/07/03/1968224.htm
UK bomb suspect held in Australia - a second doctor in Australia was being questioned, but had not been detained
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/07/03/london.investigation/index.html
(UK) Oz Terror Suspect Had One-Way Ticket
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-1273332,00.html
(UK) Car Bombing Suspects: Who Are They?
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1273245,00.html
(UK) Did al-Qaeda leader pass on his plans from inside prison? Concerns that British Jihadists getting plans from Dhiren Barot or other arrested Jihadists.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article2017621.ece
(UK) Alert puts 6,000 armed police on streets
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=FC4MFRK1YIQHFQFIQMFSFFOAVCBQ0IV0?xml=/news/2007/07/03/nterror203.xml
(UK) Scotland Police Carry Out Controlled Explosion of Car Near Mosque
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,287834,00.html
(UK) Sky News: Video of Explosion of Car Outside Glasgow Mosque
http://news.sky.com/skynews/video/videoplayer/0,,30000-1273364,00.html
(UK) Amid car bomb attempts and terror raids, Britons look nervously to the July 7 anniversary
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/07/02/europe/EU-GEN-Britain-Terrorism-Terror-Timing.php
(UK) Muslim Leaders Round On Bombers
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-1273332,00.html
(UK) Commentary: 'Islamist' is the word for these terrorists
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2007/07/03/do0302.xml
(UK) Commentary: Cult of Contempt -- The Left must condemn a fanaticism that is misogynist and homophobic
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/leading_article/article2017440.ece
(UK) Commentary: Why Scotland is in the terrorist bombers’ sights
http://www.theherald.co.uk/features/features/display.var.1511424.0.0.php
(UK) Race to break terror cell - Members of al-Qaida group run by 'Mr Big' still at large
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2116267,00.html
(UK) Eighth arrest in terror inquiry -- arrested abroad - police have not specified in which country the arrest took place
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6263408.stm
(Australia) Gold Coast doctor arrested over UK bomb plot -- arrested as he tried to board a flight to Singapore
http://www.abc.com.au/news/stories/2007/07/03/1968224.htm
(UK) Controlled blasts at Glasgow hospital - bomb disposal performed at least two controlled blasts at hospital where suspect being treated
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/07/02/london.alert/index.html
(UK) Five Doctors Held Over Attacks
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-1273160,00.html
"Five doctors are now being held in connection with the recent attempted terror attacks - one is an Iraqi doctor who trained in Baghdad."
"Sky sources named him as Iraqi Bilal Abdulla - he was left relatively unscathed in an attack on Glasgow airport, in which two men drove a flaming jeep into the airport terminal."
"Two doctors were arrested in Paisley, Glasgow, another in Liverpool and one on the M6 on Saturday night."
(UK) Britain Remains Prime Terrorist Target
http://www.voanews.com/english/2007-07-02-voa64.cfm
(UK) Three Doctors Held Over Attack - One of the men involved in the failed terror attack on Glasgow airport was an Iraqi doctor who trained in Baghdad
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-1273160,00.html
(UK) Iraqi, Jordanian Doctors Among Those Arrested in U.K. Terror Sweep - now say 3 doctors among terrorists
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,287634,00.html
(UK) Foreign doctors at centre of terror inquiry
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=5CDVRPEG401TLQFIQMFSFFOAVCBQ0IV0?xml=/news/2007/07/02/nterror1402.xml
(UK) Q&A: Mohammad Asha and foreign doctors
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article2015879.ece
(UK) Doctors arrested in terror probe named: Dr Mohammad Asha, Dr Bilal Abdulla,
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article2015306.ece
(UK) 'Terror ringleader' is brilliant NHS doctor
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=465481&in_page_id=1770&ct=5
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23402548-details/%27Terror+ringleader%27+is+brilliant+NHS+doctor/article.do
(UK) Profiles of bomb suspects: The neurosurgeon and the junior doctor
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=465752&in_page_id=1770
(UK) Asha Not Linked To Terror, Says Dad
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-1273296,00.html
(UK) Timeline: Failed car bomb attacks - London and Glasgow
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6260626.stm
(UK) Airport car bombers hoped to murder hundreds
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/07/02/nterror202.xml
(UK) Mobile telephones helped terror police - The mobile telephones recovered from the two failed London blasts helped police trace the suspected terrorists
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article2015651.ece
(UK) Airports, shopping centres and Wimbledon locked inside 'rings of steel'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=465529&in_page_id=1770&ct=5
(UK Home Secretary) UK unity 'will defeat terrorists'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/6260252.stm
(UK) Blair: we will face this threat for years to come
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/07/02/nterror902.xml
(UK) Commentary: Fatal flaws in our defence against terror - Melanie Phillips
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/columnists/columnists.html?in_article_id=465595&in_page_id=1772&in_author_id=256&in_check=N
(UK) Commentary: I was a fanatic...I know their thinking, says former radical Islamist - Hassan Butt
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=465570&in_page_id=1770
(UK) Commentary: Britons take it easy in the new age of terrorism
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/f6bc8582-28ca-11dc-af78-000b5df10621.html
(UK) Tribute website for have-a-go hero who attacked Glasgow terrorists
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=465721&in_page_id=1770&ito=newsnow
In July 1 Observer, Tony Blair makes comments regarding "absurd" British Islamists, now that he is out of office, and apparently feels that he can speak freely. The obvious question to be asked from such commentary is if Tony Blair was so concerned about Islamists, why didn't he do more when he was Prime Minister about the problem? Hizb ut-Tahrir has still not been criminalized and numerous other sources of Islamist radicalism continues to act unabated under the Blair years in government. His words are interesting, but where were his actions?
Blair launches stinging attack on 'absurd' British Islamists
Nicholas Watt, political editor
Sunday July 1, 2007
The ObserverTony Blair has launched a powerful attack on 'absurd' British Islamists who have nurtured a false 'sense of grievance' that they are being oppressed by Britain and the United States.In his most outspoken remarks on Islamists, the former Prime Minister warns that Britain is in danger of losing the battle against terrorists unless mainstream society confronts the threat.
Blair's remarks, in which he also attacks some civil liberty campaigners as 'loopy loo', were made in a Channel 4 documentary recorded last Tuesday on the eve of his departure from Downing Street.
'The idea that as a Muslim in this country that you don't have the freedom to express your religion or your views, I mean you've got far more freedom in this country than you do in most Muslim countries,' Blair told Observer columnist Will Hutton, who presents the documentary.
'The reason we are finding it hard to win this battle is that we're not actually fighting it properly. We're not actually standing up to these people and saying, "It's not just your methods that are wrong, your ideas are absurd. Nobody is oppressing you. Your sense of grievance isn't justified."'
Blair held out the example of the overthrow of the Taliban in Afghanistan - criticised by Islamists as an example of the heavy-handed imperial West oppressing Muslims - to highlight unfounded claims of grievance. He asked how it is possible to claim that Afghanistan's Muslims are being oppressed when the Taliban 'used to execute teachers for teaching girls in schools'.
Blair added: 'How are [we] oppressing them? You're oppressing them when you support the people who are trying to blow them up.'
Blair, who normally chooses his language carefully when he talks about Islamists, also takes a swipe at critics who accused him of undermining civil liberties. 'When I'm trying to change the law in order to make it easier to deport people who engage in terrorism - the idea that that's an assault on hundreds of years of British civil liberties is completely absurd. Some of what is written on this is loopy-loo in its extremism.'
London Guardian Commentary: Dangerous little words
London Guardian's Josh Freedman Berthoud comments that "It is deeply unhelpful for news networks to breathlessly report that the Glasgow attackers were 'Asian-looking men'." This is the case despite that it was (a) a fact, (b) one of the individuals was crying "Allah" as he attacked police
(UK) 'Honour' killings linked to terror groups
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(UK) Terror suspect appears in court -- Ceri Bullivant - absconded while subject to an anti-terror control order
(UK) Lockerbie Verdict Could Be Sent Back to Appeals Court
(UK) Muslim peer compares Rushdie to 9/ll bombers -- Labour peer Lord Ahmed of Rotherham
(UK) British Muslims burn St George's flag at anti-Rushdie rally
(UK) British Muslims join global protests at knighthood for Salman Rushdie
(UK) Head-to-toe Muslim veils test tolerance of secular Britain
(UK) Britain's first Muslim MP 'hounded out' by racist murder gang -- gang is linked to racist murderers Imran Shahid, Zeeshan Shahid and Mohammed Faisal Mushtaq
(UK) Resigning MP tells of death threats - instrumental in arranging the extradition of the three men after they fled to Pakistan
(UK) I'm more likely to be assassinated in UK than in Baghdad, says Blair
(UK) British firm feels the heat over illegal uranium sales to Iran, Sudan
MI6 probes UK link to nuclear trade with Iran - British company closed after attempt to sell weapons-grade uranium to Iran and Sudan
(UK Islam) Timeout London: Is London's future Islamic?
Time Out argues that an Islamic London would be a better place
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A nasty outbreak of Islamophilia
The following is a report from Timeout magazine, which demonstrates the challenges to the UK in considering Islamism as a threat to the UK democracy:
Michael Hodges' Islamist Propaganda on London and Islam:
Is London's future Islamic?
http://www.timeout.com/london/features/2993.html?cpage=2&ccat=5
It's the capital's fastest growing religion, based on noble traditions and compassionate principles, yet Islam can still be tainted by mistrust and misunderstanding. Here Time Out argues that an Islamic London would be a better place
The noise from the expectant crowd hushed to a murmur as an open-backed lorry that had driven slowly up the Mall – known since the Islamic revolution of 2021 as The Way of the Martyrs – nudged its way through the thousands gathered in Mohammad Sidique Khan Square. On the lorry, two masked guards held a young man, black hood over his head; a quiver running through the material suggested he knew what was coming.
The lorry halted by the plinth that had once held Marc Quinn's sculpture 'Alison Lapper Pregnant' – long since removed as an insult to decency – and was now the place of public execution. A rope noose attached to a wire cable hung from a mechanised hoist. The main doors of what had been the National Gallery flung open and an Imam walked down the steps of the new Institute of Islamic Jurisprudence, opened only a week before by Sultan Charles, Prince of Islam and protector of the faithful in England.
The official executioner placed a stepladder against the plinth. The lorry pulled up and the young man was pushed out, then forced up the ladder. The noose was forced over the condemned man's head. The crowd chanted 'Allahu akbar' (God is greater than everything).The hoist driver put his finger on a green button … Okay, not really – that's a hysterical, right-wing nightmare of a future Muslim London: where an cruel alien creed is forced on a liberal city. A society where women are second-class citizens, same sex relationships a crime and Sharia law enforces terrible public disfigurement and death. But the reality is a long, long way from this dark vision.
For a start, Islam is not an alien religion to London. At the end of World War I the city sat at the heart of an Empire that had 160 million Muslim subjects, 80 million in India alone. London was the largest Islamic capital in the world. Forty years later and the end of the Empire, unrest and war and poverty in south Asia had lead to mass immigration to the mother country and London became a Muslim capital in another sense.
According to the 2001 census there are 607,083 Muslims living in London (310,477 men and 296,606 women). The majority of Muslims live in the east of the city and, by 2012, the Muslim Council of Britain estimates that the Muslim population of Tower Hamlets, Newham, Waltham Forest and Hackney will be 250,000. There are plans afoot (though no formal application has yet been submitted) to build the UKs biggest mosque – capable of welcoming 40,000 worshippers – near the 2012 Olympic site, a move which has prompted predictable outrage from some quarters. Consequently, Muslim disillionment with a reactionary and often ill-informed press is at an all time high.
But rather than fear the inevitable changes this will bring to London, or buy in to a racist representation of all Muslims as terrorists, we should recognise both what Islam has given this city already, and the advantages it would bring across a wide range of areas in the future.
Public healthOn the surface, Islamic health doesn't look good: the 2001 census showed that 24 per cent of Muslim women and 21 per cent of Muslim men suffered long-term illness and disability. But these are factors of social conditions rather than religion. In fact, Islam offers Londoners potential health benefits: the Muslim act of prayer is designed to keep worshippers fit, their joints supple and, at five times a day, their stomachs trim. The regular washing of the feet and hands required before prayers promotes public hygiene and would reduce the transmission of superbugs in London's hospitals.
Alcohol is haram, or forbidden, to Muslims. As London is above the national average for alcohol-related deaths in males, with 17.6 per 100,000 people (Camden has 31.6 per 100,000 males), turning all the city's pubs into juice bars would have a massive positive effect on public health. Forbid alcohol throughout the country, and you'd avoid many of the 22,000 alcohol-related deaths and the £7.3 billion national bill for alcohol-related crime and disorder each year.
Ecology
'The world is green and beautiful,' said the prophet Muhammad, 'and Allah has appointed you his guardian over it.' The Islamic concept of halifa or trusteeship obliges Muslims to look after the natural world and Muhammad was one of the first ever environmentalists, advocating hima – areas where wildlife and forestry are protected. So we could expect more public parks under Islam, but halifa also applies to recycling: in 2006, 12,000 Muslims attended a series of sermons at the East London Mosque explaining the theological evidence for a link between behaving in an environmentally sustainable way and the Islamic faith.
Education
Presently, Muslim students perform less well than non-Muslim students. In inner London, 37 per cent of 16 to 24-year-old Muslims have no qualifications (the figure for the general population of the same age and location is 25 per cent). When it comes to university education the picture is equally gloomy: 16 to 24-year-old Muslims are half as likely to have degree level or above qualification than other inner London young people.
Again, social factors rather than religion have led to this state of affairs. Young Muslims in London are often of south Asian origin and therefore more likely to live in households where English is not the first language, more likely to encounter racism (both intentional and unintentional) during their education, and more likely to suffer from poverty and bad housing conditions.
But Tahir Alam, education spokesman for the Muslim Council of Britain, claims Muslim children do better in their own faith schools than in the mainstream state sector: 'Muslim schools have their own distinct ethos. They use the children's faith and heritage as primary motivators to provide the backdrop for their education and behaviour. This ethos is consistent with the messages that children are getting at home, so it is a very coherent operation between the home and the school.'
If Islam became the dominant religion in London the same ethos could be applied to schooling across swathes of underprivileged and deprived areas of the city. This could have a revolutionary effect on educational achievement and, perhaps just as importantly, general levels of discipline and self-respect among London's young people. While controversy rages over faith schools, there are 37 Muslim schools in London. As of 2004, only five were state schools, but there is growing pressure to bring more into the state sector which, according to Alam, will 'help raise achievement for many sectors of the Muslim community. Many private Muslim schools are under-resourced and if they can be brought into the state sector this valuable experience can be extended to more children.'
Food
Application of halal (Arabic for 'permissable') dietary laws across London would free us at a stroke from our addiction to junk food, and the general adoption of a south Asian diet rich in fruit juice, rice and vegetables with occasional mutton or chicken would have a drastic effect on obesity, hyperactivity, attention deficit disorders and associated public health problems. As curry is already Londoners' and the nation's favourite food (see our Brick Lane food feature), it would be a relatively easy process to encourage the adoption of such a diet. Not eating would be important as well. The annual fasting month of Ramadan instils self-discipline, courtesy and social cohesion. And Londoners would benefit philosophically and physically from even a short period when we weren't constantly ramming food into our mouths.
Inter-faith relations
In an Islamic London, Christians and Jews – with their allegiance to the Bible and the Talmud – would be protected as 'peoples of the book'. Hindus and Sikhs manage to live alongside a large Muslim population in India, so why not here? Although England has a long tradition of religious bigotry against, for instance, Roman Catholics, it is reasonable to assume that under the guiding hand of Islam a civilised accommodation could be made among faith groups in London. This welcoming stance already exists in the capital in the form of the City Circle (see Yahya Birt interview), which encourages inter-faith dialogue and open discussion.
Arts
Some of the finest art in London is already Islamic. The Jameel Gallery at the V&A houses 'ceramics, textiles, carpets, metalwork, glass and woodwork, which date from the great days of the Islamic caliphate of the eighth and ninth century' up until the turn of the last century. Or take a free daily tour of the Addis Gallery of Islamic art (at the British Museum). London-based Nasser David Khalili, an Iranian-born Jew, has amassed what is considered to be the world's largest private collection of Islamic art. Islamic influences have also flourished in other areas of the arts, with novelists, comedians (Birmingham-born Shazia Mirza was an instant hit on the London circuit), and music (from rappers Mecca2Medina on, to the less in-your-face Yusuf Islam).
Social justice
Each Muslim is obliged to pay zakat, a welfare tax of 2.5 per cent of annual income, that is distributed to the poor and the needy. If the working population of London, 5.2 million, was predominantly Muslim this would produce approximately £3.2bn each year. More importantly, everyone would be obliged to consider those Londoners who haven't shared their good fortune. London would become a little less cruel.
Race relations
Under Islam all ethnicities are equal. Once you have submitted to Allah you are a Muslim – it doesn't matter what colour you are. End of story.
The following is a report by UK's Channel 4 on a survey of British Muslims regarding the July 2005 bombings. Clearly there is a significant percentage that not only does not believe that British Muslims are responsible for those bombings, but also believes that the UK government concocted these as a ploy to suppress British Muslims:
UK - Channel 4 Survey: 'government hasn't told truth about 7/7'
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Last Modified: 04 Jun 2007
UK - Channel 4
By: Darshna Soni
A quarter of Muslims polled think the authorities involved with staging the 7/7 London bombings.
It's a worrying picture that suggests a significant minority of British Muslims are alienated from the government and the security services.
A Channel 4 News survey of 500 British Muslims, carried out by GFK NOP, has found that nearly a quarter don't believe the four men identified as the London bombers were responsible for the attacks.
And a similar number say the government or the security services were involved. Nearly six in ten of those polled believe the government hasn't told the whole truth about the July the 7th bombings - and more than half say the intelligence services have made up evidence to convict terrorist suspects.
The findings come as Tony Blair told a London conference that the "true voice of Islam" needed to be heard - to isolate the extremists.
The Prime Minister went on to say that that most Muslims wanted to be "loyal citizens", despite the "disproportionate" public attention given to what he called "small, unrepresentative groups" of radicals. In this exclusive report,
Darshna Soni reveals the full findings of our survey - and talks to Muslims throughout England.
The Survey
Channel 4 News, with GFK NOP, has commissioned a survey to reveal the Muslim community's attitudes towards the 'official narrative' surrounding the 7/7 bombings revealing that: 59% of the 500 people polled believe that the government has not told the public the whole truth about the 7th July bombings.
52% believe that the British security services have "made up" evidence to convict terrorist suspects.
24% believe the four men identified as the July 7th bombers were not actually responsible for the attacks.
68% believe that the Muslim community does not bear any responsibility for the emergence of extremists willing to attack UK targets. Although 58% felt that the community should be doing more.
Download the full survey here: Channel 4 News / GFK NOP Survey (Word doc)
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"many Muslims I've talked to about these issues are deeply offended by the use of the word 'Islamic' or 'Islamist' to describe the terrorist threat we face today."
"We do need greater understanding of the true nature of the terrorist threat. There's too much complacency about it among non-Muslims, and too much denial of it in the Muslim community. But our efforts are not helped by lazy use of language. Indeed, by using the word 'Islamist' to describe the threat, we actually help do the terrorist ideologues' work for them, confirming to many impressionable young Muslim men that to be a 'good Muslim', you have to support their evil campaign"
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This report demonstrates the deep concern of many in the world regarding the growth of Jihadists and Islamists within the United Kingdom, and the impact on world peace. In short, the challenge with UK's tolerance of Jihadists and Islamists, and their international reach, results in an "exporting" of British Jihadists to conduct terrorists acts around the world.
MEMRI Special Dispatch Series - No.
March 2, 2007 No.1484Arab Reformist Website: 'Britain is the Largest Exporter of Terrorism in the Non-Muslim World'
http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=sd&ID=SP148407
In a February 8, 2007 article, Omran Salman, editor of the Arab reformist website www.aafaq.org , wrote, that Britain had become one of the principle exporters of Islamic terrorism in the world.
The following are excerpts: [1]
"Britain has been a victim of terrorism, but at the same time it is the largest exporter of terrorism in the non-Muslim world. Here is the proof:
"On July 7, 2005, four British Muslim followers of Al-Qaeda perpetrated suicide attacks on three underground trains and one bus in London. These attacks killed 56 and wounded hundreds.
"On August 10, 2006, the British police announced that it had foiled a plot to blow up 10 commercial planes flying between the U.S. and Britain, and had arrested the 24 Islamist conspirators.
"On January 31, 2007, the British police arrested nine Islamists in Birmingham who were planning to kidnap a British Muslim soldier and film his beheading, and then distribute the video on the Internet…
"But that is not all: Britain is also one of the world's exporters of terrorism.
"In August 2005, the Independent published a story with the headline: 'Intelligence Chiefs Warn Blair of Home-Grown Insurgency.' Raymond Whitaker and Frances Elliott wrote in this report that 'there were more than 100,000 people in Britain from "completely militarized" regions, including Somalia… and Afghanistan… Every one of them knows how to use an AK-47… About 10 per cent can strip and reassemble such a weapon blindfolded, and probably a similar proportion have some knowledge of how to use military explosives.' [2]
"The Sunday Times wrote on June 4, 2006 that between 120 and 150 radical Islamists had traveled to Iraq to join the 'British Jihad Brigade,' in answer to Abu Mus'ab Al-Zarqawi's appeal. The paper cited a senior security source as saying that the 'foreign legion,' which is comprised entirely of Westerners, was set up to fight alongside the Iraqi insurgency. [3]
"The British journalist Melanie Phillips… cited British government appraisals from one year before the London attacks, to the effect that 16,000 British Muslims were either directly involved in or supported terrorist activities. Three thousand had attended Al-Qaeda training camps abroad, and a few hundred of them were prepared to carry out attacks in the U.K. itself. There were also other British Muslims who traveled abroad to take part in terrorist attacks.
"On December 22, 2001, the British-born Muslim Richard Reid was arrested after raising a din on a flight from Paris to Miami.
"Reid, who is known as 'the shoe-bomber,' attempted to blow up the plane with explosives hidden in his shoe. In his confession at his trial he said: 'I admit to what I did. I will not apologize for it. I am at war with your country.' In January 2003 he was sentenced to life imprisonment.
"On January 23, 2002, Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl disappeared in Pakistan while preparing a report on extremist groups. On February 21, 2002, the U.S. State Department officially announced his death. A videotape showed masked terrorists slaughtering him; it later became known that these were the British-born Ahmed Said Sheikh and three of his assistants.
"In 2002, the Egyptian authorities arrested 26 members of Hizb Al-Tahrir Al-Islami. Among them were three British citizens who had resolved to carry out terrorist attacks. The group was convicted in March, 2004, and the British citizens were condemned to five years' imprisonment.
"In the recent fighting in Somalia, in which the government forces, with military support from Ethiopia, defeated the forces of the extremist Union of Islamic Courts, there were British Islamists who fought alongside the Islamic Courts. Ethiopian PM Meles Zenawi revealed, in a January 9 press conference, that his country's forces had arrested seven British fighters as they tried to escape Mogadishu together with the Islamist militias. They were arrested together with a number of Canadians and other Westerners, whom he described as 'the international faction'. The news reported that many of them had been killed in battle.
"The British Islamists had joined the forces of the Union of Islamic Courts in answer to the call issued by Al-Qaeda's No. 2, Ayman Al-Zawahiri, in early January. He had called on Al-Qaeda's supporters in the West to join in the suicide-bombing campaign and guerilla war in Somalia.
"The aid coming from Britain to the Islamic Courts was not limited just to fighters, but also included funding. A report issued by a U.N. supervision agency last November stated that 'in recent months Somalis in the U.K. had raised more than $1 million in donations. These funds were sent to the Islamic Courts.' The report added that London had become the primary channel through which monetary aid was passed on to the Islamic Courts.
"Last but not least, Britain's Channel 4 broadcast, on Monday, January 13, 2007, a documentary film that was surreptitiously shot in a number of British mosques, the most important of which was the Birmingham Mosque. The results were alarming. The sermons were hostile to 'infidels,' Jews, and Christians, and called for the killing of homosexuals, among others. In addition, they offered Islamic legal justifications for marrying off girls who were still minors to elderly men.
"Some of the British mosques offered a live satellite videoconference with the Mufti of Saudi Arabia, who answered the questions and inquiries of those present at the mosque. Some of the mosques carried live Friday sermons and prayers from mosques in Saudi Arabia.
"The strange thing is that one of the mosques included in the TV report was considered to be a center of moderate Islam in Britain, and was led by a Muslim leader who worked together with the British government to strengthen the ties between Muslims and non-Muslims!
"In another segment, Abu Osama delivers the good tidings of the establishment of the Islamic State, saying that every day Islam showed its strength and its supremacy over its adversaries, and that the Muslims must 'form a state within the state, until we are able to take over and victory will be ours.' In the state that the preacher spoke of, 'a Muslim who tries to leave Islam will be killed,' and 'if the Imam thinks that he should be crucified, then he must be crucified, and left on the post three days to bleed to death.'
"Faced with these instances of terrorist activities, one cannot help but place Britain, alongside Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Egypt, Algeria, etc. at the top of the list of countries that regularly export terrorists to the rest of the world. The basic difference is that the Islamists in Britain enjoy the protection of the law and the sympathy of many political figures in Britain - or at least their activities and their presence do not present any problem for these political figures.
"London Mayor Ken Livingstone said, in a conference he hosted on January 20, 2006 under the title 'A World Civilisation or a Clash of Civilisations?': 'We are witnessing the beginning of a true world civilization, and not the clash of civilizations. All of the statistics emphasize London's success as a multicultural city.'
"Livingstone's colleague at this conference, Salma Yaqoob, who is a prominent member of the British 'Respect' Party, said that the London bombings were nothing other than a revenge attack for the West's actions. Salma said: 'Everyone talks about Islamic terror, but they studiedly avoid talking about the Western states' terror and its being a factor that fosters extremism.' She added, 'The truth is that these wild, frightful acts [perpetrated by the West]… which are broadcast on TV stations and over the Internet, have a much greater influence in pushing people to extremism than any quantity of religious exhortations.'…"
[1] http://www.aafaq.org/report/aa/print2431.htm, February 8, 2007.
[2] The Independent (U.K.), August 7, 2005.
[3] David Leppard, "British Brigade of Islamists join Al-Qaeda foreign legion in Iraq," The Sunday Times (U.K.), June 4, 2006.
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