Media Watch
Call for probe into police after apology to Channel 4
16 May - The Birmingham Post
Town Halls should map race and religion to identify 'tension hotspots', says Hazel Blears
15 May - Daily Mail
Police and CPS apologise to programme makers
15 May - The Guadian
Could I stop being a Muslim?
15 May - BBC Radio 4
Churchgoing on its knees as Christianity falls out of favour
8 May - The Times
'Caste wall' is partly demolished
6 May - BBC News
Teenage Iraqi girl who fell in love with BRITISH soldier in Basra is murdered by her own father in honour killing
29 Apr - Evening Standard
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Thousands flee as China lake bank feared broken
FACTBOX-Why Myanmar's generals stand firm
Bush arrives in Egypt for Palestinian talks
Zimbabwe's Tsvangirai delays return
Blast in Afghanistan kills child, wounds four
Lebanese leaders face hurdles at tense Qatar talks
ADVISORY-China quake lake story withdrawn
Zimbabwe's Tsvangirai will not return home Saturday
Myanmar death toll soars, diplomats tour delta
UK condemns Myanmar's cyclone response as "inhuman"
Latest News
Whose Messiah?
Jews debate Jesus
13th May 2008
Newsweek magazine dubbed him ‘America's most famous Rabbi’: Shmuley Boteach (pronounced Bote'ach), and Dr. Michael Brown, ‘the world's foremost Messianic Jewish apologist’, went head to head over belief in Jesus, Monday (12 May).
Security delays launch of Muslim counter-terror group
‘Be more British’ say former extremists
23rd April 2008
Strict security delayed the launch of the world’s ‘first Muslim counter-extremism organization’, the Quilliam Foundation, at London’s British Museum yesterday.
The foul minority is our responsibility
says Salman Siddiqui
3rd April 2008
MP Geert Wilders’ movie Fitna, banned in Holland, and removed from the LiveLeak website in Britain following death threats to staff raises some embarrassing home truths.
Muslim ‘Parliament’ says:
‘We don't want this mosque’
3rd March 2008
British establishment architects and spin-doctors are taking the lead in building the country’s biggest mosque that senior Pakistani citizens warn the country does not need.
‘Engage, excel, be patient’
6th March 2008
Far from the bombs and guns of Gaza, young Muslim and Jewish actors, musicians and stand-ups are living a dream in Kilburn.
Whose justice?
3rd March 2008
The furore greeting the Archbishop of Canterbury’s recommendation to merge aspects of the shariah law with English Law indicates not so much the nature of the controversy but the ignorance of the country at large about the facts of migration.
Contract killers gun down Sri Lankan pastor
29 February 2008
Two police auxiliaries and a businessman have been arrested following the cold-blooded shooting in in Ampara, in Eastern Sri Lanka, of a young pastor and his family.
I am not talking about parallel systems
15th February 2008
Transcripts just released of the Archbishop’s Q&A session after his speech at the Royal Courts of Justice reveal he was quite clear about shariah law.
The law is an ass
Rather than promoting integration, antagonism between modern English/Euro law and its religious sources has produced only injustice and muddle in our multicultural society.
“If the law regards itself as ‘religion-blind’, despite the significant role religion plays in shaping cultures and societies, it follows that there is no proper public policy on immigration, integration and citizenship, as is in fact the case.”
Read about shariah law in Britain in Faith and Power: Christianity and Islam in ‘Secular’ Britain – first published in 1998.
Academics push to merge Shariah and English Law
7 February 2008
It’s time to find the links rather than the conflicts between Shariah and English law, say the organisers of a conference to be addressed by the Archbishop of Canterbury today.
Unseen hand of Hindu fascism claims more lives in Orissa
24th January 2008
Christians in Orissa, Northeast India have been falsely accused this week of gun running by the extreme Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP or World Hindu Council) in a full page ad the group took out in the local press on Monday (January 21, 2008).
Muslim ‘no-go areas’: ‘Give us the evidence’ says Blears
7th January 2008
Lapido Media published the following story in the Evangelical Alliance’s PQ publication on 16 March 2007.
Salvationist quits over ‘Muslim’ violence
A Salvation Army officer is quitting the neighbourhood project she set up, after being subjected to violence and abuse.
Lapido Media launches
6th December 2007
‘Society must become more religiously literate’ Bishop Nazir-Ali said.
Read about the launch in Dominic Lawson’s column »
Read Dominic Lawson on Michael Nazir-Ali in 2006 »
Seeing off extremists
5th December 2007
Government sees hope in a toddler project in Sparkhill.
The central difference
29th October 2007
The media have missed the point of the letter from 138 Muslim leaders to the Pope on 11 October.
In welcoming the tone of the letter, the Telegraph headline typically reported: “Muslim scholars’ olive branch to Christians.” And Reuters saws it as an “Unprecedented Muslim call for peace with Christians.” But was it really?
‘Islam enforces order’ - bishop
29th October 2007
Islam is gaining ground because it ‘enforced order and put things right’, Bishop Benjamin Kwashi of Jos, Nigeria told a meeting of Anglicans in London on Friday.
Muslims dismissed the Christian God when they saw semi-naked women on advertising billboards and that children didn’t go to church with their parents.
Agencies criticise film exposé of Muslim missions
25th September 2007
British mission agencies involved in the Dispatches film ‘Unholy War’ are angry at being bracketed with both ‘unaccountable’ evangelists and Muslim thugs who attack apostates.
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Downloadable Publications
Ethics in Brief
‘Women have borne the brunt of our failed multi-culturalism’, argues Jenny Taylor in Ethics in Brief Spring 2008 issue
Christianity or Occult?
As cases of kindoki or ‘child witch’ abuse re-surface in Britain, a new downloadable report brings together material by leading African and English scholars from a recent symposium that throws light on some of the allegations.
Featured Publications
Crimes of the Community
A devastating report on the rise of "honour-based" violence against women from immigrant communities in the UK. It is devastating not just because it reveals the complicity of some "community leaders" in killings, attempted murder and beatings, but also because its sources are so authoritative...
Young, British and Muslim
'A most important book on British Muslims. It explodes many contemporary stereotypes to reveal a picture which is far more complex than is often supposed. It shines a light onto both new areas of menace and new avenues of hope. Every politician and policy-maker should read it.'
Paul Vallely, The Independent
Conviction and Conflict
Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali sets out fundamental guidelines on the role of religion in society and its relationship to nationalism, ideology and political institutions, and examines Christian-Muslim dialogue with particular relationship to the rise of Arab, Indian and Turkish nationalism.
Not for Sale
This is a must read for all those seeking to understand the issues surrounding sexual exploitation and abuse in our society today - the human cost of UK prostitution today and the scourge of trafficking for sexual exploitation exposed to our senses as never before.
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