February 27, 2009 News
-- "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