(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
