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Well, they kept quiet about it. And they boycott was only reported in the Guardian as far as I can see. They haven’t even got the guts to announce it on their own webside.
But they did it, again:
The Muslim Council of Britain boycotted yesterday’s national Holocaust Memorial Day commemoration in protest at the Israeli offensive [...]

I love the response of Yoani Sanchez, the dissident Cuban blogger, to her government-funded “escorts.”
[A]s I do not feel myself a victim, I raise my skirt a little and show my legs to the two men who follow me everywhere. There is nothing more paralyzing than a woman’s calf flashing in the sun [...]

Oliver Kamm has a piece up about the banning of Douglas Murray from chairing a debate, the subject of which is ““Islam or Liberalism: Which is the Way Forward?” between the Tory academic, Alan Sked, and the (very right wing) Islamist evangelist and Greek ’revert’, Hamza Tsortzis.  
Our political views on immigration, economics, Europe and numerous other issues [...]

Neil posted earlier on this, but I wanted to put forward something in defence of the BBC which I think has made entirely the right call. This is supported by Sky News doing likewise. The BBC should stick to the decision it has made and not be brow beaten into changing its mind.
Gaza is [...]

This is a guest post by habibi
Yesterday the “Stop the War Coalition” (StWC), an organisation which supports Hamas and other violent Islamist extremists, held a demonstration against the BBC at Bush House in London. 
In the carnival of the grotesque that is the “antiwar” movement, perhaps it was inevitable that the [...]

This is a guest post by Eric Lee. It was submitted to the Guardian’s Comment is Free, which did not publish it.
Mousa Abu Marzook, deputy chief of the Hamas political bureau, thinks that Israel has lost the battle in Gaza. He certainly has the right to think that. And one can understand why Hamas leaders [...]

This is a guest post by Jonathan Hoffman
On 11 August, the Evening Standard published the following article, written by the City Editor, Chris Blackhurst:
“RICH ISLAMIC OPPORTUNITY WE MUST TAKE:”
“One of the few areas to survive the impact of the global credit crunch is Islamic finance. It has continued to enjoy booming levels of wealth, buoyed [...]

The LSE Student Occupation has ended, with the capitulation of the University:
—–Original Message—–
From: LSEmail
Sent: Thu 1/22/2009 1:51 PM
To: PGR
Subject: Occupation ends
Statement from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
22 January 2009
Resolution of the Old Theatre occupation
We, the ‘Occupation Group’ and the School, are pleased to announce that the occupation of the Old Theatre in [...]

Well, it was bound to happen. David Icke speaks out against fascism:
Obama’s speeches are a mass of mind-control techniques and Neuro-Linguistic-Programming, or NLP, and they are carefully constructed to implant beliefs and perceptions into the mind of the viewer.
[...]
As I keep emphasising, the whole Obama circus is an exercise in mass mind control and it [...]

I oppose the BBC’s decision on the DEC appeal for Gaza for three main reasons. Here they are in order of importance:
1. The immediate concern. Fellow humans. It is a humanitarian appeal, not a political action. There is a clear difference. As someone who thinks Israel is right to take appropriate military action against Hamas, [...]