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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is taking some heat for failing to put a higher priority on human rights during he recent visit to China.
Human Rights Watch objected to Clinton’s comment that raising issues such as human rights “can’t interfere with the global economic crisis, the global climate change crisis and the security crises” and [...]

Ed Husain writes for the Times on the new Quilliam Foundation report ‘Mosques Made in Britain‘:

Quilliam’s report, Mosques Made in Britain, reveals the true extent of the mess. We found that 97 per cent of imams, or leaders, were from overseas and 92 per cent were educated abroad, mostly in Pakistan or Bangladesh. Almost all [...]

Guest post by a Harry’s Place Reader
What does the Large Hadron Collider really do? Will we live to see the Bionic Man? Can a greater understanding of the seas help stop global warming? These are just some of the questions that will be addressed when seven leading Israeli scientists talk to over 1000 sixth form [...]

This is a guest post by habibi
 
Ismail Patel has done well on the British Islamist circuit:  
* In 1997 Patel founded the ”Friends of al Aqsa”, which bills itself as a voluntary organisation ”concerned with defending the human rights of Palestinians and protecting the sacred al-Aqsa Sanctuary in Jerusalem”. It publishes reams of anti-Israel leaflets, papers and journals, [...]

This is a guest post by Peter Tatchell, and also appears at Comment is Free

After living an exemplary life in the UK for 14 years, Nottingham University staff member Hicham Yezza was arrested on unfounded terrorism charges and now faces the prospect of being forcibly removed to his homeland of Algeria – terminating his successful, [...]

Now, as you know, I’m a supporter of the banning of active and proselytising bigots from the United Kingdom. I acknowledge that, in these days of Skype, such a governmental act is essentially symbolic in nature, only. Nevertheless, when the Home Secretary sends one of her famous letters out, she is marking in the most [...]

In January of this year, BNP leader Nick Griffin was interviewed by the Tel Aviv daily Ma’ariv and declared that he now has ‘no time for anti-Semites’. A few days later, he penned an article for the BNP website in which he claimed that although ‘[t]he fighting in Gaza is not a proper concern for [...]

This is guest post by Yusuf Al Qaradawi, and first appeared on Islam Online
Ihsann – Afghanistan asks: “Is it permissible for a Muslim to marry a communist?”
“A young man has asked my daughter to be engaged to him. He’s a communist and still strongly adheres to communism. If he marries her will this be in [...]

‘Our British Union of Fascists will without a doubt be misrepresented by politicians of the older schools. The Movement did not begin with the wiseacres and the theorists. It was born from a surging discontent with a regime where nothing can be achieved. The Old Gang hold the stage; and, to them, misrepresentation is the [...]

No, not a post about Gordon Brown and his leadership problems, but a news story about the fall from grace of Zawahiri. More signs that Al Qaeda are losing support.
“Zawahiri is easily the most important man in al-Qaeda today,” said an analyst who spoke to the Bangkok Post. “He is the outward face of the [...]