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Alasdair Palmer in the Telegraph has a worth-reading piece on the reluctance of public sector regulators to take on the worst abuses by Islamist and terrorist-funding organisations:
[I]t is eight years since evidence first came to light that Interpal, a UK-based charity which aims to provide humanitarian relief in Palestine, is connected to the Union of [...]

This is a guest post by DaveM
The “Stop the War Coalition” are holding a public meeting on the 30th March at Friends Meeting House entitled “Solidarity with the struggle for Peace and Justice in the Middle East”.
In this meeting, not one, but two of the speakers are Hezbollah representitives. Dyab Abu Jahjah you all know [...]

The Telegraph reports:
Multi-million pound donations from foreign governments have corrupted British universities and threatened academic impartiality, according to a new report.
Universities are accused of a lack of transparency, with foreign donors, including regimes accused of human rights abuses, allowed to give money anonymously.
At [...]

I now know several people who have been made redundant, and have seen the boarding up of large sections of the local town centre. Unemployment is rising, Arthur Scargill was on the radio last week, the shoulder pad is back, and so are Spandau Ballet. Besides the return of the 1980s, the recession is [...]

I’ve just been having a chat with – well, I say ‘chat with’, but really it was more of a ‘monologue at’ – a friend, about the rise of the BNP, and of anti-Muslim bigotry. I put into a few paragraphs, what I think needs to be done, and I thought I’d share them here.
I [...]

Seriously.
The monitoring of links between charities and extremism has been slammed as “totally unacceptable” after a weapons cache was found by police in a Bangladeshi orphanage, allegedly run by a British charity.
MPs and anti-extremist campaigners said the Charity Commission had shown naivety after it emerged the charity at the centre of the row was run [...]

–A youth orchestra from the Jenin refugee camp visited Israel and performed for an audience of Holocaust survivors.
–A web-based project has been launched aimed at combating antisemitism and Holocaust denial in the Muslim world.
The initiative, called Project Aladdin, hinges on the Internet site, which is also to carry a history of the Holocaust and offer [...]

This is a guest post by habibi
According to this web page, on Monday the “Stop the War Coalition” will hold a meeting at Friends House in London. The meeting is titled “Meet the Resistance – The Struggle for Peace and Justice in the Middle East”.
One of the speakers is Dyad Abou Jahjah. [...]

Shiraz, who sometimes guest posts here, and who wrote the excellent study Choosing our Friends Wisely (pdf) on engagement with extremists, has a post up about Daud Abdullah at CiF:
The state is entitled to impose, and expect, a basic set of standards when it engages with others. By tacitly endorsing attacks on British soldiers and [...]

The details are out on Barack Obama’s rethink of US strategy in Afghanistan and Pakistan with the news today of 4,000 extra US troops to help train and bolster the Afghan National Army and police as well as civilian development. The other main planks of the Obama strategy focus on increased aid to Pakistan, [...]