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The Guardian reports:
Racist attackers abducted a Muslim community leader at knifepoint, bundled him into a car and threatened his life unless he stopped running prayer sessions in a community hall that has been the target of a British National party campaign.
Police have confirmed they are treating the incident as a hate crime and are investigating [...]

Look at this disgusting man (or possibly woman) at the Stop the War Coalition’s pro-Hamas demonstration in Downing Street today.

Definitely a man, actually.

Yup. The new manifestation of the Blood Libel is alive and well in Britain, again.
Who is this portly gentleman?
Oh, I think it is Mohammed Sawlha – the man named by the BBC as [...]

Boycott Scotland? Ha ha.
Look at all the essential tools of modern life that were invented and developed by Scots. Why, that’s about as silly as boycotting, um… never mind.

So, MPACuk have an article up on Holocaust denial:
The Holocaust is still fresh in our memory, you see the Muslims are still paying the price for what Germany did to the Jews. Remembering the Holocaust means to Muslims, remembering Palestine and how we were robbed, enslaved and murdered because of what the Europeans did to [...]

The residents of Manchester, England are almost twice as likely to be victims of violent crime as Bubbles.

The Conservatives have compared parts of the UK to The Wire, a US television show which portrays inner-city drugs and violence.
In a speech, shadow home secretary Chris Grayling argued that the UK was suffering the same culture of [...]

Dead at 77. A man with his share of personal flaws, and more than his share of personal tragedies, who helped accomplish some very important things in his 47 years in the Senate.
[W]hile the White House eluded his grasp, the longtime Massachusetts senator was considered one of the most effective legislators of the past few [...]

This is a guest post by Professor Tom Gallagher
Beside me waiting to enter the Scottish Parliament  on Monday were a party of  excitable thirty something men, supporters of the Scottish National party,  one of whom turned to his fellows and said: ‘Today could be the moment of decision for us’. I asked him where he [...]

After the launch of CiF Watch and the sporadic efforts at HP Watch, I propose a new watch campaign: ‘As A…’ watch. OK, it may not be the snappiest title, but there certainly are rich pickings to be had.
Here’s my first submission, this ludicrous ‘Boycott Me’, piece by Neve Gordon calling for a boycott [...]

First there was this one, which apparently was born and died on a single Sunday afternoon in February 2006.
Then there was this one, which I just stumbled across, and which blazed brilliantly across the blogosphere for a few glorious weeks in May of this year. (It actually found one or two nice things to say [...]