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Guest post by DaveM
This week Lebanon’s New TV reported:

Basil El ‘Areedii (reporter): “It’s an everyday dish which is on every Lebanese table and even tables all over the world, especially as it’s entered the Guinness Book of Records as the largest dish of hummus in the world with a weight of 2,000 kg. This took [...]

This is a guest post from Effendi of The Spittoon
This article in the Sunday Telegraph made my blood run cold:
Accounts filed at the Charity Commission show that the Government paid a total of £113,411 last year to a foundation run by senior members and activists of Hizb ut-Tahrir — a notorious Islamic extremist group that [...]

This is cross posted from Edmund Standing’s blog
‘One in five “would consider voting BNP”‘ stated The Telegraph in the aftermath of Nick Griffin’s Question Time debut.
This claim was quickly picked up by other newspapers and spread all over the internet, leaving the impression that the BNP’s support is now quite considerable.
However, just how accurate are [...]

This is a guest post by British Muslims for Secular Democracy
British Muslims for Secular Democracy today announces the launch of its plans to organise a demonstration on Saturday 31st October to counter a demonstration by Al Muhajiroun, at which they will call for the abolition of democracy in Britain and the imposition of Shariah Law [...]

Radio Four’s Analysis programme had a fascinating look at the religious debate occuring within Iran. The programme does not fit the views of those who think Iran is a monolithic Islamic threat. Nor does it concur with the the views of those who support the Iranian regime as the true expression of the Iranian people. [...]

Some people simply have no sense of shame! Following on from Gene’s post about the sugary profile of Mary-Kay Wilmers, editor of the London Review of Books, in the Sunday Times, she’s back again, over two pages in the Guardian.
Ms Wilmers opines on Israel:
She says she does feel more comfortable attacking Israel because she is [...]

The teenager who asked Nick Griffin about his history of Holocaust denial on Question Time has told Haaretz that Israel and the Jewish people can do without the BNP leader’s support:
“[Nick Griffin] said his party was the only party in the U.K. which backed Israel against Gaza in the war last year,” said 17-year-old Joel [...]

This is cross posted from Edmund Standing’s blog
Meet Arthur Kemp, BNP Foreign Affairs spokesman:

Kemp is the author of March of the Titans: A History of the White Race, a book sold by the BNP and promoted as part of its ‘White History Month’ campaign:
Written by prolific British National Party historian Arthur Kemp, March of the [...]

The serious threats the BNP’s John Lee Barnes made here on Harry’s Place on Thursday evening following his leader’s fumbling appearance on the BBC’s Question Time have been picked up by the Sunday Express.
ONE of Nick Griffin’s most trusted lieutenants sparked fresh outrage last night after he warned British Jews to “show respect” or “reap [...]

The Washington Post reports:
A Muslim member of President Obama’s faith council says she was misled about the nature of a British TV talk show on which she was recently interviewed. It was hosted by a representative of Hizb ut-Tahrir, which the State Department has condemned for an anti-Semitic, anti-Western ideology that officials said might indirectly [...]