Harry's Place

Earlier this month I wrote about the LGBT Students who took on London’s City University ISOC who had invited a hate-preacher who supported the killing of gay people. Alas, the talk went ahead.
Now I’m pleased to see, as the BBC reports, that University College London Union “has cancelled a talk by an Islamic preacher who allegedly endorses killing [...]

Over at CiF, Peter Tatchell is giving his backing to a heterosexual couple who want to have a civil partnership, not a marriage. OutRage! has long held the position that separate can never be equal and has also argued that any two people in a relationship of mutual care and commitment sharing a home ought to [...]

Next Monday Parliament’s Communities and Local Government Committee will hold a hearing about government policy on extremism.
Preventing Violent Extremism
Oral evidence session
Prevent is a cross-cutting policy that is led across Government by the Office of Security and Counter Terrorism (OSCT) which is part of the Home Office. Its aim is “to stop radicalisation, reduce support [...]

Hitchens on the thesis put forward by Robert Wright in a piece called “Who created Major Hasan?” that the Fort Hood shootings were caused by the War on Terror, and the supposed outrage caused by the killing of Muslims by Western forces:
For a start, did Hasan or Muhammad ever say what “killing” of which “Muslims [...]

This is a post by Robin Simcox, crossposted at The Spittoon
The merits of Columbia University hosting Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2007 have always been somewhat dubious. So it is interesting that it has now emerged that the university was paid $100,000 by the Alavi Foundation, an alleged Iranian front group, two months before agreeing to host the [...]

Ray Hanania is an American whose family hails from Bethlehem. He is a comedian, talk show host, and syndicated columnist.
He is also running for President of the Palestinian Authority.
Here is an article in the Huffington Post, announcing his candidacy and here is his platform:
1. I support two-states, one Israel and one Palestine. As far as [...]

This is a cross-post by Abu Faris from The Spittoon
Much time has been understandably spent in recent weeks exposing the links between Anwar al-Awlaki and international jihadi terrorism. Of considerable interest then should be the extensive links that can also be shown to exist between al-Awlaki and the Muslim Brotherhood – an organisation that likes [...]

Given that right and left are possibly out-dated terms, it’s perhaps nice to see a parade of South American leaders greeting an unpopular right-wing politician with troubles at home.
Link.
Link.
Next stop Venezuela!
However, Ahmadinejad might be slightly concerned about the PR job being done by Chavez prior to his arrival…
Hugo Chávez has defended the jailed Venezuelan [...]

On Friday the Guardian reported that hackers had broken in to computers belonging to the world-renowned Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia. Evidence of allegedly dodgy practices was revealed:
Climate change sceptics who have studied the emails allege they provide “smoking gun” evidence that some of the climatologists colluded in manipulating data to [...]

Human Rights Watch has just released a report - Cruel Britannia – which finds:
In… five cases, British officials and agents first colluded with illegal detention by the Pakistan authorities and then took the collusion further by repeatedly interviewing or passing questions to the detainees between or during torture sessions.

I have not had time to read this report. [...]