Harry's Place

The Islamic Republic is hardly on the brink of collapse, unfortunately, but The Washington Post reports a couple of encouraging developments.
With new international financial sanctions already taking a toll on Iran’s currency, the Obama administration is stepping up pressure on the government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with a fresh set of penalties against eight [...]

A group calling itself the ‘Muslim Defence League’ has emerged following recent EDL activities, and they’re planning a protest in Leicester on October 9th.
The question is: a protest against, or for, what exactly?
You might assume the protest is likely to be about uniting communities, opposing bigotry, denouncing extremism, and so on. A look [...]

After seeing the first video footage of King Jong Il’s electrifying son and anointed successor King Jong Eun, I readily understand why he is being described as a “legendary person” and why “[a]nybody who meets him . . . wants to worship him.”
Or, if you’re a North Korean, envy his apparently unlimited access to [...]

Well, it was on the cards, and now it has happened:
Richard Barnbrook, one of the British National party’s most senior figures, has been expelled as part of an increasingly bitter feud threatening to engulf the far-right organisation.
The London Assembly member, who was one of a group of rebels who tried to wrest control of the BNP [...]

This is a cross-post from the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation, King’s College
Various media outlets reported today and yesterday on a wide-ranging jihadist plot targeting Britain, France and Germany. As yet, very little has been made public about which specific organisations are behind the plot, though the Wall Street Journal claims that the [...]

Viva Palestina, George Galloway’s Hamas support operation, is on the road again.
Here’s a picture from Istanbul. Who’s the host? The Turkish Islamist charity IHH, of course. The man at the podium is Bülent Yildirim, the president of IHH.

IHH serves Hamas with dedication. The terrorist group is a perfect ideological fit with [...]

Here is another look at the work of Ibrahim Zakzaky, the head of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria and a guest next week of the self-styled Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC). He is scheduled to speak at the Islamic Centre of England in Maida Vale, a propaganda centre of the Iranian regime.
This is “Islamic [...]

This is a guest post by Farah Damji
In the 2004 decision of Hirst, the European Court held that  Section 3 of the Representation of the People Act 1983, which prevents prisoners from voting, is in breach of the electoral right under Article 1 of Protocol 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights. In a landmark [...]

The Guardian reports:
Shell, the Anglo-Dutch oil giant, paid the state-owned Iranian oil company at least $1.5bn (£0.94bn) for crude oil this summer, increasing its business with Tehran as the international community implemented some of the toughest sanctions yet aimed at constricting the Islamic republic’s economy and its lifeline oil business.
Sensitive trading documents seen by [...]

“David Miliband announces he is standing down from frontline politics, but will remain a backbench MP”