Harry's Place

Here is a humorous line from Interpal’s latest annual report to the Charity Commission:
Due to the 2003 US designation of Interpal, the trustees are alert to all subsequent risks and allegations, and are especially diligent in their practices. The trustees are also very sensitive with whom the charity chooses to work and associate with.
Ho ho! [...]

This blog has chronicled numerous Labour MPs helping, promoting and whitewashing extremists.
The problem goes right to the top of the party.
Earlier this month Ed Miliband appeared at an “invitation only” Labour event for Muslims at the London Central Mosque. For party company he had Labour MPs Sadiq Khan and Andy Slaughter, two inveterate helpers [...]

This is a guest post by Ahmed Rushdi.
As the new university term is just around the corner, Britain’s Islamist-dominated student umbrella group FOSIS is keen to stir the anti-western pot.
On the 23rd September 2012, the ‘Justice for Aafia coalition’ is holding a protest at the US Embassy to demand she be freed. Readers should note [...]

This is a guest post by Rupert Sutton from Student Rights
Late last month Student Rights revealed that the Islamic Society at London Metropolitan University had been using its Facebook page to share videos featuring the Al-Qaeda cleric Anwar Al-Awlakiwith students.
As the society continued to post videos which included Awlaki’s speeches throughout the early days of July, we updated our story [...]

Apart from a long article in the Daily Mail and some good coverage on the local news sections of the BBC website, the conviction of Shasta and Sajid Khan for plotting a terrorist attack on Manchester’s Jewish community has not, so far, attracted much media attention – there appears to be no coverage of the [...]

This is a cross post by Rupert Sutton from Student Rights
Last week, following an exchange with the Education Officer at Swansea University Student Union, we spoke to a senior figure in the National Union of Students (NUS) about the way in which many students view the Prevent strategy.
Big day with the new sabbs in office, lots [...]

This is a cross post from Student Rights
Update: It is now confirmed on the website of Al-Bayaan that Haitham al-Haddad will not be attending this conference.
Following on from the recent Student Rights article highlighting the dangers of students organisingor promoting off-campus events featuring extremist speakers, this Sunday will see a conferencecalled ‘Flee to Allah’ take place which students at several universities have been [...]

Readers of Harry’s Place will be familiar with the strange phenomenon of the hospitality extended by The Quakers – a small religious sect which eschews violence in all its forms – to a variety of hate preachers and theocratic Islamist political movements, all of which explicitly sanction the most horrific violence, backed by religious injunction, [...]

Yes, I know.
I react badly, on a visceral level, to student union motions mandating or opposing particular forms of speech. Most of you probably do too.
Here’s the motion:
Union believes
1. In the right to criticise religion,
2. In freedom of speech and thought,
3. It has a responsibility to protect its members from hate crime and hate speech,
4. [...]

At a Community Security Trust event last night, the Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, called out the Federation of Student Islamic Societies in the clearest possible terms.
Here is an extract from his speech:
I know that many people in the Jewish community are engaged in interfaith dialogue with British Muslims who represent Islam at its tolerant [...]