This is the front page of today’s Sunday Telegraph. You can read the “Islamic law is adopted by British legal chiefs” article here. The basis for this shock-horror headline is the news that the Law Society has issued guidance for … Continue reading
Reports and comment from Islamophobia Watch 18-24 November 2013
UKIP deputy leader Paul Nuttall has stated that his party no longer proposes a state ban on the Muslim veil in some public places. Nuttall told the Huffington Post yesterday that “our view is pretty much that if people need to … Continue reading
David Cameron has been under fire for dismissing the UK Independence Party (Ukip) as a party of “fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists”, in a now-notorious radio interview in 2006. However, he may have won support from an unusual quarter – the founder and former … Continue reading
Over at Liberal Conspiracy Sunny Hundal draws our attention to remarks made by “Lord” Christopher Monckton, a leading figure in the UK Independence Party, on a right-wing Canadian radio talk show. One of the hosts tells Monckton that Paul Weston of the … Continue reading
A candidate for UKIP has compared Islam’s holiest book to Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf, Political Scrapbook can reveal. Academic Julia Gasper – a former Westminster hopeful and current council candidate in Oxford – said the Koran was “fascist” and compared those who defend Islam to … Continue reading
Baroness Cox hosts Geert Wilders at the House of Lords in March 2010 Stoning, whipping and amputations could become common punishments in the UK if hardline Sharia law is allowed to thrive, a peer has warned. Crossbencher Baroness Cox claimed … Continue reading
Yesterday’s Guardian interview with UKIP leader Nigel Farage, in which he stated that he intended to re-examine his party’s manifesto commitment to “tackle extremist Islam by banning the burqa or veiled niqab in public buildings and certain private buildings”, and didn’t personally support … Continue reading
Paul Weston with Geert Wilders and Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff There’s an interview with the British Freedom Party’s chairman Paul Weston at the European Son blog. It doesn’t tell us much we didn’t already know but it’s of interest all the same. A former … Continue reading
This week Maryam Namazie of the Worker-Communist Party of Iran announced the publication of a new book, Enemies Not Allies: The Far-Right. Co-authored by Namazie and Adam Barnett, it is issued under the imprint of One Law For All, an organisation launched by the WPI … Continue reading