For the last few weeks the Sunday Telegraph has been running a series of witch-hunting articles on the so-called “Trojan Horse plot” in Birmingham. The author of the reports, not entirely unexpectedly, is the discredited stitch-up artist Andrew Gilligan. In the … Continue reading
This is a crosspost from Socialist Unity The Sunday Telegraph of 2 June featured an article by Andrew Gilligan, “The truth about the ‘wave of attacks on Muslims’ after Woolwich murder”, in which he dismissed the idea that the Muslim … Continue reading
We dealt rather contemptuously with Andrew Gilligan’s “revelation” that Ken Livingstone is intending to turn London into a “beacon of Islam”. However, in the interests of balance, it should be pointed out that Gilligan does have his admirers:
Al-Barrak and al-Beraik – Gilligan can’t tell them apart Andrew Gilligan has uncovered another dangerous extremist at the East London Mosque – Sheikh Saad al-Beraik, who who spoke at the ELM last week (and at the London Central Mosque too, as it happens). … Continue reading
We’ve been a bit remiss in not covering recent developments in the English Defence League. Just to bring you up to speed, if you haven’t been following this, the EDL leadership have broken links with their millionaire financial backer Alan Lake … Continue reading
Last month, in response to complaints about its coverage of the case of a former Hizb ut-Tahrir member convicted of sexually abusing young girls to whom he was giving religious instruction, theTelegraph published the following retraction on its website: Our … Continue reading
East London Mosque Statement Concerning Homophobia Stories Following on from the recent corrections that The Telegraph newspaper had to issue over its London editor’s erroneous reporting of the Ashraf Miah paedophile story, we once again note that Andrew Gilligan is twisting … Continue reading
Andrew Gilligan has a piece on his Telegraph blog, titled “Islamophobic crime fell in London last year – MCB spins the opposite”, in which he responds to the Independent on Sunday report on rising anti-Muslim hatred in the UK. Gilligan accuses the … Continue reading
ENGAGE have written to the Sunday Telegraph in response to the contemptible article by Andrew Gilligan in last week’s edition of the paper. Read their letter here. Meanwhile Gilligan has announced that he is going away for three weeks – “to … Continue reading
Inayat Bunglawala responds to Andrew Gilligan’s claim that “the available evidence simply does not support” the view that Islamophobia is on the increase in the UK. Inayat’s Corner, 30 January 2011