ConservativeHome has published the following apology: Sir Iqbal Sacranie In a Diary post by Paul Goodman (“Pickles and Warsi wrestle for control of Government strategy on anti-Muslim hatred”, 19 November) we repeated in good faith a statement wrongly reported elsewhere that … Continue reading
It’s still only July, but already Islamophobes are gearing up for their annual witch-hunt of the Global Peace and Unity Event in October, whose partners include the Islam Channel and the Muslim lifestyle magazine Emel. Former Tory MP Paul Goodman … Continue reading
Paul Goodman, Tory shadow minister for communities, speaking in the House of Commons debate on antisemitism: “We believe that it is wrong for institutions to participate in events that are hosted by anti-Semitic parties such as the British National party. … Continue reading
Last year, with assistance of the Sunday Telegraph, the Tory right waged an extended campaign to remove Baroness Warsi from her position as co-chairman of the Conservative Party. They succeeded in accomplishing that particular objective last September, but their victory was far from complete. … Continue reading
Tory MEP Daniel Hannan shows that there are at least some members of his party who don’t automatically lose their grip on reason when faced with the phenomenon of political Islam (as commentators at, say, Conservative Home invariably do). In … Continue reading
Foreign secretary William Hague has an interesting piece in today’s Times entitled “Freedom is still flowering in the Arab Spring”. The article is hidden behind Rupert Murdoch’s paywall, but it has been reproduced on various UK embassy websites, so you can read … Continue reading
Last week ConservativeHome posted a lengthy piece by Martin Parsons urging that “combatting [sic] the spread of sharia enforcement across the world” should become “a central feature of British foreign policy”. With articles like this it’s difficult to identify where ignorance ends … Continue reading
Media coverage of the police figures for so-called “honour” crimes in the UK, revealed by the Iranian and Kurdish Women’s Rights Organisation in association with the Guardian, was generally fairly balanced, avoiding the Islamophobic stereotyping of the Muslim community that … Continue reading
Well, that’s what Paul Goodman reports at ConservativeHome. And while Goodman may know very little about Islam or Islamism, he is well informed about developments in the Tory Party. According to Goodman, Sayeeda Warsi is promoting a new organisation to … Continue reading
Over at the New Statesman blog Nabil Ahmed, president of the Federation of Student Islamic Societies, responds to the home secretary’s decision to cancel a FOSIS-Civil Service careers event in London last week, as reported by Paul Goodman (who else?) at Conservative Home.