Islamophobia Follow

An English Defence League (EDL) march in Lincoln last Saturday was met with an anti-racist counter-protest.

IT worker beaten up, extradited and put in solitary—but judge found he wasn’t a terrorist, says Ken Olende

David Cameron is on a war footing at home and abroad. He wants parliament to send British planes to bomb Isis forces in Syria and he has launched a new offensive against Muslims in Britain.   

Politicians and newspapers are whipping up Islamophobia—and continuing a process that was ramped up a decade ago after the 7/7 London bombings in 2005, argues Simon Basketter

The Tories’ new terror act came into force this week. It treats all Muslims as suspects.

The government is pushing through a new battery of repressive measures, writes Hassan Mahamdallie

The election in Tower Hamlets reflected a witch hunt against Muslims

Three Muslim women students suspended at Newham Sixth Form College (NewVIc) in east London are gathering increasing support. 

Suicide up in solitary cells | Newham email students suspended | Andy Coulson walks free

In the latest crackdown on Muslims, Britain’s most senior Muslim cop has declared that there was a need to move into the “private space” of young Muslims.

The odious Tory justice secretary Michael Gove is in charge of replacing the Human Rights Act with a “British Rights Act”. 

Dozens of activists were on the streets of Tower Hamlets last Saturday to launch the campaign to elect Rabina Khan as Tower Hamlets mayor.