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The harrowing story of Rizwaan Sabir – a postgraduate student studying terrorism who was arrested for downloading an Al Qaida training manual – is testimony to the Islamaphobia that has been whipped up by politicians and the media.

Gordon Brown came up with a wonderful Blairite and Orwellian phrase this week saying he wants "to protect the security of all and the liberties of each" by extending detention for terrorist suspects to 42 days.

The crisis racked New Labour government is whipping up terror scares in an effort to divert attention away from its own problems.

There is growing outrage over the arrest of Nottingham university student Rizwaan Sabir and staff member Hicham Yezza.

Gordon Brown’s government is pushing ahead with plans to extend the period that people can be held without charge.

The far right Dutch politician Geert Wilders made international headlines last week with the release of his anti-Muslim film Fitna.

An occupation without limit and a war without end. This is the message coming out of Britain and the US following the recent uprising by Iraqis.

Tower Hamlets councillor Oliur Rahman, a Left List candidate in the 1 May London Assembly elections, was detained at Heathrow airport under the Prevention of Terrorism Act.

A Muslim chaplain from Liverpool has spoken out against the treatment that Muslims face at airports from anti-terrorism officials.

Attacks on Muslims by politicians and the media have been on the rise since the 9/11 attacks. Now, when author Martin Amis's abusive tirades against Islam are broadcast and published without qualm, Hassan Mahamdallie asks if Islamophobia has become society's acceptable racism.

"We can’t agree it’s global, we can’t agree it’s terrorism, but we all generally agree it’s a war, and it’s going to be long," wrote James Carafano, a leading neocon "intellectual" of the Heritage Foundation.

Omar Deghayes, the British former Guantanamo Bay detainee who was released at the end of last year, will be speaking at the Stop the War demonstration in London this Saturday.