Islamophobia Follow

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What does a politician do when a war they started goes badly wrong? Pick a fight with those who have opposed it, of course.

Not content with whipping up Islamophobia, New Labour is now targeting workers from Bulgaria and Romania.

Around 300 people rallied in Glasgow’s George Square last Saturday to unite against Islamophobia and protest at the wave of racist attacks on Muslims since Jack Straw’s comments about the veil earlier this month.

A revolt by members of the NUJ journalists’ union at the Daily Star forced management to scrap an anti-Muslim page last week. Workers organised to strike a blow against the Islamophobia that has filled the right wing tabloids over the last few weeks.

A former election candidate for the Nazi British National Party (BNP) and a dentist have appeared in court on explosives charges.

Racist attacks on Muslims continued this week across the country in the wake of the tide of Islamophobia set off by Jack Straw’s comments on the veil earlier this month.

Staff and students at Dundee university are campaigning against the presence of police officers from Special Branch on the campus.

The Stop the War Coalition has called a People’s Assembly on Islamophobia and the "war on terror" on Saturday 18 November. The Muslim community is facing a racist onslaught from politicians and the media.

Tony Blair received a body blow last week from a most unexpected source - General Sir Richard Dannatt, the head of the British army.

Britain is facing a sustained attempt to whip up full-blooded racism. Each day government ministers are clamouring to appear on camera denouncing Muslims and demanding their neighbours and teachers spy on them.

The government’s attacks on Muslims have led to a series of racist attacks across Britain, but there is also resistance and signs of a new fighting unity between Muslims and non-Muslims.