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In her rage at Tony Blair on Friday as he sat before the Chilcot Inquiry she accidentally dashed over a goblet of red wine. To his crimes of forging war and invading a sovereign state, she added the painful stains on the beautiful wooden floor. Thus acts the modern Muslim, scared to take the self [...]

A social commentator writes: On Thursday a woman in the cloak of darkness got off the Tube train and stepped on some toes as she rushed. The looks that followed, pure hatred, and then the mutters, some from other Asians: “Stupid women, giving us all a bad name. They should send them back.” Others joined [...]

Dear Jonathan,1 I agree with Daniel Hannan about misrepresentation and the disproportionate coverage of Anjem Choudary’s gestures in the media.2 When Mr Choudary announced his plans to carry 500 empty coffins through Wootten Bassett, all our journalists were required to do was a little maths. Unless we are talking about matchbox coffins in a carrier [...]

I opened The Independent this morning to find a photograph of someone I once knew staring back at me. An entire decade has passed since we last set eyes on one another, but this article by Johann Hari brought memories flooding back. Not because his article resonated with me, mind you, but because his narrative [...]

Recent months have seen a sudden upsurge in devotion to the Christian faith amongst followers of the British National Party (BNP) and the English Defence League (EDL). In June the BNP chimed against the Islamic colonisation of Britain, seen in the widespread conversion of churches throughout the land: the Central Mosque of Brent; the former [...]

Dear Editors, Explain to me, would you, what this means: ‘Sebastian Faulks outburst risks anger of Muslims’? Or this: ‘Sebastian Faulks has risked sparking Muslim outrage…’ Does it mean that you have not yet found any angry Muslims and you’re stirring? Or is it just that you’ve taken your risk assessment training a tad too [...]

The third lead story on the BBC News website this afternoon reads, Head quits in Muslim assembly row. The tagline reads, ‘A head teacher resigns after parents complain about her plans to scrap separate assemblies for Muslim children.’

Up to 300 civilians have been killed and more than 1,100 injured in heavy fighting between government troops and fighters from the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in northern Sri Lanka. Jacques de Maio, the head of Red Cross operations for South Asia, said: “People are being caught in the crossfire, hospitals and ambulances have been [...]

Award-winning columnist Johann Hari has a piece in today’s Independent entitled We need to stop being such cowards about Islam. By 10.00am this morning it was the most emailed, read and commented article on their website. It is, he says, a column condemning cowardice: “It begins with the story of a novel you cannot read.”

My email to Eddy Mair on Radio 4’s PM programme this evening: Can you prove to me that the huge crowds witnessed on the streets of Khartoum after Friday prayers today were because of the teddy bear insult? If you go to any Muslim city anywhere in the world after Friday prayers you will witness [...]

Quote: justgrits.wordpress.com Bowes said, October 27, 2007 at 6:05 am Do you recall the murder of Victoria Climbié in the UK in February 2000? She died at the age of nine following months of barbaric abuse at the hands of her guardians, both of whom were evangelical Christians? She had been burnt with cigarettes, tied [...]

Quote: “I am rather getting tired of the deafening silence of an immense majority of British Muslims when it comes to condemning terrorism.” Deafening silence? What, do we each run newspapers that have a daily circulation of 7,800,000 like The Sun? Or do we have access to an audience like BBC Radio 1 (9.8 million [...]