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Wednesday, 16 May 2012 16:53 |
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“This year our award winning broadcast journalism scheme is running alongside our exciting new ITV Graduate programme. Between them they will attract the very best candidates to Britain’s most popular commercial broadcaster. Whether you’re considering both schemes, or primarily News, we’re thrilled that you’re now thinking of being one of them.
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Wednesday, 16 May 2012 16:46 |
 | | The former shadow Home Secretary, David Davis has written a Comment piece which appears on page 32 of today’s Guardian, in which he argues that the core argument for the introduction of a system of secret trials- that some cases rest on intelligence given to the UK by its allies (namely the US) on the promise that intelligence will not be disclosed, has been "blown out of the water" following the leaking of sensitive British intelligence in the US.
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Davis writes:
“When American authorities revealed last week that a British agent was central to uncovering the latest Islamist suicide bomb plot, there was uproar. Quite reasonably, a great deal of concern was expressed over the risk posed to the agent, and to similar operations that might be run in the future.
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Wednesday, 16 May 2012 15:35 |
| | Researchers at Queen Mary University of London and the University of Sussex have published a paper examining the legislative prohibitions on face-veiling in European countries. ‘Reasons to Ban? The Anti-Burqa Movement in Western Europe’, documents what is happening in the various European countries which have already prohibited face-veiling, or are taking steps towards it.
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The paper analyses why it is happening and the various arguments used to justify the criminalisation of the face veil. The paper finally “explores the implications for our understanding of contemporary (ethnically and religiously) diverse societies and their governance.”
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Tuesday, 15 May 2012 13:16 |
| | The website Blottr reports that the former ‘company director’ of the English Defence League and administrator of the EDL Jewish Division Facebook page, Roberta Moore, has praised the Norwegian terrorist, Anders Behring Breivik on the Jewish Division’s official Facebook page.
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From Blottr:
“The English Defence League's company director, and administrator of the group's Jewish division Facebook page, has praised Norwegian mass murder Andres Breivik on the social network.
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Tuesday, 15 May 2012 13:07 |
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Campaigners are also concerned that there has been a steady proliferation in the teaching of such material by US law-enforcement agencies. From the Guardian:
“A course at a military academy that taught US officers to prepare for "total war" with Islam does not represent an isolated incident, campaigners have warned.
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Monday, 14 May 2012 14:07 |
From the Guardian:
“Far-right groups are exploiting the conviction of nine men who were part of a gang that groomed girls for sex to create a "climate of hate" against Muslims, community leaders have warned.
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Friday, 11 May 2012 16:45 |
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Littlejohn writes, “While we are all being urged to ‘celebrate diversity’, we shouldn’t try to kid ourselves that multiculturalism hasn’t brought with it some serious downsides — such as home-grown Islamist terrorists and gangs of Pakistani child rapists.”
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Friday, 11 May 2012 16:22 |
| | The New Statesman cover story this week is the highly charged issue of halal meat. With the Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph and Independent all recently publishing on the issue, Mehdi Hasan in this week’s NS “questions how many opponents of halal know what producing it involves, and wonders whether criticism of halal is ever a proxy for deeper fears about Muslims.
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“Joe Regenstein, professor of food science at Cornell University, who leads the university’s Kosher and Halal Food Initiative, tells Hasan that the scientific evidence against halal slaughter “has often been done poorly with an agenda driving a desired outcome”. Furthermore, Regenstein says:
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Friday, 11 May 2012 15:45 |
| | The Foreign Office have replied to our letter to the Foreign Secretary on the issue of Iran, the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and the British Government’s stance in the negotiations on Iran’s alleged nuclear weapons programme.
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The FCO’s reply can be read here.
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Friday, 11 May 2012 15:27 |
| | The Guardian, the BBC and the Daily Mail have today covered the news that an optional course taught at a US military college in Virginia contained teaching material which instructed officers that there is no such thing as ‘moderate Islam’, that Islam is the enemy of America, and that Hiroshima style attacks against the Islamic holy cities of Mecca and Madinah could be envisaged.
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From the Guardian:
“A course for US military officers has been teaching that America's enemy is Islam in general and suggesting that the country might ultimately have to obliterate the Islamic holy cities of Mecca and Medina without regard for civilian deaths, following second world war precedents of the nuclear attack on Hiroshima.
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Friday, 11 May 2012 15:19 |
| | Islamophobia Watch alerts us of a local report regarding a nine-month prison sentence handed down to a woman who attacked an Asian family while drunk.
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The woman was found guilty of tearing at a Muslim woman’s headscarf before hitting her in the face. She also struck the woman’s niece while shouting racist abuse and claiming her son had been killed by the Taliban in Afghanistan. From the Shields Gazette:
“A drunken mum is behind bars today after a shocking race-hate attack – in which she pretended her child had been killed in Afghanistan.
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