Harry’s Place

Church Street in the centre of Liverpool, is a large pedestrianised shopping street. It is also the long standing customary forum on which various small political groups peddle their wares.
If you’re a supporter of the duties of humans to animals, or if you want to encourage people to use fewer plastic bags, or if you […]

Padraig at Index on Censorship reports on the travails of Terence Koh, whose statute of Jesus with an erect penis has provoked the ire of Emily Mapfuwa and the Christian Legal Centre. He makes the very fair point that Ms Mapfuwa had to travel all the way from Essex, to a gallery in Gateshead, in […]

Yesterday, Peter Tatchell wrote on Comment Is Free about the plight of Balochistan containing the following chilling and depressing revalations:
Four Baloch prisoners have been burned alive in hot coal tar by the Pakistan army during military operations in annexed and occupied Balochistan, according to the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC).
Last week the AHRC received confirmation that Pakistani […]

Guest post by davem
When it comes to learning Arabic there’s one thing nobody ever warns you about, let alone prepares you for. If this subject does come up it’s immediately brushed under the carpet.
It is the simple fact that learning to speak Arabic is actually quite stressful.
Why should this be? It’s just a language, right? […]

The Birmingham City Council, which has a Tory majority (though not an absolute majority) has, the BBC reports, “blocked its staff from looking at websites about atheism”.
It has also blocked sites dealing with paganism such as witchcraft. Also banned are sites about “the paranormal, sexual deviancy and criminal activity”, as well as “occult practices, atheistic […]

Occasionally, the odd person queries our description of the Muslim Association of Britain and the British Muslim Initiative as the British franchise of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Indeed, back in 2004, the MAB appeared to be claiming that it was not a branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, but that it merely had a member or two who […]

Stephen Timms MP, the Minister of State for Employment was scheduled to give an address at the Opening Ceremony of IslamExpo, this evening.

He has now pulled out of the event, and his name has been removed from the programme.

The World Association of Newspapers and The World Editors Forum have highlighted an pernicious attack on press freedom in Zimbabwe, set in motion last month by Robert Mugabe, but which has slipped under the radar.
He has imposed a “luxury tax” on imported newspapers.
The problem Mugabe’s regime faced was that - even after bringing the Zimbabwean […]

Writing on Conservative Home, he explains why:
Dear -
Further to my previous emails I have learned that one of the key figures in Islam Expo is in the process of suing the highly admirable blog Harry’s Place.
I am fully aware of the bias involved - and many of the unpleasant figures behind - Islam Expo.  I […]

The political editor of the New Statesman, Martin Bright, was scheduled to speak in a debate at IslamExpo this weekend. He has dropped out.
This is why:
I was very uncomfortable about accepting an invitation to speak at IslamExpo this year. What appears to be a celebration of Islam is, in reality, a rally for a particular […]