Harry's Place

For those of you with an interest in the correct use of the English, the Guardian provides a useful example of the incorrect use of the term “refuted”.
Here is the original passage:
Pankhurst also refuted claims that he helped “groom” another ex-student, Omar Sharif, who blew himself up in Tel Aviv in 2003. “This guy must [...]

While discussing Reza Pankhurst, the Hizb ut Tahrir activist currently poisoning minds at the LSE we received a visit from a number of LSE commenters.
The first contributor – Roger Kreutz - pretended not to know anything about Hizb ut Tahrir. When provided with a copy of the Hizb ut Tahrir constitution, he responded with a sarcastic [...]

This is a cross post by Richard James

A warning to all UK student unions and secularist speakers: steer well clear.

We as Muslims reject the idea of freedom of speech, and even the idea of freedom. We see under the Khilafa (caliphate), when people used to engage in a positive way, this idea of freedom was [...]

This is a guest post by Marc the Muleteer
Lady Kinnock yesterday revealed that the Foreign Office must make savings of £110 million to cope with the weakness of the pound, savings that have already required cuts to be made. Most notably, she revealed that “counter-terrorism and radicalisation” programmes in Pakistan had suffered cuts: an announcement that provoked contrasts [...]

Two troubling tidbits of information in The Times today.
Shiraz Maher writes:
At universities across the country, Hizb ut-Tahrir operates freely behind a series of “front groups” holding events covertly and spreading its dangerous message of confrontation and separation. In recent years it has become more sophisticated in how it does this, circumventing attempts to clamp down [...]

This is a guest post by Mr Greene.
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East London Mosque and the attached London Muslim Centre (LMC) have attracted a large quantity of negative publicity recently due to their links with Anwar al-Awlaki and the Undie Bomber. So you’d expect them to be keeping their heads down and trying to steer clear of controversy, right?
Wrong.
On [...]

Here’s some news from the Department for Communities and Local Government. It has established a panel of 13 “faith advisers who will act as a ’sounding board’ to advise on effective engagement with faith communities, and the impact of Communities and Local Government policy on faith communities”. Here’s John Denham:
“This new panel brings [...]

The Telegraph has the story:
Qasim Rafiq, who is now a spokesman for the Federation of Student Islamic Societies, invited speakers who have supported a holy war and called for an Islamic caliphate.
Yesterday he refused to say whether he supported those concepts himself but said it was important that universities allowed freedom of speech as long [...]

This is a guest post by Raziq
Islamist groups such as Hizb ut-Tahrir, Al-Muhajiroun and the Muslim Brotherhood claim that Muslims were ruled by a single political leadership which started from the time of the Prophet Muhammad in the 7th century and lasted until the last days of the Ottoman Empire in 1924. According to Islamists, [...]

The new year will be marked in Islamist style at the East London Mosque’s London Muslim Centre (LMC). On January 1 2010 it will host an event titled “Dark Forces – The Enemy Within”. Here’s the suitably sinister flyer.

Readers of this blog may recall an “End of Time” event at the LMC on [...]