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Recently this blog has covered Faraj Hassan, a Libyan man who was detained and placed under control orders for several years in the UK. His death in a motorcycle accident has prompted effusive tributes from British Islamists. Here is another one, this time from Fahad Ansari of Cageprisoners.
This is what passed through Ansari’s [...]

This is a cross post by Meredith Tax
Two weeks ago, the Center for Constitutional Rights and ACLU announced that they were suing the government to get permission to represent Anwar al-Awlaki, an American citizen who appears from all evidence to be a leader in Al Qaeda and is on the CIA assassination list. They are working [...]

The Cageprisoners website currently features an ‘Interview with the wife of Abu Mus’ab al-Suri‘ conducted by Yvonne Ridley. In that interview, Suri’s wife, Helena Moreno, is given space to present her husband as a victim and a kind of intellectual renegade being persecuted for his beliefs. Speaking of Suri, Moreno gushes: ‘I married a man [...]

This is a cross-post from The Spittoon
Pickled Politics’ blogger earwigca has posted an article which contains this passage:
The problem with feminism is feminists. [...]
Feminists like Dr. Aisha Gill, friend of Gita Sahgal, who worked tirelessly on the pr in support of the islamophobic attack on Amnesty International.
The wording is inexact but the unscrupulous motivation is obvious. Is the [...]

This is a cross post by Paul Stott
In January the Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC) issued a highly critical report on the Metropolitan Police’s conduct at the protests against Israel’s assault upon Gaza in December 2008 – January 2009.
The IHRC analysis can be downloaded here. It was widely publicised at the time, even, to my disappointment, [...]

This is a cross-post by Gita Sahgal from Open Democracy
Salman Rushdie has said, ‘When people are told that they cannot freely re-examine the stories of themselves, and the stories within which they live, then tyranny is not very far away’. Forty nine years ago, this week, Peter Benenson struck a blow against tyranny by announcing [...]

On May 8 Cageprisoners will hold a meeting in Kentish Town, London, to promote a new report. The language used to advertise the event is characteristically inflammatory:
The Horn of Africa Inquisition is the latest report by Cageprisoners to highlight the way in which the War on Terror has impacted profiled communities. Based on the [...]

This is a cross-post from the CST blog
Last month this blog published some research looking at the antisemitic rhetoric and anti-Jewish targeting of the Pakistani terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), which carried out the Mumbai terrorist attacks in November 2008. The post included examples of threats to Jews and Hindus by Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, the head [...]

In an interview with The Observer, Gita Sahgal, the former head of Amnesty International’s gender unit, has some harsh things to say about AI.

In her first newspaper interview since leaving the charity altogether, Sahgal delivers a withering critique of her former employers, describing the modern Amnesty’s leadership as suffering from “ideological bankruptcy” and “misogyny”. Although [...]

So Amnesty International is standing by Moazzam Begg and Cageprisoners.
Let’s have a look at a new article by Yvonne Ridley, published on Cageprisoners’ website. It provides another insight into the mentality of the Islamist outfit. Ridley is Cageprisoners’ patron, as well as a Hamas funder and a presenter for Press TV, the English [...]