Wound up, no doubt, by a relentless and increasingly violent output of anti-Islam and anti-migrant rhetoric, two fascist terrorists attacked a mosque in Peacehaven, East Sussex, a county known for its chalk cliffs and sea views. Previously, the town had been featured in the film of Graham Greene’s Brighton Rock and, in 1979, the iconic […]
A knife at the heart of Manchester
Yesterday came news of a horrendous and violent attack here in Manchester. The Heaton Park Synagogue, the target for a cowardly and appalling incident featuring a knife, a possible bomb, and a car driven into the premises. It makes me feel physically sick. As the fog of confusion lifted somewhat, it became clear that this […]
Britain’s racist upsurge – the view from the mosque
An elderly man sits beside me in the mosque. It’s Friday, our special prayer day, and although there’s another 20 minutes before the khutbah, this week’s sermon delivered in Arabic and English by our Imam, the place is filling up. Elderly gentleman, many of whom been in the UK for 60 years, line up having […]
The Muslim heroine whose memory shames Paul Golding
I am working undercover for Searchlight magazine. Despite being a Muslim, I blend in rather well so, two weeks ago, I was in Birmingham listening to fascist idiot Paul Golding. It could have been Tommy Robinson or Nick Tenconi, or even Nigel Farage. The mouth matters not, but the words do. “Did our war heroes […]
The lies behind a Cornish councillor’s antisemitic tirade
Searchlight magazine and anti-fascist groups warned that last weekend’s ‘British National Strike’ would enable the most extreme forces to spread their bile in public. But even we were astonished at the video that emerged of Peter Lawrence, a British Democrat Parish Councillor in Cornwall, unashamedly holding forth with a torrent of neo-nazi lies. Questioned publicly […]
“I’ll tell you who most despises so-called ‘Muslim grooming gangs’ – honest-to-goodness Muslims”
You probably don’t notice or think about it a lot of the time, but one of us may well be your doctor, your nurse, carer, teacher, delivery guy, train, bus or taxi driver. Or perhaps we are the owner of the small business or shop that you visit on a regular basis. But often you […]