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62-year-old Muslim, Hasanali Khoja has made a mockert of Islamic beliefs, he took his employer to court accusing them of forcing him to handle port products, but all the time he was happily eating sausage and bacon rolls. Khoja took his employer Metropolitan Police to court and lost the lost a claim of religious discrimination after complaining he was forced to cook sausages and bacon faces a legal bill of more than £75,000. The Muslim chief claimed his bosses were putting undue pressure on him and felt 'stressed and humiliated' when it was suggested he use tongs and wear gloves...

Police have seen 'honour' crime surge by 40 per cent due to rising fundamentalism, new figures show. Honour-based violence, including crimes like murder, rape and kidnap has rocketed in London during the past year. Reported instances of intimidation and attempts at forced marriage have also increased by 60 per cent.

Libel tourism isn’t just a matter for the media elite. Freedom of speech for everyone is in danger Britain is a pariah state, shunned by its allies and exploited by the unsavoury. The state of English libel laws (Scotland’s provisions are a little better) is so embarrassing that a number of US states have enacted legislation to protect their citizens from our courts. London is the global centre of libel tourism. From Middle Eastern potentates to Russian oligarchs, the rich and powerful use our legal system to bully people who try to hold them to account. Sometimes cases make the...

A few months ago, I wrote “The Danish Civil War”, a fictional scenario which served to structure a consideration of various issues relating to the rise of Islam in Europe and the likely consequences thereof. The essay finished with the conclusion that Islam constituted an existential threat to the survival of European civilization, and that Islam’s influence on Europe therefore needed to be eliminated. It further concluded that, logically speaking, the various ways of achieving this goal could be broadly subdivided into three categories: 1) inducing Muslims to leave of their own free will, 2) mass deportations, and 3) genocide....

Labour threw open Britain's borders to mass immigration to help socially engineer a "truly multicultural" country, a former Government adviser has revealed. The huge increases in migrants over the last decade were partly due to a politically motivated attempt by ministers to radically change the country and "rub the Right's nose in diversity", according to Andrew Neather, a former adviser to Tony Blair, Jack Straw and David Blunkett. He said Labour's relaxation of controls was a deliberate plan to "open up the UK to mass migration" but that ministers were nervous and reluctant to discuss such a move publicly for...

BRITISH virgin girls as young as 12 are being sold to mega-rich Arabs for sex at up to £50,000 a time. Parents force the schoolgirls into prostitution and then sell them to millionaire paedophiles. Vice Squad cops nicked three women and a man from Manchester after secretly filming them offering to pimp six girls aged between 14 and 23 at a five-star West London hotel. They also taped the gang bragging how they were prepared to peddle even younger, prepubescent girls.

Geert Wilders landed at London's Heathrow Airport this morning after winning a court battle to gain entrance to the country. Wilders, who has branded the Koran a "fascist book" in his controversial film Fitna, was barred from coming to Britain in February over fears he could spark religious riots. But the head of the Freedom Party won an appeal against the decision earlier this week.

Anti-Islam MP Geert Wilders should not have been refused entry to Britain to attend a screening of his film Fitna earlier this year, a British immigration tribunal ruled on Tuesday. Wilders had been invited to the House of Lords, the upper house of the British parliament, for the screening in February, but was told he would be refused entry on public order grounds. Wilders went ahead with the trip and was turned back by immigration officials at Heathrow airport. 'This is a very black day. They are bowing down to Islam by refusing entry to critics,' Wilders said at the...

Nearly 50 potential terrorists or criminals were let into the UK after a Mitcham immigration officer doctored asylum applications and falsified computer records, a court heard. Aliya Ali, 39, of Windemere Road, was sentenced to five years imprisonment today at Croydon Crown Court after pleading guilty to 12 counts of misconduct in a public office. A total of 44 asylum seekers who should have been deported are thought to be unaccounted for in the UK as a result of the mum-of-two’s deception. The court heard how Ali claimed she only broke the law to help Asian families settle in the...

London In an astounding revelation, Al-Qaeda extremists have claimed that home-grown terrorists are plotting to attack targets in Britain. According to reports, in an internet magazine read by thousands of Islamic extremists Al-Qaeda has labeled Britain and Europe as a bigger enemy than the United States. It further says that the strikes are being planned by terrorists living in Britain and others overseas, and warns of “spectacular attacks”, 'The Sun' reports

The wife of the new head of Britain's spy agency has posted pictures of her husband, family and friends on internet networking site Facebook, details which could compromise security, a newspaper said on Sunday. In what the Mail on Sunday called an "extraordinary lapse," the new spy chief's wife, Lady Shelley Sawers, posted family pictures and exposed details of where the couple live and take their holidays and who their friends and relatives are. Publishing the story on its front page and the pictures on a double-page spread, the Mail on Sunday said the information "could potentially be useful to...

The country's shambolic immigration laws were under the spotlight yesterday after the High Court ordered the release of a prolific criminal who has been fighting deportation for three years. A judge ruled that the 'undesirable' immigrant, who 'embarked on a criminal career' in the UK and still poses a threat of further offending, must be freed from detention. The High Court was told Ahmed Daq, 32, must be released on bail because the Home Office has already held him for three years to facilitate his removal from the UK but there is still no prospect of deportation.

Iranian media reported today that authorities have detained eight local employees of the British embassy in Tehran for what is described as their alleged role in post-election protests. The reports by state-run TV and the semi-official Fars news agency provided no further details and could not be verified independently. Iran's rulers have accused the west of stoking unrest following a bitterly disputed June 12 presidential election, singling out Britain and the US for alleged meddling. Last week, Iran expelled two British diplomats, prompting the expulsion of two Iranian diplomats from Britain. Opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi alleges massive fraud in...

A U.S. 'shock jock' DJ named among 16 extremists and fanatics banned from the UK has said he will sue Jacqui Smith for defamation. Michael Savage, who has up to 10 million listeners, branded Home Secretary Jacqui Smith a 'lunatic' and a 'witch' after being named alongside hate preachers and a member of Hamas. Last night lawyers suggested he had a strong case as he had not advocated violence, unlike others on the list. It was thought he could claim up to £200,000 in damages.

A failed asylum seeker who left a young girl dying under the wheels of his car after a hit-and-run accident has been freed to the disgust of her family. Aso Mohammed Ibrahim was due to be deported after his applications for asylum and citizenship were kicked out. But the 31-year-old Iraqi Kurd has been released on bail from custody while he makes yet another appeal to stay in the UK. He says it is too dangerous for him to return to his homeland.

To the surprise of many, Dr. Michael Nazir-Ali, the (Anglican) Bishop of Rochester, England, has announced that he will retire next September. The 59-year old Bishop says that he is resigning so that he can work “for endangered or beleaguered Christian minorities both abroad and in the UK.” Bishop Michael and his family live under constant police protection following death threats made in January 2008 after the Bishop had warned that there are several ‘no-go areas’ across Britain where non-Muslims live in danger. His assertion was dismissed, both explicitly by politicians (including Conservatives) who denied the existence of no-go areas...

Today Jacqui Smith unveiled what the Government claims is 'one of the most comprehensive and wide ranging approaches to tackling terrorism in the world'. The document, named Contest Two, talks at length of the need to 'challenge those who reject the rights to which we are committed, scorn the institutions and values of our parliamentary democracy, dismiss the rule of law and promote intolerance'. Really? What a pity it has taken years of dangerously misguided pandering to extremist groups - and £100 million of taxpayer's cash - before Ministers reached such a blindingly obvious conclusion. For, make no mistake, pandering...

The growing influence of Islam in the UK education system is manifesting itself in teachers being sacked and being forced out of their jobs if they oppose a greater role of this religion in British state schools. A High Court ruling has awarded Erica Connor the former head teacher of New Monument School a figure of £400,000 due to "the campaign by two Muslim governors to give Islam a greater presence in a state school". A campaign to oust Connor, it is reported resulted from Muslims at the school who accused the popular head teacher of "Islamophobia" which caused stress...

Imagine that you had fallen into a coma the night Tony Blair was elected, and now woke up during the last days of New Labour – what differences would you notice around you? The most striking would be the change in women's fashion. Back in 1997 the country was coming out of recession and the downbeat grunge look, and young ladies were starting to wear short skirts and plunging necklines. Twelve years later and you'll notice the women are dressed more conservatively - far, far more conservatively. Take a tour of any of inner London borough and see how many...

The NHS is offering to reverse female circumcision amid concerns that there are 500 victims a year with no prosecutions The NHS is to advertise free operations to reverse female circumcisions, with experts warning that each year more than 500 British girls have their genitals mutilated. Despite having been outlawed in 1985, female circumcision is still practised in British African communities, in some cases on girls as young as 5. Police have been unable to bring a single prosecution even though they suspect that community elders are being flown from the Horn of Africa to carry out the procedures.

Radical Muslims get special treatment, says Ruth Dudley Edwards The Government's neurotic placating of Islamists has not yet led to the censorship of tabloids for giving vent to occasional outrage. "Hate for Heroes: Muslims in vile demo", declared yesterday's Sun, rightly furious that in Luton 15 or so youths had screamed "terrorists" at a homecoming parade of the Royal Anglia's 2nd Battalion and waved banners calling the soldiers baby-killers and butchers. Other newspapers showed a group of watching women enveloped in abayas and niqabs. In some ways the silent women were the more potent image of what disturbs readers of...

THE HAGUE, 12/03/09 - The cabinet has ignored a motion in which the Lower House almost unanimously called upon it to complain in the European Union about the United Kingdom's refusal to admit MP Geert Wilders. At the same time, however, the House is accepting that its motion is disregarded. A month ago, Party for Freedom (PVV) leader Geert Wilders could not enter the UK because the British government decided that his criticisms of Islam made him a threat to public safety. The Dutch government expressed its objections, though modestly, calling Wilders' refusal "very regrettable" rather than unacceptable. It but...

If the snub of British PM Gordon Brown at the hands of President Obama and his wife weren't enough, now British Cabinet Secretary Sir Gus O'Donnell is saying that Downing Street is finding it "unbelievably difficult" to get hold of officials from Obama's administration. British officials can't seem to ever get past the administration's answer machines as they call here to try and coordinate plans for the coming G20 summit.

A new generation of Muslims is being radicalised using the very Government funds that are supposed to be fighting the problem, a new report by the Policy Exchange think-tank says. An obsession with talking to extremists means that moderates are being ignored, leaving the stage clear for radicalisation, according to the report. The Government is "underwriting the very Islamist ideology which spawns an illiberal, intolerant and anti-western world view" the report says.

Three British-born Muslims acted as quartermasters, supplying equipment to the Taliban and al-Qaeda fighting British squaddies on the Pakistani-Afghani border. The three along with a Muslim convert were part of a Birmingham terror cell whose leader was convicted of plotting to kidnap and behead a British soldier on video, the Old Bailey was told. Using the earthquake in Pakistan in late 2005 as a cover, the three collected funds from their community on the pretext of sending out humanitarian aid.

The proportion of people living in Britain who were born overseas is more than three times the international average, it emerged last night. Eleven per cent of British residents were born abroad, against the global figure of 3 per cent. The campaign group Migrationwatch UK said the findings dispelled the Government's 'misleading' claims that very high levels of immigration to Britain had been consistent with world trends.

Barack Obama's offhand approach to Gordon Brown's Washington visit last week came about because the president was facing exhaustion over America's economic crisis and is unable to focus on foreign affairs, the Sunday Telegraph has been toldSources close to the White House say Mr Obama and his staff have been "overwhelmed" by the economic meltdown and have voiced concerns that the new president is not getting enough rest. British officials, meanwhile, admit that the White House and US State Department staff were utterly bemused by complaints that the Prime Minister should have been granted full-blown press conference and a formal...

Health officials are having crisis talks with Muslim medical staff who have objected to hospital hygiene rules because of religious beliefs. Medics in hospitals in at least three major English cities have refused to follow the regulations aimed at helping tackle superbugs because of their faith, it has been revealed. Women medical students at Alder Hey children's hospital in Liverpool objected to rolling up their sleeves when washing their hands and removing arm coverings in theatre, claiming it is regarded as immodest.

The Labour life peer Lord Ahmed was today sentenced to 12 weeks in jail for dangerous driving after he admitted sending text messages from behind the wheel before a fatal road accident. Lord Ahmed had sent several long text messages on December 25, 2007 while driving at 60mph on the M1 motorway near Rotherham, South Yorkshire. Martyn Gombar, 28, a Slovakian man from Leigh, Lancashire, died when Lord Ahmed's Jaguar hit an Audi car that had crashed into the central reservation and was lying stationary across the middle and outside lanes. Lord Ahmed pleaded guilty to dangerous driving but Mr...

A library service was stocking books which encouraged jihad and the murder of non-Muslims, a Government-backed report has revealed. A cost-cutting measure has been blamed for the blunder, which happened five years ago. Leicester City Council had changed its book supplier so it could buy more foreign-language books for its customers. However, council bosses say they were poorly advised by the new provider and, as a result, brought some inflammatory material into stock. After "several months", they realised the dangerous nature of the material and removed it from the shelves, and returned it to the supplier. Details of the error...

When prisoners are released from prison, they often say that they have paid their debt to society. This is absurd, of course: crime is not a matter of double-entry bookkeeping. You cannot pay a debt by having caused even greater expense, nor can you pay in advance for a bank robbery by offering to serve a prison sentence before you commit it. Perhaps, metaphorically speaking, the slate is wiped clean once a prisoner is released from prison, but the debt is not paid off... Yet the scale of a man’s evil is not entirely to be measured by its practical...

It was a watershed moment of capitulation. On Thursday, February 12, visiting Dutch politician Geert Wilders was humiliatingly bundled back on to a plane to his native Holland shortly after arriving in London. Wilders had been invited to show his controversial, 17-minute documentary film, Fitna, in Britain’s House of Lords but was warned in a letter from the British Home Office last Tuesday he would be denied entry to the country. As reasons for his being declared persona non grata, Wilders was told in the letter he would “threaten community harmony and therefore public security.” The directive never stated, however,...

Rightwing Dutch politician Geert Wilders branded Prime Minister Gordon Brown the "biggest coward in Europe" after being refused entry to Britain to show his anti-Islam film. Wilders, who is facing prosecution in Holland for inciting hatred against Muslims, was detained on landing at Heathrow airport and sent back to the Netherlands just over three hours later. He had been invited by a British peer to show his film Fitna, which criticises the Koran as a "fascist book", in the House of Lords.

FURY erupted yesterday after it was revealed a family charity event to celebrate the life of St George is set to be banned. Councillor Yvonne Davies claimed the parade created an “unhealthy atmosphere” and inspired young boys to be racist. She wrote: “It is not only the parade which is the problem, but the tribal excitement it creates.” Sandwell Council in West Bromwich, West Mids, voted to withdraw its financial support and leave organisers with the “impossible” task of raising £10,000 to cover costs. But organiser Trevor Collins, of the Stone Cross Saint George Association, said: “To suggest the parade...

This clip from the UK show "Dispatches" tells the story of a Muslim man who converted to Christianity, and the subsequent abuse and violence directed at his family in accordance with Islamic law. Of course in the PC tradition the reporter is careful to use such phrases as "some Muslims believe converting to another religion is an act of apostasy." But to his credit he reads some blunt statements from several books he's just picked up from the local Islamic bookstore: "The punishment by death in the case of apostasy has been unanimously agreed upon by all the four schools...

Britain's relationship with its greatest ally is already showing signs of strain under Barack Obama, but it is vital for our future, argues Con Coughlin. One minute, David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, is waxing lyrical about the enduring strength of the special relationship between Britain and the United States. The next, he finds himself with his back to the wall in the House of Commons trying to defend Washington's latest bully-boy tactics. Earlier this week, Miliband had enjoyed the enviable diplomatic distinction of becoming the first foreign envoy to meet with Hillary Clinton, the new US secretary of state. But...

MUSLIMS want to create their own communities and remain segregated from British society. A shocking 44% think they should be free to develop along separate lines. But critics claim Muslims will create their own ghettos if they are left to their own devices. The poll found religion has replaced race as the biggest equality issue, with six in 10 Brits thinking it is more divisive. Mass tension has grown following terror attacks from Muslim fanatics, including the 7/7 Tube bombings in 2005. The war in Iraq has also added to divisions leaving many communities split. But critics are fuming Muslims...

Coronation Street bosses spark outrage after hiding cross for church wedding scene - to avoid offending non-Christians Coronation Street bosses covered up a cross during filming at a 14th century church - because they thought it may offend viewers. The Rev. James Milnes said the producers asked for it to be removed entirely, but then settled on hiding it behind candles and flowers. He described the request - made during the filming of Molly and Tyrone's wedding scenes - as a disgrace.

The announcement that Britain is largely to close down its military role in Iraq by May 31, 2009, is welcome news to both this country and Iraq. It represents a most significant achievement after what will have been a very difficult and challenging six years. We should remember that this saga does not start in 2003, but rather in 1990 with Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait – an act of outright international aggression. After the forcible removal of his forces from Kuwait, there followed a decade and more of brutality towards his own people and defiance of at least 16...

Put up the bunting, dust off the drums and polish the trumpets. While few today would say of the war in Iraq "Twas a famous victory", the continuing controversy over one of the most contentious conflicts of modern times should not detract from the heroic efforts made by the tens of thousands of British soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines who have done their country proud these past five years. From the minute they were deployed in the spring of 2003, to the moment when the Union Flag is lowered next year at their air base on the outskirts of Basra,...

THE HAGUE, 19/12/08 - The UK's House of Lords will show Party for Freedom (PVV) leader Geert Willders' controversial Islam film Fitna. So says Wilders following the European Parliament's refusal to show the short film. The EP on Wednesday rejected a request by the UK MEP Gerard Batten of the anti-European Independent Party to allow Fitna to be shown in Strasbourg to MEPs and journalists. Wilders called the ban "censorship" and compared the EP to Saudi Arabia. Wilders has recently shown Fitna at meetings in Jerusalem and New York. He said the film will also be on view in the...

In Scotland, exceeding the speed limit by more than 30 mph is generally an infraction penalized by the loss of one’s license. Except, it would seem, if you are a polygamous Muslim husband dashing between homes in an effort to service more than one wife. That exact scenario occurred earlier this year when a Scottish judge allowed a Muslim husband to retain his license after he was booked for driving 64 mph in a 30 mph zone. “He has one wife in Motherwell and another in Glasgow and sleeps with one one night and stays with the other the next...

FOURTEEN suspected al-Qaeda terrorists were detained in Brussels today before Gordon Brown was due to meet EU leaders. The sweep came just hours before a summit brought together the heads of the 27 EU countries in Brussels. One of the suspects is believed to be a suicide bomber mounting an operation "from which he was not expected to come back". It is thought a terror attack was being planned – but the target has not been revealed. Nearly 250 police officers raided 16 locations in the capital and one in the eastern city of Liege overnight. Computers, data storage equipment...

A Muslim lawyer has launched an extraordinary rant against Christmas, branding the celebration 'evil'. Hate preacher Anjem Choudary claimed the festival was the 'pathway to hell' and urged his followers to boycott it. 'In the world today many Muslims, especially those residing in Western countries, are exposed to the evil celebration Christmas,' he raged in a sermon broadcast on the internet. 'Many take part in the festival celebrations by having Christmas turkey dinners. 'Decorating the house, purchasing Christmas trees or having Christmas turkey meals are completely prohibited by Allah. 'Many still practise this corrupt celebration as a remembrance of the...

A policeman who accused his force of promoting gay rights over religious beliefs was last night sacked for misconduct.PC Graham Cogman, 49, had been disciplined after sending emails to colleagues quoting biblical texts and making remarks considered offensive to homosexuals.In one message he suggested homosexual sex was sinful and in another, addressed to a gay liaison officer, included the phrase ''love the sinner hate the deed.'PC Cogman also circulated the details of an American organisation which offered 'to cure' homosexuality.The devoted family man and church-goer has now been fired by Norfolk Police after a misconduct hearing yesterday. The committed...

For a nation who forged the largest and most powerful empire ever to rule the face of the earth, the current generations of Brits are an emasculated pathetic shadow of their ancestors. Britain and the rest of Europe are an example of how great civilizations are destroyed from the liberal cancer within. Obamamination and the democRATS are about to launch the final offensive against the last bastion of the Judeo-Christian western civilization….the USA. Today I tip my hat in honor on the last of the real Brits standing up to liberal PC tyranny. Come January it will be our turn....

So Boris Johnson, hot on the heels of Colin Powell, has now endorsed Barack Obama for president in his Telegraph column. Barack Obama: Why can't we judge him on his policies alone? As usual - and notwithstanding the brilliant writer and impressive politician that he is - it's unclear quite how seriously one should take the Mayor of London. After all, it was only last year, in another rather ill-judged article, that the then Conservative Member of Parliament for Henley endorsed one Hillary Clinton.

A significant terror plot is being investigated by the security services. the counter-terrorism minister has warned. Lord West, who advises the Prime Minister on security matters, told the House of Lords: "There is another great plot building up again and we are monitoring this." His comments came the day after the House of Lords forced the Government to abandon plans to extend detention without trial for terror suspects to 42 days.

Two alleged terrorists threw petrol bombs and shouted "Allahu Akbar" - meaning God is great - as they drove a flaming Jeep into Glasgow airport, a court heard. The vehicle, driven by Kafeel Ahmed, a PhD student from India, smashed into the airport at 3.13pm on June 30 last year. Ahmed, 28, who died a month after the attack, had prepared a will addressed to Osama bin Laden and the leaders of jihad [holy war] in Iraq, Woolwich Crown Court was told.

Earlier this year I had to warn people about the various siren voices advocating the recognition of Islamic Sharia in the public law of this country. It seems now that this was no theoretical advocacy, and that Sharia courts are not only operating here but claim to have the sanction of the County and High Courts in the enforcement of their decisions. As no one, to my knowledge, has denied this claim, we must assume it is true.