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News comes today that Home Secretary Jacqui Smith is upscaling measures to prevent those with extreme views entering the UK.
This scheme is no doubt a vote-winning policy, intended to play on the latent fears of terrorists a large number of Brits harbour, all too often backed up by a latent mistrust of the Muslim community [...]
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Tags: David Irvine, extremists, Jacqui Smith
Controversy has been whipped up in the US, as copies of the New Yorker hit the news stands today carrying an illustration on its front page of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama dressed in Muslim attire.
Defended by the publication as a visual satire on right-wingers’ perception of Obama, the cover, which adorns the Christian politician [...]
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The three arms, or should I say hands, of the English law are tied. The Guardian reports that when our laudable prime minister Gordon Brown was asked by Lord Vaz in the House of Commons today whether the Counter Terrorism billwould damage Britain’s constitution he shrugged the claim off.
The very assertion that Brown merely [...]
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