UK: Lord offers bounty for capture of Obama, Bush Via Al Arabiya : A controversial British parliamentarian of Kashmiri origin, Lord Nazir Ahmed, has announced a bounty for the capture of U.S. President Barack Obama and former President George W. Bush according to a report in Pakistan’s Express Tribune newspaper Sunday.
London: University considers stopping sale of ‘immoral’ alcohol on campus because it offends their Muslim students Via the Daily Mail : A university is considering ending the sale of alcohol on campus due to concerns from Muslim students. London Metropolitan University could take action because a ‘high percentage’ of its students thought drinking was ‘immoral’, according to its vice chancellor. Professor Malcolm Gillies raised the prospect of an alcohol-free campus after gauging the changing values from the influx of new students
UK: How daytimers got young British Asians dancing Via the Guardian : It was the era of the nightclub, a time when dance music took hold in the UK. But the young British Asians who came of age during the 1980s and 1990s had, on the whole, conservative parents who disapproved of their children going to sweaty nightclubs, getting drunk and hooking up with the opposite sex. Against this repressive backdrop, something new emerged that passed largely unnoticed by the mainstream: club events where thousands of young Asians would listen to music – bhangra mainly – performed by bands and later played by DJs.
EU: Abu Hamza can be extradited to US, human rights court rules Via the Guardian : Abu Hamza, the radical cleric who became the face of violent extremism in Britain, can be extradited to the US to face terrorism charges, the European court of human rights has ruled. The court in Strasbourg said the human rights of Hamza and four other men held in Britain – Babar Ahmad, Syed Tahla Ahsan, Adel Abdul Bary and Khaled Al-Fawwaz – would not be violated if sent to the US to stand trial.
UK: Scotland Yard’s racism crisis deepens as vile abuse of Asian shop manager is revealed Via the Daily Mail : The racism crisis engulfing Scotland Yard took a dramatic turn last night as an officer was exposed for abusing an Asian takeaway manager. In an appalling drunken outburst, PC Philip Juhasz, 31, told the Pakistani to ‘go back to your f****** country’.
UK: Wearing a veil helps give Muslim women strength, says archbishop Via the Sunday Times : THE Archbishop of Canterbury believes that British Muslim women can “help assert themselves” by wearing a veil. Speaking at The Sunday Times Literary Festival in Oxford, Rowan Williams questioned the view that women hid behind veils and warned against “what we sometimes think of wrongly as stereotypes”
UK: Two charged in Somalia terror probe Via UKPA : Scotland Yard believes it has smashed a London gang allegedly trying to fund terror in Somalia. Mohammed Shafiq Ali, who works for a security firm used by Transport for London, and his unemployed twin brother Mohammed Shabir Ali have appeared in court charged with terrorism offences
UK: Labour ‘failed to connect with Asians in Bradford’ Via the BBC : George Galloway’s victory in Bradford West was partly due to Labour’s failure to connect with the Asian community, the shadow home secretary has said. Yvette Cooper said her party had not won over young Asians or Muslim women. ( source )
UK: 400 minors helped by Forced Marriage Unit in 2011 Via the BBC : A five-year-old girl is thought to have become the UK’s youngest victim of forced marriage. She was one of 400 children to receive assistance from the government’s Forced Marriage Unit in the last year
UK: Counter-terror strategy faces university opposition Via the Guardian (h/t DW): The government’s counter-terrorism strategy is facing opposition on university campuses over concerns it is discriminatory and encourages spying. Student groups and lecturers have moved to distance themselves from Prevent, a Home Office initiative that aims to combat violent extremism, after being asked to report Muslim students deemed vulnerable to radicalisation