Brits Told: Be Nicer to Muslims
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/45265/Brits-told-Be-nicer-to-Mus...
Cameron Millar, Daily Star
Brits have been ordered to be nicer to Muslims – despite having one of the
most tolerant attitudes to Islam in the world. A United Nations committee
said it was concerned that “negative public attitudes towards Muslim members
of society” were developing in the UK. The committee also voiced its concern
over Government plans to extend the detention of terror suspects. But a
source said: “Funnily enough, they didn’t seem to mention the treatment of
non-Muslims in Saudi Arabia and Iran.”
[Treat Muslims better, Britain told by UN -MPACUK
http://www.mpacuk.org/content/view/4839/102/]

The Blears Fallacy
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jul/25/islam.religion
Soumaya Ghannoushi, Guardian CiF
One of the most frequent criticisms of Islam is that it institutes no
distinction between the secular and the sacred. "State and religion should
never be mixed," Muslims are often reprimanded. "You need only look at the
Arab region, with its miserable breed of religion-manipulating despots to
see that." So, when you hear that Hazel Blears is creating a made-to-measure
committee of Islamic theologians, a sort of church for Muslims, the irony
becomes too striking for words.

British opposition leader eyes 'Sharia law for bike theft'
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5j_Hy2XcwPUwXohexq4o9TL6Ykc0g
AFP
LONDON (AFP) — The man who could become Britain's next prime minister joked
Thursday that he was thinking about bringing in Sharia law for bicycle
thieves after having his own bike stolen outside a London supermarket. "I'm
contemplating introducing Sharia law for bicycle theft," said the leader of
the main opposition Conservative Party, David Cameron, referring to the
Islamic law code, after thieves took his bike as he stopped to pick up
groceries near his west London home.
[Hug a hoodie? Or kill a bike thief?? -Sam Leith, Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/07/26...
.xml]

Mel P: Is it Islam or Islamism? (Bradford Muslim)
Ed stifling debate again (Indigo Jo Blogs)
Muslim schools fuel segregation, say teachers (well, one right-wing teacher)
(Islamophobia Watch)
France: Interviews with woman who was refused citizenship (Islam in Europe)
Two Muslim women file suit, say McDonald's banned headscarves (Islamophobia
Watch)
Little Solace for Srebrenica Muslims (IslamOnline.net & Newspapers)
Revenge (Jonathan Freedland, Guardian)