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Sydney Morning Herald London Bombing Survivor, One Year Later ABC News -North was on the Piccadilly Line of the London Tube, traveling from Kings Cross station to Russell Square. ... Rachel is an advertising director in London. ... London bombing survivors demand public inquiry Scotsman London bombing victims remembered Barnet Times, UK - will be held in the Memorial Garden of Hendon Park at 8am tomorrow, to remember the nine Barnet residents killed in last year's July 7 London bombings The event ... LONDON BOMBING ANNIVERSARY: The city people who will never forget ... Peterborough Evening Telegraph, UK -...

London (CNSNews.com) - With the British government exploring a plan to give amnesty to thousands of illegal immigrants, a senior military officer has warned that unchecked migration could threaten Western civilization. Speaking earlier this month at the Royal United Services Institute, a London think tank, Rear Admiral Chris Parry warned that the countries of Western Europe could be subject to "reverse colonization" by waves of immigrants within the next 12 years. With the rise of the Internet and cheap international phone calls, he said that assimilation by these groups into British society would be a thing of the past. Immigrants...

Muslims protest over 'terror' raid Muslims protest over 'terror' raid(Filed: 11/06/2006) Muslims have held a rally outside Scotland Yard in support of two brothers who were held for a week as terror suspects before being released without charge.   The rally was low-key and peaceful The pair were arrested on June 2 when 250 officers - some armed and some wearing chemical suits - raided their house in Forest Gate, east London. Mohammed Abdul Kahar, 23, who was shot during the dawn operation, and 20-year-old Abul Koyair were freed without charge after police found no trace of a chemical device...

London Muslims urged to shun police LONDON, June 7 (UPI) -- A Muslim convert and political activist in London is urging Muslims to avoid police altogether following a raid last week in which a man was shot in the arm. Yvonne Ridley, a former journalist who converted to Islam after being abducted in Afghanistan by the Taliban, said the Metropolitan Police were "terrorizing" the east London neighborhood where the raid was conducted last Friday, Sky News reported Wednesday. "I don't think the Muslim community should communicate with the police any more until they start showing some respect," Ridley said. Ridley,...

British police arrest Muslims for planning attacks overseas British police arrest Muslims for planning attacks overseas International Herald Tribune, France - May 24, 2006MANCHESTER, England The police arrested 10 people Wednesday in raids across Britain designed to apprehend residents the government suspects of planning or ... The BBC reported that the people detained on Wednesday were possibly suspected of planning attacks in Iraq and said that they were believed to be linked to a group called the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group...

Muslims 'must accept' free speech People must tolerate things they do not like, says Sir Trevor Muslims must accept that freedom of speech is central to Britishness and should be preserved even if it offends people, says Sir Trevor Phillips. The chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality (CRE) said we should "allow people to offend each other". And he suggested that Muslims who wanted a system of Islamic Shariah law should leave the UK. His comments follow angry protests against cartoons satirising the Muslim prophet Muhammad. 'Absurd or unpopular' Sir Trevor told ITV1's Jonathan Dimbleby programme: "What some...

Four out of 10 British Muslims want sharia law introduced into parts of the country, a survey reveals today. The ICM opinion poll also indicates that a fifth have sympathy with the "feelings and motives" of the suicide bombers who attacked London last July 7, killing 52 people, although 99 per cent thought the bombers were wrong to carry out the atrocity. Overall, the findings depict a Muslim community becoming more radical and feeling more alienated from mainstream society, even though 91 per cent still say they feel loyal to Britain. The results of the poll, conducted for the Sunday...

For the past two weeks, Patrick Sookhdeo has been canvassing the opinions of Muslim clerics in Britain on the row over the cartoons featuring images of Mohammed that were first published in Denmark and then reprinted in several other European countries. "They think they have won the debate," he says with a sigh. "They believe that the British Government has capitulated to them, because it feared the consequences if it did not. Dr Patrick Sookhdeo "The cartoons, you see, have not been published in this country, and the Government has been very critical of those countries in which they were...

UK poll: 37% of Muslims in Britain think British Jews are a "legitimate target" And those are just the ones fool enough to admit to the pollster what they were thinking. Tiny Minority of Extremists Update: "Poll shows voters believe press is right not to publish cartoons," from the TimesOnline, with thanks to Interested: Nearly two fifths (37 per cent) believe that the Jewish community in Britain is a legitimate target “as part of the ongoing struggle for justice in the Middle East”. Moreover, only 52 per cent think that the state of Israel has the right to exist, with...

British Muslims burn a Danish flag during a demonstration outside the Danish embassy over the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad, in London February 3, 2006. The cartoons, which first appeared in a Danish newspaper, have sparked outrage across the Islamic world, although Britain's normally provocative newspapers have so far refused to publish them. REUTERS/Mike Finn-Kelcey        

ABOUT 70 young Muslim men have left Britain to join the insurgents who are fighting coalition troops in Iraq, senior security sources have revealed. At least three have been killed in combat, including one whose role in an Iraq suicide bombing in February was disclosed by police only last week. The growing problem of militants from Britain travelling to Iraq has been highlighted by Eliza Manningham-Buller, director-general of MI5, in recent briefings to Tony Blair. The MI5 boss warned the prime minister that would-be suicide bombers and other fighters who want to kill British and American troops were using “a...

For some on the Left, purported bigotry against Muslims explains Islamist terror The idea that if someone is prepared to do something truly horrible, he must have a worthy cause remains attractive to liberal intellectuals, who perhaps envy those who take up arms against the sea of troubles that is human existence. Last week’s New Statesman, the British left-wing weekly (for which I also write), provided a fine example of this way of thinking in an article about Islamophobia by travel writer William Dalrymple (no relation). He pointed out that the kidnapper of Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter...

Nov. 21, 2003 British Minister compares terrorism to Nazim, tyranny By DOUGLAS DAVIS LONDON British Muslims are outraged at a challenge by Foreign Office Minister Denis MacShane to choose between the "British way" of political dialogue and Islamic terrorism. In the aftermath of the bombing of British interests in Istanbul Thursday, which claimed 27 lives, including British Consul-General Roger Short, MacShane likened the terrorists to the Nazis. In a speech on Friday, he called on imams and other Muslim leaders to use "clearer, stronger language" to denounce Islamic extremists. "It is time for the elected and community leaders of British...

Could Islam one day become the established church of Britain? Might English women adopt the headscarves and enveloping robes of their Asian sisters, as the call to prayer rises and falls across the slate roofs of rainswept industrial cities? The idea is not as impossible, as bizarre or distant as you might think. An astonishing Channel 4 programme last week - The Last White Kids -- showed two English children who live in an entirely Muslim district becoming enthusiastic attenders at the local mosque, wrapping themselves in Islamic draperies and learning the Koran. Amie Gallagher, nine, and her sister Ashlene,...

News Winners: MP Meg Munn with Jack Shields, Summer Lawson, and Elizabeth Atkin Legal bid to curb mosqueEMERGENCY legal action has been taken by Sheffield Council to stop a makeshift mosque being used for prayers during the major Muslim festival of Ramadan.Councillors have ordered a 'stop notice' to prevent Muslims in Brightside, Fir Vale and Firth Park from using a community centre in Rothay Road, Grimesthorpe, for prayers. The city centre planning board made the decision after hearing of serious tension between the Muslim community and local residents. Tempers were flaring over parking problems as up to 190 worshippers...

Oct. 28, 2003 Report: British Muslims planning attacks against Israel By DOUGLAS DAVIS Israeli military officials have raised the alarm about young British Muslims who might be using Syria as a platform for planning terrorist attacks, according to the London Times on Monday. The paper said the Israeli officials have now asked security agencies in Britain to help track down several of the estimated 50 young British Muslims who have "gone missing" after traveling to Syria in recent months. They also noted that at least three men traveling on British passports are being "sheltered in the Gaza Strip by terrorist...

WASHINGTON – Consider: In Manchester, England, a radical Muslim who does not even speak English has been elected to the city council, where he needs an interpreter. Consider: According to the German media, secret Shari'a courts appear to be meting out "justice" in Italy. In that country's north a man known to Muslims as a sex fiend recently showed up with a hand missing. It had obviously been amputated as punishment. Italian doctors report treating Muslim women who had evidently been lashed. Consider: In France about 70,000 young women, chiefly Muslim, are being subjected to forced marriages every year, according...

Radical Islamic leaders in Britain have issued what a British newspaper described as a thinly veiled threat that the US and Britain may face terrorist attacks similar to those of September 11 if they go to war against Iraq.Sheikh Omar Bakri Muhammad, a preacher from north London, told Wednesday's Daily Telegraph he and other radicals would issue a religious edict telling Muslims how to respond to the "evil" of an attack on the regime of Iraqi president Saddam Hussein.There is growing speculation that US President George W. Bush is considering military action to overthrow Saddam, accused by Washington of...