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A previous column about the right wing journalist Peter Oborne (Solidarity 661) described how this one-time “conventional conservative” had been transformed by the Iraq war into someone feted by sections of the left. I described his politics as “right wing isolationism”. That column described Oborne’s largely uncritical admiration for Islam and Islamic regimes, including some ultra-reactionary Islamists.
A US paper of record’s podcast on the Trojan Horse affair is activism disguised as journalism
Brian Reed and Hamza Syed set out to find the author of a letter that sparked fears of an Islamist takeover plot in Birmingham schools. But despite racing to the top of the podcast charts they have had to fend off criticism
The NYT's Trojan Horse Affair podcast set out to explain a scandal involving allegations of Muslim fundamentalists infiltrating British schools.
Bradford, United Kingdom – In 2013, Jusna Begum performed ghusl, for the first time. Her sister Halima had died from cancer at 40, and in accordance with Muslim principles, she washed her sibling’s body one last time, with water, before laying her to rest. As the United Kingdom struggles to contain another devastating wave of the coronavirus, Begum, 46, along with a team of volunteers, has been working across East London to ensure the last rites of a mostly South Asian Muslim community are observed. The first national lockdown implemented last March saw mosques across the country close, l...