About Edmund Standing

In January of this year, BNP leader Nick Griffin was interviewed by the Tel Aviv daily Ma’ariv and declared that he now has ‘no time for anti-Semites’. A few days later, he penned an article for the BNP website in … Read More

London Central Mosque at Regent’s Park has been the focus of controversy on a number of occasions, most notably when it was featured in two television documentaries exposing Islamic extremism in Britain: ‘Undercover Mosque’ (2007) and ‘Undercover Mosque: The Return’ … Read More

The ‘Islamic Thinkers Society’ is the American branch of Al-Muhajiroun, the charming Islamist group proscribed in Britain but still operating as ‘Islam For The UK‘ and the ‘London School of Shariah‘. They’re big fans of Anjem Choudary’s mentor Omar Bakri … Read More

Israeli troops are withdrawing from Gaza, yet we are seeing Palestinian schools and hospitals being used as centres for ‘brutal torture’, Palestinians kidnapped at funerals, Palestinians shot in the legs and their hands broken, Palestinians summarily executed on trumped up … Read More

In a blog post at The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg recalls a meeting he had with Nizar Rayyan, a Hamas leader recently killed during Operation Cast Lead. I saw him last in Gaza two years ago, at a mosque in the … Read More

Compare two announcements following Israel’s defensive actions against Hamas in Gaza, as reported by the BBC. Here’s Hamas: [T]he exiled leader of Hamas, Khaled Meshaal, called for a new intifada, or uprising, against Israel, in response to the attacks. The … Read More

Many people were recently amused by the shoe throwing antics of journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi. According to his brother, al-Zaidi’s actions were ’spontaneous’ and meant to ‘humiliate the tyrant’ George Bush. The New York Times reports that al-Zaidi has become a … Read More