Daily Terror Update

‘This is not the way I should have been treated in a country I love’
Polly Curtis and Anthea Lipsett, The Guardian
For more than a decade, Nottingham university felt like the safest place in the world for Hicham Yezza as an undergraduate, doctoral student, campus activist and, most recently, employee. But two weeks ago his world caved in when he was arrested under the Terrorism Act. The 30-year-old Algerian was detained by police for possessing a copy of the al-Qaida training manual that he had been given to print by a friend researching the terrorist group’s techniques for his MA.

Now Muslim Clerics to Teach Our Children
Daily Express
Moves to allow Muslim clerics into classrooms to address pupils were condemned yesterday. The latest scheme put forward by Schools Secretary Ed Balls was greeted with derision. Critics branded the proposals by the under-fire minister unworkable and unnecessary. The package of measures, to be published next week, will set out a proposal to invite British-born imams into schools to speak about growing violent extremism among young people.

A principle under threat
Leader, The Guardian
Reporters who investigate this shadowland are therefore to be encouraged. Shiv Malik is one such journalist, researching Muslim extremism in this country even before the attacks of July 2005. Yet his work and that of other journalists, media outlets and publishers risks becoming a lot more difficult. For the past few months Mr Malik has been trying to fend off an order from Greater Manchester police to surrender his notes and tapes of interviews with the terrorism suspect Hassan Butt.

Face to faith (The Rev Dr Joanna Collicutt, The Guardian)
Islam, not gays, will split the Church (MPACUK)
Another ‘pastor disaster’ upsets Obama campaign (Suzanne Goldenberg, The Guardian)
Bishop of Rochester ‘doing the BNP’s work’ (Islamophobia Watch)
Institutionalised Child Abuse In the Name of The Endless War for Civilization, Freedom and All That (The Cutting Edge)
Asian women ‘denied free votes’ (BBC News Online)
Muslim TV crew stopped under terror law (Islamophobia Watch)
French Muslims’ marriage annulled over virginity lie (Tom Heneghan, FaithWorld)
War in Iraq: US marine reassigned for distributing coins bearing Bible verses (McClatchy newspapers guardian.co.uk)
Making “Medieval” Islam Meaningful (Daniel Varisco, Tabsir)
Dunkin’ Donuts buckles to zionist hate campaign (Jews sans frontieres)
Muslim scholar responds to “Sharia smear” against Obama (Tom Heneghan, FaithWorld)

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