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  • 13 Jan 2010
    Winners and losers in the Islam4UK controversy

    Anjem Choudary must be delighted. Despite representing very few people other than himself, he has now attracted so much publicity that his tiny group of extremists has been banned.

  • 13 Jan 2010
    Questions raised over British government's Islam4UK ban

    Civil liberties campaigners, community leaders, progressive Muslims and commentators have expressed concern that the Home Secretary's ban on a hardline political Islamist organisation may prove counterproductive.

  • 12 Nov 2009
    Re-arrest of "deserter" sparks civil liberties fears

    Joe Glenton, a British soldier who refused to return to Afghanistan after developing a principled opposition to the war, has been re-arrested and charged with five more offences following his part in an anti-war demonstration.

  • 11 Mar 2009
    Peace rallies sweep Northern Ireland in wake of killings

    Over ten thousand people, including faith leaders, trade unionists and community groups, have attended a series of rallies across Northern Ireland to express opposition to the return of violence to the province.

  • 20 Feb 2009
    Government withdraws teaching pack on understanding terror

    The government has withdrawn a widely used education pack from its teachernet website after complaints that helping children to understand what motivates terror attacks is 'dangerous'.

  • 27 Nov 2008
    Behind the Mumbai attacks

    The carnage in Mumbai in which gunmen have killed over a hundred people, injured many more and taken hostages, has shocked the world. It has thrown a spotlight on religious extremism of various kinds, writes Savi Hensman.

  • 27 Nov 2008
    India and world wakes up to full horror of Mumbai attacks

    A series of violent attacks has struck Mumbai, India’s commercial capital, killing many people. Hostages are being held and the situation beyond the tragic headlines is only just coming in to view, Ekklesia is learning.

  • 25 Jun 2008
    It's community that counters terror

    Many, including the Church of England, have argued that the government's 42 days detention without charge strategy is wrong - but what's the alternative?

  • 28 Mar 2008
    The Obama preacher controversy

    The former pastor of Barack Obama has been accused of extremism for his views on 9/11, the US and terrorism. But he has been defended by a leading moderate commentator.

  • 28 Feb 2008
    Terror, oppression and violence declared un-Islamic by scholars

    Terrorism, oppression and violence has been declared un-Islamic by around 20,000 Muslim leaders following a scholars' meeting at an Indian madrassa, according to a senior cleric quoted in The Times newspaper in the UK.