On 8th December the Prime Minister delivered a major speech on ‘The Duty to Integrate: Shared British Values'. Mr Blair please note – you cannot create cohesion at home, and conflict overseas.

It was the Muslim community in Rwanda that provided sanctuary to both Hutus and Tutsis...but there are many other examples of such interventions to help others in the name of a common humanity. During WW2, the Muslims of Paris risked life and limb to rescue Jews from the Nazis..

Cricklewood Blogger’s link with gangsta rap is a tenuous one, but the story begins with an event organised by the local youth charity, Amal Trust. In the last fortnight he has learnt about Bloods and Crips, and this man they call 2PAC Shakur….

So Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller has made a public statement declaring “young (Muslim) teenagers [are] being groomed to be suicide bombers”. Who am I to argue with the head of MI5 who manages a £750 million budget and has all the apparatus of state at her disposal?

Is it right Trevor Phillips should chair Britain's Commission for Equality & Human Rights?

Media sensationalist headlines for Muslims, but the kid glove treatment for others! Two recent news items highlight the disparity.

Cricklewood blogger and his daughter meet kindred spirits aboard the 8.12 from Euston

The Arnold Schwarzenegger of British politics, Home Secretary John Reid, compared his recent visit in East London on 20th September with being in East Belfast – the message being that he took on the Republicans then, and can take on the Muslims now! But George Galloway asks the questions that has crossed all our minds:

While in office, Tony Blair came up with bizarre statements about the great conspiracy against 'the West'. Now out of office, this fiction writing remains a convenient smokescreen to deflect attention from his crimes against humanity...he rang rings round supine cabinet colleagues and ministers (with some notable exceptions like Robin Cook and John Denham) with this bluster, and he believes he can still get away with it....

Saturday evening, 22nd June: stopped to buy a packet of haldi at Food Ware on Dudden Hill. One customer, by the newspaper rack, was in the middle of an invective against the US and Bush....