White Boys Blamed Again
Netflix's Adolescence perpetuates the lazy trope of portraying a white boy as the perpetrator of deadly violence against girls, despite this being very rare in reality. But the Government is no better, says David Shipley.
Netflix's Adolescence perpetuates the lazy trope of portraying a white boy as the perpetrator of deadly violence against girls, despite this being very rare in reality. But the Government is no better, says David Shipley.
Why is it illegal to burn a Koran but fine for pro-Hamas protesters to destroy a Union Flag? Why is one a "public order offence" and the other not? Because in two-tier Britain the one rule is that you can't upset Muslims.
Rejected Islamist asylum seeker Farhad Noori has run down 28 people at a trade union demonstration in Munich. It takes the nine-month toll from such terror attacks in Germany to 12 dead and 343 wounded.
"You’ll never be wasting our time," reads the Prevent poster. So why did the anti-extremism programme fail to stop the Southport killer, who had been referred to it three times? He's not the only one, says Charlotte Gill.
The man who drove a truck carrying an ISIS flag into a crowd of New Year's revellers in New Orleans's French Quarter, killing 15, has been identified as 42 year-old Shamsud Din Jabbar, a U.S. citizen.
Anyone outraged by Labour MP Tahir Ali calling on the Government to introduce blasphemy laws has clearly not been paying attention, says Stephen Daisley, for there are already blasphemy laws in this country.
A top Hezbollah figure recently admitted: "We’re investing in protests in Western countries, especially among college students." Hamas's secret propaganda network has been tolerated for too long, says Ramesh Thakur.
Labour plans to enshrine in English law a controversial definition of 'Islamophobia' that prohibits criticism of Islam. Kareem Muhssin says this constitutes a serious threat to the lives of ex-Muslims like him.
At first, Muslim extremists in Gaza and elsewhere banned Pokémon as part of an alleged Jewish plot to undermine Islam. But more recently they embraced it for its propaganda value, says Steven Tucker.
Islamists in Nigeria have slaughtered thousands of Christians in the past five years. But the media aren't telling us about it, says Julian Mann.
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