SHIRAZ MAHER

My erstwhile friends and comrades in Hizb ut Tahrir — the liberation party, innit — have released a new report on ‘The future for Muslims in Britain'. The new pamphlet professes to look at the British state's ‘anti-Islamic agenda' as part of its ‘war on Islam'.

ALEXANDER MELEAGROU-HITCHENS 

Following the unrest in Tunisia, al-Qaeda have released a message of solidarity with dissidents protesting against the regime of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.

ALEXANDER MELEAGROU-HITCHENS

Reports from Afghanistan are heralding a recent deal between the US forces and tribal leaders in Sangin, central Helmand.  The source of nearly a third of British military casualties, it is among the most perilous regions in Afghanistan for ISAF forces.

SHIRAZ MAHER

The Governor of Punjab, Salman Taseer, was assassinated earlier today for supporting reforms to Pakistan's arcane blasphemy laws. It is the most high profile and significant political assassination since former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated in 2007.

SHIRAZ MAHER

The gorgeous Lucy Lips, now freshly tanned from her winter break in the Seychelles, alerts me to an ongoing dispute with Tom Griffin - a writer for David Miller's smear projects which include Powerbase (formerly Spin Profiles) and the now defunct Neocon Europe.

ALEXANDER MELEAGROU-HITCHENS

The American Foreign Policy Council, a DC based think-tank, has recently released the online version of its World Almanac of Islamism.  It is a very useful first stop for researchers and others interested in the different forms of Islamism, and how they have developed on a global scale.