Joan Smith offers her profound thoughts on the result of the Swiss referendum: "I don't doubt that some people voted for the ban for racist reasons, but damning them all as 'Islamophobes' is an attempt to suppress entirely reasonable arguments about...

"Over the last two decades Islam has become connected to so many controversial debates – violence, extremism, freedom of speech, gender discrimination, forced marriage, to name a few – it is difficult for ordinary citizens to embrace this new Muslim...

Writing in the Daily Telegraph, Ed Balls responds to the Tories' demand for a ban on Hizb ut-Tahrir, accusing them of feeding the anti-Muslim propaganda of the right-wing press and aiding the far right: "... whatever the political and media pressure –...

Swiss voters defied their Government and churches today and approved a ban on building minarets — reflecting an alarming hostility to a rising Muslim minority. Fifty-seven per cent of voters in a referendum supported the direct democracy ...