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BBC NEWS 24: Caliphate Revival Plans
Zulfi Bukhari, Head of MPAC, and Dr Nazreen Nawaz from Hizbu-Tahrir are interviewed on BBC News 24 about Caliphate (Islamic System of Governance) revival plans in the modern world.

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Moazzam Begg speaks to an audience of around 100 people at Goldsmiths’ University of London. The meeting was organised by Lewisham Stop The War Coalition.

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In the days leading up to the storming of the Red Mosque, Al Jazeera’s Rageh Omaar gained exclusive access. He and his team were the last TV crew inside the mosque before the siege began and filmed the last interview with Abdul Rashid Ghazi, one of the mosque’s leaders, before his death.
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No hoods. No electric shocks. No beatings. These Iranians clearly are a very uncivilised bunch.

I share the outrage expressed in the British press over the treatment of our naval personnel accused by Iran of illegally entering their waters. It is a disgrace. We would never dream of treating captives like this - allowing them to […]

Moazzam Begg, ex-Guantanamo captive, at the event gives an emotional speech on his experiences at gitmo and his thoughts on what’s going on around the world and extraordinary rendition.

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Why are we trying to divide up the peoples of the Middle East? Why are we trying to chop them up, make them different, remind them - constantly, insidiously, viciously, cruelly - of their divisions, of their suspicions, of their capacity for mutual hatred? Is this just our casual racism? Or is there something darker […]

According to a group of scientists brought together by documentary-maker Martin Durkin, if the planet is heating up, it isn’t your fault and there’s nothing you can do about it.
We’ve almost begun to take it for granted that climate change is a man-made phenomenon. But just as the environmental lobby think they’ve got our attention, […]

‘AS SOON AS certain topics are raised,” George Orwell once wrote, “the concrete melts into the abstract and no one seems able to think of turns of speech that are not hackneyed: Prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together like […]

The mainstream media has become tabloid journalism. If you want information that matters you must find it yourself.

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On Thursday, NBC’s Today Show explored whether the confessions of alleged 9/11 “mastermind” Khalid Sheikh Mohammed can be trusted, since he claimed to have been tortured after being detained.
“Let’s talk about the issue of torture,” NBC’s Matt Lauer said. “He says in his statement that he didn’t make this statement under duress or pressure, but […]