Faith in the Law

The New York Times has reported that al-Qaeda cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who has been promoted in the UK since 2003, has now admitted that he met with Detroit bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab last fall.

Tom Service in The Guardian brings us the news that “the beast from the East”, Nikolai Valuev, 7’2″ heavyweight boxing champ who’s gearing up for his big David & Goliath fight with David Haye tonight, “is classical music’s only known aficionado in the boxing world.”

For the past couple of days, the Guardian has been running scare stories about the Government’s Preventing Violent Extremism (PVE) programme.  Gleefully feeding Islamist propaganda about the government’s supposed demonisation of Muslims, it is an irresponsible and potentially dangerous attack.