Tower Hamlets

Andrew Gilligan, Telegraph, Labour: London borough becomes 'Islamic republic', 22 Oct 2010 opinion piece

"For the last eight months – without complaint or challenge from Mr [Lutfur] Rahman – this blog and newspaper have laid out his close links with a group of powerful local businessmen and with a Muslim supremacist body, the Islamic Forum of Europe (IFE) - which believes, in its own words, in transforming the “very infrastructure of society, its institutions, its culture, its political order and its creed… from ignorance to Islam.” Mr Rahman has refused to deny these claims."

Andrew Gilligan's op-ed on the Guardian's perspective

Andrew Gilligan, Telegraph Blogs, The Guardian's latest Islamist press release, 5 Aug 2010 "I appear to have written about The Guardian three days in a row – sorry about that – but the paper’s latest wretched press release for the forces of Islamism can’t go unmentioned." Opinion piece. Expect some further responses online...

Islamic Forum of Europe

Andrew Gilligan, Telegraph blogs has been making comments during the past week on the Islamic Forum of Europe via his blog, mainly under the header 'Islamist Blogpost of the Day'. The Islamic Forum of Europe's blog presents its own perspective, and has also commented on Andrew Gilligan's posts, for example Azad Ali, I tell you there is a wolf there, there is!, 5 Mar 2010. This looks like it might run on for some time.

Islamic Forum of Europe

Andrew Gilligan, Telegraph, We must not be afraid of taking on Islamic extremists, 5 Mar 2010 "The East End has one of the best local papers in Britain, a genuine mirror of its community. But curiously, this week's issue seems to have missed a story which has been making some serious waves in that very community. One of the local MPs, Labour's Jim Fitzpatrick, was quoted in The Sunday Telegraph, and on national television, as saying that his party had been infiltrated by a secretive, fundamentalist organisation, the Islamic Forum of Europe – which he compares to the Militant Tendency in the 1980s."

See Islamic Forum of Europe website for their perspective: