UCL controversy

Syma Mohammed and Rashid Razaq, London Evening Standard, Muslim students could sue UCL for releasing details, 1 Apr 2010 "University College London could face legal action after the personal details of nearly a thousand Muslim students were handed over to police.

"The Federation of Student Islamic Societies has condemned the decision to pass on the names and addresses of students who have not been linked to any criminal offence, and may take the university to court."

Commentary on UCL 'Islamists'

Commentary: Douglas Murray, Daily Mail, UCL professors and students: still turning a blind eye to Islamists on campus, 19 Jan 2010, "One of the few positive things came at the end in the floor speeches. A delightful and pious young Muslim stood up and said that in his experience the Islamic society on campus was certainly radical and that was why he had not joined it and wouldn’t go to their meetings. As he said, we have to admit there is a problem. But as the NUS and UCL representatives showed again last night, they are a very long way from doing that."

Student Arrests

Newsmax, Arrest of Pakistani Students in Britain Angers Families, 17 Apr 09 "The arrests have sparked outrage in Pakistan, where government officials have issued a formal complaint against British law enforcement for refusing to reveal the suspects’ identities or grant Pakistani diplomats consular access to the men. Pakistan’s High Commissioner in London, Wajid Shamsul Hasan, accused British officials not of leaking details of the allegations against the men, but of failing to hand over the evidence against them, according to a report in the Daily Mail."

Plenty of coverage in the media of this.

York

Nouse, Gay Muslims face ‘two-pronged prejudice’, 10 Mar 09 "Pav Akhtar, the first non-white president of the Cambridge University Students Union, is challenging the conservative conceptions of what it means to be a Muslim. In 2006 he also became the first gay Muslim to run for NUS president. He lost to Gemma Tumulty by 28 votes amidst claims of homophobia and Islamophobia."