Hassan Mahamdallie asks if Islamophobia has become society’s acceptable racism.

Gareth Peirce looks at the position of Muslims in Britain today, comparing it with that of the Irish during the Troubles.

Militant secularists are becoming apologists for capitalism and war, but the struggle is within faiths, not against them, argues Seamus Milne.

Media Workers Against the War looks at the myths behind the media fury that followed the Archbishop of Canterbury’s speech on sharia law.

In this climate of anti-Muslim rage, counter-terrorist police are talking more sense than the government or media, writes Seamus Milne.

Media Workers Against the War looks at the facts behind the press reports on the sharia law controversy.

The scare stories about sharia can’t hide the fact that “British justice” has always been about preserving the rule of the rich, writes Richard Seymour.

The response of the liberal press to the Archbishop of Canterbury’s remarks on Shari’a law consisted of little more than base Islamophobic prejudice dressed up in liberal and feminist language, writes Richard Seymour.

Nahella Ashraf writes that Islamophobia is the last “acceptable” racism in Britain. To combat it means opposing the “war on terror”.

Babar Ahmad is the US’s hostage in Britain, his conversations with MP Sadiq Khan have been monitored by police and he faces extradition to the US on trumped up charges. He is the real victim of the bugging scandal, says Matthew Cookson.

The main threat to democracy isn’t “Islamofacism”, writes Gary Younge, but plain old fascism, with mostly white Europeans terrorizing minorities in the name of racial, cultural or religious superiority.

People who would have no problem recognising anti-semitism as a form of racism still claim Islamophobia is about ideology, not ethnicity, argues Seamus Milne.

The exposure of faked evidence for a thinktank report is a warning of the dangers of Britain’s anti-Muslim media campaign, writes Seamus Milne.

Media Lens analyse how the mainstream media create threats that don’t exist to further the official agenda, noting that the media’s apparent concern for human rights in places like Darfur and Afghanistan is in fact driven by the demands of power.

The constant regurgitation by the media of Muslim-baiting ‘research’ by right-wing think tanks misleads the public and is driven by a neocon political agenda, writes Seumas Milne.

Ann Talbot on how Martin Amis has helped make Islamophobia acceptable within British cultural and political discourse.

Exclusive to UK Watch, David Wearing examines the campaign of demonisation of Muslims in Britain, and concludes that the “clash of civilisations” model espoused by professed defenders of ‘Enlightenment values’ is in fact irrational and often in contradiction to the empirical facts.

Chris Morris on the ridiculous and dangerous Islamophobia espoused by British novelist Martin Amis.

Ronan Bennett takes a look at British novelist Martin Amis’ endorsement of prejudice against Muslims, and the disturbing failure of his peers to call him on it.