Media Reception
The CSC said that it had no political affiliations and aimed to be impartial and non-partisan in carrying out its work. A frequently referenced media source, the CSC was labelled by parts of the media such as the BBC and The Guardian as "right leaning", its research has been described as "controversial" and it attracted criticism from the National Assembly Against Racism, the National Union of Students and the Scottish-Islamic Foundation, whose chief executive Osama Saeed described the CSC, along with the Policy Exchange, as a "right-wing 'stinktank'". By contrast, the CSC's findings were more favourably received by other media outlets, most notably the British right-of-center press such as The Daily Mail, The Spectator and Daily Telegraph. Melanie Phillips of The Spectator described the Centre as "invaluable", and the Telegraph's Damian Thompson described Murray as the Centre's "brilliant young director" in his Daily Telegraph blog.
Murray robustly defended his February 2010 open invitation to post Irish jokes on his blog. A number of people questioned whether Murray would invite jokes about Pakistanis or Israelis.
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