ENGAGE has written to the Foreign Secretary, William Hague, regarding his statement to the House on Iran’s alleged nuclear weapons programme in a parliamentary debate last week. The letter is available to read here.
The Euronews website features a video in which viewer Masha asks Michael Privot, the Director of the European Network Against Racism (ENAR) “If Muslim extremism is a real issue in Europe?”. Michael’s response gives deep insight into socio-political and economic contexts in which Muslim...
The Daily Telegraph and The Daily Mail have both covered an online interview with Mark Thompson, the director general of the BBC on ‘The BBC and Religion’. Thompson, who in the interview describes himself as a practicing Catholic and ‘critical realist’, was interviewed by historian, author...
Channel 4 on Monday broadcast the programme ‘Proud and Prejudiced’ featuring Stephen Lennon (aka Tommy Robinson), the leader of the English Defence League and Sayful Islam, a man whose exploits include abusing British soldiers and burning poppies on Remembrance Sunday. Both men hail from Luton....
The Daily Mail today covers proposals by the coalition Government to extend the mandate for secret trial hearings which would give the Government powers to hold trials which are deemed ‘sensitive’ or a risk to ‘national security’ behind closed doors, and to withhold evidence held against...
The Barking and Dagenham Post reports on the 14-month jail sentence passed on a 29 year old convicted of affray and common assault after he threw large stones onto a busy road and assaulted two men at an English Defence League demonstration against a mosque in Dagenham last June. From the paper:
There has been extensive coverage in the media of the Associated Press report on New York Police Department’s surveillance of American Muslim students at 15 university campuses in the north eastern states of New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Connecticut. The surveillance is said to have...
Local news reports and the BBC (see also Yahoo News) relate attacks which have taken place on Asian businesses in Rochdale in racially aggravated violence prompted by proceedings in a sex-grooming trial involving local men. Superintendent Chris Hankinson, speaking to Rochdale Online about the...
The Independent today reports on a ‘European Counter-Jihad Meeting’ due to take place next month involving members of far right movements from across Europe which the paper says could result in the creation of the “European Defence League – and the beginning of a dangerous new phase in...
The London mayoral elections in May this year is proving rich-pickings for the anti-Ken Livingstone brigade as evidenced by recent articles, see for example Andrew Gilligan on his Daily Telegraph blog. Islamophobia Watch has a great piece dissecting the ES hatchet jobs of the previous week in which...
