Following the recent publication of two reports looking at the EDL and the rise of the far-right in the UK (see here and here), the think-tank DEMOS has published a report looking at the attitudes, beliefs and behaviours of the EDL’s supporters on social networking sites. Entitled, ‘Inside...
The Daily Mail has revealed its distasteful attitude towards and disrespect for human suffering with an article yesterday belittling the torture endured by Binyam Mohamed. The title of the article, ‘Going out shopping, the terror suspect who pocketed a million in compensation over torture...
The BBC reports that French publication, Charlie Hebdo is to mark the election victory of An-Nahda in Tunisia by inviting “the Prophet Muhammad as “editor-in-chief” for its next issue”. “It will be renamed Sharia Hebdo, the weekly said in a statement on Monday.
The BBC, Sunday Express and the Mail on Sunday have all reported that Mike Freer MP for Finchley and Golders Green was threatened by a group of men on Friday afternoon as he met constituents for surgery at North Finchley Mosque. From the BBC: “The trouble began after messages on the Muslims...
The fringe group, Muslims Against Crusades, are to stage a protest outside the Royal Albert Hall on the 11th November in a bid to mock the charity for injured soldiers, ‘Help for Heroes,’ according to an article in the Daily Mail. The paper reports: “The Muslims Against Crusades...
Richard Peppiatt, the former Daily Star reporter who quit over the paper’s anti-Muslim bias, meets some of Britain’s growing number of white British converts in Inside Out, North East and Cumbria. The programme airs on BBC 1 tonight at 19.30 and can be viewed for one week on BBC iPlayer here.
At ENGAGE, we regularly monitor print, broadcast and social media to record and challenge misrepresentations and inaccurate reporting of Islam and Muslims in the UK. We have argued for closer scrutiny and better self-regulation of the UK media in order to make it more responsive to bad practices,...
A two hour time limit has been placed on an EDL demonstration due to take place in Birmingham tomorrow. The Birmingham Post states that, “West Midlands Police had also told the group [EDL] that their protest must take place in Centenary Square and must be over by 3pm.”
As the results come in for Tunisia’s first free and fair democratic elections, the pro-Islamic an-Nahda Party looks set to be the largest party in the new government according to coverage in the BBC, The Guardian, The Independent and The Daily Telegraph. An-Nahda currently has just over 42%...
The Reading International Solidarity Centre (RISC) is hosting an ‘Islam in Britain’, exhibition as part of Reading International Festival. Local paper, Get Reading reports: “The exhibition looks right back to 754 when King Offa of Mercia received ambassadors from the Caliph of Baghdad.
