With yesterday’s announcement of the date for the general election, May 6th, Paul Vale in today’s Independent assesses the impact and utility of social networking sites in rolling out parties’ election campaigns. ’Since it launched in 2006, Facebook has matured from a tool for keeping in...
The Docklands newspaper this week covers the work of the Wharf Muslim Association (WharfMA) in dispelling popular misconceptions and stereotypes about Islam and Muslims in the Canary Wharf area. The paper notes: ‘There are estimated to be at least 2,000 Muslims currently working in Canary...
Riazat Butt (pictured) on the Guardian’s Comment is Free website reviews the election campaigns of the UK’s faith communities as the election countdown begins, ‘The religious move in mysterious ways’. She writes: ‘Even before Gordon Brown fired his starting pistol for a 6 May election,...
Jonathan Warren covers the English Defence League’s largest demonstration to date, the demo in Dudley at the weekend, on the ‘Expose the BNP’ blog site. With photos taken along the protest route in Dudley, Warren captures the fear and havoc EDL demonstrations have caused in towns across...
Conservative MP and member of the party’s Human Rights Commission, Mark Pritchard (pictured), contributes a blog article to his local paper, the Shropshire Star, in which he claims shari’ah councils in the UK are socially divisive, dispense unfair justice by discriminating against women, and...
The Independent today pursues a story that broke in The Muslim News last week on the UCL Student Union’s disclosing the personal details of UCL Islamic society members to anti-terror police, in breach of the Data Protection Act and without the permission of the students themselves, many of...
The Guardian prints an interview with the former head of the UN nuclear watchdog, IAEA, Mohammed El Baradei (pictured), in which he criticizes western states’ policy of supporting repressive regimes in the Middle East. El Baradei tells the paper: “There is a need for re-evaluation …...
The Daily Telegraph prints a comment piece by Douglas Murray, director of the Centre for Social Cohesion, on the report produced by the CLG select committee on Prevent yesterday. Murray reiterates criticisms made by many Muslim organizations of the disbursement of public funds for no...
Ruth Gledhill in The Times reports on a paper to be published in the next issue of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations by Nick Chatrath (pictured), a researcher at Oxford’s Faculty of Oriental Studies, in which he argues, ‘…in the face of growing radicalisation in Britain, Muslim...
The Communities and Local Government select committee (chair, Dr Phyllis Starkey, pictured) has today released its report into Prevent. Following a call for evidence last year and oral evidence sessions held earlier this year, the committee has produced its report into the Prevent stream of...
