The Guardian reports that the Equality and Human Rights Commission (chair, Trevor Phillips, pictured) is to brand police forces as ‘racist’ and threaten enforcement action for disproportionate use of stop and search against ethnic minorities. ‘Police forces will be told they face...
Taj Hargey (pictured) proves, yet again, that should the media want a Muslim voice to tell Muslims to put up and shut up, he’s the man to call. In a guest column in The Times today Hargey explains why he is supporting the rejection of a mosque planning application near the Royal Military...
ENGAGE has received a reply from the Foreign Secretary, The Rt. Hon. David Miliband MP, to our letter concerning proposals to remove the power for issuing arrest warrants under universal jurisdiction provisions from UK Magistrates’ courts. Read the Foreign Secretary’s reply here.
Friday saw the publication of a Home Office study, ‘What perceptions do the UK public have concerning the impact of counter-terrorism legislation implemented since 2000?’, prepared by the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) for the Office of Security and Counter...
Andrew Gilligan (pictured), perhaps deluding himself to be riding on the crest of a wave after his disgraceful C4 Dispatches programme last Monday, may well be distinctly crestfallen following what appears to us to be a seriously libelous article he penned for the Daily Telegraph about the...
Following news last week that two Muslim women traveling to Islamabad were denied permission to board their flight for having declined to pass through body scanners at Manchester airport, a petition has been lodged urging the PM to ensure that those who object to passing through such scanners...
The papers on Tuesday widely covered (The Times, Telegraph, Independent and Evening Standard) the fatwa issued in London by the Pakistani cleric Dr Tahir ul-Qadri (pictured) of Minhaj ul-Quran condemning suicide bombers. The BBC reported: ‘In his religious ruling, Dr Qadri says that Islam...
Following the response to Baroness Warsi’s (pictured) question last week to Lord MacKenzie, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Communities and Local Government & Department for Work and Pensions, organisations that have been funded under the Faith Communities...
If you thought documentaries couldn’t sink lower than the hatchet job by John Ware for BBC Panorama, ‘Who speaks for British Muslims?’, in 2005, the Dispatches programme aired last night is proof to the contrary. Using spurious evidence, half-truths and a ragbag of ‘community...
The Department for Communities and Local Government today publishes a report, ‘Attitudes, values and perceptions – Muslims and the general population in 2007-08’, based on data taken from the Citizenship survey 2007-08. The report analyses Muslim and general population attitudes...
