Alaa Al Aswany, author of The Yacoubian Building, writes in the Guardian today on the media’s double standards in dealing with Islam and Muslims as subject matters and laments the dearth of Muslim voices and examples that challenge these prejudices and project Islam in its truer form. He...
Professor Stephen Walt, (pictured), co-author of ‘The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy’, comments on the meeting last week of pro-Israel lobby groups in the United States with President Obama. He writes of the importance of the lobby to US endeavours to progress on the establishment of a...
Martin Bright (pictured) comments in the Spectator blogs on the MCB’s libel win against the BBC last week. He quotes from Nick Cohen’s column in The Observer: ‘The exorbitant costs of libel actions are far beyond the means of all academics and, increasingly, most newspapers…’...
A London-based conman who defrauded hundreds of Muslims of their Hajj savings has been jailed for 6 years following a Metropolitan Police investigation. Muslims who approached Mohammed Faruk Ahmed (pictured) of Qibla Hajj Kafela Services in London’s Brick Lane, to secure their visas,...
Pickled Politics features a guest post by Shaaz Mahboob (pictured) of British Muslims for Secular Democracy (BMSD) on Muslim patriotism. He writes: ‘Yesterday’s coverage about the repatriation of the eight British soldiers killed in Afghanistan and the welcome accorded to them by the British...
Further to our item on the Israeli Foreign Ministry’s use of ‘talkbackers‘ to ‘talk up’ Israel in online discussion forums, a Calcalist article translated from Hebrew into English explains and exposes the purpose of the venture and why the war of words is moving into the online...
ENGAGE congratulates the Muslim Council of Britain for pursuing its libel case against the BBC and securing a full apology today in open court together with £45,000 in damages. The BBC broadcast slanderous comments by the Daily Telegraph columnist Charles Moore on its Question Time...
Lesley-Ann Jones, in the Sunday Express last week, penned a short column entitled, ‘Time to outlaw Shari’ah’. She quotes Mrs Justice Rafferty, who on sentencing Ali Beheshti for firebombing a publisher’s home last week, said, ‘If you choose to live in this country, you live by its...
Breaking the Silence, an Israeli campaign group, has today released a report on the conduct of Israeli soldiers in Gaza, during Israel’s savage bombardment of the region earlier this year. It catalogues practices that concur with Amnesty International’s claims that Israel committed war...
It appears that Andrew Brons (pictured with Nick Griffin), a member of the racist British National Party who along with Griffin was elected as an MEP in the June 4th elections has received a letter of congratulations from a self-described ‘Muslim’ group. Can you guess which one?
