Both the Independent and The Times covered the story of Taj Hargey winning compensation last week over libellous remarks printed in the Muslim Weekly newspaper. The Indy ran the story under the headline, ‘The imam who took on the ‘Muslim McCarthyists’’, and The Times, offering...
Harry’s Place has as its motto the Orwellian line ‘Liberty, if it means anything, is the right to tell people what they don’t want to hear.’ Orwell’s observation that ‘Political language…is designed to make lies sound truthful … and to give an appearance of solidity...
Harry’s Place has as its motto the Orwellian line ‘Liberty, if it means anything, is the right to tell people what they don’t want to hear.’ Orwell’s observation that ‘Political language…is designed to make lies sound truthful … and to give an appearance of solidity...
The London Muslim Centre was one of the locations at which Tower Hamlets Council conducted its ‘You Decide!’ consultation. The ‘You Decide’ campaign is designed to involve local residents in council decision making through participation in their Local Area Partnership...
Andy Hull and Ian Kearns of the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) reflect on the shortcomings of the recommendations made in Policy Exchange’s report, ‘Choosing our friends wisely’.
Andrew Alexander in a column in the Daily Mail today asks readers to imagine what it must be like to be a young Palestinian. ‘Suppose that you are a young man living in Gaza, dominated by refugees or their descendants whose original homeland was what is now Israel. You may well have been...
Several of today’s news outlets report that Dr Daud Abdullah, the Deputy Secretary-General at the Muslim Council of Britain, has via his lawyers sent a letter to the Communities Secretary Hazel Blears calling on her to publicly apologise for her remarks about him or face a libel suit.
Policy Exchange has withdrawn from its website its 2007 report, ‘The Hijacking of British Islam’, following a legal challenge mounted by a mosque and Muslim centre falsely accused in the report of stocking ‘hate literature’. PX has also been forced into apologising to the Muslim...
The Times reports that the government is to attempt to isolate the MCB by giving ‘mosques and local Muslim community groups money and direct access to government ministers’. It is hoped that the move will marginalise the MCB within British Muslim communities.
Dr Muhammad Khan writes in the Guardian’s Comment is Free on the government’s ‘Myplace’ youth work funding programme and its neglect of youth projects run by Muslims. ‘Myplace was an invaluable missed opportunity for ensuring the participation of young Muslims in shaping...
