The 2008 survey on local election candidates by the Local Government Chronicle Elections Centre, commissioned by the Improvement and Development Agency, has found that local councillors in the UK of Asian British background comprise 0.7 per cent of the total number of local councillors with no...
David Edgar writes in Comment is Free on the dynamics of the British Muslim identity and the exploration of a Muslim lifestyle compatible with religious belief and modernity. As British Muslims mature and move beyond culturally rooted forms of religious practice to one that adapts the core tenets...
For those of you that missed the ENGAGE presentation on media awareness and political participation at the Global Peace and Unity event at the weekend, you can view it here.
In an article in today’s Times, the paper claims that ‘specialist advice is being given to Scotland Yard on how to reduce tensions between police and Muslims during the London Olympics because of growing concerns about the Games clashing with the holy month of Ramadan’.
The Rev. Stephen Griffith MBE from Woking in Surrey writes to the Independent today saying: The Security Minister’s warning about radicalised young Muslims needs to be taken with a pinch of salt. Recent research, and Anshuman Mondal’s new book, Young British Muslim Voices, suggests that...
The leader of the Liberal Democrat party, Nick Clegg, has written to the Policy Exchange ‘think-tank’ criticising its ‘bizarre and underhand behaviour’ in seeking to try and dissuade prominent politicians from attending the hugely popular Global Peace and Unity conference...
Birmingham City Councillor Salma Yaqoob said during an interview on Radio 4’s Today programme that money being distributed by local councils as part of the Government’s Preventing Violent Extremism (PVE) scheme was “being used as a gravy train for those willing to toe the...
An article in The Epoch Times on rising far right violent extremism in the UK. The article quotes anti facist campaigner Gerry Gable who says that: “The public deserve a response from the police and intelligence agencies that takes far-right terrorism as seriously as the Islamist variety and...
ENGAGE will launch its FREE full colour ‘Pocket Guide to Media & Politics‘ at the Global Peace and Unity exhibition this weekend. Don’t miss this opportunity to pick up your copy! After too many years on the sidelines of political and public debate on Islam in Britain,...
The Jewish Chronicle published an apology to George Galloway for attributing to him comments he did not make when speaking in support of Hassan Nasrallah at an anti-war rally recently.
