** FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE** Rights group Muslim Engagement & Development (MEND) have launched a new report The Great Debunk: Challenging Islamophobic Conspiracy Theories, which examines how false narratives about Muslims once limited to the far-right fringes have entered mainstream political,...
A soldier charged with criminal damage and burglary in relation to vandalism of a mosque in Chelmsford has pleaded not guilty to the charges. Liam King, 22, is accused of damaging the front door of the Jamiah mosque in Moulsham Street, Chelmsford in the early hours of November last year. The damage...
UKIP party leader, Nigel Farage, in his weekly column in the Independent wrote yesterday that “UKIP is not ‘anti-immigration’, we are anti-uncontrolled immigration” adding that his part was concerned with the ‘quality and quantity’ of immigrants coming to the UK. The statement comes in...
The Home Office published its 2013 Annual Report on the CONTEST counter-terrorism strategy yesterday outlining developments in the UK’s response to terrorist threats experienced last year and ongoing counter-terrorism activities. The report describes in its introduction the murder of Mohammed...
The EU Observer, Guardian, Daily Telegraph, Financial Times, Daily Mail and BBC News all report on the European Court of Justice’s (ECJ) ruling annulling the European “data retention directive” on internet and phone communications. Its judgement follows requests by NGOs, local governments and...
BBC News reports on the government’s defeat over citizenship-stripping powers contained in the Immigration Bill as the Lords voted 242 to 180 against the proposed changes on Monday. Changes to the Immigration Bill, which ministers hope to pass into law before the end of the parliamentary session...
In an appalling attempt at character assassination, the Daily Telegraph yesterday published an article suggesting that Dr Imran Waheed, a former senior representative of Hizb ut-Tahrir, is unsuited to his role as a psychiatrist because of past association with the group. In a lengthy piece the...
The Independent provides further coverage on the Law Society’s new practice note on shari’ah compliant wills. Last month, the Sunday Telegraph’s response to the publishing of the note was overdramatized when it incorrectly reported that the Law Society was ‘promoting’ shari’ah law and a...
The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, Daily Mail, BBC News and ITV News all report on the US Senate Intelligence Committee’s majority decision to vote in favour of the declassification of the summary, findings and conclusions of its report on the CIA’s use of ‘enhanced interrogation...
Third sector portal, civilsociety.co.uk, reports on the Charity Commission’s launch of a statutory inquiry into British Muslim charity, Al Fatiha Global, following a Sun front page story featuring one of the charity’s trustees posing with Syrian fighters. With much speculation on the presence...
Fraser Nelson, the editor of The Spectator, writes in his column in the Daily Telegraph today about “British Muslims [being] truly among us” and that “the integration of Muslims can now be seen as one of the great success stories of modern Britain”. Nelson makes a comparison with the Dutch...
