** 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,...
The Observer yesterday covered the Muslim Council of Britain’s intervention in the curriculum debate on teaching history in schools. The MCB said in a statement urging people to participate in the history education consultation, that it is “deeply disappointed” with the draft plans...
Local paper, Plymouth Herald, reports on the English Defence League demonstration in the city at the weekend against plans for a club to be given over to an Islamic charity to convert into a mosque. EDL supporters from the south of English gathered in Plymouth to protest the plans. The local paper...
The Independent today covers the tensions emerging between the Coalition parties as local election campaigns get underway. Elections will take place on Thursday 2 May for 2,392 local council seats in England and Wales as well as two Mayoral elections in Doncaster and North Tyneside. The Coalition...
Local paper, Wakefield Express, reports on a police investigation underway after food was thrown at the side walls of a mosque in Eastmoor. The Jamia Masjid Sawfia mosque in Eastmoor, Wakefield was the target of a late night attack with unspecified food thrown during the early hours of April 4. The...
A reader of the Crayford News Shopper in a letter to the editor urges locals to visit the NWK Muslim Association in an attempt to dispel the tensions created by far right activists in the area. The News Shopper reported last month that a far right group, English National Resistance, have threatened...
The Guardian today reveals that a number of parliamentary passes issued by members of the House of Lords “have gone to consultants, lobbyists, or senior managers and executives in charities and businesses.” Lobbying – the ‘next big scandal waiting to happen’ as David...
Bradford local paper The Telegraph and Argus reports on a letter sent by MP for Keighley, Kris Hopkins, to the Justice Secretary seeking rejection of plans for shari’ah councils by Bradford Council of Mosques on the basis of their having “neither jurisdiction nor legitimacy in this...
The media is today, as yesterday, filled with news about the death of Baroness Margaret Thatcher, the UK’s first female Prime Minister, serving from 1979-1990. With the funeral expected to take place next week, and copious commentary in the newspapers on the nature of her premiership, her...
Daily Mail columnist Stephen Glover in his column in the paper last week wrote about the case against former foreign secretary, the Rt. Hon. Jack Straw MP, and former counter-intelligence head at MI6, Sir Mark Allen, concerning allegations of complicity in rendition and torture, and the refusal by...
PR Newswire relates changes to the Associated Press agency’s Stylebook for journalists concerning the use of the term ‘Islamist’. The move follows representations made by the Council for American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) to AP on the term which was formerly defined as: “Islamist —...
