** 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 Daily Telegraph recently published an article over concerns expressed in a Department of Education memo on ‘socially conservative’ faith schools “where pupils may be encouraged to cut themselves off from mainstream society”. The ‘majority’ of faith schools noted in the memo are...
BBC Audience Services have responded to our complaint regarding the appearance on BBC News of Jonathan Sacerdoti, former policy director for the Zionist Federation, on four occasions between the 14th-15th November 2012 at a time of heightened violence between Israel and Gaza. In our letter last...
The Scotsman newspaper reports on the trial of two women for attacking a Muslim woman in a park, punching her in the head and pulling off her hijab, and assaulting her pregnant friend. The article states that the two attackers, Eileen Kennedy and her 16 year old niece, Paige Bain, “assaulted...
The Guardian and the Daily Telegraph both report on the MoD response to a freedom of information request by the Guardian on compensation payments made by the department to Afghan civilians and families. According to the Guardian, the payments have been made for a number of claims ranging from...
The Times (£) front page today covers an investigation by the newspaper into the funding of All Party Parliamentary Groups (APPGs). APPGs are unofficial cross-party interest groups set up by and for MPs and peers, and currently cover a wide range of subjects. According to The Times “dozens of...
The Mail on Sunday reports on the ‘official secrets’ defence employed by the former Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, in the case concerning Abdul Hakim Belhadj and allegations of the UK’s complicity in his rendition and torture. Belhadj, who is suing the government, the former foreign...
Two men and a woman have been arrested after a severed pig’s head was left at the door of the Thurnby Lodge centre in Leicester on Boxing Day. The centre, which has been the target of local hostility and external agitation, has seen a number of protests in recent months after local Muslim group,...
The Daily Telegraph covers the latest intervention by Stephen Lloyd MP to maintain the quality and scope of religious education in the teaching curriculum. Lloyd, MP for Eastbourne and chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Religious Education, has expressed concern that government...
The Daily Telegraph and The Times (£) have both reported today on the delays in the publication of the Iraq Inquiry report, which could mean that the report is not published “until late next year at the earliest”. The Inquiry was set up to look into why the UK joined the invasion of Iraq, the...
The Independent front page today carries the story that Prime Minister David Cameron is pushing for more ethnic minority representation amongst parliamentary candidates to boost the party’s support amongst ethnic minorities, over fears that a failure to do so could ‘spell disaster’ for the...
