** 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,...
There’s some media coverage today (Daily Telegraph, Guardian, BBC) on the delegation of ministers led by Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, co-chairman of the Conservative Party, to the Vatican. In an article for the Daily Telegraph, Lady Warsi sets out the purpose of her visit and her “absolute...
MP for Rotherham, Denis MacShane, reviewed Nick Cohen’s new book, ‘You Can’t Read This Book: Censorship in an Age of Freedom’ in The Observer yesterday. MacShane lauds Cohen’s argument in favour of the need to “assert the Enlightenment values of both Voltaire and Mill as they argued...
Leo McKinstry pushes his anti-Muslim bigotry, common to his columns in the Daily Express, onto the pages of the Daily Mail today. In an article eulogising the recent demise of Bradford headmaster Ray Honeyford, ‘A prophet sacrificed to appease the mob,’ McKinstry uses the opportunity to single...
The Evening Standard this week reported that police are investigating another racist rant on a tube train after a woman subjected Asian passengers on the Central Line to a “seven-minute expletive-ridden rant”
Leo McKinstry pushes his anti-Muslim bigotry, common to his columns in the Daily Express, onto the pages of the Daily Mail today. In an article eulogising the recent demise of Bradford headmaster Ray Honeyford, ‘A prophet sacrificed to appease the mob,’ McKinstry uses the opportunity to...
There has been significant coverage in the press last couple of days on the decision by the British judiciary to grant ‘control order’ bail to Abu Qatada, a Jordanian who has been detained in UK for nine years, without charge or trial. Abu Qatada was convicted of terrorism offences in Jordan in...
There has been significant coverage in the press last couple of days on the decision by the British judiciary to grant ‘control order’ bail to Abu Qatada, a Jordanian who has been detained in UK for nine years, without charge or trial. Abu Qatada was convicted of terrorism offences in Jordan in...
Sophy Ridge, political correspondent at Sky News reflects on the media coverage of the report published yesterday by the Home Affairs select committee on the ‘Roots of Violent Radicalisation’ Surveying the media coverage and its near neglect of far-right extremism and terrorism, something...
Zaman newspaper publishes an interview with Richard Peppiatt, the reporter who quit his job at the Daily Star over its anti-Muslim bias. From the paper: “Richard Peppiatt, who worked as a full-time freelance journalist at the Daily Star for two years, claimed that editors forced journalists to...
There’s considerable coverage today (Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, Daily Mail and BBC) of the report published by the Home Affairs select committee on ‘The Roots of Violent Radicalisation’. The committee is chaired by MP Keith Vaz. The report itself contains some interesting points of...
