** 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,...
Islamophobia Watch draws our attention to a story from the weekend on ‘honour’ killings in the UK and the various attempts to portray the crimes committed against women as a ‘Muslim’ issue. As we covered previously, the story was rather shamefully misreported in the Daily Mail as...
The New Statesman follows up on the Muslim Brotherhood’s strong lead in the recent election in Egypt with a discussion piece on ‘Tackling the Islamists’. The magazine posits the question, “Several British groups stand accused of acting as fronts for the Muslim Brotherhood. Should the...
Local paper, This is Staffordshire, covers the court case of British soldier, Simon Beech who is on trial on charges of attempted arson. He is said to have plotted with co-conspirator, Garreth Foster, to blow up the Central Mosque in Hanley, Stoke on Trent last December. From the local paper:...
Ahead of the parliamentary debate this afternoon on the UK/US Extradition Treaty and the fate of Babar Ahmad, there are two articles of related interest in the Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail today. Louis Susman, US Ambassador to the UK writes in the DT to “…correct some of the myths,...
Over the weekend there was widespread coverage of statistics released showing that 2,823 honour attacks were recorded by the police in 2010. The statistics, obtained by the Iranian and Kurdish Women’s Rights Organisation, came from 39 out of 52 police forces, and comparative statistics from 12...
The House of Lords held a debate on the Prevent Strategy last Wednesday evening prompted by Lord Gulam Noon’s question to the Government: “What are the implications for integration and extremism in the United Kingdom of their Prevent strategy?” Interesting among interventions made by...
Local media has reported a racially motivated attack against a Muslim woman in Telford in which she was pushed and shoved as she walked along a footpath and had her hijab pulled off. From the Shropshire Star: “The gang, who were all male, surrounded the 52-year-old woman and started...
Richard Landes in Telegraph blogs returns to a theme of which he is particularly enamoured, “…the ability of Muslims to tolerate criticism from outsiders”. In a blog article titled, “Muslim anti-Semitism, Israel and the dynamics of self-destructive scapegoating,” Landes writes of...
The Jewish Chronicle front page leads with the Public Administration select committee’s questioning of Sir Gus O’Donnell, Head of the Civil Service, on the Adam Werritty scandal last week in which MP Paul Flynn raised questions over the conduct of the British Ambassador to Israel, Matthew...
Following mounting public pressure, the Parliament’s Backbench Business Committee has scheduled a full debate on extradition to be held on Monday 5th December, as well as a vote on changes to the law. The Free Babar Ahmad campaign has issued an action alert urging people to write to their MPs...
