** 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,...
Foreign Secretary William Hague has been warned over the UK’s abstention on a vote at the UN recognising the Occupied Palestinian Territories as an independent state, according to an article in The Guardian today. From the paper: “As the foreign secretary, William Hague, prepares to tell MPs...
Following on from its report last week looking ‘Inside the EDL’, Demos has published an interim report looking at the rise of ‘anti-Islam’ populist parties across Europe (with more detailed country-specific papers to be released in the coming weeks). The latest report,...
Mehdi Hasan in a column in today’s Guardian draws attention to the plight of Babar Ahmed and asks “Is it justice to lock up Babar Ahmad so long without trial?” “For seven long years, Ahmad has languished behind bars, fighting against his extradition – under the Labour...
Paul Sims interviews Dr Robert Lambert on his new book, ‘Countering Al Qaeda in London‘, in the New Humanist this week. Speaking about his time as Head of the Metropolitan Police Muslim Contact Unit, Lambert tells Sims: “Within the Met we felt that communities defeat terrorism,...
Following the recent decision by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) to grant the Palestinian Authority full membership, the Henry Jackson Society has published a strategic briefing paper on the implications of the UNESCO decision for various parties....
Following the recent publication of two reports looking at the EDL and the rise of the far-right in the UK (see here and here), the think-tank DEMOS has published a report looking at the attitudes, beliefs and behaviours of the EDL’s supporters on social networking sites. Entitled, ‘Inside...
The BBC reports that French publication, Charlie Hebdo is to mark the election victory of An-Nahda in Tunisia by inviting “the Prophet Muhammad as “editor-in-chief” for its next issue”. “It will be renamed Sharia Hebdo, the weekly said in a statement on Monday.
The Daily Mail has revealed its distasteful attitude towards and disrespect for human suffering with an article yesterday belittling the torture endured by Binyam Mohamed. The title of the article, ‘Going out shopping, the terror suspect who pocketed a million in compensation over torture...
At ENGAGE, we regularly monitor print, broadcast and social media to record and challenge misrepresentations and inaccurate reporting of Islam and Muslims in the UK. We have argued for closer scrutiny and better self-regulation of the UK media in order to make it more responsive to bad practices,...
Richard Peppiatt, the former Daily Star reporter who quit over the paper’s anti-Muslim bias, meets some of Britain’s growing number of white British converts in Inside Out, North East and Cumbria. The programme airs on BBC 1 tonight at 19.30 and can be viewed for one week on BBC iPlayer here.
