** 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 fringe group, Muslims Against Crusades, are to stage a protest outside the Royal Albert Hall on the 11th November in a bid to mock the charity for injured soldiers, ‘Help for Heroes,’ according to an article in the Daily Mail. The paper reports: “The Muslims Against Crusades...
The BBC, Sunday Express and the Mail on Sunday have all reported that Mike Freer MP for Finchley and Golders Green was threatened by a group of men on Friday afternoon as he met constituents for surgery at North Finchley Mosque. From the BBC: “The trouble began after messages on the Muslims...
A two hour time limit has been placed on an EDL demonstration due to take place in Birmingham tomorrow. The Birmingham Post states that, “West Midlands Police had also told the group [EDL] that their protest must take place in Centenary Square and must be over by 3pm.”
As the results come in for Tunisia’s first free and fair democratic elections, the pro-Islamic an-Nahda Party looks set to be the largest party in the new government according to coverage in the BBC, The Guardian, The Independent and The Daily Telegraph. An-Nahda currently has just over 42%...
The Reading International Solidarity Centre (RISC) is hosting an ‘Islam in Britain’, exhibition as part of Reading International Festival. Local paper, Get Reading reports: “The exhibition looks right back to 754 when King Offa of Mercia received ambassadors from the Caliph of Baghdad.
New details have emerged of alleged British complicity in the rendition and torture of a Libyan dissident Abu Munthir al-Saadi and his family, after his daughter spoke openly about being forcibly taken to Libya and held in a prison with her family whilst her father was tortured. The wife and...
Following the investigation of BBC Radio 4’s File on Four programme last week into the alleged abuse of students in some British madrassahs, the Daily Mail today published an article which seeks to delve further into the issue. The article features the harrowing testimony, obtained by File...
Local leaders, MPs and councilors in Birmingham have expressed their concern ahead of a planned march by the EDL next Saturday 29th October. According to the Birmingham Mail, the EDL “are set to take to the streets on October 29, more than two years after their last visit ended in...
An article in the Jewish Chronicle today criticises Professor Malcolm Grant, President and provost of UCL, for comments he made about extremism on campuses in an interview with the Evening Standard. In the interview, Grant criticised the government’s Prevent strategy and the working assumption...
Lord Morris of Handsworth has criticised changes to police stop and search powers arguing it risks undermining police accountability and encouraging racial profiling. His concerns regard changes introduced in February this year which no longer require police to record a stop unless it leads to a...
