** 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 BBC, the Independent and the Daily Telegraph yesterday all reported on figures obtained by BBC Radio 4’s ‘File on 4’ programme which show that British madrassahs have received over 400 allegations of physical and sexual abuse in the past three years. The BBC investigation asked over...
Paul Goodman and Douglas Murray engage in an interesting tit-for-tat squabble on Conservative Home this week. Goodman argues that Murray has been declared persona non grata by the Conservative front bench for his Pym Fortuyn speech in 2006 in which Murray called for “conditions for Muslims...
A local book stall in Cradley Heath market run by the Ahmadiyya community was stormed by the EDL on Saturday afternoon, the local Halesowen News reports. From Halesowen News:“A Muslim book stall in Cradley Heath market was stormed by over 25 thugs from the English Defence League this weekend.
The Mail on Sunday carried an article concerning a secret MI5 document, ‘Radicalisation of Muslims in the United Kingdom – A Developed Understanding’ which was found at the abandoned Tripoli residence of the British Ambassador to Libya. The document offers an insight into what...
The Jewish Chronicle has printed an apology to Tafazal Mohammed for a defamatory front page article by political editor, Martin ‘The Great Koran Con Trick’ Bright, which falsely branded Mohammed a ‘jihadist’ and attacked the organisation Forward Thinking for hosting him at a...
The Home Office has released its statistical bulletin on the use of arrests, stops and searches under the Terrorism Act in 2010/11, including figures which show that there has been a 91% fall in stops and searches carried out under section 44 of the Terrorism Act since last year. Here are...
The Government today published its response to the annual report 2010-2011 of The Intelligence and Security Committee. The ISC in its report questioned again the metrics for measuring the effectiveness of the CONTEST counter-terrorism strategy and in particular, the work of RICU (Research,...
In an interview with Martin Bentham of the Evening Standard, Professor Malcolm Grant, President and Provost of University College London, once more criticises the government’s Prevent strategy, the mistaken causal relationship assumed to exist between universities and the propensity to commit...
Former UKIP candidate, Abhijit Pandya wrote an article for the Daily Mail yesterday in which he presents his reasons for agreeing with Richard Dawkins that multiculturalism is a barrier to integration. Pandya writes: “We must now begin the necessary measures of assimilation to fight the...
The BBC, the Daily Mail and the Daily Telegraph have all reported on the comments of prominent scientist and atheist, Richard Dawkins who has attacked Muslim faith schools for teaching ‘alien rubbish’. In an interview with the Times Educational Supplement, Dawkins said that Muslim faith...
