** 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 Guardian and BBC today report on another Libyan national who is to take legal action against the UK government accusing ministers and security agencies of ‘rendering’ him to Libyan officials. Sami al-Saadi, a leading member of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, alleges UK complicity in...
The BBC and Kilmarnock Standard report on the sentencing of the teenager found guilty of viciously assaulting an elderly Muslim man on his way to Fajr prayers at Ayrshire Central Mosque in July this year. From BBC News: “A 16-year-old who carried out a racist attack on a pensioner outside a...
The Prime Minister, David Cameron, delivered his speech to the Conservative party conference today. The PM spoke about reducing public debt, increasing economic growth, improving standards in education, making the UK the most ‘family-friendly government the country has ever seen’ and...
The Guardian reports on the journalists, editors and media professionals who have been invited to address seminars organized to assist the deliberations of the Leveson Inquiry into the culture, practices and ethics of the press. Among those invited is Richard Peppiatt, a former journalist for...
The BBC reports on the sentencing to one year in prison of two of the three people who attacked the Nasir mosque in Hartlepool last November. The third person was given a 12 week suspended sentence. From the BBC News website: “Two men who carried out a graffiti attack on a Teesside...
The Northampton Chronicle last week reported on a new report by the Radicalism and New Media Research Group at the University of Northampton on the English Defence League, “The EDL: Britain’s “New Far Right” Social Movement”. Michael Ellis MP, Member of Parliament for Northampton North...
ENGAGE have written to the Shadow Foreign Secretary, Douglas Alexander MP, to commend the Labour Party for its stance supporting the Palestinian bid for statehood at the UN. Mr Alexander wrote to the Foreign Secretary, William Hague, urging the Government’s support for the Palestinian bid...
The family of Babar Ahmad have released a music video on Youtube to draw attention to the e-petition calling on the government to end his extradition proceedings and put Babar on trial in the UK. “More than 12,000 people have signed the e-petition urging the UK government to stop the...
The Ilford Recorder covers the court case and sentencing passed on four men found guilty of violent disorder following an attack on Redbridge Islamic Centre (RIC) in March this year. From the local paper: “Four thugs who smashed up a Redbridge mosque before hurling a brick at the imam have...
The BBC reports that Stephen Lennon, the leader of the English Defence League, has been convicted of an assault charge for headbutting a member of his own group during an EDL demonstration in Blackburn earlier this year. From the BBC News website: “The leader of the English Defence League...
