** 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 today reports on the £20,000 compensation, cover of legal fees and apology given to Rizwaan Sabir, formerly studying terrorist tactics at Nottingham University, who was arrested and detained after his university found an Al-Qaida training manual on an administrator’s computer....
The Daily Mail yesterday published an article on the comments by Baroness Flather during the Lords debate on the Welfare Reform Bill yesterday that migrant communities and Pakistani and Bangladeshi communities in particular, have failed to adopt British values and have large families in order...
The Rt. Hon. Alan Duncan MP, Minister of State in the Department for International Development, has replied to our letter of support for his comments criticizing Israel’s illegally constructed wall in the Occupied West Bank made in a video posted on the DfID website (but which has since...
The Rt. Revd. Dr Peter Mullen, Rector of St Michael’s, Cornhill, and St Sepulchre-without-Newgate church in the City of London, contributes a short comment piece in the Mail Online today in reaction to the speech yesterday by Mustafa Abdel Jalil, chairman of the Libyan National...
The Joint Select Committee on Human Rights have today released their second report on the powers of police to stop and search without reasonable suspicion. The report addresses the risk of the arbitrary use of stop and search powers under current guidelines and their possible breach of human...
The Independent and Daily Telegraph have both reported on the protest last Sunday by the group Muslims Against Crusades as they attempted to disrupt the 9/11 commemoration ceremony held at the memorial garden in London. From the Independent: “Some 100 protesters from Muslims Against Crusades...
– A court has heard how a 41 year old male sought to publicise a religiously motivated act of vandalism by asking his daughter to upload a photo of a pig’s head thrown on the site of a future mosque onto Facebook. Wayne Havercroft is said to have been part of a gang who […]
On Sunday the world marked the tenth anniversary of the terrorist attacks of 9/11 and it would seem apposite that newspapers, TV and radio marked the occasion with comment pieces of reflection and rumination on the events of that day and its legacy ten years on. It should come as no surprise...
The BBC, The Guardian, The Independent and the Daily Telegraph have all today reported on the findings of the Baha Mousa Inquiry, chaired by retired appeal court judge, Sir William Gage. Mousa (pictured), an Iraqi hotel worker died whilst held in detention at 1st Battalion, the Queen’s...
A letter from ENGAGE to The Independent, in relation to the opinion article by Dominic Lawson in Tuesday’s paper on allegations of the UK’s complicity in torture, has been published today. The letter can be read here.
