** 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,...
Robert Lambert, whose new book on ‘Countering al-Qaeda in London: Police and Muslims in Partnership,’ is out this week, was interviewed on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme this morning on his work with Muslim groups as Head of the Muslim Contact Unit at the Metropolitan Police from 2002...
Ten years on from 9/11, the events of that day continue to have ramifications for people all over the world. On Tuesday BBC Radio 4 broadcast a documentary exploring how 9/11 has changed the lives of British Muslims. Presented by Navid Akhtar, the documentary sees him travel around the...
The House of Lords is due to debate the state of interfaith dialogue in the UK this afternoon. A debate tabled by Lord Parry Mitchell will begin at around 4.30pm. Among the Members of the Lords scheduled to speak in the debate are Lord Sacks, Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the...
The Guardian, The Independent, The Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail have all reported on the claims by the leader of the Libyan rebels, Abdel Hakim Belhadj, of UK complicity in his torture by the Gaddafi regime. Belhadj claims he was placed on a CIA rendition flight to Libya in 2004 after...
The Metro newspaper yesterday reported on another publicity stunt by Muslims Against Crusades, one of the utmost disrespect – to engage in a “noisy protest” as the world marks the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks with a minute’s silence. Anjem Choudary, spokesperson for MAC told...
The BBC reports that 60 EDL supporters were arrested on public order offences on Saturday, the day of the EDL’s Tower Hamlets dem The EDL numbered around 1000 and demonstrated near Aldgate Tube Station under a police escort, whilst a counter-demonstration estimated at around 1500 held a...
In light of the fatal Norway attacks which took place on 22nd July 2011, investigations into the background and motives of Anders Behring Breivik have sought to shed light on the ideology which drove him to commit such an atrocity. Breivik had broadly justified his acts in the name of...
The former head of MI5, Lady Eliza Manningham-Buller has attacked several aspects of British foreign policy in the context of the ‘war on terror’, The Guardian reports “Recording her first BBC Reith lecture on the theme, Securing Freedom, she made clear she believed the UK and US...
The Guardian reported yesterday on the involvement of American firms in the CIA’s secret rendition programme. Evidence has emerged of collaboration in light of one firm suing another over fees. The matter, as The Guardian describes it illustrates “a world in which the “war on...
Lutfur Rahman, Mayor of Tower Hamlets, responds in the Guardian today to the article by Nina Power in Tuesday’s edition, ‘Let the EDL racists march’. Rahman argues that “It is right to ban the English Defence League’s march”.
