** 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 Ilford Recorder last week reported on four people who have been found guilty of an attack on a mosque in Redbridge. The individuals, 21 year old Rocky Beale, 19 year old Eliot Jones, 18 year old Matthew Stephenson and a 16 year old who cannot be named for legal reasons, are all facing...
There’s an interesting column by Geoffrey Alderman in the JC this week on Beth Din courts and their ‘taking liberties with the law’. Alderman highlights instances where the Beth Din courts, the Jewish arbitration system similar to shari’ah councils, have failed those plaintiffs who...
The Independent today reports on an EDL member, Charlotte Davies, who has admitted involvement in a spray paint attack on a mosque in Hartlepool in November last year. From the paper: “Charlotte Davies, 19, will plead guilty to conspiracy to commit racially aggravated criminal damage.
The front page of The Guardian yesterday was a story about yet another individual, Omar Awadh Omar mounting a legal challenge against the government on claims that he was abused after being kidnapped in Kenya and ‘rendered’ to Uganda. From the Guardian: “According to a claim being...
Stephen Pollard, the editor of the Jewish Chronicle, took several swipes at the Home Secretary, Theresa May, in a guest column in the Daily Telegraph yesterday. Prompted by reports that Ms May has obstructed US ‘Supercop’ Bill Bratton from applying for the post of Commissioner of the Met...
The BBC covers the report by the Chief Inspector of HM Prisons on the conditions of detainees held at the terror unit at Long Lartin prison, in Worcestershire. Nick Hardwick, the chief inspector of prisons, has criticized the “prison within a prison” conditions under which several...
The Daily Telegraph blogs section runs an egregiously offensive post by Richard Landes titled, “Liberal intellectuals are frightened of confronting Islam’s honour-shame culture”. The article’s catalyst is a recent poll by ipsos MORI on ‘Global Views on Immigration,’ which surveyed...
The New Statesman this week publishes an interview with Shabana Mahmood, MP for Birmingham, Ladywood, and one of the first female Muslim MPs to be elected in the May 2010 general elections. In the interview she reflects on the recent riots which hit her city culminating in the tragic deaths of...
There was an interesting article in The Independent yesterday on the BBC being ‘forced’ to apologise for a programme broadcast during its coverage of the UK riots which posed the question: ‘Is there a problem with young black men?’ The show, broadcast on the BBC World Service’s World Have...
A booklet published by the Barnabas Fund has been brought to the attention of the Charity Commission following a complaint over its contents. The booklet entitled ‘Slippery Slope: The Islamisation of the UK’, “claims that DVDs featuring radical preachers are “widely disseminated”...
