** 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 Daily Mail today published a story on Muslim Against Crusades’ alternative Prevent strategy, ‘Islamic Prevent’. Akin to an earlier ‘story’ in the Daily Star, in which MAC presented their model of Islamic ‘guardian angels’ maintaining Muslim neighbourhood watch schemes in areas...
The Huddersfield Examiner reports on the arrest of six people for public order offences following the EDL’s demonstration in the town on July 2nd. From the paper: “A spokesman for West Yorkshire Police said yesterday: “At 1pm on Saturday July 2, members of the EDL gathered in Huddersfield...
As we approach the 16th anniversary of the massacre of 8,000 Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica, and the Remembrance of the Srebrenica Genocide Day on 11th July, there is news today of victory for family members who have pursued a case against the Dutch government for failing to protect their loved...
There’s a story in the Daily Express today concerning two men from Sunderland who appeared in court yesterday charged with selling off a stolen bronze plaque commemorating the war dead to a scrap yard. The plaque had been forcibly removed from the Grangetown Cemetery in Sunderland causing...
There’s an interesting story in Saturday’s Daily Mail relating to a tribunal hearing involving a company that is alleged to have exercised a policy requiring ethnic staff to adopt English names because customers “struggled with Indian names”. From the Daily Mail: “A telesales firm has...
Jonathan Cook, author of ‘Israel and the Clash of Civilisations: Iraq, Iran and the Plan to Remake the Middle East’ writes on last week’s arrest –awaiting- deportation of Sheikh Raed Salah at the instigation of the Home Secretary, Theresa May, criticizing the British Government’s...
A Guardian editorial today reflects on the detention awaiting deportation status of visiting Palestinian activist Sheikh Raed Salah, leader of the Islamic Movement in Israel. Sheikh Salah has been the subject of articles in various newspapers this week (Daily Mail – front page story, Daily...
Baroness Sayeeda Warsi this week delivered a speech at the Organisation for Islamic Conference’s Council of Foreign Ministers’ meeting in Astana, Kazakhstan, the first time a UK Minister has been invited to address the OIC. Excerpts from Lady Warsi’s speech: “We in Britain recognise the...
The Guardian on Tuesday published an interview with Matthew Goodwin, author of a new book on the BNP, ‘New British Fascism: Rise of the British National Party’. The interview contains interesting reflections on the BNP’s abuse and exploitation of anxieties against ethno-racial communities,...
Local paper, The Argus, reports on a mosque in Brighton receiving a suspicious package akin to those that have been sent to several other mosques in the UK. From the local paper: “The Brighton Al-Quds Mosque in Dyke Road received a suspicious package in what police are treating as a racially...
