** 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 relates the case of Simon Parker, the headteacher of Coppice Primary School in Chigwell, Essex, who has been barred from teaching by the General Teaching Council for subjecting teachers and pupils to a litany of racist, sexist and anti-Muslim abuse. From the Daily Mail:...
It would seem the long-awaited Prevent review is crossing the final hurdles as Government readies to announce the revised programme next week when Parliament returns from the Whitsun break. Allegra Stratton in the Guardian today reflects on the ideological dissonance between the Tories and Lib...
As is wont of the Daily Mail when an issue crops up that requires a “brave Muslim” to speak out on, today’s edition of the paper carries a feature column by Saira Khan on the “brave speech” of Professor Steve Jones at the Hay Festival on “inbreeding” and the high incidence of...
BBC News reports on the building progress of a new mosque in Redditch which is on track for completion in Spring 2012 despite being the target of a recent attack. The ten year, £2.5 million pound project, to build a new mosque in Redditch has been a long time in the making and not […]
The Daily Telegraph on Saturday published an article in which the chief executive of Universities UK, Nicola Dandridge, dismissed claims that universities are sites of radicalization or that the presence of offensive speakers at campus events engendered attitudes of a violent extremist nature...
There were some interesting, and all too predictable, headlines in the papers this weekend on the presentation of Professor Steve Jones, an eminent geneticist, at the Hay Festival. Professor Jones is reported to have spoken of “inbreeding” and the impact of first cousin marriages on children...
The Lincolnshire Echo relates the conclusion of the court case against a 17 year old from Lincoln charged with carrying out a religiously aggravated attack on a Muslim police officer. From the paper: “A 17-YEAR-OLD youth has been ordered to carry out 100 hours of unpaid community work after...
Lancashire Evening Post reports on a second case of a mosque application being referred to the Planning Inspectorate. The Inspectorate’s hearing relates to a planning application (artists impression, above) submitted by Preston Muslim Society to build a three storey mosque on the site of the...
There’s some coverage in the media today (Daily Telegraph, BBC, The Independent) of the G8 Summit and the central place of the Arab Spring on the agenda of the world’s largest economies. News reports detail the financial assistance G8 countries are pledging to support the transition to...
The Guardian in an editorial today reflects on the speech given by President Obama to British parliamentarians in Westminster Hall yesterday. Interweaving yesterday’s speech on the UK-US relationship, and President Obama’s address last week at the State Department, the Guardian observes:...
