** 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,...
As April 29th draws closer and excitement grows over the Royal wedding, the Sunday Express yesterday took the opportunity to foment divisions by brandishing the exploits of Anjem Choudary on its front page. The paper devotes three pages to the odious members of Muslims Against Crusades and has...
Ruth Dudley Edwards, whose comment piece on Cameron’s speech on immigration in last week’s Daily Telegraph was inadvisedly illustrated with an image of a Muslim woman in niqab, further embellishes her perspective of the “spreading rash of Islamism” with an article on the French niqab ban...
The Herald paper carries a feature on a new campaign launched by Muslim women who wear the veil (in all its manifestations: hijab, jilbab and niqab) to educate Scots on their reasons for wearing it. From the Herald:“Glasgow-born Samina Ansari and her loved ones were assaulted because she was...
Henry Samuel in Saturday’s edition of the Daily Telegraph interviews Hind Ahmas, a French Muslim woman who has defied the niqab ban in France by “pitching up to the Elysée Palace in full Islamic attire” From the Daily Telegraph:““The Bill Prohibiting Facial Dissimulation in a Public...
Much in the papers today on David Cameron’s speech yesterday on immigration: Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, Daily Express, Guardian, Independent, and Daily Star. No surprise that the Daily Express and Daily Star both illustrate their respective stories on the PM’s speech with images of Muslim...
Allison Pearson goes back to her “burkha rage” with an article in yesterday’s Daily Telegraph advocating a French style ban on the burka in the UK. Prefacing her piece with what appears to be information gleaned from the recent Panorama programme, “British Schools, Islamic Rules”,...
There are reports in the Daily Mail and Daily Express today on the election of the UK’s first BNP mayor in Padiham, near Burnley, in Lancashire. Councillor John Cave was elected to the post of mayor of Padiham by colleagues on the town council. He will spend a year as deputy mayor before...
Roy Greenslade on his Media Guardian blog writes of a new book out this week which focuses on a subject matter that is under-researched but hugely significant. He writes: “Few topics are as controversial as the media treatment of Muslims, and too few journalists take it seriously. They should,...
A poor blog post by Ed West on Telegraph blogs yesterday, even by his standards. Writing on the 30th anniversary of the Brixton riots, which heralded a new beginning on race relations policy in the UK, West writes: “It is 30 years since the worst urban riots in modern British history, in...
An interesting article by Agnes Poirier in The Independent today. She writes on the French ban on niqab and burqa, which came into effect yesterday, arguing that the law introduced in 2004 on conspicuous religious symbols in the public space already takes care of the burqa issue thus negating...
