** 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,...
Is the FCO’s “See Britain through my eyes” series of short videos a rehash of the “I am the West” Prevent funded project? Reading the Evening Standard article yesterday, “Muslim cricket star’s anti-terror video message (with no spin)” you might certainly think so. The “See...
The Crown Prosecution Service has ruled that disgraced former Labour minister, Phil Woolas, will not face a criminal trial over his false allegations during the May 2010 general election campaign that his rival was courting Muslim extremists. From the Guardian: “Prosecuting the former...
Several papers, among them the Guardian, Telegraph and Independent, cover the unearthing of 4000 photographs and videos by German magazine, Der Spiegel, portraying US soldiers posing alongside the dead bodies of Afghan civilians who they had killed. You can view some of the photos via the...
The European Network Against Racism has published its report on ‘Racism in Europe’, which covers the period between January 2009 and March 2010. Its report deals with the many faces of racism and discrimination in Europe at both legislative and local level, from policy to practice. It has...
The Guardian and the Independent have picked up on ENGAGE’s referral of Melanie Phillips’ Spectator blog, “Armchair barbarism” to the Press Complaints Commission, the Equality and Human Rights Commission and the Metropolitan Police. Both papers report on the comments made by Phillips,...
An EDL protest in Reading this past Saturday has been condemned for causing “hatred and division”, reports BBC News. “Councillor Andrew Cumpsty, leader of Reading Borough Council, said: ‘Hatred and division have no place in civilised political debate.’” “…the three leaders on...
Edinburgh Evening News reports that a man in Edinburgh has been fined for “scream[ing] racist abuse at staff in his local takeaway after they refused to give him a free meal.” From their report: “William McNeill also shouted ‘Al-Qaida’ at workers in the kebab shop. “McNeill, 42,...
An article in the New Scotsman today highlights a campaign by the Home Office to “tackle the growing threat of lone terrorists”: “The Home Office has launched a website where members of the public can report material on the internet which could be used to incite terrorism. “British...
Lamenting the Government’s having “slashed [its] funding [of] Quilliam,” Maajid Nawaz in the Telegraph today offers yet another insight into the sort of typically shallow analysis we’ve come to expect from the Quilliam Foundation. Nawaz argues that “The poisonous narrative of a Western...
Gary Younge’s column in The Guardian this week is an excellent analysis and contribution to the debate on the so-called “failure of multiculturalism”. Younge differentiates between the “multiculturalism of fact” and the “multiculturalism of fiction”. The former is a testament...
