** 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 Economist this week publishes a short appraisal on the dangers of mainstream political parties indulging the far right by adopting its messages and language on immigration and minorities. The article states: “From the tip of Scandinavia to the shores of the Mediterranean, far-right leaders...
Foreign Secretary, William Hague, met with Israeli Defence Minister, Ehud Barak, yesterday and raised “serious concerns” over Israel’s continued construction of illegal ‘settlements’. From the Independent: “Israeli settlement building ‘runs contrary to peace’, William Hague said...
You can read the parliamentary debate secured by Paul Goggins MP (pictured), former minister and current member of the Security and Intelligence Committee, pleading for transitional funding to be made available to the Quilliam Foundation as recorded in Hansard here. Much like the pleas advanced...
In addition to our letter to the PCC concerning the use of racist, anti-Arab language by Melanie Phillips in her Spectator blog article ‘Armchair barbarism’, ENGAGE have lodged complaints with the Equality and Human Rights Commission and the Metropolitan Police. Our letter to the EHRC can be...
The Sunday Telegraph is reportedly being sued by Muslim preacher, Yahya Ibrahim, on grounds of ‘defamation’. An article in the ‘Press Gazette’ website states, “An Islamic preacher is demanding libel damages of up to £100,000 over a Sunday Telegraph story. “Yahya Ibrahim launched...
The Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Berlin has published a report, titled ‘Intolerance, Prejudice and Discrimination: A European Report’, which investigated the broad extent, major determinants and possible causes of group-focused enmity in eight European countries on the basis of a telephone...
Local paper, the Leicester Mercury, reports that three men were sentenced on Monday for various offenses during their involvement in an EDL protest in Leicester in October – one of which involved a man attempting a ‘flying kick’ on a Muslim man. From the paper: “Two of the men, who...
Al Jazeera Centre for Studies in conjunction with the Middle East Monitor (MEMO) and the European Muslim Research Centre (EMRC) at Exeter University carried out a joint study in January 2011 to gauge British and European perceptions on the ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict, the findings of which...
The Guardian and the EU Observer report on the findings of a Guardian/ICM poll of 5,023 adults in five EU states, aged 18-64, which reveals a Europe pessimistic about its future economic prospects and largely disapproving of immigration from outside of the EU. The findings of the poll can be...
Is the Spectator unwilling or incapable of addressing the racist commentaries of its bloggers? Given its track record of late the question is not without merit. Despite a PCC rebuke over Rod Liddle’s racist blog entry last March on Afro-Caribbeans, and its apology and payment of substantial...
