** 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,...
Further embarrassing details have emerged regarding the relationship between the UK and Libya, in addition to the arming of the Libyan government by the UK and its subsequent suspected use of those arms by the Libyan regime to suppress popular uprisings in the country. Human rights lawyer,...
A building in Ipswich which had been set to be transformed in to a Muslim-run community centre was set on fire Monday night in a ‘deliberate’ attack. A local news website reports: “Fire investigators are ‘99 per cent sure’ that a blaze which ripped through a church in Ipswich was...
Andrew Stunell, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government was yesterday asked what payments the DCLG had made to the Community Development Foundation in relation to the prevention of extremism since its inception, as well as payments made to the Foundation and...
The tabloid outrage over the £50 fine received by Emdadur Choudhury continues today via a comment piece by Chris Roycroft-Davis in the Daily Express. And, perhaps not surprisingly, his arguments are littered with the same inconsistencies and holes that one may have come to expect from a Daily...
Mark Steel is at his finest writing in the Independent today. His comments provide food for thought for the current government, given David Cameron’s recent tour of the Middle East with eight of Britain’s leading weapons manufacturers. Below are short excerpts from his article, which you can...
Foreign Secretary, William Hague, has ‘upgraded’ the status of the Palestinian delegation in the UK to that of a full diplomatic mission. From the Guardian: “William Hague said that Britain had upgraded the status of Palestinian diplomats in the UK, in a largely symbolic move aimed at...
The fine of £50 handed to Emdadur Choudhury, one of the men who burnt poppies on Remembrance Day last year, has received widespread attention both from national (Daily Mail, Telegraph, Daily Express, Daily Star, the Guardian) and local media (Evening Standard, East London Advertiser, Liverpool...
Lawyers representing a “significant number” of students who took part in protests against tuition fees have accused the Metropolitan Police of attempting to criminalise “a generation of political activists.” From the Guardian: “Hodge Jones & Allen, which specialises in protest...
Manchester Evening News reported of the arrests of 34 people following a demonstration by far right extremists, the English Defence League, in Rochdale this past Saturday. From the report: “No serious offences were reported with the arrests made for public order offences, affray and being...
The Daily Star has a track record of regularly spewing out inaccurate, inflammatory and highly negative stories on Muslims and Islam. Now one of its own reporters, Richard Peppiatt, has had a laudable crisis of conscience and has quit the paper over its “hate-mongering.” In his resignation...
