** 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,...
David Cameron’s speech at the Munich Security Conference has been hailed by the far-right, who applaud him for “[coming] round to our way of thinking”to Muslims”, precisely at a time when “elsewhere in Europe, far-right organizations such as the BNP have increasingly switched the focus...
Further to yesterday’s announcement of the arrest of two men in Devon on suspicion of publishing racially inflammatory material and anti-Muslim videos on to the internet, the local news website ‘This is Cornwall’ further reported that Devon and Cornwall Police are preparing for “a...
ENGAGE has regularly covered the shenanigans of the Daily Star and Daily Express and its scaremongering journalism on Muslims. The selection below should give you a pretty good idea of what we mean. Good then to see the mainstream press pick up on our story from yesterday about the Daily Star...
The local news website, ‘This is Devon’, today reports that two men have been arrested for allegedly publishing “a catalogue of vile and racially inflammatory material on the internet.” From the report: “One of the men, from Paignton, is thought to be responsible for a series of...
According to a report in the Guardian today, Asim Hafeez’s position as head of intervention in the office of security and counter terrorism, is “in jeopardy” following Cameron’s speech at the weekend and the government’s “change of strategy towards Muslims.” The paper reports:...
According to the Daily Star, the leader of the extremist English Defence League is not ‘ruling out’ the EDL becoming a political party. Stephen Lennon is quoted as saying: “We are a single issue group and at the moment we would rather have a dialogue with the other political parties –...
Prime Minister David Cameron used his speech at the Munich Security Conference in Germany on Saturday to “set out his views on radicalisation and Islamic extremism.” The PM has already come under fire for making the speech on the day the EDL hosted a ‘homecoming march’ in Luton. More...
Police are reported to be mounting their largest operation yet in order to try to prevent violence at tomorrow’s march in Luton by far right extremists, the English Defence League (EDL). Previous EDL marches have been accompanied by violence and rabid Islamophobia. The Guardian reports today...
The Daily Mail, Daily Express and Daily Star today drew the public’s attention to the acts of councillors Salma Yaqoob and Mohammed Ishtiaq (both members of the Respect party) at a meeting held yesterday to pay tribute to Lance Corporal Matthew Croucher for his “outstanding bravery not...
The allegations made by Conservative MP, Robert Halfon, in the House today about ENGAGE are wholly untrue and a gross abuse of parliamentary immunity by a sitting MP. Mr Halfon accuses ENGAGE of being “aggressively anti-Semitic, homophobic and has extensive links to terrorism in Tunisia and...
