** 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,...
A split over how the government should react to the events in Egypt exists between the members of the Tory-led coalition government, according to Allegra Stratton in the Guardian today. She reports that Mort Zuckerman, a member of the “neoconservative Henry Jackson Society,” of which...
A volunteer for the ‘Yes to Fairer Votes’ campaign was fired yesterday after posting an outrageously offensive comment on Twitter regarding Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). The Evening Standard reported: “Ben Donnelly was dismissed from his volunteer post as a phone bank manager for...
Ipsa will today publish details of millions pounds worth of claims made by MPs since last autumn. The report from the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority will also include the details of expenses that were turned down. Such details could cause embarrassment for some parliamentarians....
Peter Oborne in his Telegraph blog today draws attention to the overwhelmingly hostile comments which he received on his online blog for his previous article defending Baroness Warsi’s recent speech in which she argued that Islamophobia has become socially acceptable in Britain. He argues that...
Baroness Pauline Neville-Jones, the Conservative security minister, on Monday delivered a speech at the Wilton Park Conference on ‘Tackling online jihad: understanding the issues and how to respond’. Baroness Neville-Jones spoke of the nature of the terrorist threat and the role played by...
ENGAGE have written to the Sunday Telegraph in response to the contemptible article by Andrew Gilligan in last week’s edition of the paper. Read our letter here.
Local paper, the ‘Shields Gazette’ today reports of a series of racist attacks targeting Muslim homes and a mosque in South Tyneside. From the paper: “Bacon and pork have been thrown at several houses in South Shields over the past month. “The meat is banned in Muslim households, as...
This week’s Spectator magazine hosts an article by Peter Oborne on an internal struggle within the Conservative party between neoconservatives and their ‘rival factions’ – both of whom have differing ideas on the definitions of ‘moderate’ and ‘extremist’ Muslims. Oborne argues...
BBC Radio 4’s ‘Face the Facts’ programme last Thursday centred around the issue of Islamophobia and whether sections of the British press were contributing to increased tensions within communities by publishing negative stories about Muslims. The programme was presented by John Waite. ...
Tony Blair was criticised by Palestinian officials for “being biased in favour of Israeli security needs and seeming to advocate an ‘apartheid-like approach to dealing with the occupied West Bank”, according to the leaked ‘Palestine papers’. Blair is the British envoy of the Middle...
