** 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,...
Martin Beckford, in today’s Telegraph, cites the findings of a report published last Thursday by the Office for National Statistics on social trends, titled “Lifestyles and Social Participation”. The report states that one in three churchgoers ‘actively practises’ their faith compared...
Local paper, the Harrow Observer, reported of an event held in Harrow Central Mosque in London on 22nd January in which “some of the most inspirational Muslims” spoke about their careers and the role religion plays in their lives. The event, ‘Inspiring Islam’, attracted a 300-strong...
The British Transport Police website informs that three EDL supporters have been fined after being found guilty of subjecting rail passengers to “serious racist abuse.” From the BTP website: “Tracey Hurley (33), Stuart Parr (28) and a 17-year old youth, who cannot be named for legal...
The chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), Trevor Phillips, yesterday told the home affairs committee that politicians need to be wary of “casual stereotyping” of racial groups. He was referring to recent comments made by former Home Secretary, Jack Straw, on the BBC’s...
The BBC yesterday reported that a second person has been arrested on suspicion of burning the Qur’an in Carlisle city centre last week. The Daily Mail reported last week that a 32 year old man was originally arrested on suspicion of using ‘racially aggravated threatening words or...
The Observer on Sunday reported that religious leaders and theologians called “highly dangerous” the decision by Education Secretary Michael Gove to leave Religious Education off the list of GCSEs that will go toward forming the proposed new ‘English baccalaureate’, especially given the...
Reactions to Lady Warsi’s speech at the Sir Sigmund Sternberg Interfaith Lecture last Thursday have been widespread, receiving copious amounts of coverage in news reports and commentaries in the national dailies (see Daily Express, Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, The Independent and the...
ENGAGE have submitted a contribution to the review of the Press Complaints Commission’s Editors’ Code of Practice. The Code, which forms the basis of media standards overseen by the PCC, is under annual review by the Editors’ Code of Practice Committee. Read ENGAGE’s submission here.
Today’s Guardian reports on documents leaked to Al Jazeera and verified by the paper which show: • The scale of confidential concessions offered by Palestinian negotiators, including on the highly sensitive issue of the right of return of Palestinian refugees. • How Israeli leaders...
Israel’s inquiry into the conduct of its commandos who raided the Mavi Marmara in May last year and killed nine Turkish aid activists was released this weekend. No surprise that the report exonerates Israeli soldiers of any culpability in the shooting of members of the aid convoy, one of whom...
