** 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,...
Cabinet Minister and Chairman of the Conservative Party, Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, delivered the 2011 Sir Sigmund Sternberg Interfaith Lecture yesterday at the University of Leicester in which she highlighted that Islamophobia has become widespread and socially acceptable in Britain. She told the...
Some of the papers today follow the Daily Telegraph lead (Guardian, The Independent, Daily Mail and BBC) on the Sir Sigmund Sternberg Interfaith Lecture to be delivered by Baroness Sayeeda Warsi at the University of Leicester later this afternoon. The DT reports that Lady Warsi will say...
The Daily Express today reports on a question raised by Clive Efford, MP for Eltham, at Prime Minister’s Questions yesterday asking why the PM had not “fulfilled his manifesto commitment” to ban the group Hizb ut-Tahrir (HT). The Prime Minister, not mentioning HT in his answer,...
In a refreshing piece for his Telegraph blog, Daniel Knowles replied to an article in Standpoint magazine by an anonymous author (excerpted by Ed West, also of the Telegraph) who painted a troubled picture of supposed ‘Muslim ghettos’ in Birmingham. Knowles refuted the overall thrust of the...
Tony Blair was placed under further pressure ahead of his second appearance on Friday before the Iraq Inquiry after Lord Goldsmith, the former attorney general and Blair’s most senior legal adviser, said on Monday that the former prime minister’s public statements, that Britain did not...
Islamic extremists, in their ‘bid’ to erase Christian culture and ‘our national identities’, now have an ally in the form of the European Union, according to Leo McKinstry. In his Daily Express column yesterday, McKinstry wrote that “the ideological fanatics of Brussels have nothing...
A Guardian investigation into counter-terrorism co-operation between the UK and Bangladesh has revealed a detailed picture of the last Labour government’s reliance on overseas intelligence agencies that were known to use torture, raising more concerns about the UK government’s...
The Daily Star ignominiously repeats the dubious presentation of crime data on Asian gangs convicted of child rape and prostitution in two articles in the last few days. On Friday the paper ran a story “No schoolgirl is safe from these Asian sex gangs,” together with an editorial proclaiming...
Prime Minister David Cameron, after talks with French prime minister, Francois Fillon, is reported to have said that he is “becoming increasingly convinced [that] it is not enough just to target violent extremism – we have to target extremism itself.” From the Daily Express: “Prime...
Roy Greenslade, in his Guardian blog, reflected on what the withdrawal of Richard Desmond’s publishing group, Northern and Shell, from the Press Complaints Commission means for the public and to the future of the PCC’s system of media self-regulation. The group is behind such publications as...
