** 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,...
The Daily Mail and Daily Express both reported this week on a supposed ‘culture of silence’ surrounding incidents of rape and the grooming of young girls for sexual exploitation in which Asian men are involved for fears of inflaming ethnic tensions. The articles stem from research carried...
There’s an interesting article in the Daily Mail today on a poll conducted by French newspaper, Le Monde, which found that “68 per cent of French and 75 per cent of Germans believe Muslims are ‘not well integrated into society’.” The poll also found that “42 per cent of...
The Independent today carries an article and editorial on the Israeli parliament’s backing of a ‘McCarthyite’ investigation into human rights groups such as Breaking the Silence and B’Tselem. From The Independent article: “After a highly charged and noisy debate, the Knesset...
Despite widespread reports claiming that control orders were set to be scrapped, according to the Guardian, Nick Clegg is “willing to seek a compromise” on control orders and “will recognise that some form of replacement control orders is necessary – even though in opposition he called...
The Daily Star’s record of inaccurate reporting on Muslims was on display again yesterday in an article claiming that the “bigoted and Islamophobic” BBC had been “caned by Muslim teachers” over its recent Panorama programme, ‘British Schools, Islamic Rules’. The DS stated:...
The Institute for Public Policy Research today publishes a report, titled “Worst of Both Worlds: Why First Past the Post no longer works”, which argues that the UK’s current ‘First Past the Post’ (FPTP) voting system is “no longer fit for purpose.” The report states: “Not only...
There was widespread coverage over the weekend in The Telegraph, The Independent, and the Guardian (among others) of the news that control orders are supposedly set to be ‘scrapped’. From the Guardian: “Nick Clegg, the deputy prime minister, is said to have won his cabinet fight to scrap...
There’s much in the papers today (Daily Telegraph, Independent, Guardian, Daily Mail, Daily Express, Daily Star and Metro) on the Prime Minister’s podcast marking the New Year and his comments on the continuing threat we face from terrorism. The PM speaks in his address of the Coalition’s...
Peter Oborne today wrote on his Telegraph blog on “Why the Middle East is about to split the Coalition wide open.” Oborne writes of the “moral and other costs” to Britain of aligning herself too closely to the Obama administration and its “gutless abandonment of the search for peace...
On Boxing Day, The Daily Telegraph published an interview with Marine Le Pen, the daughter of French far-right leader, Jean-Marie Le Pen. In the interview, Miss Le Pen warned that “The progressive Islamisation of [France] and the increase in political-religious demands [of Muslims] are...
