** 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,...
According to the Guardian, police have asked the government for new powers to stop and search people without having to suspect them of any crime. From the Guardian: “… police, including the Metropolitan force, which leads the UK fight against terrorism, say they need a boost to their...
Richard Littlejohn commented on the vile anti-Christmas campaign posters by Al Muhajiroun supporters in his column in last Thursday’s Daily Mail. Littlejohn acknowledges that those engaged in this divisive and offensive behaviour are “a tiny minority,” of British Muslims but his claim...
Writing in his Daily Express column on Monday, Leo McKinstry reprimanded the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, for his Christmas sermon. In McKinstry’s view, western leaders (Dr Williams included) have not done enough to “challenge the Islamic culture of persecution.” He...
EDL spokesman, Guramit Singh, was arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of intentionally causing religiously aggravated harassment, alarm, or distress, following complaints about his speech during a protest in Peterborough by the far-right extremist group. From the Peterborough Today:...
Joseph Harker, writing for the Guardian’s ‘Comment is Free’, offers a humorous twist to the reaction that British Muslims have encountered post 2001. Time and again, British Muslims have been told that they must “do more” to root out ‘terrorists’ within their communities;...
The Daily Mail, Daily Express and Daily Star have all reported on a poster campaign organised by an individual linked to attention addicts from Anjem Choudary’s group, Islam4UK (formerly Al-Muhajiroun). From the Daily Mail: “Organisers plan to put up thousands of placards around the UK...
The Guardian reports that, according to counter-terror laws watchdog Lord Carlile, Nick Clegg is “refusing to back a compromise” on the issue of control orders. Before May’s general election, the Liberal Democrats pledged to scrap the control order regime. The Conservatives, meanwhile,...
The Daily Mail Online today carries an alarming headline which states that, “1 in 3 British Muslim students back killing for Islam and 40% want Sharia law.” From the Mail Online: “Around a third of young British Muslims favour killing in the name of Islam, according to a survey revealed by...
Several newspapers (among them the Daily Mail, Daily Express, Daily Telegraph and the Guardian) today report on the arrest of 12 men under the Terrorism Act 2000 on suspicion of the commission, cooperation and instigation of acts of terrorism. All of the men are British and some come from a...
Unwilling to accept that he may well have put his foot in it (and that of the Telegraph Group) with his scurrilous article on Muslim Aid, Andrew Gilligan retorted last week with a critique of the Charity Commission for rejecting his claims that MA was ‘linked to Islamic...
