** 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,...
Four people were arrested on Saturday after an arson attack on a newly-built mosque in Stoke-on-Trent. Chief inspector, Wayne Jones said: “We are treating this as a racist attack on a religious building.” From the Guardian: “Police detained three men and a woman in their late teens....
On Wednesday, the Wall Street Journal published an article by Shiraz Maher (reproduced in full in Standpoint Magazine yesterday) in which he sought to argue that the US ambassador to Britain, Louis Susman, was “repeating U.K. mistakes” by reaching out to “Muslim radicals.” In the...
A Muslim police officer from East Birmingham won the Community Leadership Award at the prestigious Mosaic Talent Awards for her “outstanding bravery, professionalism and duty of care.” From The Asian Today: “Sergeant Khizra Dhindsa was highly commended for bravery by the West Midlands...
In a blog published in The Independent website yesterday, Michael Mumisa argued that programmes introduced by the government in the name of preventing violent extremism have only resulted in launching British Muslim communities into effective “civil war”, which “has left young Muslims (the...
In fulfillment of long-held Conservative party intentions to make it harder to prosecute suspected Israeli war criminals on British soil, the coalition government has announced that it will change the law on universal jurisdiction as part of the new Police and Social Responsibility Bill. The...
Gordon Brown’s government secretly promised to “limit the extent of the Iraq war inquiry to prevent damage to the United States”, reveals one of the leaked US embassy cables from WikiLeaks. From The Independent: “A message from Jon Day, then director-general for security at the Ministry...
A report published today from 21 international organisations, entitled “Dashed Hopes: Continuation of the Gaza Blockade”, has called for international action to ensure an “immediate, sustained and unconditional” lifting of the illegal blockade imposed on the Gaza Strip by Israel. The...
A new report entitled “The English Defence League: Challenging our country and our values of social inclusion, fairness and equality,” authored by Professor Nigel Copsey has just been released. The report asks whether the English Defence League (EDL) poses “a threat to our country and our...
Research from the University of Southampton has found that poverty and gross inequality are six times more likely than ethnic diversity to cause British people to be suspicious of their neighbours, “repudiating the argument that multicultural societies make people uneasy and less trusting...
14 people were arrested for reported drunken and disorderly behaviour offences following demonstrations by extremist group, the English Defence League (EDL) in Preston on Saturday. The Preston Citizen reports that the EDL demonstration was called to protest against the extension of a mosque....
