** 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,...
Tonight at 8:30pm, a BBC Panorama programme entitled “British Schools, Islamic Rules” will be broadcast which claims to have uncovered “disturbing evidence that some Muslim children are being exposed to extremist preachers and fundamentalist Islamic groups.” “We also expose the...
Speaking on the Andrew Marr Show yesterday and in an interview to the Sunday Telegraph, Shadow Home Secretary, Ed Balls, offered his contribution to the ongoing debate around counter-terrorism measures. His comments come amid a current Home Office review of counter terrorism and security powers...
Demonstrations by the far right extremist group, the English Defence League (EDL), “fuels Islamic extremism”, according to the police. In an interview with the BBC West Midlands Counter-Terrorism Unit officers said that demonstrations by the EDL in predominantly Muslim areas had given some...
Several newspapers, including the Daily Express, the Daily Mail, the Daily Star, the Metro and The Sun, yesterday reported of schoolboy Darius Gill having been the victim of bullying by six fellow pupils at his school reportedly for penning an online Remembrance Day tribute to fallen British...
“Islam is being ‘demonised’ as a result of atrocities carried out in the name of a ‘distorted’ version of the faith”, according to former Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Lord Ian Blair. From the Press Association: “The ex-commissioner, who led the Met during the 2005 suicide...
The Guardian is running a series of articles looking at the politics of immigration in Europe. The two articles published so far offer some important points to ponder on the lessons Britain can learn from the European experience. In the first article of the series, Ian Traynor explored the...
The Prime Minister, David Cameron, delivered a speech to the Lord Mayor’s Banquet on Monday, which he began by highlighting the “interconnectedness” of a world which represents “huge new opportunities” as well as “creating new and more diverse threats to our society” (re-iterating...
It was reported yesterday that the government will announce plans to pay compensation to former Guantanamo detainees as a settlement between government lawyers and lawyers representing the men. From the Guardian: “Ministers appear to have decided on the advice of the security services that...
Portsmouth Today reports that, following recent protests outside of Jami Mosque by far right extremists from the EDL, groups across Portsmouth have vowed to “stand united against hatred.” From the article: “Jatin Patel, of Portsmouth’s Racial Harassment Forum, said: ‘It’s...
The Guardian reported on Friday that Colonel Dudley Giles, a key witness in a Royal Military Police (RMP) investigation in to claims that British soldiers mutilated and murdered civilians in Iraq, has retained his post in the RMP despite being described by high court judges as an “unreliable...
