** 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,...
Police have launched an investigation in to reported offences committed during a protest outside Jami Mosque in Portsmouth on Saturday. An article Portsmouth Today states: “Scores of demonstrators gathered outside Portsmouth’s Jami Mosque. They were protesting after a small group of...
Newspapers were brimming today with reports of Armistice Day being marred by extreme factions. 35 protesters from a group calling themselves “Muslims Against Crusades” burnt a poppy to coincide with the two minute silence to commemorate the war dead. One report, from the Telegraph, states:...
The Telegraph reported yesterday of an individual having been arrested on suspicion of encouraging an act of terrorism. The article states: “The individual is thought to be involved with a website that praised the stabbing of the MP Stephen Timms and published a list of other MPs who voted for...
The Wall Street Journal printed a comment piece by former British PM, Tony Blair, on Tuesday titled ‘Making Muslim integration work’. Blair reviews the rise of far right parties in Europe and the centre-stage debates on immigration have taken in recent years arguing, “This is a big and...
Danny Penman, writing in the Daily Mail yesterday, reports on his visit to an abattoir where halal meat is prepared and offers his contribution to the ongoing debate that has been manufactured over the issue. Penman reports that organisations such as the British Veterinary Association say...
Amir Ali, the London Underground tube driver who was accused of intending to fly out to Pakistan and engage in acts of terrorism, was on Tuesday found not guilty of terrorism charges. During his trial, Mr. Ali claimed that MI5 had framed him after he had refused to act as their spy. Laurence...
The ES on Monday printed a letter from Haras Rafiq, Director of Centri, in response to Professor Michael Clarke’s comment piece on Roshonora Choudhry, the ‘self-driven terrorist’. Clarke, Director of the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), reviewing the various factors that have come...
“… what Tauheedul shows is that Muslim faith schools do not necessarily have a separatist mentality. It is not a foregone conclusion that these schools will divide communities.” This is the conclusion reached in an Independent editorial today on how Tauheedul Islam Girls’ School in...
British military interrogators may be charged as war criminals, the Guardian reports today, over videos that appear to show them threatening, abusing and humiliating Iraqi prisoners. To date, the only British soldier ever to have been convicted of a war crime was Cpl Donald Payne, who was...
The Home Secretary, Theresa May, in a written Ministerial statement presented to the House today has announced the Government’s review of Prevent, a strand in its its counter-terrorism strategy CONTEST. The statement reads: “I am pleased to announce today that the Government are formally...
