** 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,...
Sir John Sawers (pictured), head of security agency MI6, gave an unprecedented public speech by a serving chief at the Society of Editors yesterday. Addressing allegations of UK agents’ complicity in torture Sir John said: “If we know or believe action by us will lead to torture taking...
There was a curious piece of news in the Evening Standard yesterday (hat tip: Islamophobia Watch) on Baroness Warsi being “forced” to renege on a commitment to present a counter argument to the motion ‘This House believes France is right to ban the face veil’, at the famed Doha Debates...
“Mosques take over our cities,” cried the Daily Star; “Church diocese is axed because of Muslim influx,” howls the Daily Express. You can almost picture the wide eyed reaction of the public who read these headlines over the prospect of Muslims taking over cities in Britain. They follow a...
The Guardian has discovered that the British military has been training interrogators in techniques that breach the Geneva Convention. These techniques include threats, sensory deprivation and enforced nakedness. From The Guardian: “Training materials drawn up secretly in recent years tell...
The Department of Communities and Local Government (DCLG) released findings of its Citizenship Survey on Thursday, which covers the period from April to June 2010. The release is divided in to three sections covering community action; community spirit; and prejudice and discrimination. The...
The Guardian today reports that the 200 plus cameras that formed a ‘ring of steel’ around predominantly Muslim suburbs in Birmingham are to be dismantled. Chris Sims (pictured), West Midlands police chief constable, said that he believed the cameras should be taken down to “rebuild...
West Midlands Police “treated people like idiots,” and displayed a combination of “incompetence, deceit and arrogance.” These were the comments of Roger Godsiff, MP for Birmingham Sparkbrook and Small Heath in relation to how West Midlands Police conducted themselves over a scheme...
ENGAGE has written a response to the Review of Counter-terrorism and Security Powers currently being undertaken by the Home Office. You can read the ENGAGE response here. The scope of the review includes the use of stop and search powers under Section 44 of the Terrorism Act. The use of stop and...
“Multiculturalism was once a term of tolerance, an acceptance of acceptance in an increasingly cosmopolitan and urbanised western world. Today it has become just a convenient label which politicians can use to assault immigration.” This is the insight offered by Adrian Hamilton writing in...
The PM, David Cameron, yesterday delivered a statement to the House on the Strategic Defence and Security Review. He detailed changes in four areas that, he argued, signalled a “step change in the way we protect this country’s security interests.” The four areas the PM spoke of are the...
