** 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,...
Ten people were charged with a mix of public order offences, suspicion of assaulting a police officer, possessing an offensive weapon and possessing a controlled substance, following a protest in Leicester by extremist right-wing group, the English Defence League (EDL). The static protest was...
David Cameron’s speech delivered his speech to the Conservative Party conference on Wednesday. Among other things in the opening, he (predictably) played up the role of the Liberal Democrats’ role in the coalition government and talked of voting reform. He then spent a short while discussing...
The Guardian has published a letter calling on new Labour Party leader, Ed Miliband, to stand by his reported stance of a foreign policy built on “values, not just alliances” and distance himself from the Jewish National Fund. The Jewish National Fund, which was instrumental in the ethnic...
The Evening Standard reports that London’s deputy mayor, Kit Malthouse, has called for a public debate on the value of terror alerts, saying, “such alerts, and Britain’s official threat level warning, risked handing victory to the terrorists by spreading fear and confusion among the...
Mehdi Hasan’s interview with Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, which was published in the New Statesman yesterday, offered some very interesting views and points of consideration for the Muslim community. Baroness Warsi, who is the Conservative Party Chairman and the first Muslim woman in the Cabinet,...
Sir William Gage, who is leading the public inquiry in to the death of Baha Mousa and other Iraqi detainees at the hands of British troops, today reprimanded army intelligence chiefs for what he called “lamentable” delays in disclosing crucial information to the inquiry. The Guardian...
Anti-Islamic Dutch MP, Geert Wilders, went on trial yesterday, charged with inciting racial hatred against Muslims. Today, however, the trial has been halted amid allegations of bias on the part of presiding judge, Jan Moors. The Guardian reports that Wilders said, “’I am on trial, but on...
Lancashire News reports that police have obtained an order against extremist right-wing group, the English Defence League (EDL), over their protests against Blackburn’s KFC serving halal chicken. From the article, “Officers acted after seven nights of demonstrations kicked off with scenes of...
We thought you may be interested in reading an editorial in today’s Independent, which picks up on the stories reported in most newspapers today of fears of a terrorist attack in Europe (see The Guardian, the Daily Mail and the Evening Standard to name a few of those papers). The editorial...
Over the weekend, the Sunday Telegraph reported of three Muslim schools that, according to them, “force girls to wear the burka or a full headscarf and veil known as the niqab.” The article states, “The Sunday Telegraph has established that three UK institutions have introduced a...
