** 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,...
Following West Yorkshire Chief Constable Sir Norman Bettison’s letter to Bradford Council exhorting a ban on the EDL’s proposed march in Bradford over the August bank holiday weekend, Home Secretary Theresa May has consented to the Council’s letter of request. A petition...
Richard Littlejohn in his Daily Mail column last week added his own thoughts to the controversy sparked in the US, and fuelled by right wingers, on the proposed plans to build an Islamic Centre near the Ground Zero site in New York. Alex Massie on Spectator blogs and Andrew Brown on the...
The Home Secretary has been asked to consider a ban on the planned march in Bradford by the English Defence League over the August bank holiday weekend. Static demonstrations in the UK cannot be prevented – assured as a fundamental right of freedom of association in any democracy – but the...
The British Council has published a report on Muslim integration in Scotland. The report sheds empirical light on the presumption that Scottish Muslims are better integrated into Scottish society than Muslims in other parts of the UK. The study shows that Muslims are the least favourably viewed...
Four police officers accused of a “serious, gratuitous and prolonged” attack and racist abuse of Babar Ahmed are to be charged with assault. From the Press Association: “The officers, all members of the Metropolitan Police’s territorial support group, will be charged with causing...
Five police officers are to learn today if they will be charged over a racist attack on British Muslim, Babar Ahmad. One report states, “Director of Public Prosecutions Keir Starmer is expected to announce whether anyone will face trial over the arrest of British Muslim Babar Ahmad. Up to five...
The Daily Mail reports that outspoken atheist, Professor Richard Dawkins, described the burqa as a “full bin-liner thing” and told of his “visceral revulsion at the burka”. The Daily Mail reports, “Last night he stood by his remarks and told the Daily Mail: ‘I do feel visceral...
Marwan Bishara, Al Jazeera’s senior political analyst, debunks the myth that foreign wars are being fought to secure more freedoms and rights for Muslim women. Writing on his blog, Imperium, he states: “Western media is awash with reports about Taliban mistreatment of women in...
Primary schools in the north London borough of Harrow are being offered the ‘chance to serve only halal meat‘ on their menus, reports the BBC. According to the BBC, nine secondary schools in Harrow already provide pupils with halal meat in a scheme that has been running for two years.
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown writes about the ‘Talibanisation of British childhood by hardline parents‘ in the Daily Mail. Relying solely on anecdotal evidence, Alibhai-Brown writes: ‘Teachers, community, youth and social workers have told me many stories of the suppression of simple...
