** 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,...
The government ‘plotted to send UK citizens to Guantanamo’ Bay, reports the Guardian. Previously classified documents disclosed in the High Court and handed to lawyers representing six men, who allege that Britain was complicit in their detention, show that Foreign Office officials...
It has emerged that the government’s £60m Prevent programme is to ‘be dismantled after a widespread loss of confidence in it within Muslim communities.’ From the Guardian: ‘While the tabloids complained that the [Prevent] programme was funnelling millions of pounds to...
Schools in Stoke-on-Trent have been issued with guidance on Ramadan with the overriding consideration that ‘children do not feel disadvantaged in school activities because of their religious activities.’ The guidance, produced by Stoke-on-Trent City’s Standing Advisory Council...
ENGAGE has received a response from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s Near East Group to a letter sent last month to the Foreign Secretary, William Hague, on his comment piece in the Times ‘The clock is ticking. Iran must come to the table’ (11 June 2010) and his defence in...
ENGAGE has responded to a letter received from the Foreign & Commonwealth Office’s Near East Group on the storming of the Gaza aid flotilla by Israeli commandos on 31 May 2010. Read our letter here.
The Jewish Chronicle reports that ‘communal organisations‘ are lobbying the government to ‘change‘ the law on universal jurisdiction to ‘prevent the arrest of visiting Israelis.’ From the JC: ‘Jeremy Newmark, Jewish Leadership Council chief executive...
Writing in the Daily Telegraph, Douglas Murray, director of the Centre for Social Cohesion, argues that Britain has ‘not learnt the lesson of the July 7 suicide bombing.’ To coincide with the fifth anniversary of the July 7 London bombings, the Centre for Social Cohesion has released...
The European Court of Human Rights has ordered a halt to the extradition of four British men, including Babar Ahmad, Abu Hamza, Talha Ahsan and Haroon Aswat. The court ruled that the men are ‘at real risk‘ of being held in a US ‘super max’ prison for life, if convicted....
ENGAGE has responded to a letter received from the Department for Education late last month on the matter of state-funded Jewish schools promoting Zionism within their ethos. Read our letter to the Department of Education here. Read our letter to Redbridge local authority here. Read our letter...
The Yorkshire Post reports that ‘millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money to prevent the spread of violent extremism’ has been been ‘wasted‘ because it has ‘ended up in the hands of councils and community groups ill-equipped to tackle terrorism.’ From...
