** 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,...
Protestors belonging to a fringe group called Muslims Against the Crusades (MAC) carried placards that read ‘British soldiers are cowards’ and ‘What are you dying for? 18k’ as two hundred members of 1st Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment marched through Barking...
A British National Party (BNP) activist allegedly sought to stir up religious hatred by delivering leaflets in Lancashire, Cumbria, Manchester and North Yorkshire that blamed Muslims for the heroin trade. Preston Crown Court was told that Anthony Bamber, 54, printed and distributed the leadlets...
John Crace’s Guardian column summarises Melanie Phillips’ new book, World Turned Upside Down, providing an amusing insight into the worldview that insists ‘black is white.’ Satirising Melanie’s logic, Crace writes: ‘This book arose from a sense of perplexity...
Roger Godsiff MP for Birmingham Hall Green has condemned the use of surveillance cameras in Muslim communities in Birmingham as ‘a grave infringement of civil liberties’, and has tabled an Early Day Motion in parliament calling on the government to intervene to ensure that the...
Lord Patten of Barnes reflects in the Guardian’s Comment is free section on the need for the EU to show ‘real courage’ in the Middle East, otherwise it risks being complicit in illegal acts. Calling for a new set of initiatives to diffuse tensions in the Middle East, Lord...
Barcelona has become the first major city in Spain to forbid face veils in municipal buildings, including public markets, schools, hospitals and libraries. The ban will come into effect later this year. Two other municipalities in the north-eastern Catalonia region, Lleida and El Vendrell, have...
Israel has said it will be holding an internal inquiry into an incident two weeks ago in which an aid flotilla attempting to reach Gaza was attacked, killing nine people. The move has won the approval of the Obama administration, in spite of considerable pressure for an independent international...
Rights groups and MEPs have expressed their outrage over new EU plans to ‘gather data on people who voice or share “radical messages” in a bid to pre-empt terrorist attacks.’ The EU Observer writes: ‘Political activists labelled as “Extreme right/left,...
In response to Israel’s deadly attack on Monday 31st May 2010, a parliamentary event was convened by ENGAGE with the Conservative Muslim Forum, Labour Friends of Palestine and Liberal Democrat Friends of Palestine in Westminster on Wednesday 2nd June 2010 at 6:30pm. The event drew members...
Journalist Peter Oborne, who writes for the Spectator and Daily Mail, denounced the unfair representation of Muslims in the media as ‘un-British’ at a conference on Islamophobia on Saturday. Oborne, who investigated how press coverage of terrorism has affected the portrayal of Islam...
