** 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,...
Andrew Gilligan wrote a piece in the Spectator last week on how the new coalition government must ‘reformulate‘ its ‘relationship with moderate Muslims – and marginalise the extremists for good.’ In last Wednesday’s article titled ‘We need a compact with...
An investigation by The Guardian has revealed that surveillance cameras in Washwood Heath and Sparkbrook, two of Birmingham’s predominantly Muslim areas, have been ‘put up to monitor extremists.’ Saturday’s edition of The Guardian stated: ‘The cameras appeared at...
Israel’s deadly attack on an international aid convoy that left nine people dead earlier this week formed part of BBC Question Time’s discussion yesterday. The panelists, who included the Science Minister David Willetts, the Labour leadership candidate Dianne Abbott MP, the political...
A parliamentary Early Day Motion was tabled on Wednesday 2nd June 2010 by Richard Burden MP calling for an end to the blockade of Gaza and a full investigation into Israel’s attack on the flotilla of ships carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza. EDM 127 currently has 80 signatories. The...
The Government’s Research, Information and Communications Unit (RICU) issued a fact sheet yesterday on the Israeli attack on the Gaza aid flotilla. While not as specious as an earlier fact sheet issued by RICU when the Viva Palestina convoy was violently halted by the Egyptian border police...
Seumas Milne in his column in today’s Guardian comments on the Gaza aid flotilla raided on Monday by Israeli commandos. He writes:‘It takes some nerve, and a special kind of detachment from reality, to claim that your soldiers were “lynched” by “terrorists” when they...
The Guardian’s Comment is Free publishes an article by Sir Jeremy Greenstock (pictured), former British Ambassador to the UN, on the Gaza aid flotilla and the need for the international community to re-think its policies on locking Hamas out of peace talks in the Middle East. The article was...
Louise Arbour (pictured), president of the International Crisis Group, reflects in The Independent on the assault on the Gaza aid flotilla by Israeli commandos on Monday and what might yet be done by the international community to see good come of this tragedy. She writes: ‘It is easy to...
The Guardian prints news of a further case of possible MI5 complicity in the torture of British Muslims abroad. From the paper: ‘A third UK citizen has been detained in Bangladesh and allegedly mistreated while being interrogated about his associates and activities in both countries, raising...
Foreign Secretary, William Hague, spoke to BBC news today on Israeli commandos storming the Gaza aid flotilla on Monday killing 10 humanitarian activists, injuring dozens and currently deporting hundreds of others. Read the transcript on the FCO website here and remember, you can call or write...
