** 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 Guardian prints some suggestions offered by schoolchildren to the next PM – whoever it may be – including these thoughts from young British Muslims: Mohamed Takow, 15 The government is not directly involved with young people. I would like the new PM to make time to see young people doing...
Douglas Murray blogs on the Telegraph on tactics used by political parties and the use made by candidates of targeted leaflets to woo votes from particular constituencies. The leaflet in question is one produced by the Conservative challenger in Jack Straw’s constituency of Blackburn,...
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown dissects the election results in her column in today’s Independent. Assessing the correlation between national sentiment and election outcomes Alibhai-Brown comments on the banishing of the BNP, the ethnic and gender make up of the new parliament and the country’s...
Local election results in the 32 London Boroughs and across the country can be viewed here. Interesting results include outcomes in Barking and Dagenham, where the BNP lost the 12 seats it gained in the 2006 election, despite its determination to capture the council. Newham Council – where the...
As the results come in from yesterday’s general election and party leaders horse-trade to create a coalition government, an optimistic note that has struck in this election is the galvanization of Muslims at the polling booths and the increased number of Muslim MPs returned to the House. The...
After Nick Griffin’s appearance on Nicky Campbell’s Radio 5 Live programme last month in which he said “I’m not anti-Muslim, I’m anti-Islam”, Lord Pearson of the UK Independence Party took part in the programme on Tuesday where he repeated his party’s support for a ban on the burqa...
Baroness Sayeeda Warsi (pictured) is in hot water it seems as Next Left discloses disparaging comments she allegedly made in a yet unpublished Times article saying Muslims who enter parliament ‘don’t have any morals or principles’. New Left reports that at a dinner hosted for the...
An advert promoting the Conservative party in the Jewish Chronicle last week (pdf file) is unlikely to impress Muslims as we approach polling day. The advert reiterates policies that are already cause for concern, from Edward Garnier’s allaying Israeli fears on the UK’s war crimes...
Today’s edition of The Herald in Scotland reports that Special Branch have been accused of abusing their stop and search powers at airports to try and recruit Scottish Muslims into spying for them. The Herald says: Under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000, officers can stop and...
The Independent today reports the case of two British Muslims who say they were detained, illegally interrogated and held in ‘inhumane’ conditions while on holiday by the authorities in Tanzania on the orders of MI5. This is just the latest in a number of similar reports of...
