** 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 Daily Star reports on divisive tactics being employed by the BNP in East London to drive a wedge between Muslim and Jewish communities in the area (BNP candidate for Chingford and Wood Green, Julian Leppert, pictured). ‘A storm erupted last night after BNP activists sent Jewish voters a...
The BNP launched its manifesto today in which the party spells out the depth of its anti-Muslim prejudice. In his introduction BNP leader Nick Griffin sets out the manifesto priorities as: “…the conflict in Afghanistan, the immigration invasion of our country, the threat to our security...
Read about the election hustings organized by ENGAGE in Pendle last Sunday (image left), hosted by Jonathan Steele from The Guardian, and remarked upon by incumbent MP Gordon Prentice, in the Asian Image newspaper this week, here.
There is much in the press today about French President, Nicolas Sarkozy (pictured), announcing yesterday that the Government will submit a bill to the French Assembly next month that will ban the wearing of the niqab and burqa in “all public places” in France (Daily Telegraph, Independent,...
Another preposterous claim from Lord Pearson. The UKIP leader, speaking to BBC Campaign Show host Jon Sopel, said, “quite a lot” of Muslim women support UKIP’s call for a ban on the burqa. Lord Pearson followed one nonsensical claim with another saying Muslim women...
From today’s Independent: ‘The Electoral Commission disclosed that nearly 400,000 voting registration forms were downloaded from its site ahead of last night’s deadline to register for a vote. ‘It said 40 per cent of visits to its website had been from young adults aged 18 to 24....
Vandals last night targeted the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) office in east London pasting stickers across the office steps, doorway and windows accusing Muslims who vote of committing an act of apostasy. It’s not the first time the MCB has been targeted in this way by hooligans who wish...
Regeneration and Renewal magazine reports on Conservative shadow communities’ spokesperson Stewart Jackson MP (pictured), Member of Parliament for Peterborough, saying “fifteen year old Muslim boys’ initiation rites [in Afghanistan] are to rape a woman and shoot a foreigner”, at...
The Jewish Chronicle reports: ‘An anti-extremism campaigner has attacked the Union of Jewish Students and claimed the organisation bowed to pressure from Islamic students by withdrawing an invitation to him to appear in a panel debate. ‘Douglas Murray, director of the Centre for Social...
David Yelland (pictured), former editor of The Sun, (the paper ‘wot won it’ for the Tories in 1992), writes in the Guardian’s Comment is Free on how the Lib Dem surge in the polls upsets the applecart of media backing for the two main parties in UK general elections and particularly, the...
