** 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,...
Three men have been arrested after a pig’s head was thrown into the car park of a mosque in Crawley, west Sussex (pictured). From the BBC: ‘Police were alerted by people attending Langley Green mosque, in Crawley, on Saturday after a white car drove by. ‘A 21-year-old man from Horley was...
Professor Wolfgang Benz (pictured), Director of the Center for Research on Anti-Semitism at the Technical University, Berlin, in an interview with Qantara talks about the structural similarities in the stigmatisation of Muslims and Jews in Europe. Qantara: Herr Benz, your article in the...
For those of you who have not yet registered to vote in the May 6th general and local elections, TODAY is the deadline for registration. Visit the ‘About My Vote’ site to register online now. Remember, if you’re not on the electoral roll, you can’t cast a vote. In an election as hotly...
BNP leader Nick Griffin joined Nicky Campbell’s Radio 5 Live show today, (podcast here), repeating his Islamophobic views. The BNP leader claimed ‘three Sikhs a day are joining the BNP’ and ‘I’m not anti-Muslim, I’m anti-Islam’. Griffin, responding to a question posed by a Muslim...
Gordon Prentice MP (pictured), who took part in ENGAGE’s election hustings in Pendle yesterday, reflects on the event on his blog. Writing about faith schools and other questions put to him and the other election candidates yesterday, Prentice acknowledges that ‘Get out and vote is making a...
The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) released a briefing paper today on ‘Exploring the Roots of BNP support’. The report finds that social, economic and political exclusion, and not immigration, are the key variables that explain voter tendency in favour of the BNP. The mainstream...
The BBC Daily Politics Cabinet Contender Election Debates today focuses on foreign affairs featuring David Miliband v William Hague v Ed Davey. Tune in to BBC 2 at 14.15 – 15.00 today for a live election debate on the parties’ foreign policy platforms. You can also read excerpts taken from...
Two vandals have been caught on CCTV hurling stones at Eccles and Salford mosque and tearing down its perimeter fencing. Having suffered from a spate of attacks since 2006, the mosque installed CCTV cameras for added security. You can watch the CCTV footage of the attacks, click on image left....
Summaries and main points from the party manifestoes that were launched last week are excerpted below. ENGAGE is also holding election hustings around the country with incumbent and prospective parliamentary candidates invited to answers questions from inquisitive Muslim audiences. If you...
The Times Educational Supplement reports on schools that are refusing to take part in the Government’s Channel programme, part of the Prevent stream of the CONTEST 2 counter-terrorism strategy. The paper reports: ‘Schools are refusing to take part in a Government counter-terrorism strategy...
