** 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 Independent on Saturday carried a feature on ‘The Battle for Barking’ – exploring the challenges facing parties working to avert a BNP victory in the local and general elections in the Borough on May 6th. Securing control of Barking and Dagenham council is among BNP priorities with...
Think tank Demos have published a new report, Anatomy of Youth, exploring the experiences of youth in 2010, the social, economic and political challenges that are likely to play a huge role in their futures, and the ‘transfer of political capital’ that is necessary now to engage and equip...
Proving his opportunistic streak knows no bounds Dr Taj Hargey (pictured) of the Muslim Educational Centre in Oxford pens a column for the Daily Mail in which he defends the right of Christians to wear the crucifix in the name of tolerance and harmony, but denounces Muslim women who wear the...
With the date of the general election having been announced and Muslim organizations working hard to get British Muslims registered ahead of polling day, as well as taking an active interest in party policies and election manifestoes that are being offered to them as recipes for change, there...
The BBC reports on the British army’s building of ‘replica mosques’ (image left) on a firing range at an army training facility in Catterick, west Yorkshire. The ‘replica mosques’ are being used in the training of British soldiers prior to deployment to Afghanistan. ‘Saleem Khan, the...
Ofcom has launched an investigation into the Dispatches programme ‘Britain’s Islamic Republic’, after the show attracted more than 1000 complaints. The programme, presented by Andrew Gilligan (pictured), ‘attracted 817 direct complaints to C4, topping its list of criticised shows in...
Riazat Butt (pictured) on the Guardian’s Comment is Free website reviews the election campaigns of the UK’s faith communities as the election countdown begins, ‘The religious move in mysterious ways’. She writes: ‘Even before Gordon Brown fired his starting pistol for a 6 May election,...
The Docklands newspaper this week covers the work of the Wharf Muslim Association (WharfMA) in dispelling popular misconceptions and stereotypes about Islam and Muslims in the Canary Wharf area. The paper notes: ‘There are estimated to be at least 2,000 Muslims currently working in Canary...
With yesterday’s announcement of the date for the general election, May 6th, Paul Vale in today’s Independent assesses the impact and utility of social networking sites in rolling out parties’ election campaigns. ’Since it launched in 2006, Facebook has matured from a tool for keeping in...
Conservative MP and member of the party’s Human Rights Commission, Mark Pritchard (pictured), contributes a blog article to his local paper, the Shropshire Star, in which he claims shari’ah councils in the UK are socially divisive, dispense unfair justice by discriminating against women, and...
