** 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,...
Jonathan Warren covers the English Defence League’s largest demonstration to date, the demo in Dudley at the weekend, on the ‘Expose the BNP’ blog site. With photos taken along the protest route in Dudley, Warren captures the fear and havoc EDL demonstrations have caused in towns across...
The Guardian prints an interview with the former head of the UN nuclear watchdog, IAEA, Mohammed El Baradei (pictured), in which he criticizes western states’ policy of supporting repressive regimes in the Middle East. El Baradei tells the paper: “There is a need for re-evaluation …...
The Independent today pursues a story that broke in The Muslim News last week on the UCL Student Union’s disclosing the personal details of UCL Islamic society members to anti-terror police, in breach of the Data Protection Act and without the permission of the students themselves, many of...
Ruth Gledhill in The Times reports on a paper to be published in the next issue of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations by Nick Chatrath (pictured), a researcher at Oxford’s Faculty of Oriental Studies, in which he argues, ‘…in the face of growing radicalisation in Britain, Muslim...
The Daily Telegraph prints a comment piece by Douglas Murray, director of the Centre for Social Cohesion, on the report produced by the CLG select committee on Prevent yesterday. Murray reiterates criticisms made by many Muslim organizations of the disbursement of public funds for no...
The Committees on Arms Export Controls, comprising the Business, Innovation and Skills, Defence, Foreign Affairs, and International Development Committees, today released the ‘Scrutiny of Arms Export Controls (2010)‘, report in which they call upon Government to: ‘set out clearly [in...
The Communities and Local Government select committee (chair, Dr Phyllis Starkey, pictured) has today released its report into Prevent. Following a call for evidence last year and oral evidence sessions held earlier this year, the committee has produced its report into the Prevent stream of...
The PCC has upheld a complaint against Rod Liddle (pictured) for a blog he posted on Spectator blogs claiming, ”The overwhelming majority of street crime, knife crime, gun crime, robbery and crimes of sexual violence in London is carried out by young men from the African-Caribbean...
The Quilliam Foundation, unfazed by its pathetic Islam Channel alert in April of last year, has produced a report on the Channel, ‘Re-programming British Muslims: A study of the Islam Channel, accusing it of ‘promoting backward attitudes to women, intolerance towards other sects and...
ENGAGE have written to Charles Farr, Director-General of the Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism, which funds the Quilliam Foundation, concerning the QF’s latest report, ‘Re-programming British Muslims: a study of the Islam Channel’. Read the ENGAGE letter here.
