** 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 Muslim News today prints an interview with the Leader of the Opposition, David Cameron MP, in which he proclaims that the Conservatives, if they form the next government, ‘won’t do formal things with the Muslim Council of Britain’, citing the Istanbul Declaration as reasons for...
After the dreadful Dispatches programme by Andrew Gilligan, ‘Britain’s Islamic Republic’, and as the EDL plans another demonstration in an English town with a large Muslim population, the Guardian prints a letter signed by political activists, trade unionists and anti-fascist campaigners,...
Adrian Hamilton (pictured) in his column for The Independent yesterday wrote on the diplomatic spats between the UK and Israel and the US and Israel arguing that recent events clearly suggest, if there was ever a doubt, that ‘Israel’s interests are not the same as ours on Palestine’. He...
Stephen Pollard (pictured), the editor of the Jewish Chronicle, wrote a column yesterday for the Daily Telegraph offering his thoughts on the crisis in UK-Israel relations sparked by the expulsion of an Israeli diplomat from the UK for his country’s reported part in the forging of British...
The Foreign Secretary David Miliband has made a statement to the House of Commons this afternoon on the outcome of the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) investigation into the faked British passports which were used by the assassination squad that killed Mahmoud al Mabhouh in Dubai in...
Roshan Salih (pictured), Head of News at Press TV, pens a column on the forthcoming general election and the role Muslims should play to ensure that ‘[we] make Britain a better place internally and enhance its reputation abroad.’ He writes:‘The upcoming UK general election, predicted to...
BNP party leader, Nick Griffin, following his appearance on BBC Question Time in October last year, appeared on a Christian television station, Revelation UK, yesterday to “…press home the increasing Islamification of the UK [and] decline and censorship of Christian values, history,...
David Cronin (pictured), Brussels correspondent for the Inter Press Service news agency and contributor on European Affairs to The Guardian, attempted a citizen’s arrest of former PM Tony Blair yesterday in Brussels. ‘On the seventh anniversary of the invasion almost to the day, David...
Diane Abbott MP (pictured) has presented an early day motion entitled ‘Muslims in Britain’ which ‘welcomes the participation and contribution of Muslims in British society, including in politics; and believes that the full participation of all communities in the forthcoming general...
The Daily Express on Tuesday offered Lord Pearson, the Leader of the UK Independence Party, the opportunity to write a guest column on the ‘real issues in the election campaign’. Lord Pearson, in imparting his party’s antipathy for the EU, adds these thoughts:‘Last week all three...
