** 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,...
ENGAGE’s new initiative, Get Out & Vote (GOAV), designed to galvanise the Muslim community to participate fully in the general and local elections 2010, is already making waves featuring today on BBC Asian Network and The Asian Today newspaper. As we draw closer to polling day, ENGAGE via...
The Sunday Express yesterday published an apology to the East London Mosque for an article published in December linking the ELM to Anwar Al-Awlaki and referring to the mosque as ‘radical’. The ELM was wrongly criticised by newspapers following the failed bomb attempt by Omar Farouk...
The Intelligence and Security Committee (chaired by Dr Kim Howells MP, pictured) has released its annual report 2008 -2009 and it contains an interesting and valid critique of the Government’s Prevent programme. The report states: ‘One of the key, and yet most difficult, strands in CONTEST...
That an election is in the offing is clear from the interview given by the Leader of the Opposition, David Cameron (pictured), to the Jewish Chronicle this week. The JC reports that Cameron’s Tory Party would act so that: ‘…visitors to Britain such as Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the influential...
Philip Hollobone (pictured), the Tory MP who last month equated the wearing of niqab and burqa by Muslim women to ‘the religious equivalent of going around with a paper bag over your head’, took the opportunity during yesterday’s Commons’ debate on International Women’s Day to repeat...
The Guardian reports that the Equality and Human Rights Commission (chair, Trevor Phillips, pictured) is to brand police forces as ‘racist’ and threaten enforcement action for disproportionate use of stop and search against ethnic minorities. ‘Police forces will be told they face...
The European Parliament yesterday voted in favour of a resolution on the Goldstone Report which calls on EU member states and the High Representative for Foreign Affairs, Baroness Catherine Ashton, to “publicly demand the implementation of [the Goldstone report’s] recommendations and...
Taj Hargey (pictured) proves, yet again, that should the media want a Muslim voice to tell Muslims to put up and shut up, he’s the man to call. In a guest column in The Times today Hargey explains why he is supporting the rejection of a mosque planning application near the Royal Military...
ENGAGE has received a reply from the Foreign Secretary, The Rt. Hon. David Miliband MP, to our letter concerning proposals to remove the power for issuing arrest warrants under universal jurisdiction provisions from UK Magistrates’ courts. Read the Foreign Secretary’s reply here.
Following news last week that two Muslim women traveling to Islamabad were denied permission to board their flight for having declined to pass through body scanners at Manchester airport, a petition has been lodged urging the PM to ensure that those who object to passing through such scanners...
