** 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,...
Among articles printed in last week’s special issue of the New Statesman magazine on Islam, is this piece by David Blanchflower (pictured) on the effects of the slow down of economic growth and the problems of underemployment on British Muslims, particularly youth. He wrote:‘The National...
The Times editorial today critiques the Establishment cabal responsible for disparaging the judgment of the Master of the Rolls, Lord Neuberger (pictured), in his ruling in the Binyam Mohamed case last week. The ruling has seen the Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, Home Secretary, Alan Johnson,...
Voting for your preferred reforms in the Power 2010 campaign, created to change the way we do politics in the UK, ends next week on February 22nd. You can select between support for reforming the FPTP electoral system to PR, a written constitution, the scrapping of national databases that...
Dr Chris Allen of the University of Birmingham, reviewed two recent reports on the rise in hate crimes affecting British Muslim and Jewish communities and the findings of the British Social Attitudes survey, in the Daily Telegraph on Friday. He wrote: ‘Last year saw the highest number of...
Philip Johnston (pictured) in the Daily Telegraph today argues the case for a change to the universal jurisdiction provisions that would allow war criminals to enter the UK without fear of facing arrest and prosecution, citing ‘national interest’. He writes: ‘…the central importance to...
Ed Husain (pictured) contributes an article to the New Statesman’s special issue on Islam this week. Looking back on his involvement in Hizb ut Tahrir and his later political maturation, coming to adopt a position more consistent with Britain’s pluralist democracy, Husain tries to weave...
Hansard on Wednesday records answers given to written questions posed by Lord Ahmed of Rotherham (pictured) and Baroness Sayeeda Warsi to the Department of Communities and Local Government on the Sufi Muslim Council and its receipt of public funds. From Hansard: Lord Ahmed: To ask Her...
Coverage of the Binyam Mohamed ruling by the Court of Appeals yesterday has revealed something of an (expected?) anomaly on how the Daily Express judges newsworthiness. On Mohamed’s release from Guantanamo last February, the paper headlined his return to the UK with a front page titled...
The papers today, Guardian, Independent, Daily Telegraph and The Times, reflect on the ruling passed in the Binyam Mohamed case by the appeals court yesterday and the judgment that confirms that MI5 was complicit in his torture. The papers also refer to the report in The Guardian yesterday of...
The government has lost its legal battle to suppress evidence that it was aware of MI5’s complicity in the torture of Binyam Mohamed. The foreign secretary, David Miliband, has fought a long battle in the courts to keep documents classified claiming their declassification would threaten...
