** 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 Daily Mail reports on Peter Bone (pictured), Conservative MP for Wellingborough, questioning the Justice Minister, Jack Straw, in the House of Commons yesterday on whether he believed there should be a change to the law on the wearing of the burqa in public places. Mr Bone asked: ‘Does the...
Sir Norman Bettison (pictured), the Association of Chief Police Officers’ representative for policy on tackling violent extremism, told Peter Taylor, in his programme ‘Generation Jihad’ that the Muslim community ‘could do more’ to help police forces tackle the threats posed by...
If you missed the first part of Peter Taylor’s (pictured) documentary for BBC 2, ‘Generation Jihad’, you can catch it again on BBC iPlayer, here. In the first of a three part series, ‘Peter hears from those convicted under Britain’s newest anti-terror laws and...
The Welsh Assembly has recently launched its community cohesion strategy for Wales on preventing all forms of violent extremism, ‘Getting on Together’. The assembly will also be holding ‘awareness sessions’ focused on tackling threats to cohesion in the Higher and Further Education...
Faisal Hanjra (pictured), President of the Federation of Students’ Islamic Societies (FOSIS), writes a column for the Student Times on the intense and unjustified scrutiny that university Islamic societies currently find themselves facing. He writes: ‘The news of Umar Farouk...
Karen Armstrong (pictured), author of Muhammad: A biography of the Prophet and Islam a Short History, contributes a comment piece to the Guardian today on the Chilcot Inquiry and how it ‘will change the way Muslims see the west’ if the inquiry does not descend into a whitewash and permits...
The former director of public prosecutions, Sir Ken MacDonald QC (pictured), has criticized the UK’s system of self-regulation of the press calling on “all credible media organisations” to withdraw from the “farcical” Press Complaints Commission (PCC). According to the...
The universities minister, David Lammy (pictured), in an interview with the BBC, has said that universities identified as being at risk of targeting by extremists will have counter-terrorism police stationed on campus. Mr Lammy told BBC Radio 4’s The Report, “We have identified...
Andrew Dismore (pictured), MP for Hendon and chairman of the Joint Committee on Human Rights has questioned whether the credibility of the government’s independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, Lord Carlile, has been undermined. Dismore also advocated introducing a fixed term for the...
The Jewish Chronicle reports that Tzipi Livni is planning to visit the UK within months to test the government’s resolve in changing the law on universal jurisdiction. The government has come under heavy lobbying pressure from Israel and Anglo-Jewish groups to amend the law, which allows for...
