** 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,...
Amnesty International has criticised Israel’s response to UN demands for investigations into allegations of breaches of international humanitarian law during its brutal assault on Gaza last year as being ‘totally inadequate’. Amnesty International Middle East and North Africa Programme...
The burqa continues to attract the most illiberal of attitudes with the Conservative MP for Kettering, Philip Hollobone (pictured), expressing ‘huge sympathy with those who want action taken against people who want to cover themselves up in public’ and likening it to ‘the religious...
The Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. Gordon Brown MP today delivered the first address in IPPR’s series of speeches by senior politicians and leading thinkers on a progressive future for Britain, as we approach the next general election. Speaking at the Royal Society of Arts, the Prime Minister...
The Independent published an article yesterday on the findings of a ComRes survey it commissioned on attitudes towards the burqa. See the survey results here. Contrast the Independent’s headline on the article and its opening paragraph with the coverage on the same in the Daily Mail and the...
The Southern Daily Echo carries a feature item on Noor ul Islam primary school (pictured) in Leyton, east London. Prompted by the possibility of a Muslim school opening in Southampton, and what it could mean for the community there, reporter Sarah Jones goes off to observe the workings of a...
Lord Andrew Phillips of Sudbury (pictured) writes a comment piece for The Independent today on the gross travesty of justice that persists in the Middle East with the Palestinians in Gaza suffering under a blockade while Israel is allowed to act with impunity, despite its breaches of UN...
The Tory MP for Monmouth, David Davies, has sparked outrage by making comments interlinking rape with attitudes towards women in minority cultures. Commenting on a rape case and the background of the attacker, Balal Khan, Davies said: “I think there is a wider question here – what is...
The Jewish Chronicle front page today revisits the heavy lobbying Government is facing from Anglo-Jewish organisations to amend universal jurisdiction provisions before the next election. The paper two weeks ago reported that the Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, was pushing for legislation to...
The Independent today prints a letter from the MCB responding to Yasmin Alibhai Brown’s article in Monday’s edition of the paper in which she referred to the organisation as “retrogressive” for its opposing the banning of Muslim female attire (niqab and burqa). The letter reads:...
Today sees the launch of the European Muslim Research Centre (EMRC) and its seminal research paper on ‘Islamophobia and Anti-Muslim Hate Crime: a London Case Study’. The EMRC, based at Exeter University, is co-directed by Dr Jonathan Githens-Mazer and Dr Robert Lambert, former head of the...
