** 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 BBC Panorama programme on Monday 11th January, ‘A Walk in the Park‘ will look at Jerusalem and the disputes arising from illegal Israeli building in the occupied eastern part of the city, the proposed future capital of a Palestinian state. ‘Jane Corbin (pictured) walks...
Letter to the Editor, BBC Panorama, Dec 2010 Letter to the Rt. Hon. Theresa May MP Home Secretary, Dec 2010 Letter to the Jewish Chronicle, Dec 2010 Letter to the Press Complaints Commission, Sept 2010 Letter to the Press Complaints Commission, Sept 2010 Letter to the Rt. Hon. William Hague MP...
Seumas Milne (pictured) in his Guardian column today superbly dissects the multiple and enduring catastrophes brought about by the persistent failure of the UK and US governments to understand that standing full square behind despots and dictators in the Middle East is a ‘recipe for a war on...
You can read the statement made to the House of Commons by the Home Secretary, Alan Johnson (pictured), on Aviation and Border Security on Tuesday, here. Key excerpts from the statement are reproduced below: ‘With permission, Mr Speaker, I would like to make a statement on the failed...
Revd. Peter Mullen (pictured), Rector of St Michael’s, Cornhill, and St Sepulchre-without-Newgate church in the City of London, offers a further sampling of his bigoted views on Muslims in a recent column in the Northern Echo. Mullen, commenting on the attempted Detroit airplane bombing,...
Damian Thompson (pictured), editor of Daily Telegraph Blogs and author of the Holy Smoke blog, has come up with a commendable initiative to counter offensive anti-Semitic comments made on his blog posts. Thompson says, ‘For every anti-Semitic comment that appears on this blog, I will make a...
The Independent reports that a group of Israeli army officers have cancelled a trip to the UK for fear of being arrested for alleged war crimes under universal jurisdiction provisions. The UK Attorney General, Baroness Scotland (pictured), who is currently in Israel, speaking at a lecture at the...
The Independent, following its disclosures last year of MI5 allegedly trying to blackmail Muslims into spying for the agency, today reports that the agency is still using intimidation and threats to recruit Muslims from Somali and Yemeni backgrounds. The paper reports: ‘In one case, a man who...
Revelling in the kind of publicity money can’t buy Islam4UK appears to have scored another media coup with its shameful proposed march on Wootton Bassett, (see The Times, Daily Telegraph, Daily Star, The Guardian, Daily Mail and BBC News). The group posted the proposed march on its website,...
As new US rules on profiling individuals from ‘high security risk’ countries come into operation today, the Daily Telegraph carries comments from Khalid Mahmood MP (pictured) and Dr Shaaz Mahboob, of British Muslims for Secular Democracy, supporting moves to introduce passenger profiling in...
