** 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,...
In the Observer today – which you will recall disgraced its fine liberal traditions and supported the Iraq war – Rashad Ali (pictured, ex HT figure) and formerly employed at the Quilliam Foundation, writes a comment piece saying that the main lesson to be learned from the recent...
The President and Provost of University College London, Malcolm Grant (pictured), has written an article for the Times Higher Education website in which he has defended his college from the many scurrilous allegations that have been made against it in recent days following the failed...
The Independent published a letter yesterday from the East London mosque concerning the paper’s article on Monday ‘Nigerian in aircraft attack linked to London mosque’, linking ELM to Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s radicalisation. The article in Monday’s edition stated...
It was only likely to be a matter of time before the usual suspects were invited to contribute their simplistic explanations on the suspected causes of Umar Farouk Abdulmuttalab’s radicalisation. Stephen Pollard (pictured), editor of the Jewish Chronicle, contributes a comment piece in today’s...
Melanie Phillips (pictured) in her column in yesterday’s Daily Mail offers her usual mix of hyperbole and hysteria as she comments on Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the suspected terrorist who allegedly attempted to ignite explosives aboard a plane bound for Detroit, Michigan on Christmas Day. She...
The Muslim community of Cradley Heath, in the West Midlands, is appealing for help to catch arsonists who set the Cradley Heath mosque and Islamic centre ablaze and burnt it to the ground on Boxing Day. It is the second time in five years that the building has been targeted by arsonists and...
The Liberal Democrat leader, Nick Clegg (pictured), heads the list of signatories of an open letter published in the Observer today calling on ‘the British government and the international community to apply meaningful pressure upon Israel’ to lift its suffocating blockade on...
The MCB’s letter to the Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, criticising his proposed suggestion to amend UK laws to protect suspected Israeli war criminals from facing arrest, has been picked up by international news organisations. The Associated Press have covered the story here....
The war of words between the Quilliam Foundation and the Green Lane Masjid (Birmingham) continues. Today saw the Quilliam Foundation issue an open letter to Faisal al-Jassim – who is due to speak at the Winter Conference at the GLM – and whom Quilliam had described in a...
A year on from the devastation of the Gaza strip by the Israeli army, a consortium of 16 aid agencies, including Amnesty International and Oxfam, have released a report on the meagre progress in Gaza’s reconstruction caused by Israel’s continuing blockade. The report, ‘Failing Gaza’...
