** 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,...
David Wearing (pictured), graduate student in political science at UCL, contributes an article to the Guardian’s Comment is Free section on UK foreign policy making and its democratic deficit. He writes: ‘In February 2003, more than 90% of Britons opposed Tony Blair’s...
ENGAGE has today written to the Foreign Secretary, the Rt. Hon. David Miliband MP, to raise concerns over suggestions, in the aftermath of the Tzipi Livni affair, that legal procedures are to be amended to protect Israeli politicians from vulnerability of arrest in the UK on charges of suspected...
The target of the Quilliam Foundation’s latest press release is Birmingham’s Green Lane Mosque (pictured). QF claim that the mosque is planning to host ‘two extreme Wahhabi clerics who bolster al-Qaeda narratives’. The two scholars in question are Sheikh Faisal al-Jassim, ‘a Wahhabi of...
The arrest warrant issued by a Westminster magistrate against Tzipi Livni (pictured, left, with David Miliband), the former Israeli foreign minister, for war crimes committed during Israel’s savage bombardment of Gaza in Dec 2008-Jan 2009 has caused a flurry of lobbying to pressure the British...
The Open Society Institute today launched its new report on ‘Muslims in Europe’. The study, a ‘comparative analysis of data from 11 cities in seven European countries’, has found that British Muslims are the most patriotic in Europe. The report ‘while not...
The Times discloses an email sent by a police officer in the West Midlands Counter Terrorism Unit to community groups involved in the region’s Prevent programme that suggests that police forces are monitoring nurseries and children as young as four in their counter-radicalisation efforts....
The Guardian reports on new voluntary guidance issued by the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), which urges British supermarkets to label foodstuffs from the Occupied Palestinian Territories as “Israeli settlement produce” or “Palestinian...
The Jewish Chronicle reports on a spat between the Foreign Office (Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, pictured with Ehud Barak, Israeli Defence Minister) and the Department for Communities and Local Government on messages filtered to British Muslims on the Government’s line during the Israeli...
The BBC website yesterday reported that Hizb ut-Tahrir has been denied the opportunity to participate in a student society debate at Queen Mary, University of London on ‘Shariah law – compatible in the modern world?’. Members of the group, Jamal Harwood and Reza Pankhurst, were to take...
BBC Question Time today will be broadcast from Wootton Bassett, the town in Wiltshire that has been honouring British soldiers that have been killed while serving in Afghanistan. The programme will focus in part on government policy on Afghanistan and whether the aims that informed the...
