** 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,...
Jack Straw, Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice, talks about electoral reform, the Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq war and responds to critics who claim he is “too close” to the Muslim Council of Britain and ‘soft on Islamism’ in an interview published in this week’s...
Read the transcript of shadow home secretary, Chris Grayling’s speech, ‘Radicalism is a domestic and international challenge‘, to the Heritage Foundation in Washington today. Excerpted from the speech: ‘Today I want to set out how a Conservative Government in Britain...
The Government has been dealt a further blow to its policy of using secret evidence to obstruct due process. In what human rights lawyers have hailed as a ‘historic’ ruling, the High Court yesterday judged that the Government could not deny individuals bail citing secret evidence as reasons...
Proving that there’s no depth to which they won’t sink in their campaign of hate against British Muslims, the Stop Islamisation of Europe (SIOE) group has sent emails to British Jews encouraging them to attend the demonstration in front of Harrow mosque on December 13th. The Jewish...
Jonathan Freedland (pictured) in the Guardian offers a sober reflection on the Swiss ban on minarets and what it connotes of majority attitudes towards minority groups in Europe. He writes: ‘[H]ow would I react if the Swiss voted to restrict the way synagogues are built? With horror, of...
Michael Gove (pictured), shadow secretary for children, schools and families, responds in the Telegraph to the comment piece by Ed Balls published yesterday, on Muslim faith schools and Hizb ut-Tahrir. He writes: ‘I want to support all the major faiths of this country in establishing and...
Taj Hargey (pictured), chairman of the Muslim Educational Centre of Oxford, adds his voice to commentary on the Swiss referendum result to ban the building of new minarets in a guest column in The Times today. He says: ‘Switzerland’s referendum vote to ban minarets is needlessly...
Sholto Byrnes (pictured) comments on the Swiss referendum result to ban minarets in New Statesman blogs. ‘I’m afraid that the Little Europeans have far more support than we normally wish to admit, even in Britain. For it is part of the paradox of Western liberalism that its pluralism...
Ed Balls, Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, writes in the Daily Telegraph today on the controversy sparked by David Cameron’s ill-informed remarks last week on the two schools run by the Islamic Shakhsiyah Foundation. He writes: ‘We must never forget that...
Watch coverage of the Communities and Local Government committee’s oral evidence sessions, part of its inquiry into Prevent, on BBC Democracy Live here.
