** 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,...
Leaflets distributed by a BNP activist in St. Albans, against a mosque planning application submitted by a local Muslim group, are being investigated by police for incitement to racial hatred. The BNP leaflets headlined “Do you want to live under an oppressive Islamic Sharia...
Tariq Ramadan in the Guardian’s Comment is Free reflects on the outcome of the Swiss referendum to ban the building of new minarets. ‘For the first time since 1893 an initiative that singles out one community, with a clear discriminatory essence, has been approved in...
The Jewish Chronicle today publishes letters in response to Martin Bright’s article last week on the need for a ‘strategic alliance between British Jews [and] anti-Islamists’ against the East London Mosque and the London Muslim Centre. The letters from Ayub Khan, secretary of...
Harrow Central Mosque (pictured) has urged anti-fascist campaigners to stay away on December 13th when the Stop the Islamisation of Europe (SIOE) group will revisit the town for another ‘anti-Islamic extremism’ demonstration. Ghulam Rabbani, general secretary of the mosque, said: “Our...
The subject of two Muslim schools run by the Islamic Shakhsiyah Foundation, which the Conservative leader yesterday claimed had links to Hizb ut-Tahrir, features in many of today’s newspapers (Independent, Express, Mail, Telegraph), as Cameron retreats over claims he made that the schools...
The Speaker’s Conference, convened by the Speaker of the House, John Bercow MP (pictured), published its second interim report on parliamentary representation yesterday in which it recommended that political parties publish fuller details on candidate selection. The report states that since...
David Cameron, Leader of the Opposition, during Prime Minister’s Question Time today questioned the PM on the subject of public funds allegedly given to two Muslim schools that are said to have links to Hizb ut-Tahrir. Cameron also touched on proscribing the group arguing that despite an...
Muslim gravestones in a Manchester cemetery have been desecrated for the third time. Over 20 headstones at the Southern Cemetery in Manchester were pushed over sometime between Friday 20th and Monday 23rd November. It is the third time that the Muslim section of the cemetery has been targeted...
Louise Christian (pictured), solicitor for former Guantánamo detainee Martin Mubanga, writes in the Guardian’s Comment is Free on the release today of a report by Human Rights Watch exposing the British government’s complicity in the torture of terror suspects in Pakistan. HRW’s...
Seumas Milne in the Guardian’s Comment is Free writes on the ‘Community Defence Initiative’ to fund anti-Taliban militias in Afghanistan and the naivety of assuming that peace is something that can be bought. He writes: ‘So now we know the secret weapon of the new western plan to...
