** 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,...
Shaikh Asif Farooqui, whose arrest last week under terrorism legislation sparked outrage among Bolton’s Muslim community, was released without charge on Sunday evening. The Shaikh’s arrest prompted local Muslims to launch an e-petition calling for his immediate release and to organise a...
The Communities and Local Government select committee inquiry into Prevent will begin its oral evidence sessions on Monday 30 November. Organisations that have been called upon to provide oral evidence in the first session are: At 4.20pm Quilliam, iCoCo (Institute of Community...
The former British ambassador to Libya, Sir Oliver Miles (pictured), has added his voice to criticism of the composition of the Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq war in an article in the Independent on Sunday, ‘The key question – is Blair a war criminal?’. Sir Oliver writes: ‘The Prime...
The Sunday Times yesterday ran an article on recent meetings between British Muslims and the UK’s ‘flying diplomats‘. According to the ST, ‘Ambassadors and other senior British diplomats in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia and Morocco have joined...
Martin ‘The Great Koran Con Trick’ Bright in this week’s JC (and Spectator blog), writing on the prospect of a BNP MP in Barking and Dagenham and the possibility of the party winning control of its first ever local council next year, calls for a ‘strategic alliance between...
Peter Housden (pictured), Permanent Secretary at the Department for Communities and Local Government responds to the Jewish Chronicle article by Martin Bright last week on Whitehall’s Muslim Advisors. Read Housden’s letter printed in today’s JC here.
The BNP has signed its first non-white party member, and guess what – he ‘hates Muslims’. Rajinder Singh (pictured), a retired teacher, who once described Islam as a ‘beast’, is the first non-white member to be signed on following changes to the party’s membership criteria introduced...
Richard Norton-Taylor writes in The Guardian on the ruling by the High Court yesterday further undermining attempts by the Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, to shield information relating to the mistreatment and torture of Binyam Mohamed by UK intelligence agents. Norton-Taylor writes: ‘In...
Dr Mohammed Mukadhum (pictured), chairman of the Association of Muslim Schools (AMS) tells the BBC Asian Network that the current economic climate and straitened financial circumstances of Muslim families are threatening the viability of Muslim schools in the UK. Independent Muslim schools in...
As the police are granted more time to question the five individuals apprehended on suspicion of inciting terrorism overseas, the family of Shaikh Asif Farooqui has released a statement expressing their shock and dismay at the arrest of the 62 year old preacher. The family’s statement reads:...
