** 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,...
Shahid Malik MP, minister at the Department for Communities and Local Government, and David Hanson MP, minister for policing, crime and counter-terrorism (both pictured), contribute an article to the Guardian’s Comment is Free. They tackle criticisms of the Government’s Prevent strategy that...
Listen to the speech given by the Home Secretary, Alan Johnson MP, at the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) yesterday on ‘Security in the 21st Century: Global, National, Local’, here (audio file). Speaking on the Government’s Prevent strategy, and recent allegations of the use of the...
It’s almost par for the course that come this time of year Muslims will suffer the indignity of certain newspapers publishing the rants of extremists thus blackening the image of British Muslims as we approach Remembrance Day. True to form, the Sunday Express gives up a page to...
The News of the World publishes an article on comments made by UK Independence Party peer, Lord Malcolm Pearson, in which he makes Eurabia style comments such as, Muslims are “breeding ten times faster than us.” “I don’t know at what point they reach such a number we are no...
The BBC has revamped its Parliament website with the launch of Democracy Live. The new site is an attempt to both open up the workings of parliament to voters, and to educate the public about the work of British political institutions. The site will provide visitors the ability to track...
Jonathan Githens-Mazer and Robert Lambert, joint Directors of the European Muslim Research Centre, follow the latter’s article last week, ‘UK counter-terrorism aids far right’, with an article for Guardian Comment is Free on ‘Reshaping Prevent’, which critically appraises the IRR...
Liz Fekete, Executive Director of the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) and author of ‘A Suitable Enemy: Racism, Migration and Islamophobia in Europe’, delivered the eighth Claudia Jones Memorial Lecture on ‘Who’s terrorising who? The media and the war on terror‘,...
The UK Youth Parliament is to hold its annual debate in the chamber of the House of Commons today for the first time. Debating scenes in the House will depart from the customary as 300 Members of the Youth Parliament (MYPs) take to the green benches to discuss: Lowering the voting age to 16...
As we approach Sat 31st October and British Muslim groups (Muslims4UK, ISB) prepare to counter the ridiculous ‘March for Shari’ah’ demonstration called by the Islam4UK fringe group, what groups do you suppose the Daily Express is busy promoting? No prizes for guessing of course, the...
Seumas Milne in his Guardian column today critiques the Government’s ‘domestic extremism’ surveillance strategy arguing that it ‘criminalises political dissent’ and assaults the fundamental principles of a democratic society; the right to protest and engage in non-violent politics. He...
