** 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,...
Melanie Phillips (pictured) explains the BNP’s popularity in her Spectator blog as being the result of ‘the threat from Islamic supremacism and the concern of the disenfranchised white voters that the political establishment is supinely going along with the progressive Islamisation of...
Columnists Gary Younge (pictured left, The Guardian) and Steve Richards (pictured right, The Independent) comment on the political trajectory that has led to us to the point where the leader of the racist BNP, Nick Griffin, is able to appear on BBC1’s Question Time programme. Younge...
Progress Online – a New Labour pressure group – has issued an apology to Sir Iqbal Sacranie (pictured), former secretary general of the Muslim Council of Britain and current Chairman of Muslim Aid, for an article written by Paul Richards in August 2009, in which he claimed: ‘…you...
Read the speech by the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, John Denham, to Churches Together in Britain and Ireland delivered on Monday, here. Excerpts from the speech are copied below: “As Secretary of State for Communities, I am responsible for the Government’s...
The Independent yesterday reported of a spilt in the Israeli Cabinet over calls for an independent investigation into war crimes committed by Israeli soldiers during the savage bombardment of Gaza in Dec 2008 – Jan 2009. The UN Human Rights Council’s decision last week urged both Israel and...
Inayat Bunglawala, in his latest Comment is Free posting has proposed holding a counter-demonstration against the provocative antics of Al-Muhajiroun and Islam4UK’s proposed march on Saturday October 31st, which featured on the Daily Express front page last week, at the end of this month. He...
Symon Hill of Ekklesia (pictured), comments on the Daily Express front page last week and the newspaper’s proclivity for histrionics and encouraging anti-Muslim prejudice. He writes: ‘The Daily Express has turned into the modern equivalent of those people who used to walk around wearing...
The Times reports on the latest developments concerning the BNP leader Nick Griffin’s appearance on BBC1’s Question Time programme due for tomorrow. The Welsh Secretary, Peter Hain, having earlier written to Mark Thompson, BBC Director General, has now also written to the Chairman of the BBC...
Islamophobia Watch relates news of a man charged with attempted arson of a mosque in Sunderland. Gerald Davies (53), of Palmerston Road, Peterborough, appeared before Sunderland Magistrates’ Court accused of a late-night petrol attack on the mosque in Chester Road, Sunderland, IW reports....
Concerns at the claims made in the Guardian article, on the misuse of community and voluntary sector groups to spy on British Muslims and the conditionality of funding on Information Sharing Agreements, have also been raised by the Chief Executive of the Association of Chief Executives of...
