** 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,...
The Jewish Chronicle last week printed news of a Scottish teenager who has been ordered to pay compensation to the United Hebrew Congregation in Edinburgh after smashing the synagogue windows with a baseball bat in an attack motivated by religious hatred. Junaid Javed caused damage to the...
Newspapers portraying fringe activists as mainstream commentators and inciting community tensions as a consequence, as with today’s Daily Express front page, is not the lowest journalism will sink it seems in light of this investigation on journalists cross-checking stories for veracity...
The Daily Express front page today (image shown) declaring that ‘Now Muslims demand: Give us full Shari’a law’, would be laughably stupid if it wasn’t just the sort of pernicious nonsense that fuels the extremists of the English Defence League and the Stop the Islamisation of Europe...
The BBC Trust has launched the first ever public consultation on the BBC’s Editorial Guidelines, which guide programme makers and other content producers on issues such as impartiality, accuracy, harm and offence, as well as covering war, religion, politics and children’s issues on...
The Press Complaints Commission has adopted three revisions to the Editor’s Code of Practice. The Code forms the basis of self-regulation of the British press and is enforced by the PCC. The changes will take effect on 19th October 2009. The revisions are highlighted below. The Code as it...
Rounding off the party conference season, David Cameron delivered his keynote speech to the Conservative party conference yesterday. Read the speech in full here. You can send your comments on the speech to the Conservative party leader at [email protected].
Jonathan Cook (pictured), author of ‘Israel and the Clash of Civilisations: Iraq, Iran and the Plan to Remake the Middle East’, writes on the reasons behind Israel succeeding in averting a decision on the Goldstone report at the UN Human Rights Council’s meeting in Geneva last week. The...
‘Mapping the Global Muslim Population: A Report on the Size and Distribution of the World’s Muslim Population‘, a new study by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life, maps the geographic spread and density of Muslims around the globe. The...
Shadow Home Secretary Chris Grayling’s speech to the Conservative party conference can be read here. Excerpts from his speech: ‘The security of our people and of our nation [is] another key [Home Office] responsibility ‘To take the lead in the battle against terrorism....
Interesting news from the world of print media: the London Evening Standard is due to become a free newspaper from 12th October onwards, ending more than 180 years as a paid-for title. The ES, formerly owned by Associated Newspapers, which owns the Daily Mail and the free publication London...
