** 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,...
ENGAGE have written a short letter to the Jewish Chronicle concerning a story printed in last week’s edition of the paper about the controversial submission by the Board of Deputies of British Jews to the Prevent inquiry and its conditions for Government engaging with the Muslim Council...
The Prime Minister, Gordon Brown’s keynote speech at the Labour party conference today can be read here. Email the PM with your questions or comments on the speech via the Number 10 website. And you can also raise issues that matter to you with the PM on Number 10’s Youtube initiative ‘Ask...
The Campaign Against Criminalising Communities (CAMPACC) will be holding a public meeting tomorrow (30th Sept) in Camden, north London, to ‘Stop MI5 Blackmail!’ MI5’s blackmailing of British Muslim citizens came to light in an exclusive published in The Independent in May. The paper...
The planned attendance of Ehud Barak, Israeli Defence Minister and deputy Prime Minister, at a Labour Friends of Israel fringe meeting on Tuesday has attracted criticism from Labour MPs. Barak, as Defence Minister, oversaw Israel’s savagery in Gaza in Dec 2008-Jan 2009 which killed over 1400...
Emdad Rahman reviews ‘Eid in the Square’, which took place in London’s Trafalgar Square on Saturday 26th Sept, for Islam Online. ‘Trafalgar Square was transformed into a performance tent with the landmark Square playing host to storytellers, exhibitions, singers,...
The meeting last week of Muslims in High Wycombe with UK Ambassador to Iraq, Sir Christopher Prentice, has attracted criticism from the local MP, Paul Goodman (pictured), and local press for its being held in private. A local newspaper, Bucks Free Press, had requested permission to cover the...
The Sunday Herald yesterday reported that Strathclyde police will oppose a planned demonstration in November by the Scottish Defence League (the Scottish arm of the English Defence League) if the event is intended to stir up racial hatred. The paper reports that ‘Strathclyde Police are ready...
There’s a further article in the Jewish Chronicle this week which is disconcerting. The paper reports that the Board of Deputies of British Jews (BoD) has, in its joint submission with the Community Security Trust to the Communities and Local Government Inquiry into ‘Prevent’, said that:...
Martin ‘The Great Koran Con Trick’ Bright interviews John Denham, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, reviews the IPPR’s ‘Building Bridges, Not Walls, report, and comments on the government’s policy on engaging with Muslim groups, in this week’s Jewish...
Professor Roy Greenslade (pictured) in his blog on MediaGuardian writes of the continuing demise of local newspapers across the UK and the vacuum that is being created in local ‘public service reporting’. The problem of local and regional newspaper titles shutting down due to reasons of...
