** 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 second issue of the ENGAGE newsletter is out now. Click here to read a copy online. If you’d like us to send you copies for distribution in your local Mosque or Islamic Centre, drop us an email, with your name and full address, and we’ll pop some in the post.
Jonathan Freedland in the Jewish Chronicle this week reviews a forthcoming Channel 4 broadcast called ‘The Enemy Within’, and reflects on the parallels between the demonisation of British Jews a century earlier and the present day demonisation of British Muslims. He writes: ‘Jews, once...
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The New Statesman this week publishes an exclusive interview by former Mayor of London Ken Livingstone with Khaled Mish’al, head of the political bureau of Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement. Livingstone writes: ‘The key to peace in the Middle East is restoration of...
A report into the FCO’s visit to Pendle earlier this month as part of the CONTEST 2 objective ‘Bringing Foreign Policy Back Home’, has been produced by Building Bridges Pendle (there will be more about BBP and a truly bizarre decision they have made tomorrow on ENGAGE). The report...
Muslim groups in Luton have called on the community to be especially vigilant this coming Saturday and not allow a repeat of events at the end of August when a group of over 200 Asian youths – predominantly Muslim – gathered and rioted in the town centre. The youths had...
Eight months after publishing an inflammatory front page story alleging that UK Muslims had drawn up a list of influential Jews to target, the Sun today carries a short story admitting that the story was utterly bogus and that they had allowed themselves to have been duped by Glen Jenvey...
The Secretary of State at the Communities and Local Government department, John Denham, has publicly spoken out against and condemned the English Defence League for deliberately trying to provoke violence against Muslims. Mr Denham was speaking after events last night outside Harrow Mosque...
Unite Against Fascism have called on people to show solidarity with Muslims in Harrow after the BNP-linked English Defence League said it planned to hold a demonstration outside Harrow Central Mosque tomorrow evening on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. The EDL have already held...
The Enfield Advertiser carries news of the London borough’s ‘Open Faith Houses’ initiative. ‘During September mosques, synagogues, temples and churches will encourage newcomers to step inside and learn something about the community within as part of Enfield Month Of Peace...
