** 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,...
BBC One is due to broadcast a programme at 23:25 tonight about the Muslim soldiers who fought for Britain in the trenches of France during the First World War. While much has been made of the threat posed by violent Muslim extremists to the security of Britain, what is often forgotten is that...
The Policy Research Centre – based at the Islamic Foundation in Markfield – has issued a report today on Young British Muslims, ‘Seen and Not Heard’, which explores young Muslims’ attitudes on education, identity and belonging, media, policing and community leadership. The...
Luton is once again in the news as Bedfordshire Police denounced the actions of a 200-strong mob of Asians – who are thought to have been predominantly Muslim – who threw fireworks and attacked police officers who were there at the community’s behest to prevent any trouble...
Progress Online carries details of a fringe meeting to be organised by the Quilliam Foundation at the Labour Party conference next month on ‘How should the Left engage with British Muslims’. The speaker line up includes: Rt Hon John Denham MP, Secretary of State for Communities & Local...
There’s a typically irresponsible piece in the Daily Star (Proprietor: Richard Desmond) today. On the front page the paper prints ‘Muslims: We’ll kill Mourinho’ (pictured) and it devotes most of page 7 to a story titled, ‘Muslim fiends: we’ll kill Jose for fast blast’. The entire...
The Committees on Arms Export Controls, which consists of four select committees (Business and Enterprise, Defence, Foreign Affairs and International Development Committees), and is chaired by Roger Berry MP (pictured), published its first Joint Report of session 2008-09, on ‘Scrutiny of Arms...
A Spinwatch investigation by Tom Mills and David Miller, ‘The British amateur terror trackers: A case study in dubious politics’ uncovers the motives and ideological leanings of so called ‘terrorism experts’, like the discredited Glen Jenvey, who have falsely exaggerated the threat from...
A Muslim in Loughton, Noor Ramjanally (pictured), who has been at the forefront of organizing Jum’uah prayers at a local community centre for Muslims living in Loughton was kidnapped at knife point and threatened by two men who demanded he stop organizing the weekly prayer session according to...
The Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, currently on a visit to the UK, has called on EU governments, including Britain, to end their support for the Israeli human rights organisation Breaking the Silence. The group published a report earlier this year on the IDF’s ‘permissive...
Harry’s Place carries an announcement on the creation of a new website, CiF Watch, to monitor alleged antisemitism on the Guardian’s Comment is Free website. The announcement states the purpose of the new CiF monitoring website as: ‘Created to address the endemic problem of antisemitic...
