** 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,...
As the Israeli Prime Minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, prepares for a visit to the UK this week to meet with the Prime Minister Gordon Brown and US special envoy George Mitchell, amid speculation that a deal may be struck on ceasing – for a fixed period – Israel’s illegal settlement...
The author Sebastian Faulks (pictured), in an interview with the Sunday Times magazine this week, disparagingly referred to to the Holy Qur’an as a “a depressing book” and compared it to the “rantings of a schizophrenic”. Faulks, speaking of his reading the Qur’an for research...
Paul Richards – the ex-special advisor to the disgraced former Communities Secretary, Hazel Blears – writes about the wedding segregation row in an article for Progress Online. Richards uses the opportunity to hark on in similar vein to the articles he recently wrote for the...
Le Figaro carried a story earlier this week about the defiling of a mosque in Toul, France, where racist and Nazi graffiti was sprayed and pig offal smeared onto its walls. The paper reports that the desecration is the work of far right skinheads who also sprayed the walls of a kebab shop in...
A new book by Lancaster University academics challenges the argument that multicultural policies in Britain are harming integration. Professor Roger Penn and Dr Paul Lambert of Lancaster University in a new book, ‘Children of International Migrants in Europe’, argue that the children...
Martin Bright is to join the Jewish Chronicle as it’s new political editor next month, according to the Press Gazette today. Readers will be familiar with Bright’s work at the New Statesman, where he authored the specious ‘The Great Koran Con Trick’ article. Bright’s arguments...
The Independent prints letters received in response to Joan Smith’s (pictured) column yesterday, ‘This shameful gender segregation’, in which she described the segregation of men and women at weddings in East London and Kuwait as ‘a blatant form of discrimination’. The printed letters...
Islamophobia Watch draws attention to the accusation of alleged ‘thuggery and hooliganism’ by anti BNP demonstrators in Codnor last weekend made by the Quilliam Foundation Research Fellow Lucy James. James, in an article for Progress Online writes, ‘Unfortunately, these anti-BNP protesters...
While Alex Massie on Spectator blogs uncovers the flawed and frenzied arguments of Eurabia-mongers, his fellow Spectator contributor, James Delingpole (pictured), adds his own Eurabia style thoughts in a comment piece in yesterday’s Daily Express. ‘Is this the newest wave in the battle...
Alex Massie in The Spectator Blogs comments on recent stories fuelling Eurabia enthusiasts’ apocalyptic vision of an ‘Islamized’ Europe. The ‘evidence’ used to feed their fantasies? Well, there’s European Muslim birth rates, which are not only exaggerated by Eurabia-mongers, but...
