** 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,...
Professor Tariq Ramadan, the newly appointed His Highness Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani Chair in Contemporary Islamic Studies at Oxford University, pens a column in today’s Guardian on Turkey and her future membership of the EU. Rounding on critics who argue Turkey’s geography, culture and...
The BBC Asian Network has a report today on the growing number of religious hate crime incidents affecting Muslim women in Scotland and their failure to refer them to the police. According to the Muslim helpline Amina half of the calls they receive involve incidents of hate crime and yet, only...
As the Iraq Inquiry, recently set up by the Prime Minister Gordon Brown, prepares for hearings that will begin this autumn, The Times today reports that Blackwater (now called Xe), a security company employed by the US government to provide security to military convoys and US diplomats in Iraq,...
The Press Complaints Commission’s new Chair, Baroness Peta Buscombe (pictured), has announced plans to hold an independent review into its workings, and how they might be improved, for the first time since the self-regulatory body was formed 18 years ago. The Conservative peer, who took...
Communities Minister Shahid Malik (pictured) yesterday launched new guidance for local authorities on mainstreaming community cohesion into other services. The guidance document details some of the social and financial benefits of cohesive communities (admittedly, the report only carries cost...
Edmund Standing reveals his true colours in the second and final part of his eGovMonitor piece on Combatting the BNP. Standing concluded his first article with this: ‘It’s not just a case of media scare stories, however. Another important factor that is undoubtedly greatly assisting the...
The Joint Committee on Human Rights has called for an independent inquiry into allegations of the UK’s collusion in torture because the parliamentary select committee has been unable to determine, due to an accountability deficit, whether UK officials were complicit. The JCHR report,...
The Sunday Times carries an article on the number of restricted service licenses (RSLs) that have been granted for the broadcast of Ramadan Radio across the UK this year. With the ‘highest ever’ number of licenses awarded, the ST reflects on the potential of and effectiveness of Ramadan radio...
Catch 22 magazine has teamed up with 15 newspaper and magazine publishers, including Trinity Mirror, Haymarket and Conde Nast, to help individuals from low income backgrounds gain entry into the media industry. Responding to the industry’s desire to recruit people from ethnic backgrounds...
Edmund Standing reiterates his staunch belief that the BNP’s anti Muslim rhetoric is merely expedient posturing, in a post on the witch-hunting blog Harry’s Place. Replying to criticism from ENGAGE (here) and Islamophobia Watch, on the paucity of mention of the BNP’s anti Muslim racism...
