** 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,...
Further to our item on the Israeli Foreign Ministry’s use of ‘talkbackers‘ to ‘talk up’ Israel in online discussion forums, a Calcalist article translated from Hebrew into English explains and exposes the purpose of the venture and why the war of words is moving into the online...
Pickled Politics features a guest post by Shaaz Mahboob (pictured) of British Muslims for Secular Democracy (BMSD) on Muslim patriotism. He writes: ‘Yesterday’s coverage about the repatriation of the eight British soldiers killed in Afghanistan and the welcome accorded to them by the British...
ENGAGE congratulates the Muslim Council of Britain for pursuing its libel case against the BBC and securing a full apology today in open court together with £45,000 in damages. The BBC broadcast slanderous comments by the Daily Telegraph columnist Charles Moore on its Question Time...
Roshan Muhammed Salih, Head of News at Press TV, contributes his thoughts about the Iranian-funded channel on the Guardian’s Comment is Free website, and discusses the recent campaign to undermine it. He writes: ‘The past few weeks have seen a British media campaign against the supposed...
It appears that Andrew Brons (pictured with Nick Griffin), a member of the racist British National Party who along with Griffin was elected as an MEP in the June 4th elections has received a letter of congratulations from a self-described ‘Muslim’ group. Can you guess which one?
Breaking the Silence, an Israeli campaign group, has today released a report on the conduct of Israeli soldiers in Gaza, during Israel’s savage bombardment of the region earlier this year. It catalogues practices that concur with Amnesty International’s claims that Israel committed war...
Lesley-Ann Jones, in the Sunday Express last week, penned a short column entitled, ‘Time to outlaw Shari’ah’. She quotes Mrs Justice Rafferty, who on sentencing Ali Beheshti for firebombing a publisher’s home last week, said, ‘If you choose to live in this country, you live by its...
The Daily Express and the Telegraph yesterday both featured articles on the report, ‘What Makes a Good City’, which has been presented to the Church of England General Synod this week. The report argues that ‘since the 7/7 London bombings in 2005, ministers have become preoccupied with...
Yasmin Alibhai Brown picks up in the Independent today where Rahila Gupta left off, on the burqa debate. She writes: ‘I am a Shia Muslim and I abhor the burqa. I am offended by the unchallenged presumption that women covering their heads and bodies and now faces are more pious and true than am...
There’s an interesting comment piece on Ynet, on the Israeli government’s plans to pay ‘talkbackers’ to post pro-Israel responses on websites worldwide. ‘A total of roughly $150,000 will be earmarked to the establishment of an “Internet warfare” squad’‘. ‘The sad...
