** 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,...
We’ve already noted the anomaly of media disinterest in something as alarming as a cache of weapons being found during the search and arrests of suspected far right extremists in the UK. And even as Commander Shaun Sawyer tells us that the police fear an attack of ‘spectacular’ proportions...
The Mail on Sunday has today printed an apology to Inayat Bunglawala – Advisor on Research and Policy at ENGAGE – following a scurrilous story it ran about him on March 15 2009. The MoS apology – which also appears on the MoS website – reads as follows:
Alex Brummer, (pictured) Daily Mail City columnist, writes in the Jewish Chronicle this week on the work of ‘Just Journalism’, a pro-Israel organisation launched to ‘measure coverage of the Middle East in the UK media against various codes of conduct laid down by the BBC, Ofcom, the Press...
Channel 4 News featured a news item yesterday (click on image to view) about the BNP’s foray into Europe and its attempts to build a far right bloc in the European Parliament to increase its budget for expenses and staff. The party leader, Nick Griffin, seeking European partners for the BNP,...
Following the remarks by French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, on establishing a commission to look into the banning of the burqa and niqab in France, AFP reports that the French government has now set up a special panel of 32 lawmakers to look into such a ban. At the first hearing of the...
There’s an interesting post on the rabidly anti-Muslim website Harry’s Place about this speech by the former British Army Colonel Richard Kemp CBE on ‘Hamas, the Gaza War and Accountability Under International Law’, delivered at the Jerusalem Centre for Public Affairs. It’s no...
{youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoOwtPJNsAM} The English and Welsh Defence League demonstration in Birmingham last Saturday, captured in this Youtube video, featured demonstrators chanting ‘Muslims out!’. Not that this is surprising – Bartholomew’s Notes reveals that EDL and WDL...
A further instance of the disparity in media reporting of comparable incidents involving hate crimes is this abominable story of an Egyptian woman who was stabbed to death in a courtroom in Dresden, Germany by the man against whom she was due to give evidence. Marwa Al-Sherbini, who was four...
The Guardian reveals that MI5 has been accused of offering Rangzieb Ahmed a bribe in order to induce him to drop allegations of torture collusion by the security agency. Ahmed had three fingernails ripped out when detained and questioned under torture by the Pakistani Inter-Services...
Adding to the recent spate of attacks on Muslim properties and places of worship, comes news that the Glasgow branch and Scottish headquarters of the UK based Muslim charity Islamic Relief was set on fire in the early hours of Thursday morning last week. The damage to the property is estimated...
