** 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,...
The Sunday Times carried an alarming story yesterday on recent arrests involving far right extremists and their plots to bomb mosques in the UK. The paper reports: ‘A network of suspected far-right extremists with access to 300 weapons and 80 bombs has been uncovered by counter-terrorism...
Riz Khan hosts Q&A on Al Jazeera English and asks ‘Is there a crack in the US pro-Israel lobby?’ The show looks at the influence of America’s pro-Israel lobby and questions whether the lobby is changing under President Obama evincing a new face and a new orientation in its support for...
Paul Richards, former political advisor to the disgraced MP, Hazel Blears, blathers again in the Jewish Chronicle. This week his target is Azad Ali, whom ENGAGE earlier reported has been vindicated in a Civil Service investigation of any wrongdoing and reinstated to his post at HM Treasury....
Transcripts of the FBI’s interviews with the former Iraqi President, Saddam Hussein, following his capture by invading US Forces, have been released under a Freedom of Information request and uploaded on the US National Security Archive website.
Dina Al Jnidi, the wife of Mahmoud Abu Rideh (pictured), a suspect detained on secret evidence and kept under a control order, writes a harrowing piece in The Independent today on the injustices of detention without charge, secret evidence, the control order regime and the trauma inflicted on an...
Human Rights Watch comments on President Sarkozy’s remarks on the burqa saying that ‘a legal ban in Europe on the wearing of the burqa in public life would be just as much a violation of the rights of those women who wish to wear it as is the forcing of the veil on those […]
Amnesty International has released a report today on Israel’s conduct in war during the savage bombardment and invasion of the Gaza Strip in December 2008 – January 2009. Amnesty argues in the report, ‘Operation ‘CAST LEAD’: 22 Days of Death and Destruction’, that the Israeli...
The BBC One Show poses the question ‘Should schools allow teachers to wear full-face veils?’ It follows on from comments made by David Cameron and reported in the Daily Express yesterday. The paper misleadingly titled the story ‘Cameron backs ban on burkhas’, a throwback to its...
The Socialist Worker carries a story on recent court cases involving hate crimes targetting non White Britons and shows just how far right wing extremists are prepared to go to advance their rabidly racist agenda. ‘Four recent court cases in different parts of Britain shed some light on what...
Helen Martin in The Scotsman commenting on the burqa and equality: ‘If we are going to rank clothes by offensiveness I would put fat girls in crop tops and low slung minis or sausage-skin jeans way above the burkha. . . which is not to say I don’t find them both equally ridiculous.
