** 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 Guardian reports today on the challenge the BNP is presenting to extant race hate legislation with the Crown Prosecution Service unable to prosecute the party for leaflets (pictured) that are overtly racist but which fall short of the requirements of the law on incitement to racial hatred....
Setting a new low for publications lacking in academic rigour, Civitas produces another questionable report by Denis MacEoin entitled: ‘Sharia Law or ‘One Law For All’? The report is covered extensively in today’s press (Daily Mail, Daily Express, Telegraph), both in news...
ENGAGE has learnt that Azad Ali, the Muslim civil servant who was suspended from his job at HM Treasury following a witch hunt agitated by (surprise, surprise) amongst others the anti-Muslim website Harry’s Place and the Mail on Sunday, is back at work after having been cleared by a Civil...
Alex Massie writes a marvellous piece in The Spectator this week, ‘The Muslim Menace to Our British Nationality. For Real!’. Drawing on parallels from British history on the majority’s prejudicial and bigoted views towards other groups in society, Massie shows how attitudes towards Muslims...
Richard Ingrams (pictured), a columnist at The Independent and a former editor of Private Eye, penned a column in last Saturday’s paper commenting on the appointment of Sir Martin Gilbert and Sir Lawrence Freedman to the newly formed Iraq Inquiry committee. He wrote: ‘Sir Martin Gilbert, the...
Taj Hargey, of the Muslim Educational Centre of Oxford (MECO) wades into the burqa debate with a letter published in The Times today. He writes: ‘Sir, While I oppose Nicolas Sarkozy’s right-wing and pro-American agenda, I commend the French leader for questioning the validity of full-face...
The niqab and burqa debate sparked off by Nicolas Sarkozy’s comments on Monday continues apace in today’s papers. The Daily Express informs us that both Muslims and non – Muslims want Britain to ban the burqa. Their sources of authoritative commentary? Among others, the rabid neo-con...
Michael Gove, the (neo)-Conservative Shadow Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, reviews Bruce Bawer’s ‘Surrender: Appeasing Islam, Sacrificing Freedom’, in this month’s Standpoint magazine. Standpoint is edited by the former Daily Telegraph leader writer and unabashed...
There’s a lot in the papers today, (Times, Daily Express, Daily Mail) regarding the speech of the French President Nicolas Sarkozy yesterday in which he pledged his support for a parliamentary commission to debate a possible ban on the wearing of the burqa/niqab in France. Sarkozy said that...
The Telegraph and the Daily Mail today both carry stories on alleged bias towards Islam in BBC programming. The Daily Telegraph reports on a document to be presented to the Church of England’s General Synod next month which criticises the marginalisation of Christian programming on the...
