** 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,...
This paper, ‘Explaining Al-Qaida’s Continued Appeal’, by Dr Brynjar Lia (pictured), Research Professor at the Norwegian Defense Research Institute, analyses factors that have contributed to Al Qa’ida’s continued appeal among some Muslims across the globe. Dr Lia argues Al Qaida’s...
Affirming its commitment yesterday to publish an uncensored account of MPs’ expenses, the Telegraph today has published the expenses of members of the Cabinet. A full list of all MPs’ expenses will be published in the paper tomorrow (20th June).
Many papers yesterday covered Lord Carlile’s comments that white Britons are unnecessarily being stopped and searched in order to give ‘racial balance’ to stop and search statistics. Lord Carlile, the government’s Independent Reviewer of Terrorism legislation wrote in...
In the wake of scandals and resignations prompted by the publication of MPs’ expenses in the Daily Telegraph, the Parliament website today makes public MPs expenses dating from 2004-05. Constitutents can now access allowances and expense claims made by their local MP online. The published...
Following on from the arson attack on the Islamic Centre in Luton, comes news that Greenwich Islamic Centre (pictured) in Plumstead was firebombed twice this past week. The cause of the fire at the GIS on Wednesday (17th June) is currently under investigation although the caretaker suggests that...
Allison Pearson in the Daily Mail writes today of a fare evading burkha clad female and the tribunal decision concerning Fata Lemes, terming them ‘Burkha rage’ inducing incidents. Burkha rage, Pearson tells us, is ‘shorthand for someone taking the mickey out of our country and its tolerant...
The Prime Minister yesterday announced the setting up of an independent inquiry to look into lessons learned from the invasion of Iraq. The inquiry will begin next month and take at least a year to complete. It will cover the period from July 2001 to July 2009 and be chaired by Sir John Chilcot,...
The already microscopically minuscule credibility of the Quilliam Foundation has suffered yet another hugely embarrassing setback with the publication of a new report from the Redbridge Faith Forum. The report produced by Redbridge Faith Forum (RFF) for Redbridge Safer Communities...
Dispatches tonight will screen a documentary on a US attack on Azizabad in Afghanistan last August which killed 91 civilians, deaths which are still disputed by the US Central Command in Afghanistan. The attack, now known to have been precipitated by a false tip-off as a result of a blood feud...
The Prime Minster’s Cabinet reshuffle and announcement of a new team in the Foreign Office will do little to abate criticism of his government, particularly in respect of at least one of his new appointments. Ivan Lewis MP has joined the Foreign Office as Minister of State with...
