** 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,...
Paul Richards, the former special adviser to Hazel Blears at the Department of Communities and Local Government, writes in the Jewish Chronicle this week on his expectations of Hazel Blears’ successor, John Denham. Richards writes: ‘As her [Blears’] adviser, I saw first-hand the pressures...
John Pilger reviews Obama’s speech in Cairo in a column in the New Statesman this week. ‘Obama demanded that the “cycle of suspicion and discord must end”. Every year, for more than a generation, the UN has called on Israel to end its illegal and violent occupation of post-1967...
In the wake of the expenses scandal and a bruising at the ballot box last week in European and county council elections, the Prime Minister on Thursday announced a series of reforms to be undertaken to improve the workings of the political system. Excerpts from the Prime Minister’s statement...
The editor of the Oldham Chronicle, Jim Williams, has replied to our letter of complaint over the paper’s use of the word ‘giant’ in its headline on a building project in Oldham being approved by the local council. Mr Williams wrote: ‘Thanks for your letter. I would just point out that...
ENGAGE has sent an open letter to both President Obama and the US Ambassador to the UK in response to the President’s speech to the Muslim world in Cairo on June 4th. You can read the ENGAGE open letter here.
The Daily Express came over all moralistic yesterday reacting to Nick Griffin’s criticisms of the manner in which the paper covered the BNP’s European election campaign. Before the BNP leader was forced to retreat to his car in Westminster, he held up copies of the Daily Express and...
Three terror suspects currently under control orders have won a major victory against the government’s use of secret evidence to maintain their control orders. The men, whose control orders remain in place, will have their cases returned to a lower court with the government forced to either...
“This is a Christian country and Islam is not welcome, because Islam and Christianity, Islam and democracy, Islam and women’s rights do not mix. “That’s a simple fact that the elites of Europe are going to have to get their heads round and deal with over the next few...
ENGAGE has written to the Editor of the Oldham Evening Chronicle concerning an article headlined ‘Giant mosque is given go-ahead’, which appeared in the paper last week. The building plans (an artist’s image of the planned Islamic centre is pictured above) recently approved by Oldham...
The London Evening Standard reports on Sadiq Khan’s appointment as the new Transport Minister. Khan, who was informed of his appointment by the Prime Minister Gordon Brown at the weekend, is the first Muslim to attend Cabinet and become a member of the Privy Council. Khan’s father, who was a...
