** 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 Daily Mail reports today that the BBC is set to apologise and pay libel damages to the Muslim Council of Britain following highly controversial and inflammatory remarks about the MCB made by the columnist Charles Moore who was a panellist on the Question Time programme on March 12 2009....
A group of British Muslim scholars (‘ulama) have released a statement calling on British Muslims to ‘discharge their duty’ and vote in the June 4th county council and European Parliament elections. The scholars are urging Muslims to dispel their disappointment over the recent expenses...
The EU Minorities and Discrimination Survey (EU-MIDIS) has released its second Data in Focus report which reveals Muslims’ experiences of discrimination and victimisation in everyday life in 14 EU member states. According to the survey: On average 1 in 3 Muslim respondents (34% of men and 26%...
Matthew Parris penned a piece in yesterday’s edition of The Times raising the issue of women wearing full hijab (face covering) in Britain, ‘Please uncover your face. It’s our custom’, and questions whether such a practice ought to be permitted in the UK. He writes: Funny to...
Islamic Human Rights Watch has published a briefing document analysing articles appearing on the Community Security Trust (CST) website about Islam and Muslims. The CST is a Jewish organisation that provides security advice to British Jews and actively monitors anti Semitic incidents. The...
The Independent yesterday featured exclusive articles by each of the three main party leaders detailing how each proposes to deal with the scandal of MPs’ expenses and the reforms to Parliament that are all too necessary to revive faith in the political process, and to make politicians more...
ENGAGE has again written to the Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, concerning questions raised over the FCO’s response to the horrific Israeli bombardment of Gaza at the end of last year and the beginning of this year. This is our third letter to David Miliband on this matter, seeking...
Jamil Rahman, a British Muslim of Bangladeshi origin, is set to begin legal proceedings against the Home Secretary accusing her of complicity in his unlawful arrest, false imprisonment, and torture in Bangladesh. In the third recent case alleging MI5’s collusion in the torture of British...
On Tuesday, the Daily Mail reported about a ‘March for England’ which took place in Luton on Sunday and which descended into rioting and the arrest of nine people. The march was supported by a local group called the ‘United People of Luton’. The Mail cites a spokesman for United People...
The Guardian carries a story highlighting the terminal fate of France’s oldest Muslim school which has been ‘condemned to death’ by the authorities who have refused it financial aid. The Reussite school is on the brink of closure, forced into shutting down because the authority responsible...
