** 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 Electoral Commission has taken out advertisements reminding the electorate of the June 4th European elections. There are only 9 days to go to polling day. The EC website also contains useful information on voting procedure and party candidates standing in the elections. British voters will...
The Israel Government Tourist Office has pulled posters (left) appearing on London Underground stations after a complaint was lodged by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign with the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) pointing out that the map used in the poster, ‘portrays Israel as...
The Independent follows yesterday’s exclusive, on allegations of MI5 blackmailing and intimidating British Muslims into working for the Security Services, with the disclosure that the Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, was informed of MI5’s actions nine months ago. The Independent reveals...
ENGAGE has drafted an open letter to the Foreign Secretary on his speech on ‘Building coalitions and winning consent’, delivered at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, yesterday. The letter, which will be sent to the Foreign Secretary, can be read below: Dear Secretary of State,...
The Foreign Secretary David Miliband has this evening delivered a speech at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies on the theme of ‘Our shared future: building coalitions and winning consent’. We have reproduced the full speech below. Do let us know your thoughts....
Rageh Omaar in the Evening Standard contrasts the efforts of President Obama, to distance the US from his predecessor’s disastrous policies in the Middle East, with the efforts of our own UK government and Foreign Secretary, David Miliband. Omaar writes: ‘No other country is as...
Dalia Mogahed (pictured), Executive Director and Senior Analyst of the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies, pens a comment in the Guardian’s Comment is Free section on her recent analysis of Muslim integration in Britain, France and Germany; the Gallup Coexist Index 2009. The index revealed some...
ENGAGE has written a letter to the Daily Mail concerning remarks made by columnist Amanda Platell in today’s paper. In her column, ‘Equality? You must be joking!’, Ms Platell casually writes: ‘In March this year, a large group of Muslims in Luton protested in the town with deeply...
Following the concern expressed by a number of commentators about the electoral advantage being given to the BNP due to the ongoing scandal surrounding MPs’ expenses claims, there is another fringe group that seeks to capitalise on the widespread disgust and disappointment at the conduct of...
The vice president of The Young Muslims UK, Zeshan Rasul, has an article in the New Statesman’s Faith Column entitled ‘Islam’s young faithful’. ‘Many young Muslims, like myself, were born and bred in the UK, giving us not only a strong understanding of our religion but also a sense...
