** 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,...
Looking at the coverage of the Gallup – Coexist Foundation survey in today’s Daily Express and Daily Star (both owned by Richard Desmond), you’d be forgiven for thinking that there was anything positive revealed in the survey results. Despite the fact that the survey, released yesterday,...
According to a new survey by Gallup and the Coexist Foundation 77% of Muslims identify with the UK, compared to 50% in the rest of the population. The survey also finds that 75 per cent of Muslims say they identify with their religion; 82 per cent of Muslims say they are loyal to the […]
There’s a truly awful piece in Telegraph blogs by, no not Damian Thompson, but Ed West (pictured), entitled ‘Here’s an inconvenient truth: the Islamisation of Europe’. West tries to rationalize what is nothing more than a racist diatribe against Muslim immigration and Muslim...
Yasmin Alibhai Brown (pictured) in The Independent pens a column on Muslim women’s rights and recent cases of rights abuses that would shame any society committed to gender equality. Alibhai Brown is right to show contempt for domestic violence, honour killings, forced and child marriages and...
Jonathan Steele (pictured) in The Guardian writes on the forthcoming meeting between President Obama and the new Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. Steele notes: ‘If Obama is sincere in wanting to break the stalemate of the Middle East’s core conflict, he will have to launch the...
Readers can enjoy a superb dissection of the Quilliam Foundation’s ridiculous alert last week, about Islam Channel and its presenters, over at Muslim Matters. The article splendidly breaks down the charade of the ‘”ex-extremist-who-wants-to-be-a-millionaire” reality...
ENGAGE has received the following reply from the Foreign Office to our second letter to the Foreign Secretary, David Miliband. Following the disappointing response to our first, open letter to the Foreign Secretary, we refused to be discouraged and sent him a second letter, reiterating the...
It’s no surprise that the right-wing paper the Daily Mail should promote the likes of Taj Hargey in this puff piece. His ‘be neither seen nor heard’ variety of Muslim existence in Britain would be of obvious appeal to the Mail and its readership. The paper introduces Hargey contrasting him...
Appearing before the House of Commons select committee for Culture, Media and Sport as a witness on ‘Press standards, privacy and libel’, the editor of the Daily Express, Peter Hill, answered questions on his paper’s coverage of news, including the Madeleine McCann case, and the paper’s...
Disappointed, no doubt, that their quest to foster a craven Muslim identity submissive to the warmongers has fallen on its face, the Home Office-Foreign Office-funded outfit the Quilliam Foundation has gone on the offensive by getting all defensive. The ‘think tank’ has once again resorted to...
