** 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 Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, has described the comments made at the UN anti-racism conference by the Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, on Israel being a ‘racist state’ as ‘offensive, inflammatory and utterly unacceptable’. The Iranian president was speaking at the Durban...
Media Workers Against the War (MWAW) are urging people appalled by the BBC Trust’s treatment of the Middle East editor, Jeremy Bowen, to write in and condemn the corporation’s cowardly attempt to deflect criticism of its refusal to broadcast the DEC Appeal on Gaza by attacking Bowen. MWAW...
The Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, took time out of the Cabinet meeting schedule last week to meet with Muslims in Scotland. He met with senior Muslims at Glasgow Central mosque and with younger Scottish Muslims at an event organised by the Youth Community Support Agency. The Foreign...
Our Kingdom, part of the OpenDemocracy network, carries a piece by Eric Randolph, editor at Complex Terrain Lab, on the government’s Contest 2 strategy and the perils of handling social cohesion within counter terrorism. Randolph writes; ‘The new Contest strategy draws a line between...
Jeremy Bowen, (pictured), Middle East Editor for the BBC, whose diary entries during the Israeli attacks on Gaza earlier this year brought home the truly horrifying nature of events unfolding in the region, has been rapped by the Editorial Standards Committee (ESC), part of the BBC Trust....
George Galloway MP has revealed details of difficulties being experienced by the Viva Palestina initiative in a letter addressed to the Charity Commission. Galloway, who travelled to Gaza last month with British Muslims and a convoy of vehicles loaded with aid, has written to the Commission...
Harry’s Place has as its motto the Orwellian line ‘Liberty, if it means anything, is the right to tell people what they don’t want to hear.’ Orwell’s observation that ‘Political language…is designed to make lies sound truthful … and to give an appearance of solidity...
Harry’s Place has as its motto the Orwellian line ‘Liberty, if it means anything, is the right to tell people what they don’t want to hear.’ Orwell’s observation that ‘Political language…is designed to make lies sound truthful … and to give an appearance of solidity...
Both the Independent and The Times covered the story of Taj Hargey winning compensation last week over libellous remarks printed in the Muslim Weekly newspaper. The Indy ran the story under the headline, ‘The imam who took on the ‘Muslim McCarthyists’’, and The Times, offering...
The London Muslim Centre was one of the locations at which Tower Hamlets Council conducted its ‘You Decide!’ consultation. The ‘You Decide’ campaign is designed to involve local residents in council decision making through participation in their Local Area Partnership...
