** 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,...
Andrew Alexander in a column in the Daily Mail today asks readers to imagine what it must be like to be a young Palestinian. ‘Suppose that you are a young man living in Gaza, dominated by refugees or their descendants whose original homeland was what is now Israel. You may well have been...
Andy Hull and Ian Kearns of the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) reflect on the shortcomings of the recommendations made in Policy Exchange’s report, ‘Choosing our friends wisely’.
Several of today’s news outlets report that Dr Daud Abdullah, the Deputy Secretary-General at the Muslim Council of Britain, has via his lawyers sent a letter to the Communities Secretary Hazel Blears calling on her to publicly apologise for her remarks about him or face a libel suit.
Policy Exchange has withdrawn from its website its 2007 report, ‘The Hijacking of British Islam’, following a legal challenge mounted by a mosque and Muslim centre falsely accused in the report of stocking ‘hate literature’. PX has also been forced into apologising to the Muslim...
Dr Muhammad Khan writes in the Guardian’s Comment is Free on the government’s ‘Myplace’ youth work funding programme and its neglect of youth projects run by Muslims. ‘Myplace was an invaluable missed opportunity for ensuring the participation of young Muslims in shaping...
The Times reports that the government is to attempt to isolate the MCB by giving ‘mosques and local Muslim community groups money and direct access to government ministers’. It is hoped that the move will marginalise the MCB within British Muslim communities.
The weekend papers feature news of the resignation of the Bishop of Rochester, Michael Nazir-Ali from his diocese to take up a post abroad. While the papers allude to the Bishop’s strong views on multiculturalism and his hostility towards liberal theology in the Church as possible reasons for...
There’s some interesting advice for Muslims from the Sunday Express in its leader column, ‘Show Muslim fanatics that tolerance is the way forward’. The leader refers to the contents of a speech delivered by Anjem Choudhary at an Islam 4 UK event at the weekend, which received broad...
Given that much of the controversy surrounding the government’s falling out with the MCB has focused on the mistaken presumption that the MCB receives government funding (it has not for several years), we thought we’d inject some accuracy and argument into the debate.
Hazel Blears, in her attempt to defend her unconscionable interference in the affairs of the MCB, has, in a letter printed in today’s Guardian, said that her actions were prompted because, she claims, the Gaza Declaration that the MCB’s Deputy Secretary-General, Dr Daud Abdullah,...
