** 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,...
Seumas Milne in his column in today’s Guardian writes about the government’s Contest 2 strategy, which was launched earlier this week, and the outrage Hazel Blears has generated with her demand that the MCB force the resignation of its deputy secretary general, Daud Abdullah. Milne...
BBC Newsnight yesterday featured a segment on the government’s Contest 2 strategy and the interference by the Communities Secretary Hazel Blears in the MCB. Blears has written to the MCB demanding the resignation of the organisation’s deputy secretary general, Dr Daud Abdullah (pictured), on...
Continuing its disclosure of soldier testimonies from the Gaza war, Ha’aretz prints disturbing news of infantry units in the Israeli army glorifying the murder of Palestinian women and children and the destruction of mosques on T-shirts produced for graduates. Ha’aretz’s Hebrew...
It would appear that Hazel Blears, the Secretary of State for the Communities and Local Government (CLG) department clearly has delusions of grandeur. Latest news reports would suggest that she has started to treat Muslims as if she was still living in the days of the British Raj. Following...
A damning report into the conduct of Israeli soldiers during the conflict in Gaza reveals the lax rules of engagement which left them free to commit ‘cold blooded murder’. The testimonies of soldiers were anonymously delivered a month ago at a meeting of the Israeli military academy...
Following the wholly inadequate pro-forma reply from the Foreign Office to the letter sent by ENGAGE trustees to the Foreign Secretary David Miliband about the Government’s handling of the brutal Israeli bombardment of Gaza, ENGAGE has today returned the following letter by way of...
Babar Ahmad and his family (his father, pictured) are today marking their victory after a six year battle to bring charges against officers that subjected him to ‘gratuitous and prolonged abuse’ in December 2003. The Metropolitan Police agreed in court today to pay £60,000 in...
The Foreign Office has admitted in answers to parliamentary questions tabled by the Conservative MP Andrew Tyrie (pictured), chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Extraordinary Rendition (extraordinaryrendition.org), that it failed to raise complaints made by British nationals held...
A public meeting is being organised in Blackburn at which the local constabulary has been invited to answer questions surrounding the terror swoop on the M65 last month in which a convoy of vehicles carrying gifts and aid to Palestinians in Gaza was detained and nine men from Blackburn and...
Following in the footsteps of his fellow ‘ex-Islamist’ Shiraz Maher, Ed Husain from the Home Office and Foreign Office funded outfit, the Quilliam Foundation, pens a comment piece for the Saturday edition of the Daily Telegraph in which he too tries to link the tiny group of Luton...
