** 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,...
Babar Ahmad, the young British Muslim detained at the request of US authorities since 2003 without having ever been charged with a crime in the UK will have his case on abuse and injuries sustained from assaults by Anti terror Police heard at the High Court on Monday 16 March.
The Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, has caved into pressure from the pro-Israel lobby to refuse Lebanese journalist, Ibrahim al-Musawi permission to enter the UK to deliver lectures at SOAS. Al-Musawi was due to take part in lecture series on Islam at the university at the end of this month. The...
Viewers of Question Time yesterday will have heard the exchange of views by Charles Moore, columnist in the Daily Telegraph, and Baroness Sayeeda Warsi (both pictured), on the MCB. Moore used the discussion on the protestors in Luton as an opportunity to tarnish the MCB, which he slandered with...
Huge credit to the Leicester Mercury for its editorial yesterday urging readers to keep the reprehensible behaviour of a tiny group of protestors in Luton in perspective. A parade of the 9th/12th Royal Lancers is to take place in Leicester on Monday 16th March and Leicestershire is among the...
Pupils at Bolton Muslim Girls School have concluded their voting for two seats up for election in the UK Youth Parliament. The UK Youth Parliament has around 500 elected members drawn from Local Education Authority jurisdictions across the country.
Shiraz Maher looking to further plug his Policy Exchange report attempts to link the scenes of a tiny group of individuals protesting in a disgraceful manner during the Royal Anglian Regiment’s parade through Luton town centre with his critique of PVE funding in a comment piece in...
The scenes of a tiny group of Muslim protestors – perhaps a more apt term would be ‘hooligans’ who appear to be former members of al-Muhajiroun – disrupting the parade of the 2nd Battalion, The Royal Anglian Regiment in Luton, marking their return from Iraq, are...
It is a sad day for journalism when media professionals resort to taking their cues from blog sites that devote themselves to peddling misinformation and biased comment. Sky News’ foreign affairs editor, Tim Marshall, writing about Foreign Office Minister Bill Rammell’s disclosure that the...
Policy Exchange has today published another report, ‘Choosing Our Friends Wisely‘, co-authored by the ‘ex-Islamist’ Shiraz Maher (pictured) in which it propagates an apolitical Muslim identity in Britain by denigrating Muslims for whom Islam remains a comprehensive guide...
The Jewish Chronicle today reports that the Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has said that the government is ‘still considering evidence’ relating to the possible exclusion of the Lebanese journalist Ibrahim al-Musawi from visiting the UK later this month.
