** 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,...
Sabby Dhalu of Unite Against Fascism (UAF) writes in the Guardian’s Comment is Free on why unity is paramount in the struggle against the BNP gaining further advances in local, national, and more pressingly, the forthcoming European elections. Dhalu quotes the BNP leader Nick Griffin:...
As politicians lament the BNP by-election win in Kent and contend that the fight against fascism is harder today than it was in the 1970s, Trevor Kavanagh writing in the Sun today echoes the kind of anti Muslim prejudice that reveals why it is tougher to eradicate ill informed, prejudicial views.
The Charity Commission has revealed the results from the first detailed survey into the services provided by mosques in England and Wales. The survey results are based on responses from the 255 mosques that took part in the exercise. The findings show that most mosques are well-established,...
Not content with fabricated evidence in producing his ‘report’ on hate literature in mosques for Policy Exchange, (The Hijacking of British Islam), Denis MacEoin’s new ‘report’ on Muslim schools confirms only this, that having been caught out once with flimsy evidence backing an...
Seumas Milne in his column in The Guardian comments on the leak of the Government’s Contest 2 strategy and Dame Stella Rimington’s comments earlier in the week on the government’s exaggerating fear in society to pass ever more repressive legislation.
How very droll, a cartoon in the Daily Star showing bankers having their hands threatened by the Archbishop of Canterbury wielding a ‘Shari’a law’ sword. The cartoon, prompted by the Archbishop’s comments at a conference in Egypt, a year after the controversy that raged last year,...
The Daily Mail features this story on Qur’ans and Bibles kept in public libraries and new guidance on where these should be shelved. The story begins, ‘Librarians are being told to move the Bible to the top shelf to avoid giving offence to followers of Islam’.
As the former head of MI5 Dame Stella Rimington, argues that fear is being used by the Government to pass ever more draconian legislation that plays cavalier with our civil liberties, the case of Abu Qatada brings to our attention those that have been at the receiving end of just this.
It is interesting to read defenders of free speech wax and wane in recent days following the Home Office exclusion of Geert Wilders. There has been no shortage of commentators eager to remind British Muslims just what free speech means in a democracy and where they can go if they don’t like...
Two initiatives from local papers showing mosques and Imams being used to good effect: In Oldham, seven of the town’s mosques will be taking part in the pilotting of ‘Mosque Crossing Marshals’, to improve road safety among young children traveling to and from Arabic courses. And in...
