** 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,...
ENGAGE is pleased to inform that following its referral to the Press Complaints Commission over an article in the Daily Star last November, ‘Poppies banned in Terror Hotspots’, the Daily Star printed a clarification on February 7 on page 2 of the newspaper: “Poppy Ban Further to our...
Dr Liam Fox, Shadow Defence Secretary (pictured), contributes a comment piece in the Daily Telegraph today on the Israeli general election and the ‘Tragedy of Israel’. Dr Fox writes: ‘Having purged the moderate Palestinians from their territory, Hamas have rocketed the power station in the...
You can watch George Galloway interviewing Richard Seymour, author of The Liberal Defence of Murder, below. Seymour discusses his book which explores the liberal humanitarian justifications given for interventions abroad and the continuation of attitudes in favour of intervention in the present...
There is much in the newspapers today on Headteacher Julia Robinson leaving her post at Meersbrook Bank school in Sheffield following differences arising from proposed changes to the school’s policy on collective worship. It is claimed that the headteacher’s resignation had been forced by...
The extent of Hassan Butt’s fabrication of his ‘ex extremist’ past have come to light today as restrictions on his evidence given in court in December 2008 have been lifted. Hassan Butt, who courted much media attention by describing himself as someone who had helped British Muslims attend...
The first issue of the ENGAGE newsletter is now available. You can download a copy here or drop us an email, [email protected], and we’ll send you copies for your local mosque or community centre. Please provide details of a named individual, the name of the mosque or community centre...
Stephen Timms, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, in a speech delivered at the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), on 29 January spoke on the important role religion plays in civil society and policy making. Speaking on the ability of religion to foster optimism and strengthen...
This horrendous advert entitled, ‘for any cash strapped Moslems reading this…’, which purports to offer advice on how British Muslims might make extra cash by exploiting the benefits system through polygamy, appeared on a page advert taken out by Trago Mills in the Falmouth...
Interpal have produced a video put to Yusuf Islam’s recording of ‘The Little Ones’. The video is part of Interpal’s charity appeal to raise funds for families and children injured or devastated by the recent savage Israeli bombardment and invasion of Gaza.
The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) and the Broadcasting Entertainment Cinematograph and Theatre Union (BECTU) have written to Mark Thompson, Director General of the BBC, criticizing the BBC’s decision to ban the DEC Gaza Appeal advert saying ‘‘Our members feel this makes the BBC...
