** 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,...
Just three days ago, the UK government via the Foreign and Commonwealth Office quickly went out of its way to publicly rebuke Channel 4 for giving airtime to the Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, to broadcast a peaceful Christmas message to the people of Britain. Yet, today, given the...
Writing for the Jewish Chronicle this week, Alex Brummer (who is also the City Editor at the Daily Mail), predicts that the economic woes afflicting the newspaper industry could result in an even greater pro-Israeli position being adopted by our UK press in 2009. Brummer surveys the current...
Islamophobia Watch reports on a press release circulated by the anti Muslim think tank, the Centre for Social Cohesion, which accuses Asghar Bukhari of the Muslim Public Affairs Committee (MPACUK) of ‘glorifying terror’. The CfSC has urged mainstream media outlets to desist from using MPACUK...
The Liberal Defence of Murder, Richard Seymour Flat Earth News, Nick Davies The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy, Mearsheimer and Walt Why There Almost Certainly Is a God, Keith Ward The Liberal Defence of Murder, Richard Seymour (Verso Books, 2008) A war that has killed over a million...
ENGAGE has written to Damian Thompson, author of Holy Smoke on Telegraph blogs concerning his blog entry on 19 Dec, ‘Any Muslim killed fighting Israel goes to paradise, says MPAC spokesman’.
Concerned readers of changes to marriage visa regulations announced by the Immigration Minister Phil Woolas last month will be interested to learn of an emerging disparity in the implementation of these regulations.
The Ummah Welfare Trust (UWT) has received a 30 day notice from Barclays Bank to close its bank account. The Trust has been banking with Barclays since its inception in 2001, raising funds in the UK to carry out relief operations in over twenty countries across globe and providing support to...
ENGAGE has written to the Daily Mail concerning the comment piece by Melanie Phillips in today’s edition (22 Dec), ‘We must not let the weakness of our bishops destroy this nation’s soul’. Phillips writes that ‘the undermining of Christianity from within is being...
Following the launch of the ‘One Law For All’ campaign on International Human Rights Day (10 Dec), Geoffery Alderman in the Jewish Chronicle defends the place of religious courts in Britain. He argues, ‘Article 18 of the UDHR (Universal Declaration of Human Rights) declares that...
Members of the Altrincham Islamic Cultural Centre will be joining in festivities next week by preparing and giving out food, warm clothes, toiletries and other gifts at a centre in their local area, the Cornerstone Centre in Hale, Altrincham.
