** 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,...
Edward Stourton, a presenter of BBC Radio 4’s Today programme and author of ‘It’s a PC World: What it Means to Live in a Land Gone Politically Correct’, writes on the dangerous implications of headlines that pander to political correctness and promote false stereotypes.
Another instance of a Sunday Express front page headline that bears little or no relation to the facts. Something the paper does with panache when the story relates to Muslims.
Bruce Kent, in a letter to The Times, calls for the BNP to be prosecuted for claims in its 12 page brochure that incite racial and religious hatred. Kent, who received a copy of the brochure, part of the BNP’s ‘largest direct mailing campaign in nationalist history’, writes that ‘one...
Douglas Murray of the Centre for Social Cohesion, writes in the Sunday Times of the ‘victims of intimidation’ highlighted in the latest report produced by the Centre.
Media Workers Against the War (MWAW) have written an open letter to Richard Desmond, proprietor of the Daily Star and the newspaper’s editor, Dawn Neeson, concerning the paper’s coverage of stories on Muslims in the past few weeks.
ENGAGE has written to the Press Complaints Commission concerning the mention of Lord Ahmed of Rotherham’s religion in news stories referring to the possibility of his facing trial for dangerous driving.
Dorothy Byrne, head of Channel 4 news and current affairs, at a session on the representation of Islam in the British media at the News Xchange 2008 conference said that the British media doesn’t represent the breadth of Muslims views in the UK and that its making sweeping generalizations on...
Following the leak of the personal details of the 12,000 strong BNP members list, Merseyside police force have suspended a police officer as it investigates his alleged links to the party. Policemen are prohibited from joining the party.
Following the launch by the Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, of the British hajj delegation this year, the department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) urges British pilgrims to report any instances of substandard service and to beware of scam artists. The department’s...
Research produced by academics based at the University of Birmingham has found that approaches to policing based on dialogue, support and trust has a significant and positive effect on engaging Muslims in the prevention of violent extremism. The research shows that increased trust and access to...
