** 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,...
BBC Radio 4’s File on Four on Tuesday (18 Nov) looked at whether the government’s Preventing Violent Extremism (PVE) pathfinder fund was contributing to feelings in the British Muslim community of stigmatisation and singling out.
BNP supporters demonstrated outside a police station in Burnley after four members were arrested for stirring up racial hatred in the town on Wednesday (19 Nov).
Murad Qureshi, member of the London Assembly, questioned the Mayor of London on the briefing circulated by Policy Exchange prior to the Global Peace and Unity event this year. Murad asked: ‘In view of the warm welcome you sent to this year’s Global Peace & Unity Event at the...
Lord Bingham, a former Lord Chief Justice, has criticised the advice of the former Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith, to the then Prime Minister, Tony Blair, justifying the invasion of Iraq on legal grounds.
A Muslim youth group from Burnley has been nominated for the Prince’s Trust Community Impact Award 2008 in recognition of the group’s efforts in tackling drug issues in the Muslim community.
Muslims in Cheadle, Greater Manchester, sold off a huge cake to raise over £500 for BBC Children in Need. The cake, billed as the biggest in Manchester, was baked by Sanam Restaurant in collaboration with the Islamic Society of Britain (ISB) and Cheadle Muslim Association.
The National Association of Muslim Police (NAMP) in a survey conducted with Demos have found that Muslims are grossly under-represented in the UK police force particularly in counter terrorism units.
The Islamic Bank of Britain (IBB) has under pressure from its clearing bank, Lloyds TSB, been forced to cease all dealings with Interpal and will close the charity’s bank account as of 8 December 2008. UPDATE ADDED – 19 Nov.
ENGAGE has sent a letter to the Press Complaints Commission concerning the headline in the Daily Star on 6 November, ‘Poppies banned in terror hotspots‘. The letter states: ‘The use of the term ‘banned’ in the headline is clearly inaccurate and misleading given that there...
Another odious headline from the Daily Star this time on a video link message by Omar Bakri Mohammed that was played to a gathering of Al Muhajiroun supporters in east London this week. The Daily Star and Evening Standard focus much attention on the words of a group that is on the fringes of...
