** 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,...
The Living Wage campaign, co-ordinated by London Citizens – a coalition of about 100 churches, mosques, labour organisations, student and community groups, is the subject of an ESRC study on ‘Work, identity and new forms of political mobilisation: An assessment of broad-based...
Islam Awareness Week in Birmingham kicks off with an official launch at the Birmingham Central Library Theatre on November 17. The week will see a range of events including a fashion show, poetry corner, cuisine from the Muslim world, meditation, archery and projects to help homeless people.
Over 1200 men and women attended the latest ENGAGE community presentation on Sunday 9th November at the 3D Centre in Bolton. The presentation was delivered in two parts, the first focusing on conditions in Britain that have created and sustained high levels of Islamophobia. The second part focused...
The Daily Star runs again with its story on poppies this time printing the comments of Anjem Choudary of Al Muhajiroun. The paper claims Choudary was ‘responding to news that poppy sales were down in areas of the country with a high population of Muslims’ when what is more likely is that he...
The New York Times carries an article on the views of Muslim students at New York University (NYU) on the US presidential election campaigns and outcome. Barack Obama’s middle name, Hussein, and his upbringing in Indonesia became the focus of attention with much hostility feeding off rumours...
More journalism typical of the anti Islam prejudice that has crept into our media. Joe Riley in the Liverpool Echo remarks on the case of the Muslim chef currently involved in an employment dispute with the Metropolitan Police over the handling of pork products saying that: ‘Instead of twittering...
The BNP is to undertake a direct mail shot to 10,000 young voters in each and every town and city across Britain with a 12-page brochure, ‘detailing the crimes against our people’. ‘The initiative will expose violence against whites by immigrant thugs, the pimping and rape of hundreds of...
Britain’s terror hotspots are no-go zones for poppy sellers claims the Daily Star. The paper, dispatching reporters to towns in northern England with large Muslim populations claims that few, if any, shops were found to stock poppies, though the paper’s headline misleadingly phrases this as...
A review of Riotous Citizens: Ethnic Conflict in Multicultural Britain appears in this week’s Times Higher Education. The book, authored by Paul Bagguley and Yasmin Hussain, challenges the presumptions and perceptions of the ‘race’ riots in Bradford, Oldham and Burnley in the summer of...
ENGAGE delivered its first community presentation in Blackburn on Sunday 2 November. Almost 1,400 people, men and women, attended the presentation with up to 100 volunteers signing up to form a local team dedicated to pursuing ENGAGE’s objectives of fair and accurate media coverage on Islam...
