** 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 Metro carries a story on the comments made by Admiral Lord West, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Security and Counter Terrorism, to the Commons Defence Committee meeting yesterday on ‘UK national security and resilience’ where he said that ending radicalization among...
The British Humanist Association (BHA) is considering placing posters on London buses that state ‘There’s probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life’. The posters have the support of Professor Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion, who said that “Religion...
A couple of stories today in The Sun, Daily Mail and Metro on the harangues of Omar Bakri Mohammed that have been posted on an internet site run by supporters of Al Muhajiroun. Mohammed riles against an X Factor single that is intended to raise funds for the ‘Help for Heroes’ charity, a...
Paisley’s Daily Express and the Birmingham Mail cover events taking place across the UK by Show Racism the Red Card (SRTRC) in promotion of its new DVD on Islamophobia which forms part of the organisation’s campaign to rid football of racial and, now, religious hatred. To find out...
Have the UK’s foreign policy decisions on Afghanistan and Iraq affected radicalization and the lure of terrorism among young British Muslims? The question is an important one given the battles fought over its answer. Dame Stella Rimington, former head of MI5, in a Guardian interview on...
In an interview with The Times (18 Oct) Phil Woolas, the newly appointed Immigration Minister speaks of his lifelong quest to defeat racism and the challenges he faces in his new ministerial role. He talks of the need to reduce levels of immigration to the UK as the BNP and a looming recession...
Philip Lewis, author of ‘Young, British and Muslim’ and Interfaith Advisor to the Bishop of Bradford, throws his weight behind objectors to the new mosque development project in east London claiming it would create a ghetto and be vulnerable to extremism. At a meeting organised by...
A letter by Joan McTigue, an independent councillor of Beechwood ward in Middlesbrough to the Sunday Sun criticising Middlesbrough Labour Council’s spending of £400,000 on ‘helping Muslims integrate’. Councillor McTigue writes that the integration of the Irish and Scots cost, ‘not one...
Anshuman Mondal’s Young British Muslim Voices will be published at the end of October. Mondal, known for his work on identity politics and the ideological battles fought by neoconservatives over the emergence and development of a Muslim identity and agency, says that ‘young British Muslims...
Roy Greenslade in MediaGuardian comments on the discrimination tribunal case brought against Al Jazeera English by a former executive, Jo Burgin, on grounds of sex, race and religion. Commenting on the British media’s coverage of the tribunal Greenslade remarks that while the opening of the case...
