** 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’s Question Time this week (16 Oct) from Stoke on Trent featured questions from residents in the town concerned at the presence of nine councillors from the BNP on the local council and the associated rise in Islamophobia. “What is the future for me and my family in a city with nine...
The BNP claims success in its campaign (‘Say No to Asia Town’) to obstruct the building of a development called ‘Asia Town’ in the western part of the city of Newscastle Upon Tyne. The campaign is another example of the party’s targetting Muslim communities through the...
AC Grayling writes about a conference held on ‘World Day Against the Death Penalty’ by the Council of Ex-Muslims and uses the opportunity to again subject Muslims and others to his moralizing on Islam. He writes of the ex-Muslims as ‘brave and principled people to whom the death penalty might...
Jim Knight, the Schools minister speaking at the launch of an Islamic innovations exhibition in Parliament, developed by The Foundation for Science, Technology and Civilisation and designed to improve knowledge of the contribution of Islam to European and world civilisation, has urged for this...
Continuing the quest to eradicate any and all attempts by Muslim bodies to celebrate Islam and Islamic teachings in full and glorious multicolour, Harry’s Place has a feature on the Global Peace and Unity event (GPU) that is to be held at the ExCel Centre in London on 25 – 26th October 2008.
A ridiculous front page and story in the Daily Star today on the speech by Mark Thompson, BBC Director General, at THEOS on Tues 14 Oct. The paper claims the ‘BBC put Muslims before YOU!‘ The paper continues with ‘He [Thompson] would not allow jokes about Muslims’, and that he ...
Ashram Housing Association, an intercultural agency based in the West Midlands, has produced a report from its survey of over 400 young British Muslims, male and female, on football and from its findings has urged the Football Association, the England team, league clubs and the Government to do...
BBC Director General, Mark Thompson The Daily Mail and Daily Telegraph both contain news items on comments made by the BBC Director General, Mark Thompson, after a speech delivered at THEOS (Tuesday 14 October) entitled ‘Faith, Morality and the Media’. Mr Thompson answering a question...
The Conservative Muslim Forum Wales (CMFW) was launched on 6 Sept at an event held at Cardiff County Hall. Lord Mohammed Sheikh, Chairman of Conservative Muslim Forum, encouraged Muslim communities in the UK to consider joining the Conservative Party, saying that the party’s values and...
Unlock Democracy unveil a letter signed by 57 of the UK’s leading voluntary sector organisations, including the Muslim Council of Britain, and sent to local authority leaders and chief executives across the country urging them to ‘opt in’ to the Sustainable Communities Act at a Local...
