** 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 Guardian publishes an article looking more closely at the politics and policies of Policy Exchange in’What can they be thinking?‘ The think tank is best known among Muslims for its fabrication of research data for its report ‘The Hijacking of British Islam’. The...
The Sun reports on the praise for its Muslim readers by Admiral Lord Alan West, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Security and Counter-terrorism, for making Britain safer. The paper can claim a measure of credit according to the minister who states that, ‘Extremists are now being given...
Cllr Alan Craig, leader of the Christian Peoples Alliance group on Newham Council has organised a meeting for Christian clergy in the borough to discuss the Tablighi Jamaat mosque project in east London. The Bishop of Bradford’s adviser on inter-faith relations, Philip Lewis, author of the...
Adam Wolstenholme’s column in Batley News (also in the Dewsbury Reporter) deals with the reaction of some Muslims to the forthcoming publication of ‘The Jewel of Medina’ remarking that ‘militant Islam has scored some recent victories against its enemy, freedom of speech.’...
Inayat Bunglawala, ENGAGE vs Daily Star Hizb ut-Tahrir vs The Sunday Times Metro, ‘Girl of 8 suicide bomber’ Complainant Name: Resolved – Inayat Bunglawala v Daily Star Clauses Noted: 1 Publication: Daily Star Complaint: Inayat Bunglawala, Advisor on Research and Policy for...
Thomas Sutcliffe in his column in Tuesday’s Independent criticises the BBC’s offering a talking spot to Anjem Choudary of Hizb ut-Tahrir on the Today programme discussion on the publication of the book ‘The Jewel of Medina’, (29 Sept).
In yet another example of a Muslim doing the fashionable thing and slating other Muslims the better to present himself as progressive, enlightened and most importantly, ‘one of us’, Ghaffar Hussain in the Guardian’s Comment is Free section utters the usual nonsense and half truths in an...
In a recent article published in the journal ‘Race and Class’, Arun Kundnani analyses the varieties of Islamic expression in Britain and criticises neo conservatives attempts at reducing all discussion of Islam into simple categories of ‘Islamist/extremist’ and...
Arab Media Watch (AMW) has issued a report on its analysis of news and headlines in the British press that erroneously refer to Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. From a 3 month study (1 June – 31 August 2008) of British national dailies, the AMW team found that out of a total of...
Rights of Muslims, letter to Western Mail, 11 Dec 2008 Citizenship classes should not isolate, letter to Birmingham Post, 10 Dec 2008 Muslim neighbours, letter to The Independent, The Rev. Stephen Griffith MBE, 27 Oct 2008 Response to Douglas Murray’s article on Islamophobia and the media,...
