** 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 Sunday Express leads with the speech given by Dame Pauline Neville Jones, the Shadow Security Minister at the Tory party conference in Birmingham with a front page that proclaims: ‘Cameron: I’ll curb Muslim fanatics’. Dame Neville Jones, referring to the recent disclosure...
Stephen Pollard writes in The Times (22 Sept), ‘Last week, a variation on the “cry wolf” story emerged which, in its long-term impact, threatens to be far more dangerous to Western civilisation than any banking collapse’. The story he alludes to? News that Shari’a court...
Bill Carmichael, columnist for the Yorkshire Post writes in response to a High Court decision to deny five former Gurkhas the right to settle in the UK, (‘Loyalty Bonus‘, 19 Sept). Questioning the logic of the decision handed down by the court, Carmichael slips in a remark that could...
BNP Councillor for Marsden ward in Nelson, Brian Norton Parker, writes in Pendle Today that his objection to the postponement of a council meeting that was scheduled during Ramadan was not wrong, as implied, but perfectly reasonable given that ‘it really is incumbent upon them [migrants and...
A leaflet claiming that Muslims are ‘almost exclusively responsible’ for the heroin trade, has been distributed to hundreds of households in Lancashire, Cumbria and Yorkshire. The leaflet calls for a process of ‘naming and shaming’ Muslims for ‘positive effect’...
Zia Sardar in the New Statesman, lays bare the current obsession and courting of ‘ex Islamists’ by the media and Government. ‘To stand up and declare that you are an ex-fanatic or an ex-Muslim is now the shortest route to fame and fortune’, he writes. Why? Because...
The Pew Research Centre publishes a report on the rise of ethnocentrism entitled ‘Unfavourable views of Muslims and Jews on the increase in Europe‘. The Washington-based Centre’s global attitudes survey found that favourable opinion of Muslims in European...
The Sun reports on Sadiq Khan MP’s ‘Fairness not Favours’ pamphlet published by the Fabian Society, in typical lopsided style under the heading ‘Muslims think they are victims’. While listing extensively issues the Labour assistant whip thinks Muslims must tackle to...
The Telegraph and Argus (14 Sept) carries a story on an Open Day being organised by Madni Jamia Masjid in Bradford on October 20th and 21st. The open day will inlcude an exhibition of the history of faith communities in Bradford and how they have evolved, including images of the city’s...
The Sunday Times (14 Sept) reports that ‘Islamic law has been officially adopted in Britain, with sharia courts given powers to rule on Muslim civil cases’. The paper claims that the courts’ prior status, working on the basis of voluntary compliance, has been superseded with the...
