Muslim schools seem to be back in the news with the Independent front page yesterday featuring an interview with the chair of the Social Integration Commission, Matthew Taylor, discussing the commission’s most recent report, ‘Social integration: a wake-up call’. Taylor talks...
Randeep Ramesh in The Guardian reveals that the Henry Jackson Society has rescinded its secretariat role on the two all party parliamentary groups on which it serves, Homeland Security and Transatlantic Relations, after refusing to comply with new rules imposed by the parliamentary Standards...
Al Jazeera and BBC News cover the UN Security Council vote yesterday on a resolution submitted by the Palestinian Authority calling for a peace settlement with Israel within a year and an end to Israel’s military occupation of the Palestinian Territories by 2017. The vote required nine votes...
The Financial Times today discloses that the Government is to publish only summary findings from its review into the Muslim Brotherhood amidst concerns that the full report will antagonise Middle Eastern countries who had hoped the report would be more damning of the MB. Ian Black in The Guardian...
Communities Secretary, Eric Pickles, in a guest column in the Daily Express yesterday outlined the work being undertaken by the Department for Communities and Local Government to tackle anti-Semitism following an escalation in reported incidents in the last year. Pickles, referencing the DCLG...
A year ago only 4 police forces recorded Islamophobia as a separate category of crime. mend’s efforts have more than doubled that figure in a year to 10 forces, roughly equating to just under a quarter of all police forces in England and Wales. It is a striking achievement to say the least....
Hull Daily Mail carries an interview with a local leader, Imam Hafiz Salik, who was blinded in one eye after a brutal attack more than a year ago. Imam Salik, of the Hull mosque and Islamic centre, presented an alternative Christmas message in the local paper a few days ago in which he alluded to...
BBC News explores the possibility of electronic voting being introduced in the UK after high voter turnout in the Scottish referendum, particularly among young voters, and the Labour party’s stated pledge to lower the voting age to 16 if it wins the next election, revived concerns about...
The Daily Mirror reports on controversial Sun columnist, Katie Hopkins’ latest media venture: “to do a documentary where I live as a Muslim in a burka.” The Daily Mirror notes Hopkins’ stated intention expressed in a newspaper column in which she wrote that she would...
BBC News and news site, On Islam, report on the charitable endeavours of Muslim communities this Christmas with the offer of food and warmth to the homeless and those dependent on food banks. The Muslim owner of a restaurant in Buckinghamshire will be opening the doors to the homeless on Christmas...
