The issue of whether “we are being brainwashed into confrontation with Iran,” as posed by Simon Jenkins in last week’s Guardian, might reasonably be extended to the BBC given the public service broadcaster’s publication of this ‘analysis’ by Jonathan Marcus, the BBC diplomatic...
The Observer covers a Chatham House report to be launched this week on an audit of attitudes among Britain’s far-right extremists which shows ‘significant support’ for planned violent attacks. From The Observer: “Significant numbers of far-right supporters in the UK consider...
Police officers at Leicestershire Constabulary have released a CCTV image of a man they want to trace in connection with an incident at Usmani mosque in Spinney Hill, Leicester. From the Constabulary’s website: “A banner displayed on the external wall of the Usmani Mosque in St Saviours Road...
ENGAGE has written to the Foreign Secretary, William Hague, regarding his statement to the House on Iran’s alleged nuclear weapons programme in a parliamentary debate last week. The letter is available to read here.
The Euronews website features a video in which viewer Masha asks Michael Privot, the Director of the European Network Against Racism (ENAR) “If Muslim extremism is a real issue in Europe?”. Michael’s response gives deep insight into socio-political and economic contexts in which Muslim...
The Daily Telegraph and The Daily Mail have both covered an online interview with Mark Thompson, the director general of the BBC on ‘The BBC and Religion’. Thompson, who in the interview describes himself as a practicing Catholic and ‘critical realist’, was interviewed by historian, author...
Channel 4 on Monday broadcast the programme ‘Proud and Prejudiced’ featuring Stephen Lennon (aka Tommy Robinson), the leader of the English Defence League and Sayful Islam, a man whose exploits include abusing British soldiers and burning poppies on Remembrance Sunday. Both men hail from Luton....
The Daily Mail today covers proposals by the coalition Government to extend the mandate for secret trial hearings which would give the Government powers to hold trials which are deemed ‘sensitive’ or a risk to ‘national security’ behind closed doors, and to withhold evidence held against...
The Barking and Dagenham Post reports on the 14-month jail sentence passed on a 29 year old convicted of affray and common assault after he threw large stones onto a busy road and assaulted two men at an English Defence League demonstration against a mosque in Dagenham last June. From the paper:
The Independent today reports on a ‘European Counter-Jihad Meeting’ due to take place next month involving members of far right movements from across Europe which the paper says could result in the creation of the “European Defence League – and the beginning of a dangerous new phase in...
