MP for Tooting, Sadiq Khan, has a short comment piece in the Evening Standard today on the exhibition on the Hajj which opens today at the British Museum. Khan writes: “Muslims have been performing this pilgrimage for centuries; non-Muslims are not allowed to enter this holy city. An estimated...
The EU Observer published an article on Monday which describes the findings in a report by Human Rights Watch as pointing to “a worrying right-wing shift inside the European Union”. EU Observer states that the HRW report, ‘World Report 2012- Events of 2011’, “pulls no punches in linking...
The BBC reports that the control order system introduced in 2005 under anti-terrorism legislation, which places terrorism suspects under close supervision and tight restrictions, is to end tonight. From the BBC: “The control order regime restricting the freedoms of terrorism suspects is being...
ENGAGE will be presenting evidence to the Leveson Inquiry this afternoon. You can watch the proceedings live on the Inquiry’s website here, and read the ENGAGE written submission here. Our Islamophobia briefing paper can be found here. A transcript from today’s afternoon hearing can be...
The Mail of Sunday last week featured an article on the Young Offenders’ Institute in Feltham stating that a third of inmates at the prison are Muslim and claimed that non-Muslim inmates are converting to Islam to get ‘better food’. From the Mail on Sunday: “A third of inmates at one of...
The University of East Anglia has developed a new 12 week course entitled ‘Women, Islam and the Media’, looking at how the media discourse is developed around women and Islam. The course developer, Dr Eylem Atakav claims that the Arab Spring and new forms of female political activism has given...
Local press in Lincolnshire reports that hate crimes in the county have risen by 22% in the past five years, although the region has one of the lowest levels of hate crimes in England and Wales. The October 2011 Ministry of Justice report, Statistics on Race and the Criminal Justice System 2010,...
The Independent on Sunday published an article by Joan Smith yesterday in which she lambasts the British media for its failure to highlight the infringements to free speech demonstrated by recent events and the censorship being applied Muslims through threats of intimidation and violence. Smith...
BBC Asian Network has reported that the publication by the UCL atheist society of a cartoon depicting the Prophet Muhammed and Prophet Jesus having a drink at a bar has caused a row at the university. The UCL Students Union body asked the society to remove the picture. The society refused and the...
The BBC reports that an 11 year old girl was attacked in Sunbury-on-Thames “for no reason other than because she was wearing a headscarf.” From the BBC: “A race attack in Surrey on an 11-year-old girl will be the focus of community talks in Sunbury-on-Thames.
