The Independent today runs a special feature with former National Front and BNP activist Matthew Collins. Collins, whose new book “Hate: My Life in the British Far Right” is soon to be released, is now a dedicated anti-fascist campaigner but his youth was spent in the heart of some of the...
The Newcastle Chronicle reports on a disturbing attack on a mosque in Elswick, Newscastle at the time of Isha prayers. From the paper: “Local Muslims, currently celebrating their holy month of Ramadan, were stunned when their evening prayers were disrupted by a gang of youths who burst into...
The Arab Spring which began in Tunisia in December 2010 and has since swept across the region, is taking a turn towards the aspirations of the many thousands that have filled the public squares with elections anticipated this autumn in Egypt and Tunisia. The Economist last week published an...
The Daily Telegraph on Thursday reported that MI5 and MI6 have agreed to pay £12 million to former British detainees of Guantanamo Bay, who “claimed that the Government had allowed them to be sent to be mistreated at the US detention centre”. From the paper: “Details of the payments are...
A letter from ENGAGE to The Independent in relation to the column by Christina Patterson on “Sharia zones” in Wednesday’s paper, has been published today. The letter can be read here.
An article in Monday’s Daily Mail and a blog published online for Sunday’s Telegraph have attacked the political left for their attempts to silence voices on the right, and in the words of Toby Young, “further its political agenda” following the attacks in Norway. The articles both take...
The Sunderland Echo reports on an incident of racially aggravated criminal damage involving racist graffiti being spray painted on the walls of a mosque in Sunderland. The convicted perpetrator of the attack, 20-year old Ryan Austin, “was captured on CCTV daubing an obscene message in red paint...
There is just one week left to enter the Media Trust/ITV competition, Breaking Into News, which closes Monday 8th August at midday. “The competition offers young people aged 18-25 the chance to be mentored by experienced broadcast journalists from the ITV News network newsroom in writing,...
Spinwatch have today released a report which will make very interesting reading for British Muslims concerned at the reach and impact of the think tanks Centre for Social Cohesion, (which merged with the Henry Jackson Society as of 8th April 2011), and Policy Exchange on public policy affecting...
Not content with its indulgence last week of Islam4UK’s perverse attempts to set up so called ‘Shari’a zones’, the Daily Mail on Saturday devoted a two page spread to Islam4UK, as well as an editorial and article on Shari’ah courts. In what can only be described as a dereliction of...
