Following the deadly hit-and-run of three Muslim men in Birmingham on Wednesday in the wake of rioting in several parts of the UK, the Daily Mail has reported that mosques in Birmingham have been receiving threats from gangs as well as from the EDL. The community affected has called for peace and...
The Pew Research Center has published a study looking at rising restrictions on religious beliefs and practices from governments as well as social hostilities. The report, which is the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life’s second report on global restrictions on religion, looked at the period...
The Sunday Telegraph joins the bandwagon in the recent spate of articles on Shari’ah councils in the UK with a full page spread. titled “A law unto themselves?” Jonathan Wynne-Jones, the Telegraph’s religion correspondent spends time observing the workings of shari’ah councils in...
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...
