The Times Higher Education Supplement this week contains a review of Peter Morey and Amina Yaqin’s new book, ‘Framing Muslims: Stereotyping and Representation After 9/11’. The book is a comparative study, though with a predominant UK focus, on the caricatures and stereotypes used by the...
The Enfield Independent carries a story relating to the recent spate of anthrax parcels sent to mosques in the UK noting Edmonton Islamic Centre as among those targeted. From the paper: “Tariq Chaudhri, secretary of the trust which runs the centre, called in police after opening a package on...
The Planning Inspector charged with resolving the dispute arising from the Camberley mosque planning application submitted by the Bengali Welfare Association (BWA) to Surrey Heath Borough Council has concluded his inquiry rejecting the BWA’s appeal. “Following a seven-day inquiry in April,...
Director of the EU’s Fundamental Rights Agency, Morten Kjaerum, presented the agency’s annual report for 2010, “Fundamental Rights: challenges and achievements” in Brussels last week. The FRA report covers EU member states’ performance in respect of the nine thematic areas in...
Paul Goodman on Conservative Home has written a rather interesting piece on multiculturalism asking “why is David Cameron so worked up about the M-word?” Goodman argues that it is “time to end the Tory war on multiculturalism” and to drop the “M-word” as a “boo-word”. He...
The Cambridge News reports on the latest pit-stop in the EDL’s calendar of protests against mosques in the UK. From the paper: “The English Defence League (EDL) claims 400 people will march through Cambridge against plans for a new mosque in Mill Road. “Cambridgeshire police are gearing up...
Several papers have picked up on the story of ‘poison packages’ suspected to contain anthrax being sent to mosques in London, Birmingham and Luton; (see Daily Express, The Mirror and Friday’s Evening Standard). From the Evening Standard: “Muslim leaders across London are on high alert...
The Sunday Telegraph published an interview with the Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, Trevor Phillips, ahead of a landmark EHRC report on religious discrimination in the UK. Mr Phillips talks on the role of the EHRC in defending the rights of believers in religious traditions...
The Equality and Human Rights Commission today published a report on “Religious Discrimination in Britain: A review of research evidence, 2000- 2010”. The report is in the papers today following Trevor Phillips’ interview with the Sunday Telegraph on its findings. Excerpted...
Unmesh Desai, Labour councillor and Prevent lead for Newham Council, responds in the Guardian’s Comment is Free to a Guardian column last week by the New Statesman’s Mehdi Hasan on the new Prevent strategy. Desai argues that “you cannot treat violent and non-violent extremism...
