Edinburgh Evening News reports that a man in Edinburgh has been fined for “scream[ing] racist abuse at staff in his local takeaway after they refused to give him a free meal.” From their report: “William McNeill also shouted ‘Al-Qaida’ at workers in the kebab shop. “McNeill, 42,...
An EDL protest in Reading this past Saturday has been condemned for causing “hatred and division”, reports BBC News. “Councillor Andrew Cumpsty, leader of Reading Borough Council, said: ‘Hatred and division have no place in civilised political debate.’” “…the three leaders on...
The Guardian and the Independent have picked up on ENGAGE’s referral of Melanie Phillips’ Spectator blog, “Armchair barbarism” to the Press Complaints Commission, the Equality and Human Rights Commission and the Metropolitan Police. Both papers report on the comments made by Phillips,...
Foreign Secretary, William Hague, met with Israeli Defence Minister, Ehud Barak, yesterday and raised “serious concerns” over Israel’s continued construction of illegal ‘settlements’. From the Independent: “Israeli settlement building ‘runs contrary to peace’, William Hague said...
The Economist this week publishes a short appraisal on the dangers of mainstream political parties indulging the far right by adopting its messages and language on immigration and minorities. The article states: “From the tip of Scandinavia to the shores of the Mediterranean, far-right leaders...
Gary Younge’s column in The Guardian this week is an excellent analysis and contribution to the debate on the so-called “failure of multiculturalism”. Younge differentiates between the “multiculturalism of fact” and the “multiculturalism of fiction”. The former is a testament...
Lamenting the Government’s having “slashed [its] funding [of] Quilliam,” Maajid Nawaz in the Telegraph today offers yet another insight into the sort of typically shallow analysis we’ve come to expect from the Quilliam Foundation. Nawaz argues that “The poisonous narrative of a Western...
In addition to our letter to the PCC concerning the use of racist, anti-Arab language by Melanie Phillips in her Spectator blog article ‘Armchair barbarism’, ENGAGE have lodged complaints with the Equality and Human Rights Commission and the Metropolitan Police. Our letter to the EHRC can be...
You can read the parliamentary debate secured by Paul Goggins MP (pictured), former minister and current member of the Security and Intelligence Committee, pleading for transitional funding to be made available to the Quilliam Foundation as recorded in Hansard here. Much like the pleas advanced...
The Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Berlin has published a report, titled ‘Intolerance, Prejudice and Discrimination: A European Report’, which investigated the broad extent, major determinants and possible causes of group-focused enmity in eight European countries on the basis of a telephone...
