Many will have watched Channel 4’s Dispatches documentary last night, “Lessons in hate and violence”, presented by Tazeen Ahmad. Last night’s documentary raised a number of disturbing issues uncovered by the Dispatches team in two schools – the Darul Uloom Islamic High School in...
Local paper, the Essex Enquirer, reports that a Labour councillor in Thurrock, Essex, has been suspended by her party for “passing on allegedly racist comments in an email.” From the paper: “The suspension was announced four days after it was revealed that Belhus councillor Sue Gray had...
At 8pm tonight, Channel 4 will air a Dispatches programme, titled, “Lessons in Hate and Violence.” The Dispatches website promotes the programme as follows: “Dispatches goes undercover to investigate allegations that teachers regularly assault young children in some of the 2,000 Muslim...
The Independent today reports that controversial figure, Thilo Sarrazin will speak at the London School of Economics tonight in a debate on multiculturalism. From the paper: “A German banker who has said “all Jews share a certain gene” and described Muslims as “dunces”...
Further to yesterday’s announcement of the arrest of two men in Devon on suspicion of publishing racially inflammatory material and anti-Muslim videos on to the internet, the local news website ‘This is Cornwall’ further reported that Devon and Cornwall Police are preparing for “a...
David Cameron’s speech at the Munich Security Conference has been hailed by the far-right, who applaud him for “[coming] round to our way of thinking”to Muslims”, precisely at a time when “elsewhere in Europe, far-right organizations such as the BNP have increasingly switched the focus...
The Flintshire Chronicle reports of an arson attack on the site of a proposed Islamic cultural centre in Shotton, North Wales. From the local paper: “POLICE and fire crews are combing the scene of a huge blaze which gutted a social club earmarked to become an Islamic cultural...
The local news website, ‘This is Devon’, today reports that two men have been arrested for allegedly publishing “a catalogue of vile and racially inflammatory material on the internet.” From the report: “One of the men, from Paignton, is thought to be responsible for a series of...
ENGAGE has regularly covered the shenanigans of the Daily Star and Daily Express and its scaremongering journalism on Muslims. The selection below should give you a pretty good idea of what we mean. Good then to see the mainstream press pick up on our story from yesterday about the Daily Star...
According to the Daily Star, the leader of the extremist English Defence League is not ‘ruling out’ the EDL becoming a political party. Stephen Lennon is quoted as saying: “We are a single issue group and at the moment we would rather have a dialogue with the other political parties –...
