According to a report in the Guardian today, Asim Hafeez’s position as head of intervention in the office of security and counter terrorism, is “in jeopardy” following Cameron’s speech at the weekend and the government’s “change of strategy towards Muslims.” The paper reports:...
Prime Minister David Cameron used his speech at the Munich Security Conference in Germany on Saturday to “set out his views on radicalisation and Islamic extremism.” The PM has already come under fire for making the speech on the day the EDL hosted a ‘homecoming march’ in Luton. More...
The Daily Mail, Daily Express and Daily Star today drew the public’s attention to the acts of councillors Salma Yaqoob and Mohammed Ishtiaq (both members of the Respect party) at a meeting held yesterday to pay tribute to Lance Corporal Matthew Croucher for his “outstanding bravery not...
Police are reported to be mounting their largest operation yet in order to try to prevent violence at tomorrow’s march in Luton by far right extremists, the English Defence League (EDL). Previous EDL marches have been accompanied by violence and rabid Islamophobia. The Guardian reports today...
Ipsa will today publish details of millions pounds worth of claims made by MPs since last autumn. The report from the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority will also include the details of expenses that were turned down. Such details could cause embarrassment for some parliamentarians....
A volunteer for the ‘Yes to Fairer Votes’ campaign was fired yesterday after posting an outrageously offensive comment on Twitter regarding Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). The Evening Standard reported: “Ben Donnelly was dismissed from his volunteer post as a phone bank manager for...
A split over how the government should react to the events in Egypt exists between the members of the Tory-led coalition government, according to Allegra Stratton in the Guardian today. She reports that Mort Zuckerman, a member of the “neoconservative Henry Jackson Society,” of which...
The allegations made by Conservative MP, Robert Halfon, in the House today about ENGAGE are wholly untrue and a gross abuse of parliamentary immunity by a sitting MP. Mr Halfon accuses ENGAGE of being “aggressively anti-Semitic, homophobic and has extensive links to terrorism in Tunisia and...
ENGAGE have written to the Sunday Telegraph in response to the contemptible article by Andrew Gilligan in last week’s edition of the paper. Read our letter here.
Baroness Pauline Neville-Jones, the Conservative security minister, on Monday delivered a speech at the Wilton Park Conference on ‘Tackling online jihad: understanding the issues and how to respond’. Baroness Neville-Jones spoke of the nature of the terrorist threat and the role played by...
