Regeneration and Renewal magazine reports on Conservative shadow communities’ spokesperson Stewart Jackson MP (pictured), Member of Parliament for Peterborough, saying “fifteen year old Muslim boys’ initiation rites [in Afghanistan] are to rape a woman and shoot a foreigner”, at...
Summaries and main points from the party manifestoes that were launched last week are excerpted below. ENGAGE is also holding election hustings around the country with incumbent and prospective parliamentary candidates invited to answers questions from inquisitive Muslim audiences. If you...
Two vandals have been caught on CCTV hurling stones at Eccles and Salford mosque and tearing down its perimeter fencing. Having suffered from a spate of attacks since 2006, the mosque installed CCTV cameras for added security. You can watch the CCTV footage of the attacks, click on image left....
The BBC Daily Politics Cabinet Contender Election Debates today focuses on foreign affairs featuring David Miliband v William Hague v Ed Davey. Tune in to BBC 2 at 14.15 – 15.00 today for a live election debate on the parties’ foreign policy platforms. You can also read excerpts taken from...
The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) released a briefing paper today on ‘Exploring the Roots of BNP support’. The report finds that social, economic and political exclusion, and not immigration, are the key variables that explain voter tendency in favour of the BNP. The mainstream...
Gordon Prentice MP (pictured), who took part in ENGAGE’s election hustings in Pendle yesterday, reflects on the event on his blog. Writing about faith schools and other questions put to him and the other election candidates yesterday, Prentice acknowledges that ‘Get out and vote is making a...
BNP leader Nick Griffin joined Nicky Campbell’s Radio 5 Live show today, (podcast here), repeating his Islamophobic views. The BNP leader claimed ‘three Sikhs a day are joining the BNP’ and ‘I’m not anti-Muslim, I’m anti-Islam’. Griffin, responding to a question posed by a Muslim...
Demos publish a report today on the importance of understanding the distinct differences between radicalism and violent radicalization, and how policies on engaging Muslims should differentiate between legitimate radical thought and illegal violent radicalization to prevent unnecessarily...
The Muslim News carries out analysis on the prospects of Muslim MPs entering parliament in significant numbers for the first time as we draw closer to the polling day, May 6th. ‘Up to a quarter of the 16 Muslim females standing as candidates at the next month’s general elections are in...
The Times Educational Supplement reports on schools that are refusing to take part in the Government’s Channel programme, part of the Prevent stream of the CONTEST 2 counter-terrorism strategy. The paper reports: ‘Schools are refusing to take part in a Government counter-terrorism strategy...
