The Guardian prints an interview with the former head of the UN nuclear watchdog, IAEA, Mohammed El Baradei (pictured), in which he criticizes western states’ policy of supporting repressive regimes in the Middle East. El Baradei tells the paper: “There is a need for re-evaluation …...
The Daily Telegraph prints a comment piece by Douglas Murray, director of the Centre for Social Cohesion, on the report produced by the CLG select committee on Prevent yesterday. Murray reiterates criticisms made by many Muslim organizations of the disbursement of public funds for no...
Ruth Gledhill in The Times reports on a paper to be published in the next issue of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations by Nick Chatrath (pictured), a researcher at Oxford’s Faculty of Oriental Studies, in which he argues, ‘…in the face of growing radicalisation in Britain, Muslim...
The Communities and Local Government select committee (chair, Dr Phyllis Starkey, pictured) has today released its report into Prevent. Following a call for evidence last year and oral evidence sessions held earlier this year, the committee has produced its report into the Prevent stream of...
The Committees on Arms Export Controls, comprising the Business, Innovation and Skills, Defence, Foreign Affairs, and International Development Committees, today released the ‘Scrutiny of Arms Export Controls (2010)‘, report in which they call upon Government to: ‘set out clearly [in...
ENGAGE have written to Charles Farr, Director-General of the Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism, which funds the Quilliam Foundation, concerning the QF’s latest report, ‘Re-programming British Muslims: a study of the Islam Channel’. Read the ENGAGE letter here.
The Quilliam Foundation, unfazed by its pathetic Islam Channel alert in April of last year, has produced a report on the Channel, ‘Re-programming British Muslims: A study of the Islam Channel, accusing it of ‘promoting backward attitudes to women, intolerance towards other sects and...
The PCC has upheld a complaint against Rod Liddle (pictured) for a blog he posted on Spectator blogs claiming, ”The overwhelming majority of street crime, knife crime, gun crime, robbery and crimes of sexual violence in London is carried out by young men from the African-Caribbean...
Adrian Hamilton (pictured) in his column for The Independent yesterday wrote on the diplomatic spats between the UK and Israel and the US and Israel arguing that recent events clearly suggest, if there was ever a doubt, that ‘Israel’s interests are not the same as ours on Palestine’. He...
After the dreadful Dispatches programme by Andrew Gilligan, ‘Britain’s Islamic Republic’, and as the EDL plans another demonstration in an English town with a large Muslim population, the Guardian prints a letter signed by political activists, trade unionists and anti-fascist campaigners,...
