The Sunday Express yesterday published an apology to the East London Mosque for an article published in December linking the ELM to Anwar Al-Awlaki and referring to the mosque as ‘radical’. The ELM was wrongly criticised by newspapers following the failed bomb attempt by Omar Farouk...
Philip Hollobone (pictured), the Tory MP who last month equated the wearing of niqab and burqa by Muslim women to ‘the religious equivalent of going around with a paper bag over your head’, took the opportunity during yesterday’s Commons’ debate on International Women’s Day to repeat...
That an election is in the offing is clear from the interview given by the Leader of the Opposition, David Cameron (pictured), to the Jewish Chronicle this week. The JC reports that Cameron’s Tory Party would act so that: ‘…visitors to Britain such as Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the influential...
The European Parliament yesterday voted in favour of a resolution on the Goldstone Report which calls on EU member states and the High Representative for Foreign Affairs, Baroness Catherine Ashton, to “publicly demand the implementation of [the Goldstone report’s] recommendations and...
The Guardian reports that the Equality and Human Rights Commission (chair, Trevor Phillips, pictured) is to brand police forces as ‘racist’ and threaten enforcement action for disproportionate use of stop and search against ethnic minorities. ‘Police forces will be told they face...
Taj Hargey (pictured) proves, yet again, that should the media want a Muslim voice to tell Muslims to put up and shut up, he’s the man to call. In a guest column in The Times today Hargey explains why he is supporting the rejection of a mosque planning application near the Royal Military...
ENGAGE has received a reply from the Foreign Secretary, The Rt. Hon. David Miliband MP, to our letter concerning proposals to remove the power for issuing arrest warrants under universal jurisdiction provisions from UK Magistrates’ courts. Read the Foreign Secretary’s reply here.
Friday saw the publication of a Home Office study, ‘What perceptions do the UK public have concerning the impact of counter-terrorism legislation implemented since 2000?’, prepared by the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) for the Office of Security and Counter...
Andrew Gilligan (pictured), perhaps deluding himself to be riding on the crest of a wave after his disgraceful C4 Dispatches programme last Monday, may well be distinctly crestfallen following what appears to us to be a seriously libelous article he penned for the Daily Telegraph about the...
Following news last week that two Muslim women traveling to Islamabad were denied permission to board their flight for having declined to pass through body scanners at Manchester airport, a petition has been lodged urging the PM to ensure that those who object to passing through such scanners...
