Roshan Salih (pictured), Head of News at Press TV, pens a column on the forthcoming general election and the role Muslims should play to ensure that ‘[we] make Britain a better place internally and enhance its reputation abroad.’ He writes:‘The upcoming UK general election, predicted to...
The Foreign Secretary David Miliband has made a statement to the House of Commons this afternoon on the outcome of the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) investigation into the faked British passports which were used by the assassination squad that killed Mahmoud al Mabhouh in Dubai in...
The Daily Express on Tuesday offered Lord Pearson, the Leader of the UK Independence Party, the opportunity to write a guest column on the ‘real issues in the election campaign’. Lord Pearson, in imparting his party’s antipathy for the EU, adds these thoughts:‘Last week all three...
Diane Abbott MP (pictured) has presented an early day motion entitled ‘Muslims in Britain’ which ‘welcomes the participation and contribution of Muslims in British society, including in politics; and believes that the full participation of all communities in the forthcoming general...
ENGAGE’s new initiative, Get Out & Vote (GOAV), designed to galvanise the Muslim community to participate fully in the general and local elections 2010, is already making waves featuring today on BBC Asian Network and The Asian Today newspaper. As we draw closer to polling day, ENGAGE via...
The Intelligence and Security Committee (chaired by Dr Kim Howells MP, pictured) has released its annual report 2008 -2009 and it contains an interesting and valid critique of the Government’s Prevent programme. The report states: ‘One of the key, and yet most difficult, strands in CONTEST...
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...
