Progress Online – a New Labour pressure group – has issued an apology to Sir Iqbal Sacranie (pictured), former secretary general of the Muslim Council of Britain and current Chairman of Muslim Aid, for an article written by Paul Richards in August 2009, in which he claimed: ‘…you...
Columnists Gary Younge (pictured left, The Guardian) and Steve Richards (pictured right, The Independent) comment on the political trajectory that has led to us to the point where the leader of the racist BNP, Nick Griffin, is able to appear on BBC1’s Question Time programme. Younge...
The Times reports on the latest developments concerning the BNP leader Nick Griffin’s appearance on BBC1’s Question Time programme due for tomorrow. The Welsh Secretary, Peter Hain, having earlier written to Mark Thompson, BBC Director General, has now also written to the Chairman of the BBC...
Symon Hill of Ekklesia (pictured), comments on the Daily Express front page last week and the newspaper’s proclivity for histrionics and encouraging anti-Muslim prejudice. He writes: ‘The Daily Express has turned into the modern equivalent of those people who used to walk around wearing...
Inayat Bunglawala, in his latest Comment is Free posting has proposed holding a counter-demonstration against the provocative antics of Al-Muhajiroun and Islam4UK’s proposed march on Saturday October 31st, which featured on the Daily Express front page last week, at the end of this month. He...
The Independent yesterday reported of a spilt in the Israeli Cabinet over calls for an independent investigation into war crimes committed by Israeli soldiers during the savage bombardment of Gaza in Dec 2008 – Jan 2009. The UN Human Rights Council’s decision last week urged both Israel and...
ENGAGE has written to the Home Secretary, Alan Johnson, concerning the Guardian story at the weekend ‘Communities fear project to counter extremism is not what it seems’, which disloses surveillance activity being run under the cover of the Prevent programme. The letter states: ‘An...
The Home Secretary, Alan Johnson (pictured), has written to The Guardian responding to the story printed in the paper on Saturday about the use of the Prevent programme to spy on British Muslims. The Home Secretary writes: ‘Your article (Anti-terrorism strategy ‘spies on innocent...
Concerns at the claims made in the Guardian article, on the misuse of community and voluntary sector groups to spy on British Muslims and the conditionality of funding on Information Sharing Agreements, have also been raised by the Chief Executive of the Association of Chief Executives of...
Islamophobia Watch relates news of a man charged with attempted arson of a mosque in Sunderland. Gerald Davies (53), of Palmerston Road, Peterborough, appeared before Sunderland Magistrates’ Court accused of a late-night petrol attack on the mosque in Chester Road, Sunderland, IW reports....
