ENGAGE have written a short letter to the Jewish Chronicle concerning a story printed in last week’s edition of the paper about the controversial submission by the Board of Deputies of British Jews to the Prevent inquiry and its conditions for Government engaging with the Muslim Council...
The Sunday Herald yesterday reported that Strathclyde police will oppose a planned demonstration in November by the Scottish Defence League (the Scottish arm of the English Defence League) if the event is intended to stir up racial hatred. The paper reports that ‘Strathclyde Police are ready...
The meeting last week of Muslims in High Wycombe with UK Ambassador to Iraq, Sir Christopher Prentice, has attracted criticism from the local MP, Paul Goodman (pictured), and local press for its being held in private. A local newspaper, Bucks Free Press, had requested permission to cover the...
Emdad Rahman reviews ‘Eid in the Square’, which took place in London’s Trafalgar Square on Saturday 26th Sept, for Islam Online. ‘Trafalgar Square was transformed into a performance tent with the landmark Square playing host to storytellers, exhibitions, singers,...
The planned attendance of Ehud Barak, Israeli Defence Minister and deputy Prime Minister, at a Labour Friends of Israel fringe meeting on Tuesday has attracted criticism from Labour MPs. Barak, as Defence Minister, oversaw Israel’s savagery in Gaza in Dec 2008-Jan 2009 which killed over 1400...
Martin ‘The Great Koran Con Trick’ Bright interviews John Denham, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, reviews the IPPR’s ‘Building Bridges, Not Walls, report, and comments on the government’s policy on engaging with Muslim groups, in this week’s Jewish...
There’s a further article in the Jewish Chronicle this week which is disconcerting. The paper reports that the Board of Deputies of British Jews (BoD) has, in its joint submission with the Community Security Trust to the Communities and Local Government Inquiry into ‘Prevent’, said that:...
In his letter to ENGAGE, the Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, wrote of the ‘foreign policy specific events’ that have been held across the UK in which he, foreign office ministers and senior officials have taken part in ‘frank and open discussions with young British Muslims’ on foreign...
Professor Roy Greenslade (pictured) in his blog on MediaGuardian writes of the continuing demise of local newspapers across the UK and the vacuum that is being created in local ‘public service reporting’. The problem of local and regional newspaper titles shutting down due to reasons of...
For the fourth year running, the office of the Mayor of London, with the assistance of the Muslim Council of Britain, brings us ‘Eid in the Square’! A fun day out for all Londoners to celebrate Eid ul-Fitr in one of London’s best loved attractions, Trafalgar Square. Eid in...
