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This submission is the work of ENGAGE, a not for profit non-governmental organisation

    Eight months after publishing an inflammatory front page story alleging that UK Muslims had drawn up a list of influential Jews to target, the Sun today carries a short story admitting that the story was utterly bogus and that they had allowed themselves to have been duped by Glen Jenvey...

    The Secretary of State at the Communities and Local Government department, John Denham, has publicly spoken out against and condemned the English Defence League for deliberately trying to provoke violence against Muslims. Mr Denham was speaking after events last night outside Harrow Mosque...

  Ed Husain of the government-funded Quilliam Foundation writes in the Guardian’s Comment is Free website about the Taxpayers Alliance report on the allocation of Prevent funds by Local Authorities.       He writes: ‘…the report also reveals that many groups that have received...

  The Enfield Advertiser carries news of the London borough’s ‘Open Faith Houses’ initiative. ‘During September mosques, synagogues, temples and churches will encourage newcomers to step inside and learn something about the community within as part of Enfield Month Of Peace...

    Unite Against Fascism have called on people to show solidarity with Muslims in Harrow after the BNP-linked English Defence League said it planned to hold a demonstration outside Harrow Central Mosque tomorrow evening on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.   The EDL have already held...

  The Independent today mentions a new report by B’Tselem, the Israeli human rights group, that casts doubt on the Israeli military’s figures of the number of Palestinians deaths during its bombardment and invasion of Gaza in December 2008/January 2009. ‘B’Tselem’s total...

  Further to yesterday’s Taxpayers Alliance report into Local Authorities’ funding of projects and organisations under the Government’s Prevent scheme, comes news that the Department of Communities and Local Government has issued new guidelines to ‘ensure that funding goes to a wider...

  Ed Husain adds his thoughts to the convictions of three British Muslims for hatching a devastating transatlantic terror plot in the Daily Mail today. Husain writes that he ‘feel[s] we have given in to the fanatics’, explaining that the problems of radicalisation stem from the ‘tens of...

  Today’s newspapers understandably give prominent coverage to the conviction of three British Muslims, Abdulla Ahmed Ali, 28, Tanvir Hussain, 28, and Assad Sarwar, 29, (pictured) who were convicted of conspiring to activate bombs disguised as drinks in the ‘airliner plot’. All...