There’s some bluster surrounding The Sun’s declaration yesterday that it will rescind its support for the Labour Party and back the Conservatives at the next election. The Sun’s decision has been exacerbated by claims of the PM’s speech, and policy proposals outlined therein, being...
Paul Ray, author of the Lionheart blog, has posted a video entitled ‘Defending our Christian heritage and birthright’, ahead of the English Defence League’s planned demonstration in Manchester on October 10th. The video shows a number of sensationalist headlines on Muslims in the UK,...
The ENGAGE submission to the Communities and Local Government select committee’s Inquiry into Prevent can be read here. Written submissions were invited by the committee to assess the effectiveness of the Prevent programme to date. You can follow Inquiry’s progress on the CLG...
The report produced by the UN Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict, headed by Justice Richard Goldstone (pictured), and presented to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva yesterday, has invited a flurry of denunciations from pro-Israel lobby groups determined to present the report’s...
The Campaign Against Criminalising Communities (CAMPACC) will be holding a public meeting tomorrow (30th Sept) in Camden, north London, to ‘Stop MI5 Blackmail!’ MI5’s blackmailing of British Muslim citizens came to light in an exclusive published in The Independent in May. The paper...
The Prime Minister, Gordon Brown’s keynote speech at the Labour party conference today can be read here. Email the PM with your questions or comments on the speech via the Number 10 website. And you can also raise issues that matter to you with the PM on Number 10’s Youtube initiative ‘Ask...
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,...
