The East London Mosque and London Muslim Centre have been nominated for two awards in the categories of ‘Charity Principal of the Year’ and ‘Trustee Board of the Year’ by the Charity Times Awards 2009. The awards ceremony is a celebration of best practice in the UK charity and...
The News of the World has today apologised in open court and agreed to pay £100,000 in libel damages to Shakil Akhtar, a mechanic form High Wycombe, for publishing a story and editorial in February 2008, ‘Evil on Benefits’ and ‘Sick Parasites Spawn Terror’, accusing Mr Akhtar of...
The House of Commons Foreign Affairs select committee, chaired by Mike Gapes MP (pictured), released its report on ‘Global Security: Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories’, on July 26th. The report deals with many of the questions put to the Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, by...
Mehdi Hasan – a senior editor at the New Statesman – has this evening firmly responded to the smear campaign launched against him by the vile zionist blog Harry’s Place. Here at ENGAGE we have written several times about Harry’s Place and dedicated a special ENGAGE...
The Department for Communities and Local Government is looking to recruit Faith and Community Advisers; a Policy Adviser to the Secretary of State, Departmental Advisers and a Panel of Experts (unpaid position) for the CLG to strengthen its expertise in working with faith communities. Full...
Taj Hargey continues his quest for a Qur’an only based theology with a letter to The Times calling for the end to “shariafication”, a process which, he says, ‘flagrantly violates the transcendent Koran, particularly when it relates to women’s rights, criminal punishments, interfaith...
Harry’s Place continues its vicious witch-hunt against Mehdi Hasan – a senior editor at the New Statesman and a former commissioning editor at Channel 4 – in what appears to be a determined campaign to get him sacked. James Macintyre – a colleague of Mehdi’s...
The Communities and Local Government Committee of parliament is to undertake an inquiry into ‘Prevent’, the Government’s strategy on Preventing Violent Extremism. The inquiry is currently inviting written submissions on the effectiveness to date of Prevent, and its likely effectiveness in...
The Jewish Chronicle today reports on the sacking of four council workers in Lancashire who were suspended earlier in the year pending a council investigation into their sharing of emails that drew similitudes between Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians during the bombardment of Gaza...
Dominic Cavendish reviews Hanif Kureishi’s play ‘The Black Album’ in the Telegraph. Writing about a scene in the play which depicts Muslims burning a copy of the Satanic Verses, Cavendish remarks, ‘in the most disturbing scene we see a copy of The Satanic Verses being set alight...
