According to a new survey by Gallup and the Coexist Foundation 77% of Muslims identify with the UK, compared to 50% in the rest of the population. The survey also finds that 75 per cent of Muslims say they identify with their religion; 82 per cent of Muslims say they are loyal to the […]
Jonathan Steele (pictured) in The Guardian writes on the forthcoming meeting between President Obama and the new Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. Steele notes: ‘If Obama is sincere in wanting to break the stalemate of the Middle East’s core conflict, he will have to launch the...
Yasmin Alibhai Brown (pictured) in The Independent pens a column on Muslim women’s rights and recent cases of rights abuses that would shame any society committed to gender equality. Alibhai Brown is right to show contempt for domestic violence, honour killings, forced and child marriages and...
Readers can enjoy a superb dissection of the Quilliam Foundation’s ridiculous alert last week, about Islam Channel and its presenters, over at Muslim Matters. The article splendidly breaks down the charade of the ‘”ex-extremist-who-wants-to-be-a-millionaire” reality...
ENGAGE has received the following reply from the Foreign Office to our second letter to the Foreign Secretary, David Miliband. Following the disappointing response to our first, open letter to the Foreign Secretary, we refused to be discouraged and sent him a second letter, reiterating the...
It’s no surprise that the right-wing paper the Daily Mail should promote the likes of Taj Hargey in this puff piece. His ‘be neither seen nor heard’ variety of Muslim existence in Britain would be of obvious appeal to the Mail and its readership. The paper introduces Hargey contrasting him...
Disappointed, no doubt, that their quest to foster a craven Muslim identity submissive to the warmongers has fallen on its face, the Home Office-Foreign Office-funded outfit the Quilliam Foundation has gone on the offensive by getting all defensive. The ‘think tank’ has once again resorted to...
Appearing before the House of Commons select committee for Culture, Media and Sport as a witness on ‘Press standards, privacy and libel’, the editor of the Daily Express, Peter Hill, answered questions on his paper’s coverage of news, including the Madeleine McCann case, and the paper’s...
Paul Donovan (pictured) in the Independent writes on the release of the 12 mainly Pakistani men falsely accused of an ‘Easter bomb plot’, and the use of secret evidence to detain individuals without charge or trial. In contrast to the view of Alasdair Palmer in the Daily Telegraph, who...
Councillor Salim Mulla (pictured) of the Lancashire Council of Mosques, in a letter published in the Lancashire Telegraph, writes on the detrimental effects of the arrest and discharge of the 12 Muslim men accused of planning an Easter bomb plot, as well as the arrests of nine Muslim men from...
