On Tuesday, the Daily Mail reported about a ‘March for England’ which took place in Luton on Sunday and which descended into rioting and the arrest of nine people. The march was supported by a local group called the ‘United People of Luton’. The Mail cites a spokesman for United People...
Jamil Rahman, a British Muslim of Bangladeshi origin, is set to begin legal proceedings against the Home Secretary accusing her of complicity in his unlawful arrest, false imprisonment, and torture in Bangladesh. In the third recent case alleging MI5’s collusion in the torture of British...
ENGAGE has again written to the Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, concerning questions raised over the FCO’s response to the horrific Israeli bombardment of Gaza at the end of last year and the beginning of this year. This is our third letter to David Miliband on this matter, seeking...
The Electoral Commission has taken out advertisements reminding the electorate of the June 4th European elections. There are only 9 days to go to polling day. The EC website also contains useful information on voting procedure and party candidates standing in the elections. British voters will...
The Guardian carries a story highlighting the terminal fate of France’s oldest Muslim school which has been ‘condemned to death’ by the authorities who have refused it financial aid. The Reussite school is on the brink of closure, forced into shutting down because the authority responsible...
The Israel Government Tourist Office has pulled posters (left) appearing on London Underground stations after a complaint was lodged by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign with the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) pointing out that the map used in the poster, ‘portrays Israel as...
ENGAGE has drafted an open letter to the Foreign Secretary on his speech on ‘Building coalitions and winning consent’, delivered at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, yesterday. The letter, which will be sent to the Foreign Secretary, can be read below: Dear Secretary of State,...
The Independent follows yesterday’s exclusive, on allegations of MI5 blackmailing and intimidating British Muslims into working for the Security Services, with the disclosure that the Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, was informed of MI5’s actions nine months ago. The Independent reveals...
Dalia Mogahed (pictured), Executive Director and Senior Analyst of the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies, pens a comment in the Guardian’s Comment is Free section on her recent analysis of Muslim integration in Britain, France and Germany; the Gallup Coexist Index 2009. The index revealed some...
Rageh Omaar in the Evening Standard contrasts the efforts of President Obama, to distance the US from his predecessor’s disastrous policies in the Middle East, with the efforts of our own UK government and Foreign Secretary, David Miliband. Omaar writes: ‘No other country is as...
