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...
Mike Waite, Head of Community Engagement and Cohesion at Burnley Council and author of the newly published ‘Diversity and Common Citizenship’, contributes a blog post to The Guardian on how community cohesion can be enhanced through direct communication and dialogue. He writes: ‘The...
The Youth Citizenship Commission’s (YCC) consultation, ‘Old Enough to Make a Mark?’, on the lowering of the voting age to 16, has received widespread support from respondents. The consultation received responses from 488 individuals and organisations of which 66% backed reform of the...
The European elections will take place on Thursday 4th June with the British electorate voting for 72 MEPs to represent their electoral region in the European Parliament. In total, 500 million Europeans will be eligible to cast their votes from June 4th – 7th voting in the 736 MEPs that will...
Matthew Norman in The Independent writes on the abysmal treatment of the Pakistani nationals recently arrested in the ‘Easter bomb plot’ and later released, only to be handed over to the UK Border Agency. Norman ponders on the symmetry of burying one crisis by offloading another. He...
