Many of you will know Mark Steel as an exceptionally witty writer for the Independent. Unfortunately, The Independent refused to publish his column this week because as Mark says ‘they weren’t overly keen on the issue I was writing about’. And what was that issue?
ENGAGE has received the following reply from the office of the Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, in response to our letter concerning the government’s response to the recent Israeli bombardment and invasion of Gaza, in which 1,400 Palestinians were killed.
The Justice Secretary Jack Straw has exercised a veto against the decision of the Information Tribunal which earlier ruled that the minutes of the Cabinet meetings of 13 and 17 March 2003 on the Iraq War should be immediately released to the public. The minutes of the meetings have been blocked...
Worcester City Council approved a proposal to twin the city with Gaza as a ‘humanitarian gesture’. Councillor Alan Amos who proposed the move said, “We are linking with the people [of Gaza], reaching out to these women and children and men who have been through so much.”
Following yesterday’s news that Sir Alan Sugar is to sue the Sun, there is news today that Muslim bus driver Arunas Raulynaitis, whom the paper accused of forcing people off his bus so that he could pray, has accepted £30,000 in damages from the newspaper. Stephen Loughery , Raulynaitis’...
Sir Alan Sugar is to sue the Sun newspaper over the printing of a false front page story in January this year, ‘Terror Target Sugar’, which claimed that British Jews were being singled out for attack by Muslims over events in Gaza. He has issued a writ against News Group Newspapers...
Sabby Dhalu of Unite Against Fascism (UAF) writes in the Guardian’s Comment is Free on why unity is paramount in the struggle against the BNP gaining further advances in local, national, and more pressingly, the forthcoming European elections. Dhalu quotes the BNP leader Nick Griffin:...
Newspapers today report and comment on the return of Binyam Mohamed to the UK following his release from Guantanamo. It is shameful and disgusting to read some of the stories and leader columns in today’s papers that trivialise the horrors Mohamed has endured over the past seven years. It...
Determined not to allow the Charity Commission’s report of the good services provided by mosques in Britain to be fully appreciated, the Home Office funded outfit, the Quilliam Foundation, has released a report of its own, ‘Mosques Made in Britain’, claiming that: 97 per cent of imams...
The Charity Commission has revealed the results from the first detailed survey into the services provided by mosques in England and Wales. The survey results are based on responses from the 255 mosques that took part in the exercise. The findings show that most mosques are well-established,...
