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  ENGAGE has written to Damian Thompson, author of Holy Smoke on Telegraph blogs concerning his blog entry on 19 Dec, ‘Any Muslim killed fighting Israel goes to paradise, says MPAC spokesman’.

The Liberal Defence of Murder, Richard Seymour Flat Earth News, Nick Davies The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy, Mearsheimer and Walt Why There Almost Certainly Is a God, Keith Ward   The Liberal Defence of Murder, Richard Seymour (Verso Books, 2008) A war that has killed over a million...

  ENGAGE has written to the Daily Mail concerning the comment piece by Melanie Phillips in today’s edition (22 Dec), ‘We must not let the weakness of our bishops destroy this nation’s soul’. Phillips writes that ‘the undermining of Christianity from within is being...

  Before   After An offending headline to a story on 24 Dash, a news portal that combines Press Association news items with housing and public sector news, has been amended following a complaint.

Members of the Altrincham Islamic Cultural Centre will be joining in festivities next week by preparing and giving out food, warm clothes, toiletries and other gifts at a centre in their local area, the Cornerstone Centre in Hale, Altrincham.

  Following the launch of the ‘One Law For All’ campaign on International Human Rights Day (10 Dec), Geoffery Alderman in the Jewish Chronicle defends the place of religious courts in Britain. He argues, ‘Article 18 of the UDHR (Universal Declaration of Human Rights) declares that...

  The Christmas edition of the New Statesman features an interview with the Archbishop of Canterbury. Asked about the Shari’a law debate that flared up earlier this year, the Archbishop replies, ‘I think what it did bring home to me was the degree to which we love to have people making our...

  Express Newspapers today (17 Dec) apologised in the High Court to Inayat Bunglawala, Advisor on Policy and Research at ENGAGE, over false allegations of extremism which appeared in an article concerning Prince Harry’s active service in Afghanistan. The newspaper, which had already published a...

  Show Racism the Red Card will be screening their new educational film tackling Islamophobia at the Scottish Parliament tomorrow (18 Dec) in the presence of Scotland’s First Minister and other party leaders. The film features interviews with many top footballers including Thierry Henry, Lilian...

Imraan Ladak, chairman of Kettering Town Football Club and winner of the Lloyds TSB Asian Jewel Award for Business & Commerce 2007, has returned the award to the bank in protest of its pressure on the Islamic Bank of Britain to close Interpal’s account.