The New York Times carries an article on the views of Muslim students at New York University (NYU) on the US presidential election campaigns and outcome. Barack Obama’s middle name, Hussein, and his upbringing in Indonesia became the focus of attention with much hostility feeding off rumours...
The Daily Star runs again with its story on poppies this time printing the comments of Anjem Choudary of Al Muhajiroun. The paper claims Choudary was ‘responding to news that poppy sales were down in areas of the country with a high population of Muslims’ when what is more likely is that he...
A review of Riotous Citizens: Ethnic Conflict in Multicultural Britain appears in this week’s Times Higher Education. The book, authored by Paul Bagguley and Yasmin Hussain, challenges the presumptions and perceptions of the ‘race’ riots in Bradford, Oldham and Burnley in the summer of...
Britain’s terror hotspots are no-go zones for poppy sellers claims the Daily Star. The paper, dispatching reporters to towns in northern England with large Muslim populations claims that few, if any, shops were found to stock poppies, though the paper’s headline misleadingly phrases this as...
ENGAGE delivered its first community presentation in Blackburn on Sunday 2 November. Almost 1,400 people, men and women, attended the presentation with up to 100 volunteers signing up to form a local team dedicated to pursuing ENGAGE’s objectives of fair and accurate media coverage on Islam...
Douglas Murray is the Director of the Centre for Social Cohesion – an outfit funded by the right-wing think-tank, Civitas. The CfSC website explains its purpose as being to ‘help bring Britain’s ethnic and religious communities closer together while strengthening British traditions of...
A headline that looks more at home on the pages of the Daily Express or the Daily Mail features in The Observer this week.
Michael Burleigh, author of Blood and Rage, wrote in the Daily Mail yesterday surpassing Martin Amis in his push for enhanced legal restrictions to the civil liberties of Muslims.
Hizb ut Tahrir has been successful in its complaint to the Press Complaints Commission against The Sunday Times for the publication of an article which contained a number of inaccuracies about the group.
The 2008 survey on local election candidates by the Local Government Chronicle Elections Centre, commissioned by the Improvement and Development Agency, has found that local councillors in the UK of Asian British background comprise 0.7 per cent of the total number of local councillors with no...
