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.
Leo McKinstry writes in his Daily Express column on the Justice Minister’s parliamentary response to decisions by Shari’a tribunals and their approval by English courts on confirmation of consent orders claiming the move is an ‘appeasement of militant Islam’.
Media Workers Against the War will host a half day conference on Saturday 15 November in London on ‘Islam, war and the media’. The conference will involve workshops on Islamophobia, alternative media and movement, photojournalism and the war on terror and war, the crisis and the media....
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...
David Edgar writes in Comment is Free on the dynamics of the British Muslim identity and the exploration of a Muslim lifestyle compatible with religious belief and modernity. As British Muslims mature and move beyond culturally rooted forms of religious practice to one that adapts the core tenets...
For those of you that missed the ENGAGE presentation on media awareness and political participation at the Global Peace and Unity event at the weekend, you can view it here.
In an article in today’s Times, the paper claims that ‘specialist advice is being given to Scotland Yard on how to reduce tensions between police and Muslims during the London Olympics because of growing concerns about the Games clashing with the holy month of Ramadan’.
The Rev. Stephen Griffith MBE from Woking in Surrey writes to the Independent today saying: The Security Minister’s warning about radicalised young Muslims needs to be taken with a pinch of salt. Recent research, and Anshuman Mondal’s new book, Young British Muslim Voices, suggests that...
The leader of the Liberal Democrat party, Nick Clegg, has written to the Policy Exchange ‘think-tank’ criticising its ‘bizarre and underhand behaviour’ in seeking to try and dissuade prominent politicians from attending the hugely popular Global Peace and Unity conference...
