The Sunday Times and Scotland and Sunday run a story on the meeting recently held by members of the Scottish Government with IslamExpo organisers Mohammed Sawalha, president of the British Muslim Initiative and Anas Altikriti, of the Muslim Association of Britain. The meeting was organised by...
Replying in the October edition of Prospect Magazine to Ed Husain’s critique of his article ‘A Muslim Middle Way’ (Prospect Magazine, August 2008) Anshuman Mondal writes that: ‘Husain does not recognise the distinction between different forms of Muslim politics, because...
ENGAGE has written to the Bishop of London, the Rt. Rev. Lord Bishop Richard Chartres, following disclosures of comments posted on the blog of the Revd. Dr Peter Mullen, Rector of the Parish Church of St. Michael’s Cornhill in the City of London, in which he ridicules the manner in which...
Tyneside-based anti-racism charity Show Racism the Red Card has used an alleged incident on its terraces towards the football player Ahmed Hossam (Mido) to produce a new documentary about Islamophobia according to the Newcastle Chronicle.
The Sunday Mercury exposes a ‘preacher of hate’ touring the Midlands and supported by the Islam4UK group. The story contains several excerpts from speeches by Abu Waleed that have been posted on the YouTube site by the group. Comments such as: “You can see there is a Government crusade …...
Adam Wolstenholme’s column in Batley News (also in the Dewsbury Reporter) deals with the reaction of some Muslims to the forthcoming publication of ‘The Jewel of Medina’ remarking that ‘militant Islam has scored some recent victories against its enemy, freedom of speech.’...
Cllr Alan Craig, leader of the Christian Peoples Alliance group on Newham Council has organised a meeting for Christian clergy in the borough to discuss the Tablighi Jamaat mosque project in east London. The Bishop of Bradford’s adviser on inter-faith relations, Philip Lewis, author of the...
The Sun reports on the praise for its Muslim readers by Admiral Lord Alan West, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Security and Counter-terrorism, for making Britain safer. The paper can claim a measure of credit according to the minister who states that, ‘Extremists are now being given...
The Guardian publishes an article looking more closely at the politics and policies of Policy Exchange in’What can they be thinking?‘ The think tank is best known among Muslims for its fabrication of research data for its report ‘The Hijacking of British Islam’. The...
Thomas Sutcliffe in his column in Tuesday’s Independent criticises the BBC’s offering a talking spot to Anjem Choudary of Hizb ut-Tahrir on the Today programme discussion on the publication of the book ‘The Jewel of Medina’, (29 Sept).
