Ashram Housing Association, an intercultural agency based in the West Midlands, has produced a report from its survey of over 400 young British Muslims, male and female, on football and from its findings has urged the Football Association, the England team, league clubs and the Government to do...
Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR) has named and shamed Islamophobes in the US by publishing a report entitled ‘Smearcasting: How Islamophobes spread fear, bigotry and misinformation’. FAIR documents statements, writings and media contributions by notorious Islamophobes in the...
Jennifer Crook, head of diversity at Brent council, writes in Comment is Free on the strategy employed by Brent Council for building ‘strong communities, confident in themselves, open to others, and resilient to violent extremism’, part of the Government’s Preventing Violent...
Zehra Zaidi posts a comment in the Guardian’s Comment is Free site on the news last week of the Government’s creation of a ‘Young Muslim Advisory Group’ (YMAG) to inform on matters of concern to young Muslims. Zaidi takes issue with what she considers to be the Labour...
Unlock Democracy unveil a letter signed by 57 of the UK’s leading voluntary sector organisations, including the Muslim Council of Britain, and sent to local authority leaders and chief executives across the country urging them to ‘opt in’ to the Sustainable Communities Act at a Local...
The Conservative Muslim Forum Wales (CMFW) was launched on 6 Sept at an event held at Cardiff County Hall. Lord Mohammed Sheikh, Chairman of Conservative Muslim Forum, encouraged Muslim communities in the UK to consider joining the Conservative Party, saying that the party’s values and...
Maureen Messent this week comes to the defence of Phil Woolas MP whose appointment as Immigration Minister in the cabinet reshuffle was criticized last week by MPAC (Muslim Public Action Committee, UK). Woolas made comments last year on the high incidence of birth defects in children born of...
Bradford’s Telegraph and Argus reports on the historic signing of an accord between the Deobandi Association of Muslim Scholars of Britain (JUB) and the Church of England to build co-operation between Muslims and Christians in Bradford. Muslims account for 16% of Bradford’s population...
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...
