Summaries and main points from the party manifestoes that were launched last week are excerpted below. ENGAGE is also holding election hustings around the country with incumbent and prospective parliamentary candidates invited to answers questions from inquisitive Muslim audiences. If you...
Demos publish a report today on the importance of understanding the distinct differences between radicalism and violent radicalization, and how policies on engaging Muslims should differentiate between legitimate radical thought and illegal violent radicalization to prevent unnecessarily...
The Times Educational Supplement reports on schools that are refusing to take part in the Government’s Channel programme, part of the Prevent stream of the CONTEST 2 counter-terrorism strategy. The paper reports: ‘Schools are refusing to take part in a Government counter-terrorism strategy...
The Government has released new guidance to local authorities on the Channel project, part of the Prevent stream of the government’s CONTEST 2 counter-terrorism strategy, which appears to address some of the concerns that have been raised by Muslims and civil liberties groups on covert...
Ruth Gledhill in The Times reports on a paper to be published in the next issue of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations by Nick Chatrath (pictured), a researcher at Oxford’s Faculty of Oriental Studies, in which he argues, ‘…in the face of growing radicalisation in Britain, Muslim...
The Muslim News today prints an interview with the Leader of the Opposition, David Cameron MP, in which he proclaims that the Conservatives, if they form the next government, ‘won’t do formal things with the Muslim Council of Britain’, citing the Istanbul Declaration as reasons for...
Philip Hollobone (pictured), the Tory MP who last month equated the wearing of niqab and burqa by Muslim women to ‘the religious equivalent of going around with a paper bag over your head’, took the opportunity during yesterday’s Commons’ debate on International Women’s Day to repeat...
Home Office figures released today show 200 hundred terror arrests were made last year and 200,444 people stopped and searched under Section 44 of the Terrorism Act. From today’s Independent: ‘There have been 1,759 terrorism arrests since September 11 2001, the figures show. ‘For the year...
The select committee on Culture, Media and Sport issued its report into ‘Press Standards, Privacy and Libel’ yesterday. The committee is chaired by John Whittingdale MP (pictured). The committee has been gathering evidence from a variety of sources over the last year looking into the manner...
The newspapers today dwell on the government’s summoning the Israeli Ambassador to the UK to explain the use of British passports by assassins in the murder of Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh in Dubai last month. The papers report Israel’s ambassador’s summons to the foreign office to “share...
