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Diane Abbott MP tables Early Day Motion condemning the 'demonisation of British Muslims'

Thu, 18/03/2010 - 9:49am
 Diane Abbott MP (pictured) has presented an early day motion entitled ‘Muslims in Britain’ which ‘welcomes the participation and contribution of Muslims in British society, including in ...
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UKIP leader scaremongers about Muslims - again

Thu, 18/03/2010 - 9:29am
 The Daily Express on Tuesday offered Lord Pearson, the Leader of the UK Independence Party, the opportunity to write a guest column on the ‘real issues in the election campaign’. Lord Pearson, ...
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ENGAGE launches Get Out & Vote Campaign

Tue, 16/03/2010 - 4:13pm
 ENGAGE’s new initiative, Get Out & Vote (GOAV), designed to galvanise the Muslim community to participate fully in the general and local elections 2010, is already making waves featuring ...
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Young British Muslims imprisoned for 'throwing bottles'

Mon, 15/03/2010 - 4:13pm
 The Guardian on Saturday carried a double page spread on some of the young Muslims who have been at the receiving end of harsh prison sentences for their participation in demonstrations over ...
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Sunday Express apologises to the East London Mosque

Mon, 15/03/2010 - 11:42am
 The Sunday Express yesterday published an apology to the East London Mosque for an article published in December linking the ELM to Anwar Al-Awlaki and referring to the mosque as ‘radical’. The ...
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Daily Express apologises to the East London Mosque

Mon, 15/03/2010 - 11:42am
 The Sunday Express yesterday published an apology to the East London Mosque for an article published in December linking the ELM to Anwar Al-Awlaki and referring to the mosque as ‘radical’. The ...
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Daily Express apologies to the East London Mosque

Mon, 15/03/2010 - 11:42am
 The Sunday Express yesterday published an apology to the East London Mosque for an article published in December linking the ELM to Anwar Al-Awlaki and referring to the mosque as ‘radical’. The ...
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Parliamentary committee critiques the Prevent programme

Mon, 15/03/2010 - 9:43am
 The Intelligence and Security Committee (chaired by Dr Kim Howells MP, pictured) has released its annual report 2008 -2009 and it contains an interesting and valid critique of the Government’s ...
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Cameron pledges support for Zionist goals in Jewish Chronicle interview

Fri, 12/03/2010 - 2:23pm
 That an election is in the offing is clear from the interview given by the Leader of the Opposition, David Cameron (pictured), to the Jewish Chronicle this week. The JC reports that Cameron’s ...
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Tory MP calls for ban on niqab and burqa

Fri, 12/03/2010 - 1:19pm
 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 ...
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Equalities watchdog warns police of racist stop & search policies

Thu, 11/03/2010 - 2:37pm
 The Guardian reports that the Equality and Human Rights Commission (chair, Trevor Phillips, pictured) is to brand police forces as ‘racist’ and threaten enforcement action for disproportionate ...
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EU parliament endorses Goldstone report despite furious lobbying by Jewish groups

Thu, 11/03/2010 - 2:01pm
 The European Parliament yesterday voted in favour of a resolution on the Goldstone Report which calls on EU member states and the High Representative for Foreign Affairs, Baroness Catherine ...
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Surprise, surprise: Taj Hargey condemns mosque application in Surrey

Wed, 10/03/2010 - 2:17pm
 Taj Hargey (pictured) proves, yet again, that should the media want a Muslim voice to tell Muslims to put up and shut up, he’s the man to call. In a guest column in The Times today Hargey ...
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Foreign Secretary's reply to ENGAGE letter on universal jurisdiction

Tue, 09/03/2010 - 10:35am
 ENGAGE has received a reply from the Foreign Secretary, The Rt. Hon. David Miliband MP, to our letter concerning proposals to remove the power for issuing arrest warrants under universal ...
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Gilligan smears the charity Muslim Aid

Mon, 08/03/2010 - 5:10pm
 Andrew Gilligan (pictured), perhaps deluding himself to be riding on the crest of a wave after his disgraceful C4 Dispatches programme last Monday, may well be distinctly crestfallen following ...
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Muslim communities perceive Counter-Terrorism legislation as 'unfair, unjust and discriminatory'

Mon, 08/03/2010 - 3:20pm
 Friday saw the publication of a Home Office study, 'What perceptions do the UK public have concerning the impact of counter-terrorism legislation implemented since 2000?', prepared by the ...
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Petition on body scanners at UK airports

Mon, 08/03/2010 - 10:56am
 Following news last week that two Muslim women traveling to Islamabad were denied permission to board their flight for having declined to pass through body scanners at Manchester airport, a ...
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Faith Communities Capacity Building Fund 2004-2005 to 2007-2008

Thu, 04/03/2010 - 11:45am
 Following the response to Baroness Warsi’s (pictured) question last week to Lord MacKenzie, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Communities and Local Government & ...
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Tahir ul-Qadri's sectarianism on show again

Thu, 04/03/2010 - 9:45am
 The papers on Tuesday widely covered (The Times, Telegraph, Independent and Evening Standard) the fatwa issued in London by the Pakistani cleric Dr Tahir ul-Qadri (pictured) of Minhaj ul-Quran ...
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Review of Gilligan’s ‘Islamic Republic’ C4 documentary about the IFE

Tue, 02/03/2010 - 10:29am
  If you thought documentaries couldn’t sink lower than the hatchet job by John Ware for BBC Panorama, ‘Who speaks for British Muslims?’, in 2005, the Dispatches programme aired last night is ...
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