Category Archives: Centre for Social Cohesion

The calumniator credited: ‘Honour’ and spin in Islamophobic times

Surveying the reception and impact of the report suggests serious concerns around the complicity of certain sections of the media and their willingness to reproduce and perpetuate negative stories around Muslims. One need only compare the almost wholesale acceptance of such reports with the derision that greets any report from a Muslim organisation that talks [...]

Centre for social cohesion or social division?

An initial observation of the website highlighted an overwhelming focus on news reports linked to Islam and Muslims in the UK i.e. there were reports on honour based violence, “The West Islam and Islamism” and “Hate on the State: How British libraries encourage Islamic extremism”. There were news reports with headlines such as “The Grand [...]