IRR: Stop the Islamophobia of Europe Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 15:15:25 +0100 NEW REPORTS AND PUBLICATIONS The Irish Traveller Movement in Britain has published their second newsletter. Download the newsletter at: http://www.irishtraveller.org.uk/policy/newsletter The Refugee Council and the University of Birmingham has published a report by Gaby Atfield, Kavita Brahmbhatt and Therese O'Toole on: 'Refugees' Experiences of Integration'. Download the full report at: http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/NR/rdonlyres/7FD44ADF-5270-4148-91BF-37790DBAA940/0/Integrationresearchreport.pdf (pdf file, 864kb) Or download the executive summary at: http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/NR/rdonlyres/317FD1B9-E203-4935-B41B-B5DE82295A68/0/Integrationexecsummary.pdf (pdf file, 160kb) The Refugee Council has published a consultation paper on: 'The Independent Police Complaints Commission oversight of Border and Immigration Agency incidents and complaints'. Download the consultation paper at; http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/NR/rdonlyres/7E54EBAC-85F7-4FD4-82C2-4DDF4CA46ADE/0/IPCCconsultation_response.pdf (pdf file, 96kb) The Refugee Council has published a briefing paper on: 'Special immigration status'. Download the briefing paper at: http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/NR/rdonlyres/5A5ED2CE-973F-4EC1-B138-B61373D543A5/0/Special_Immigration_Status.pdf (pdf file, 80kb) HM Inspectorate of Prisons has published a report: 'The mental health of prisoners - a thematic review of the care and support of prisoners with mental health needs'. Download the report at: http://inspectorates.homeoffice.gov.uk/hmiprisons/thematic-reports1/Mental_Health.pdf?view=Binary (pdf file, 512kb) The House of Commons Home Affairs Committee has published: 'Government Response to the Committee's Third Report: Justice and Home Affairs Issues at European Union Level - First Special Report of Session 2006-07'. Download the report at: http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200607/cmselect/cmhaff/1021/1021.pdf (pdf file, 184kb) EARLY DAY MOTIONS Keith Vaz, MP, has introduced an EDM on: 'Romanian and Bulgarian migrant workers'. Read EDM 2160 at: http://edmi.parliament.uk/EDMi/EDMDetails.aspx?EDMID=34047&SESSION=885 u n i t e d k i n g d o m - - > >> Stop the Islamophobia of Europe > By IRR News Team 25 October 2007, 1:00pm As the far-Right organisation Stop the Islamisation of Europe holds its first demonstration in London (to coincide with the US' 'Islamo-fascism' Awareness week) the IRR's European Race Bulletin argues that European countries' new security laws are removing Muslim communities from the protection of the ordinary rule of law and legitimising the Islamophobia of extreme-Right movements and parties across Europe. The Autumn 2007 issue of the IRR's European Race Bulletin contains an in-depth report on the election material of the extreme-Right Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ) and country round-ups on anti-terrorism and human rights. Jon Higham, a PhD student researching political discourse on racism and immigration in Austria, has examined the manifestos, leaflets, newspapers, slogans and hoardings of the Freedom Party in elections since 1999. He shows that though the explicitness of its xenophobic message had varied over time (especially when it was part of the coalition government), the language, metaphors and imagery that the party deploys are often offensive and always disturbing. The 2006 manifesto singled out Muslims as a threat to security and the Austrian way of life. Liz Fekete, in her review of fourteen European countries' policies on anti-terror operations, national security expulsions, proscription, 'speech crime', extraordinary rendition, religious profiling, 'securitisation' of citizenship and residence rights, security policing, detention and control orders, draws attention to their impact on Muslim communities. 'It is security laws that remove Muslim communities from the protection of the ordinary rule of law which legitimise the extreme Right's current racist campaign to "stop the Islamisation of Europe". When states remove civil liberties from Muslim communities on the grounds of national security, the extreme Right's toxic message that "all Muslims are terrorists" does not appear abnormal.' Stop the Islamisation of Europe is an alliance of far-Right groups which is about to hold rallies in London, Copenhagen and Marseilles to demand an end to what they call 'the overt and covert expansion of Islam in Europe'. ---- FOOTNOTE The Autumn 2007 issue of the IRR European Race Bulletin is issue No. 61. The Institute of Race Relations is precluded from expressing a corporate view: any opinions expressed are therefore those of the authors. IRR is not responsible for the content of external websites. Inclusion of a link does not constitute an endorsement. Please contact us (/contact/index.html) if you come across a broken link. > RELATED LINKS Subscribe to the European Race Bulletin (https://www.irr.org.uk/cgi-bin/news/buy.pl?order=boxeurosub&choice=address) European Race Bulletin IRR is not responsible for the content of external websites. Inclusion of a link does not constitute an endorsement. 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