** FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE** Rights group Muslim Engagement & Development (MEND) have launched a new report The Great Debunk: Challenging Islamophobic Conspiracy Theories, which examines how false narratives about Muslims once limited to the far-right fringes have entered mainstream political,...
The freesheet, The Metro, reproduces an open letter published on Facebook by a Muslim woman from Peterborough who was subjected to different incidents of racial and religious abuse over the summer while going about her daily business. Umm Yusra, 33, disclosed details of the hate incidents occurring...
The Reading Chronicle follows up Friday’s report about suspected racist abuse of Reading FC goalkeeper, Ali Al-Habsi, with news that the Club has suspended the season tickets of a number of fans believed to be implicated in the alleged hate incident. It is claimed Al-Habsi was subjected to...
ITV News and The Chronicle report on the suspended sentence handed to a man who racially abused a Sudanese asylum seeker accusing him of being a “terrorist”, a “bomber”, a “member of ISIS” and of carrying a knife on a metro train. Tony Browning, 33, pulled the...
The Reading Chronicle reports on an expected announcement by Reading Football Club in connection with allegations of racist abuse directed at the club’s goalkeeper, Ali Al-Habsi, during a football match on Tuesday night. Reading FC were defeated 2-0 at the away game with Arsenal on Tuesday. The...
The Exmouth Journal reports on the trial of a man who racially abused staff at a takeaway shop in Exmouth town centre calling them “foreigners” and “using a word which suggested they were of Pakistani origin.” Samuel Tigwell, 25, appeared at Exeter Crown Court via video link from Portland...
The Guardian today reports on a letter sent to the chairman of the Independent Press Standards Organisation (Ipso), Sir Alan Moses, by a group of MPs and peers in relation to the column by The Sun’s political editor and Ipso board member, Trevor Kavanagh, earlier this week rebuking Channel 4...
The Oxford Mail reports on the sentencing of a man convicted of religiously aggravated assault at Oxford magistrates’ court this week. Simon Clover, 48, was convicted of assault by beating of victim Muhammad Adnan in Abingdon on 11 June. The offence was religiously aggravated. Clover was...
The Evening Standard, Daily Mail and Daily Star all report on The Times’ story on Monday on research suggesting animals are needlessly suffering under unstunned slaughter methods because of “Muslim ignorance”. The Times article, ‘Animals dying in pain because of Muslim ignorance over...
ITV News, BBC News and the Evening Standard all report on the e-fit image released by police in connection with an alleged Islamophobic attack on a Muslim woman in Tottenham, north London in September. The victim, who has not been named, was waiting to cross Tottenham High Road when she was...
