** 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 Hull Daily Mail reports on the trial of a man who admitted racially aggravated harassment, threatening behaviour and assault of a police officer following an incident at Pearson Park in the city. Hull magistrates’ court heard police officers were called to Pearson Park in response to a call...
A local Norfolk newspaper, Lynn News, covers the ordeal of a Muslim taxi driver who alleges he was racially abused at Norfolk railway station on Sunday afternoon, 25 September. Tarek Salah-Eddin spoke to the paper about the incident, part of which he recorded on his mobile phone. Mr Salah-Eddin,...
The Blackpool Gazette reports on a police investigation launched by Lancashire police following a spate of “racially-aggravated symbols and posters” being found on buildings and stuck to lamp-posts in the Lytham Road area of the town. Swastikas daubed on buildings and stickers featuring...
The Lancashire Telegraph reports on the court appearance of a man who racially abused a Muslim ticket inspector at Blackburn railway station after being told he would need to go through ticket inspection. Peter Eccles, 56, has made the same commuter journey from Blackburn to Halifax for 30 years...
The Times yesterday published yet another article trailing the Louise Casey review report with a column by Rachel Sylvester claiming the “hard left are sabotaging anti-extremism plans.” Sylvester opens with the case of a Muslim pupil who was supposedly marked out for the Channel intervention...
The Exeter Express and Echo reports on the community sentence passed on a man whose rant against a pair of Muslim students on an Exeter street in May went viral after it was posted online. Stephen Scatcherd, 59, admitted using threatening and abusive language and pleaded guilty to a racially...
STV News and The Herald report on the release of CCTV images of a man sought by Police Scotland in connection with a report of an alleged religiously aggravated incident at the Thistles shopping centre in Stirling earlier this year. The news report states the victim, a 27 year old woman, was...
North Hertfordshire District Council has announced that it is to serve as a third party reporting centre and that victims of hate crime can report incidents to the council via its customer services centre without need to go the police station. Third party reporting centres are a vital mechanism...
The Independent and London Evening Standard report on a suspected Islamophobic attack in north London where a Muslim woman had her headscarf pulled off as she stood at a crossing on Tottenham High Road last month. The victim, a 20 year old Psychology student at Goldsmiths College has since spoken...
The Daily Mail reports on the interview on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme this morning with the Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation, David Anderson QC, in which he repeated his argument that the Government’s Prevent strategy is “fuelling distrust” among Muslim communities. The...
