** 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,...
A number of papers today (see here, here, here and here) report on the results of a YouGov survey on the burqa and the burkini. The polling company has published the results of a poll asking the public two questions about the recent burkini bans imposed on some beaches in France and the related...
The Huddersfield Examiner reports on court cases heard at Kirklees magistrates court last week including a case of abuse directed at two Muslim individuals. Liam Muir, 25, from Batley was convicted of using racially aggravated threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour or disorderly...
A woman who called a chip and kebab shop owner a “f****** terrorist” while drunk has been fined for the offence. Tracy Ann Whitworth, 46, admitted using threatening or abusive words that were racially aggravated, on 5 May 2016 when she appeared before Mansfield magistrates court this...
The Stoke Sentinel reports on the arrest of a number of teenagers on suspicion of racially aggravated abuse and assault after an incident in Normacot, in Stoke on Trent at the weekend. Staffordshire police questioned 13 teenagers, aged between 15 and 19, amid reports of racially aggravated...
An alleged victim of racist abuse was handed a conditional discharge and told to “button his lip” or face being hauled before the court in a case heard at Colchester Magistrates Court yesterday. The Harwich and Manningtree Standard reports on a dispute arising from the sentence handed...
The Home Affairs select committee report on Countering Extremism released today covers a lot of ground that has been rehearsed repeatedly in recent months about the failings of the Government’s counter-extremism strategy and the Prevent programme in particular. In a report noting 24...
The Times reports on the release of figures by the National Police Chiefs Council on the number of individuals referred to the Prevent-linked Channel programme who have refused to participate in the “supportive intervention” packages designed by the programme’s multi-agency panels. The...
The Dorset Echo reports on a suspected racially aggravated act of criminal damage after a kebab shop in Littlemoor Shopping Centre in Weymouth was vandalised with a swastika. Turkish businessman Gem Ciftlik spoke of his shock to find the graffiti on his shop front in the middle of the day. Mr...
The Scotsman reports on a fine imposed on a businessman who subjected staff and guests to racist abuse at Gleneagles golf course after being refused service at the hotel bar. Stefan Hutter, 56, became angry and mouthed off at staff and guests after he was refused service at the bar because of his...
The Daily Mail reports on the ongoing case of a woman who pled guilty to a charge of a religiously aggravated criminal damage after she walked into an art gallery and abused a Muslim artist telling her “we voted to take our country back again” and damaged an artwork. Mikhaela Haze, 70,...
