** 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 news website Glasgow Live reports on the torment of a Pakistani family who have suffered ongoing racist abuse. Shahad Ishaq told the paper he and his wife Shahnaz were at the “end of their tether” after a campaign of abuse over the last six months failed to be taken seriously by the...
The Guardian reports a 43 year old man has been arrested by the north-east counter-terrorism unit over a bomb threat sent to a Rotherham mosque earlier this month. The threat, which police assessed to be “credible,” was sent to the Jamia Masjid Abu Bakr in Rotherham. The note stated “Next...
IMPRESS, the independent press regulatory body that aspires to adopt a Leveson compliant model of independent press regulation has published a draft Code, akin to the Editors’ Code of Practice employed by the Independent Press Standards Organisation (Ipso). IMPRESS’s draft Code, which is open...
The Ipswich Star reports on the case of a man who lashed out at a Muslim shop assistant after she referred to his bottle of wine as “booze” telling her “Calling wine booze is like calling all Muslims terrorists, like you.” Rand Moore, 44, appeared before South East Suffolk Magistrates’...
The Reading Chronicle covers court proceedings at Berkshire magistrates last month including one case of religiously aggravated harassment. The local paper notes John Barry, 58, admitted a charge of religiously aggravated harassment likely to cause alarm or distress. Barry was reported after a...
Lincolnshire police have issued an appeal for information in connection with an alleged incident of verbal abuse in Brayford North, Lincoln. The police statement says that a man was seen pointing at a woman in a burqa outside the Sports Bar on Brayford North, Lincoln at around 10.15 am on Wednesday...
The news website Belfast Live reports on the suspended sentence passed on a woman who posted material on Facebook calling for a Muslim community leader to be shot and Muslims to be “gassed.” Belfast Magistrates’ court heard that Anne Bothwell, 53, posted comments on the Facebook...
There is considerable coverage in the newspapers today about the trial of Anjem Choudary, the “firebrand” cleric who has been the source of steady income for journalists over the years who have offered him the pedestal from which to espouse inflammatory views. He’s rarely enjoyed the same...
The North West Evening Mail reports on a police investigation following a suspected racist incident at a kebab shop in Barrow-in-Furness. The local paper reports police are investigating an incident at the Hot Potato takeaway and kebab shop on William Street on Friday 12 August where “staff were...
The Times returns to its support for the British Veterinary Association’s campaign to end the exemptions applied to Muslim and Jewish communities on religious slaughter practices in an article in today’s paper which refers to an undertaking by the Food Standards Agency to publish “regular...
