** 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 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...
The Metro and The Gazette report on the sentencing of a woman who subjected a group of Muslims to verbal abuse before smashing the windows of the community centre where they had gathered during Ramadan. Teresa Dent, 46, approached the Turkish Community Centre in Colchester around 10.45pm on 10 June...
The International Business Times reports on the High Court victory secured by Bedfordshire police against the far right group Britain First which bans the group from entering parts of Luton, particularly the Bury Park area, and any mosque in England and Wales for the next three years. The High...
The Chester Standard reports on the sentencing of a man who subjected his neighbours to a “six month campaign of bullying and anti-social behaviour.” James Turfrey, 40, pleaded guilty at Chester Magistrates Court to two charges of harassment without violence and racially aggravated harassment....
Local paper, The Chronicle, reports on the court appearance of a man who is alleged to have forcibly removed a Muslim woman’s face veil as she waited outside a shop with her nine year old son at the Bridges Shopping Centre in Sunderland on 3 July. Peter Scotter was charged with one count of...
There was an disturbing editorial in The Times newspaper last week coinciding with the publication of the report by the select committee for Women and Equalities, which found that the government’s Prevent programme was compounding inequalities experienced by Muslims through its failure to...
The Bournemouth Echo reports on the arrest of a 55 year old man on suspicion of a racially or religiously aggravated assault after a Turkish woman was verbally abused and punched on the side of her face while out walking in Charminster in the early hours of Saturday morning. The incident happened...
