** 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,...
ITV News reports on a police appeal in connection with an incident in which a Muslim schoolgirl was racially abused and a car “driven at her” as she crossed the road on her walk home from school on 20 July. The victim, a schoolgirl aged 14, was crossing the road along Eastmayne, from Carylands...
STV News and the newspaper Fife Today reported on the court appearance of seven young men in connection with the alleged assault and racial abuse of a Muslim takeaway owner and a fellow staff member on the weekend following the Bataclan attack in Paris last November. Mohammed Khalid, 53, and...
The Courier reports on the outburst by the father of a young man sentenced this week for racially abusing restaurant staff at a Dundee takeaway. Joel Justice, 25, was handed a community sentence with an order to carry out 135 hours of unpaid work and placed on supervision for two years after...
The Huddersfield Examiner reports on the reaction of the chairman of West Yorkshire Police Federation, Nick Smart, to the conditional discharge sentence imposed on a man found guilty of racially abusing a female police officer. John Moorhouse was handed a conditional discharge by Kirklees...
The manager of a Muslim takeaway in Dundee at the centre of a recent hate crime trial has said incidents of racist abuse had been “non-stop” following the Paris attacks in November 2015. Mohammed Irfan Nazir, 21, manager of the Curry Junction takeaway shop spoke to the local paper,...
The Huddersfield Examiner reports on the court appearance of a man guilty of several racially aggravated offences in a long running dispute with a local Muslim resident. Jamie Hardisty, 25, pleaded guilty to two charges of racially-aggravated threatening behaviour and one offence of...
The Loughborough Echo reports on an investigation by UKIP into a Facebook account where a number of anti-Muslim posts have been added under the name of the party’s councillor on Shepshed Town council, Timothy Paul Hicks. The local paper reports that a Facebook account belonging to someone...
The Huddersfield Examiner reports on the sentencing of a man who racially abused a female police officer who was carrying out a curfew check in line with her duties. The local paper reports the unnamed female officer went to the home of John Moorhouse, 21, on 15 January 2016 to perform checks on a...
A man who racially abused two takeaway workers at a restaurant in Dundee said he was made to feel “white guilt” over the offence, The Courier and BBC News report. Joel Justice, 25, was drunk when he walked into the Curry Junction shop late on 29 April to order food. Justice asked two men...
The news website Somerset Live and the Independent report on an attack on the Yeovil Islamic Centre after a report of rocks being thrown through its windows. The incident happened sometime between 11.30pm on Friday, July 15 and 1.30am on Saturday, July 16, according to the local paper. Avon and...
