** 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 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...
There was some commentary at the weekend about the Munich atrocity and recent incidents of indiscriminate violence which reveal both the best and worst of UK media coverage of acts of ‘terrorism’. In the Mirror, Kaye Adams, took aim at the former editor of The Sun, Kelvin MacKenzie’s...
The Sunday Times yesterday printed a correction in relation to an article published on 6 March on prison imams and radicalisation. The Sunday Times and The Times have published several articles over the last few months about a Ministry of Justice report written by a former Home Office official, Ian...
The Daily Record reports on the suspended sentence handed to a man who posted a video on Facebook in which he claimed an Indian restaurant’s takeaway menu was “an advertisement for funding Islamic terrorism” before setting it alight. In a rant posted online the man is heard saying “We...
The Joint Committee on Human Rights today published a report following its inquiry into the Counter-Extremism Strategy, Prevent and the proposed Extremism Bill. The committee’s inquiry was intended to review the proposals in the Government’s announced Extremism Bill, declared in the 2015...
BBC News reports on a nursery nurse who has been struck off the children’s services day care register for displaying “a pattern of concerning behaviour” which included calling a two year old a “bomber” and a “terrorist”. The Scottish Social Services Council ruled that Nikki...
The Glasgow Evening Times reports on a fine imposed on a man who pleaded guilty to a racially aggravated offence after verbally abusing a young Muslim child and his relatives saying “I’m going to f****** bomb your house and I’m going to f****** kill the child.” James Conner, 67, was...
