** 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,...
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...
Avon and Somerset police have issued a statement in connection with the sentencing of four individuals for their involvement in a mosque attack in Bristol earlier this year. The incident at the Totterdown mosque in Bristol happened on the afternoon of Sunday 17 January when a group of people...
The Metro and Daily Mail report on the court appearance of a woman charged with religiously aggravated criminal damage after she shouted “Saudi Arabia go home” at a Muslim artist last month and destroyed her art installation. Mikaela Haze, 70, walked into the Royal College of Art on the...
The Home Office recently published statistics on the use of police powers under the Terrorism Act 2000 and subsequent legislation. The report covers terrorism-related arrests, outcomes and stop and search figures for the financial year ending 31 March 2016. Below are some of the key findings: 255...
The Sunderland Echo, BBC News and ITV News report on the court appearance of a man charged with racially aggravated common assault after he allegedly tore a Muslim woman’s face veil from her face as she shopped with her husband and young child at the Bridges Shopping Centre in Sunderland...
