** 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 Blackpool Gazette reports on alleged racist incident in which Muslim woman was racially abused and had a can of beer thrown over now leaving her too afraid to go out. Rashida Begum, 33, was on her way to pick up her youngest child from school on Monday 4 July when she encountered a group of...
The Crown Prosecution Service has published its eighth Hate Crime Report detailing the number of hate crimes prosecuted over the period 2015/16 and comparing to the previous 12 months. The report covers the different strands of hate crime and the prosecution and conviction rates arising from hate...
The Chronicle reports on an Islamophobic incident in Alnwick, Northumberland where a disused cottage owned by Northumberland County Council was vandalised with the words “Death to Islam”, swastikas and other offensive graffiti sprayed on the exterior walls. Police were alerted to the...
The Pew Research Center has this week published survey results which show anti-Muslim sentiment in Europe to be rising and more pronounced in eastern European countries. The results which are presented in the report, ‘Europeans Fear Wave of Refugees Will Mean More Terrorism, Fewer Jobs’, show...
The Guardian publishes an article ahead of the launch of a report by Rights Watch UK today on the impact of the Prevent statutory duty on Muslims in the education sector. Channel, the controversial counter-terrorism programme which rests upon ‘referrals’ to the process of individuals suspected...
Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of the Constabulary (HMIC) has published reports covering four constabularies, Bedfordshire, Staffordshire, Essex and Surrey, as part of the effectiveness strand in its all-inspection PEEL programme – Police Effectiveness, Efficiency and Legitimacy –...
The MP for Chippenham, Michelle Donelan, has described a post-Brexit hate incident in which one of her former staffers, a British-Pakistani called Taimur, was racially abused while shopping in London. At Prime Minister’s Questions on 29 June, Ms Donelan told the Prime Minister, David Cameron:...
The Herald reports on an investigation launched by Police Scotland after “neo-Nazi, anti-Islamic and anti-Polish” stickers were found posted on lampposts and buildings across Edinburgh. The Scottish capital has one of the highest proportions of Polish migrants in the UK. The paper...
The Coventry Telegraph reports on handwritten stickers found in Rugby bearing the slogans “kill all migrants” and “kill a Muslim”. Other slogans spotted include ones using an offensive name for black people and ones stating “Immigrants Out” and “Immigrants not welcome”. The...
The Bath Chronicle and Metro report on the alleged racist assault of a woman who was punched in the face by bus passengers whom she confronted after hearing them espouse Islamophobic views. Kerry Parkinson was riding on a bus on her way home on Tuesday 5 July when a couple on board began making...
