** 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 EU Fundamental Rights Agency released its annual report this week examining the status of fundamental rights in the European Union between January and December 2015. The report “provides insights into the main issues shaping fundamental rights debates across the EU”. The report looks in...
Wales Online reports on the case of a Church of Wales clergyman who has apologised after he was found to have posted messages on social media lauding Pegida leader Tommy Robinson and linking to Islamophobic hate groups Britain First and Islam Exposed. Reverend David Lloyd of Newcastle Parish in the...
BBC News and ITV News report on the sentencing of a football fan who racially abused Muslim footballer Arouna Kone during the FA Cup fourth round match between Everton and Carlisle United in January. Owen Newbury, 18, admitted racially/religiously aggravated intentional...
The Exeter Echo and Express reports on a Facebook post by Muslim student Kalsoom Naqvi in which she relates an experience in Exeter city centre where she and a friend were verbally abused by a man outside a halal takeaway shop. Kalsoom posted a video on Facebook of the encounter showing her...
The London Evening Standard and Islington Tribune report on a suspected hate crime incident at Finsbury Park mosque after “pork sausages” and “pig’s remains” were found slung over the gate and onto the mosque grounds. Officers were called to the mosque around the time of the early...
The Independent was among several newspapers yesterday reporting on the announcement by the Home Secretary of an “independent review into the application of Sharia Law in England and Wales”. The review, which was noted in the Government’s Counter Extremism Strategylast...
The Chronicle reports on the court appearance of a man charged with racially/religiously aggravated common assault over an incident at an Asda supermarket in Gosport earlier this year. Joseph Tudor, 36, pleaded guilty when he appeared before Newcastle Magistrates’ Court yesterday. The court...
The European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) has released its2015 annual report for the period 1 January to 31 December and marking the main trends in the fields of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia, antisemitism and intolerance among Member States of the Council of...
The Daily Telegraph reports on the results of an Opinium Research survey exploring identity and equality in multicultural Britain with the headline “One in three Muslims do not feel ‘part of British culture’.” The Opinium survey, based on a polling sample of 2,000 people plus a...
