** 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 Sunderland Echo reports on the sentencing of two women who subjected an Iranian doorman to a 20 minute tirade of racist abuse outside Illusions nightclub in Sunderland city centre. Sunderland Magistrates’ Court heard that Kimberley McLeod, 27 and Jodie Connolly, 19 had been out drinking at...
The Courier reports on an initiative being developed by the Kirkcaldy Islamic Centre in Fife to host open days at the mosque in a bid to build friendly relations between Muslims and the local community. At a meeting held earlier this month with the SNP MP for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath, Roger...
The Evening Telegraph reports on the sentencing of a teenager for a string of offences including racially aggravated harassment causing fear, alarm or distress. Ryan Simpson, 19, appeared at Dundee Sheriff Court on a range of charges. He was accused of stealing a tractor owned by Dundee City...
The Guardian reports on warning by Maina Kiai, the UN’s Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, who has said the Government’s Prevent programme risks “promoting extremism, rather than countering it.” Kiai who has been on a three day...
The Guardian publishes an opinion piece by columnist Richard Norton-Taylor in which he revisits the subject of the effects of the Iraq invasion on the radicalisation of young British Muslims and what, if anything, the long-awaited Chilcot inquiry report will make of it. The Inquiry report, which is...
Local east London newspaper, The Wharf, reports on the arrest of two men in connection with provocations outside the East London mosque organised by far right group, Britain First. The group have staged several protests outside the mosque on Whitechapel Road over the past few weeks posting footage...
In yesterday’s front page article, The Times claimed that a Ministry of Justice report had uncovered evidence of “chaplains at several jails encourag[ing] prisoners to raise funds for Islamic charities with links to international terrorism.” We questioned the veracity of the...
The Times (£) today returns to the topic of ‘prison radicalisation’, weeks after an article which claimed “Most jail imams teach anti-western values” (published on 7 February). The paper seems quite taken with a pending Ministry of Justice report written by former Home Office...
The Watford Observer reports on the court appearance of a man accused of racially abusing two Asian Border Force officials at Heathrow Airport. Timothy Wynne-Jones, 53, appeared before Ealing Magistrates Court faced with two counts of racially aggravated harassment towards Border Force officers...
The Hansard Society has published its 13th Audit on Political Engagement (APE) report examining attitudes to political engagement. The survey is compiled via a face to face questionnaire by pollsters Ipsos MORI and draws comparisons with previous years’ APEs in order to understand changes in, for...
