** 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 Northampton News reports on the sentencing of a man who racially abused three women, assaulted two of them and damaged a mobile phone belonging to one of the victims. Cyril Walton, aged 47, was accused of two counts of assault, a racially aggravated public order offence and criminal damage in...
The London Evening Standard reports that a man who pleaded guilty to nine charges of racially aggravated criminal damage in relation to graffiti found at the Noor Ul Islam centre in Leyton has received a suspended sentence. Tom Whelan admitted scrawling offensive terms like “deport Islam”,...
The election of the Mayor of London and 25 members of the Greater London Assembly on Thursday 5 May presents a renewed opportunity for Londoners of all backgrounds to engage with the governing institution for the capital and the elected representatives who hold the Mayor to account. London is home...
The Manchester Evening News reports on the sentencing of a woman charged with racially aggravated common assault for an attack on an Asian Police Community Support Officer (PCSO) in Manchester city centre on 11 November 2015. Alicia Kenworthy, 38, pleaded guilty to racially aggravated common...
The Times yesterday in its coverage of the Channel 4 commissioned poll by ICM returned to a familiar theme with an article on page 2 of the paper headlined, “Two thirds of Muslims would not give police terror tip-offs“. The opening sentence observes, “Only one in three British...
The Sunday Times (£) front page today boasts a feature story in the magazine supplement titled, What do British Muslims really think? The ‘really’ bit is a novel take on polls conducted about British Muslim attitudes to date suggesting perhaps that past polls have failed to uncover...
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The London Evening Standard discloses details from its Freedom of Information request to the Met police about hate crime in London and outcomes of police recorded offences. The paper notes the leap in police recorded racial and religious hate crime in the capital between 2011 and 2015 with...
The Daily Express gets back on its favourite hobby horse: the burqa and niqab with an article in today’s paper showing the results of the paper’s ‘snap survey’ in Blackburn which it claims is evidence of a ‘Burka sales BOOM’. The ‘snap survey’, it...
The Independent reports on continuing research by Dr Nabil Khattab on UK labour market outcomes for British Muslims with an article on latest findings from research presented to the British Sociological Association annual meeting this week. Dr Khattab has previously released findingsrevealing...
