** 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 Hastings Observer reports that three people have been arrested on suspicion of racially aggravated assault following an incident involving a Muslim woman in a headscarf. A 25 year old Muslim woman, who wears a headscarf, was confronted by three men as she walked near the Hastings Museum. The...
BBC News reports that a former SNP councillor accused of sending a female Muslim colleague Islamophobic texts following the Paris attacks in November 2015 has been charged. Craig Melville, 35, was suspended from his post as aide to SNP deputy leader Stewart Hosie and was placed under investigation...
The Courier reports on a fine imposed on a teenager who posted a racially abusive tweet about footballer Faissal El Bakhtaoui who plays for Dunfermline Athletic. Lewis Thow, 19, admitted sending two tweets that were grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character via an...
BBC News reports that holiday firm Butlin’s have apologised for featuring a wrestling show that was described by one visitor as “A horrific race hate-filled ten minutes of everything wrong on racial stereotypes.” The Lincolnshire Echo reported the complaint aired by Christian...
The Daily Record reports on “the latest hate crime against Scottish-Asian shop workers” with the court appearance of John Shirley, 35, on charges of racially aggravated threatening or abusive behaviour. Shirley is accused of threatening to “kill as many of these black b******s as...
Bradford’s Telegraph and Argus reports on a hospital order imposed on a woman who attacked care home staff, including racially abusing one of them. Sandra Williams, 51, stood trial at Bradford Crown Court in relation to incidents occurring in December 2015 and January 2016. Ms Williams, who...
The Dunfermline Press reports that sixty hate crime offences occurred in Fife in the six weeks following the Paris massacre on 13 November 2015. The figures obtained by SNP MP for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath, Roger Mullin, under an FOI request shows there were 60 hate crimes in Fife between...
A woman who was cleared of a charge of religiously aggravated harassment after telling a woman that her dog had set upon her because it “doesn’t like Muslims” has been fined in connection with a conviction for racially aggravated harassment, according to a report in The...
The London Evening Standard and IB Times report on an investigation launched by the Metropolitan Police Service after a Muslim woman who wears a face veiluploaded video footage onto YouTube of a man verbally abusing her in a sweet shop in west London. Ahlam Saed, 25, shared the film footage...
By enhancing Muslim engagement in the PCC elections and raising awareness and expectations about policy issues that impact on British Muslims, we hope perceptions of and confidence in the police will improve further still and, in turn, have an impact on increasing diversity in the police. This...
