** 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 free sheet, The Metro, reports on the sentencing of a man who daubed anti-Muslim graffiti on the hoardings of the Noor ul Islam Trust in Leyton while it was undergoing renovations. Tom Whelan, 53, was twice caught on CCTV writing the graffiti on the mosque site. Whelan wrote the messages...
The Huddersfield Examiner reports on the sentencing of a young woman who verbally abused and physically assaulted an Asian taxi driver after a night out leaving him too afraid to return to work. Haley Spink, 25, admitted to charges of racially-aggravated assault, causing a danger to road users and...
Scottish paper, the Press and Journal, reports on the conviction of a man for racially aggravated breach of the peace after he posted offensive comments about Muslims on a Facebook page. Liam Calder was sentenced at Inverness Sheriff Court after he reacted to a news report in the Press and...
The Croydon Guardian reports on the sentencing of two women who were found guilty of an attack on a Kosovan woman in a Lidl car park. Natalie Sharp and Christine Bicknell were convicted at Croydon Crown Court of racially aggravated assault and racially aggravated harassment, respectively, last...
In the interests of transparency and for full disclosure to the nearly 3,000 people who complained about The Sun’s front page story last November, ‘1 in 5 Brit Muslims’ sympathy for jihadis’, and The Times article on the same, we are publishing all our correspondence with...
The Mirror and Portsmouth News report on the arrest of two men in connection with a suspected hate crime at the Madani Academy Islamic School in Portsmouth in January. Staff at the school arrived on the morning of Thursday 21 January to find a pig’s head tied to the gate. The head had a...
The Coventry Telegraph reports on the remarks by Britain’s first ethnic minority police officer on diversity in police recruitment. Former police constable Mohammed Daar joined West Midlands Police on 16 March 1966. News of his appointment was published on the front page of a number of national...
Local paper, The Herald, reports on the sentencing of a 53 year old man after he was convicted of racially or religiously aggravated common assault at Banbury Magistrates’ Court this week. Andrew Lydiatt, 53, was found guilty of racially or religiously aggravated common assault on...
The Croydon Advertiser, The Guardian and The Independent all report on the arrest of a man who tweeted a message about “confronting” a Muslim woman on the street in Croydon and asking her to “explain Brussels”. Her response, “nothing to do with me” was...
The Mirror reports on the guilty verdict reached by a jury in the trial of Natalie Sharp, the mother of murdered schoolgirl Tia Sharp, who was standing trial on charges of racially aggravated assault in connection with an incident at a Lidl supermarket on 18 April 2015. Earlier this week,...
