** 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 Portsmouth News reports on the sentencing of a drunk driver who racially abused a waiter in an Indian restaurant before speeding off and driving the wrong way round a roundabout and part of the M275 last July. Jake McElvenny, 23, was arrested by police after the incident which happened on 7...
The Daily Record, Scotsman and BBC News report on the SNP’s suspension of a Dundee City Councillor, Craig Melville, after allegations surfaced of his having sent anti-Muslim text messages to a Muslim colleague in the party. Melville, who has served as a local councillor from the SNP since 2009 is...
A takeaway owner who was savagely beaten outside his shop days after the Paris massacre on 13 November has told the Daily Record that he is to close up shop after 25 years. Mohammed Khalid sustained eight minutes of brutality when a group of thugs attacked him outside his shop in Methil, Fife in...
The Hereford Times reports on a fine imposed on a serving soldier who refused to pay a taxi driver full fare for a journey and made a racially aggravated remark. Christopher McMahon, 34, flagged down Asif Nazir’s cab on 23 October and asked to be driven to a destination. When Nazir arrived at the...
The Western Daily Mail reports that a Muslim mature student who was allegedly thrown off a National Express coach travelling from Bristol to London has had his fare refunded by the coach company but no apology has been forthcoming. Ibrahim Mohamed Ismail, 42, was allegedly asked to disembark from...
Bradford’s Telegraph and Argus reports on the court appearance of a man charged with sending an offensive or menacing communication after he made a drunken call to West Yorkshire Police threatening to blow up a mosque. Darren Wainman, 46, called the police station on November 15, two days after...
“Bradford’s Telegraph and Argus reports on banning orders that have been imposed by Sheffield United on a number of the football club’s fans after investigating allegations that some were involved in racist chanting at the team’s fixture against Bradford on 28 December. It was reported...
BBC News and the Daily Post report on the guilty plea entered by a man who shoved lit fireworks through the letterbox of an Islamic Centre in Wales last November. Keith Hall, 38, pleaded guilty to religiously aggravated criminal damage, having previously denied the “religiously aggravated”...
The Grimsby Telegraph reports on the sentencing of a man who threatened to “cut the throat” of an Asian security guard at a Sainsbury’s supermarket in Grimsby. Shane Watkins, 20, was in a drunken state when he began racially abusing security guard, Yamin Butt, on 23 December last year....
The Guardian and London Evening Standard report on an alleged Islamophobic attack in south London during which a Muslim taxi driver was beaten and robbed of a charity collection. Muj Hussain, 31, was collecting charity donations for the charity Source4Life, which provides clean water for people...
