** 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,...
Several newspapers today cover the intervention by Walthamstow MP, Stella Creasy, to press the US Embassy in London for answers as to why a Muslim family of 11 from her constituency were denied boarding a US bound flight from Gatwick airport despite having acquired travel authorisation in advance...
The Huddersfield Examiner reports on the sentencing of a heroin addict who racially abused a shop assistant at a pharmacy. Kirklees Magistrates Court heard that Richard Hall, 36, had visited Lockwood Pharmacy on 26 August for his prescribed heroin replacement drug. But after Hall was caught...
The Guardian last Friday reported on a statement released by Waltham Forest Council of Mosques announcing a boycott of the Government’s “racist” counter-terrorism programme, Prevent. The statement follows a council meeting last Thursday in which a motion was presented which linked the...
Wales Online reports on a former deputy leader of Cardiff council who has been suspended from the Labour Party after he posted what has been described as an “inflammatory and bigoted” statement about Islam on Facebook. Councillor Ralph Cook responded to the allegations by denying his...
BBC News and The Independent report on a suspected anti Muslim hate crime after two pigs heads were found at the Markazul Uloom, an Islamic boarding school in Blackburn. One of the pig’s heads was found on the railings of the school, the other was thrown over the school wall. Lancashire...
The South Wales Evening Post reports on the sentencing of two brothers for their part in a gang which subjected an Asian family to racist abuse. The local paper reports that the British Bangladeshi family had moved to Pontarddulais from Birmingham but the family had experienced ongoing racist...
BBC News reports that a Muslim family of nine, including four children, were refused permission to board a flight to the US from Gatwick airport allegedly because an official in the US objected to their travel to the country. Mohammed Zahid Mahmood, from Walthamstow, London, and eight members of...
The Exeter Express and Echo reports on the jailing of two men one of whom committed a number of crimes in Exeter, including a racist and religiously aggravated attack on the Turkish owner of a fast food shop in the city. Michael O’Donnell, 46, and Nicholas Jeffries, 52, verbally and physically...
The Scotsman reports that a man who sent Scottish Government Minister Humza Yousaf a hate filled Twitter message in March of this year has been fined £500. Johnathan McAuley, 20, sent Mr Yousaf a tweet in response to an exchange about former Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson, after Mr Yousaf...
The Daily Mail, Chronicle Live and ITV News all report on the suspended sentence handed to a passenger who abused two young Muslim women on a Tyne and Wear Metro train last month. Andrew Thompson, 26, got onto the train and proceeded to tell Kalema Rahman and her sister Fatema to “get the...
