** 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 Daily Mail reports on the trial of a pensioner who has been convicted of sending grossly offensive communications after a letter was sent to the headteacher at Manchester Islamic High School for Girls stating things like “Muslims worship Satan in the guise of Allah”. Rose White, 68,...
The Guardian reports on another breach of the BBC’s editorial guidelines on accuracy and impartiality by the Radio 4 Today programme team. The BBC’s complaints unit received complaints about a broadcast on 19 October involving presenter, John Humphrys, and Middle East correspondent, Kevin...
The Bristol Post reports that the Muslim passenger at the centre of an alleged incident of Islamophobia involving National Express has come forward to confirm that he believes he was forced off a Bristol to London coach because he is a Muslim. Ibrahim Mohammed Ismail told the Bristol Post that he...
Rotherham’s local paper, The Star, reports that a teacher is under police investigation over allegations that s/he called a 14 year old Muslim pupil a “terrorist” in class. The local paper reports that the parents Aman Ghani lodged a complaint after their son returned home from Clifton School...
The local paper, Luton on Sunday, reports that a former Luton Town footballer, Ricky Miller, has been cleared of all charges relating to the alleged assault of a taxi driver in April. Miller was accused of verbally and physically abusing taxi driver, Mohammed Adnan, allegedly calling him a “p***...
The headteacher of a Bradford school at the centre of a legal dispute arising over its decision to refuse Muslim pupils a room to perform their daily prayers is said to have referred to the Government’s counter radicalisation strategy, Prevent, in a letter to a local MP setting out the...
The coach company, National Express, finds itself in the news again with another accusation of anti-Muslim hostility towards a passenger seeking to travel by coach. The Bristol Post, BBC News and London Evening Standard report that passengers who were witnesses to an incident involving a...
The Birmingham Mail reports on the trial of a man accused of leaving four pig heads outside the entrance of a Solihull community centre as it hosted a Muslim themed event, “Building a Masjid, Building a Community.” Carl Stephens, 34, was charged with causing religiously aggravated...
The Luton on Sunday reports on the trial of Ricky Miller, a former Luton Town Striker, who appeared in Luton Crown Court on Thursday 3 December, charged with racially aggravated fear of provocation of violence, racially aggravated assault, and an alternative charge of assault by beating. The...
The Independent and Daily Mail report that parents of Muslim pupils at Mirfield Free Grammar School in Bradford, West Yorkshire are threatening legal action against the school after claiming their children were forced to perform their daily prayers outdoors in freezing temperatures. Families of...
