** 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 Huddersfield Daily Examiner reports on the trial of a 21 year old man who pleaded guilty to racially-aggravated threatening behaviour and criminal damage after he called adults at a home for people with complex needs and learning difficulties “jihadists”. Steven Kelly reportedly...
The Surrey Mirror reports on a police investigation into a number of posters that were attached to lampposts in Surrey bearing messages such as “Refugees not welcome.” The posters are being investigated by police for inciting racial hatred. Officers from Surrey Police were called...
The Stoke Sentinel reports on the trial of a racist thug who stabbed an Indian man in the neck with a knife before chasing him around a pub in Stoke while shouting “I’ll show you who Lee Rigby was”. Brian Hughes, 35, knifed Josh Moore, who is of Indian descent, on Sunday 12 July 2015...
The Daily Post reports that a man arrested in connection with a suspected hate crime attack on Rhyl Islamic Centre has admitted to pushing a firework through the mosque’s letterbox. Keith Edward Hall, 38, confessed to damaging the Islamic Centre but denied that his actions were...
The London Evening Standard reports on an alleged racist incident in Krakow, Poland, in which a Sikh man was verbally abused and physically assaulted by a nightclub bouncer who mistook his turban for Islamic attire, calling him a “Muslim terrorist”. The paper relates that Nav Sawhney, 25,...
The Chronicle Live reports that a man who was confronted by a carriage full of passengers after he subjected two Muslim females to verbal abuse while they travelled on the metro in Newcastle is to appear in court next month. Andrew Thompson, 26, has been charged with causing racially/religiously...
The Gloucestershire Echo reports on a new appeal by local police to identify two racist thugs responsible for an Islamophobic attack on a teenage boy in Cheltenham last week. After midnight on Monday 23 November, a 17 year old of part-Turkish ethnic background was beaten by golf clubs by racist...
The London Evening Standard and LBC radio report on statistics released by the Metropolitan Police Service which shows a spike in Islamophobic incidents in the capital in the aftermath of the Paris attacks on November 13. According to the Met, there were 24 hate crimes reported against Muslims in...
BBC News reports on a suspected “racist and Islamophobic” incident aboard a Birmingham bus in which a 22 year old woman was verbally abused and threatened with being “set alight” by a male passenger on the bus. West Midlands police have released CCTV images from the bus showing a man they...
The Birmingham Mail, Metro and Mirror all report on a horrendous attack on a Muslim student who was pushed from behind by an assailant and punched in the face as she walked along New Street in Birmingham. The attack happened in broad daylight on Monday, November 23 at about 7.30am. Miss Choudhury,...
