** 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 Kent Messenger reports on an act of vandalism at a mosque in Gillingham, Kent in the aftermath of the Paris attacks last month. The Nasir mosque was targeted by vandals who threw eggs and paint at one of the mosque’s entrances in the week after the Paris massacre. The imam of the mosque,...
The Western Gazette reports that a man accused of hurling racist abuse at a Turkish kebab shop worker will stand trial next year. James Richard Turton, 22, appeared before Somerset Magistrates court last week to deny a charge of using racially aggravated threatening, abusive or insulting words or...
The Northamptonshire Telegraph reports on a suspected Islamophobic attack on a hijab-wearing Muslim female in Kettering. The local paper reports that a 13 year old girl was pushed over by a stranger as she walked along Whiteford Drive just before 5pm on Wednesday, November 11. The attack, which...
The University of Edinburgh’s student newspaper, The Student, reports on an alleged Islamophobic incident on campus in which two students were spat on and called “motherf****** terrorist whores”. The incident was related by a university history lecturer, Dr Talat Ahmed, who alleges that...
Two women who dropped their trousers to urinate in front of a Muslim couple who were praying in a Plymouth park have been handed suspended jail terms, the Plymouth Herald reports. Claire Farrell, 36, and Natalie Richardson, 32, pleaded guilty to religiously-aggravated threatening and abusive...
The London Evening Standard reports on yet another suspected Islamophobic attack on public transport after a pregnant Muslim woman was allegedly subjected to a 15 minute tirade of verbal abuse and threatened with physical assault by a drunk passenger on a bus. The paper reports that the woman, who...
The Chronicle Live reports on a post added to a Facebook page by an independent councillor for Morpeth Town Council, David E Clark, in which he stated “Islam is the biggest threat to world peace.” Clark posted the comment on the page Morpeth Matters, which has since been closed down, on...
BBC News and the Independent on Sunday report on an incident at the Finsbury Park mosque in north London which is being treated as a suspected hate crime by the Met police. BBC News reports that a man was seen trying to set the mosque alight at around 10 o’clock on Saturday morning, 28...
Online news site, Get Reading, reports on an alleged ‘racially aggravated’ verbal abuse case after a woman reported being threatened by a man while walking in Reading town centre. The news site reports that the incident happened between 6.15pm and 6.30pm on Tuesday, November 17 when a...
The voluntary sector website, Third Sector, reports on comments made by Sir Stephen Bubb, Chief Executive of the UK charity leaders’ representative body Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations (ACEVO) accusing the Charity Commission of a “disproportionate focus” on Muslim...
