** 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 Herts Advertiser reports on a student from St Albans who has won praise after stepping in and helping a pregnant Muslim woman who was assaulted in a suspected hate crime attack. Jodie Whitford-Stark, 20, a student at Leeds Beckett University, was on a bus on Monday 16 November 2015 in Leeds...
The Exeter Express and Echo reports on a police appeal for witnesses in relation to a suspected hate crime in the city. The local paper reports that police are seeking witnesses to an incident on Wednesday afternoon, 21 October, around 4pm outside the Allstars Sports Bar in the city centre where a...
The Manchester Evening News reports on a sharp increase in anti-Muslim hate crimes in Greater Manchester in the last 12 months. Figures published by the local newspaper show attacks on Muslims in the Greater Manchester region between November 2014 and October 2015 almost doubled on the previous...
The Burnley Express reports on the fine imposed on a man who racially abused the Muslim owner of Domino’s pizza shop in Burnley because he thought there was something wrong with his order. A third party alerted police to the incident, which happened on 31 October, saying that a man in the shop...
The Essex Chronicle reports on an English Defence League supporter who has been cautioned by Essex Police after she bragged about pushing a bag of dog faeces through a Muslim neighbour’s letterbox on social media. Karen Hastie, 53, was cautioned after she posted a message on Facebook...
BBC News and the website, Wales Online, report on graffiti that has been found daubed on two mosques in the Newport area in Wales. The Jamie Mosque on Stow Hill and the Islamic Society of Wales mosque on Victoria Road, Newport, were both vandalised. The latter had the words “Islam is...
The South Shields Gazette reports on a possible race hate crime in the South Tyneside area after a car wash covered in racist and anti-Muslim graffiti was destroyed in a suspected arson attack Firefighters were called to a blaze on Wenlock Road in Simonside, South Tyneside, around 1am on the...
The University of Sussex’s student paper The Badger reports on an alleged Islamophobic incident on campus. It is alleged that a group of young males shouted provocative comments about ISIS outside a prayer room used by the university’s Islamic Society on campus on Friday 20 November, a week on...
The Yorkshire Evening Post reports on an event hosted as part of Islamophobia Awareness Month at which a speaker related the case of a man who tried to buy pigs’ heads and trotters from a butcher’s shop in Leeds in order to “desecrate as many mosques as possible”. Kauser Jan, chair of...
The Birmingham Mail reports on the sentencing of a man who abused flight attendants on a flight from Dubai to Birmingham Airport on 16 September, last year. Jasbir Bharaj, 46, was found guilty of drunkenness on an aircraft, criminal damage, racially aggravated words and behaviour and common assault...
