** 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,...
According to data released by the Pew Research Center from an international survey of ten countries with significant Muslim populations and Israel, overwhelmingly negative opinions of ISIS prevail. In the wake of the atrocities committed in Paris and Beirut, the Pew Research Center conducted a...
Online blog Common Space, the Daily Express, Daily Record and Asian Image all cover the reported torrent of racist abuse directed at Scottish minister Humza Yousaf on social media in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks in Paris. The messages sent via Facebook and twitter and described as an...
This report contains details of incidents of anti-Muslim hate crimes which have been reported in local and national media in the UK and which form part of our regular monitoring of such incidents for submission to the Office for Security and Co-operation in Europe. The incidents detailed here are...
The Metro and the International Business Times report on a UKIP candidate who has been condemned for suggesting that mosques should to be closed in the wake of the tragic terrorist attacks in Paris last week. Adrian Howard, who won more than 6,000 votes when he stood to be MP for Macclesfield...
The Herald Scotland reports on news from Police Scotland of a sharp increase in religious hate crimes in the wake of the Paris massacre last week. Police Scotland have investigated a number of religiously motivated hate crimes since last Friday, with Deputy Chief Constable, Iain Livingstone,...
EDL News reports on an alleged religious hate crime incident involving an English Defence League (EDL) supporter in Essex who boasted of posting a bag of dog excrement through a Muslim neighbour’s letterbox on Facebook. Karen Hastie, posted a number of messages on Facebook bragging about the...
BBC News reports on an petrol bomb attack on the home of a Muslim family in Ballymena, County Antrim in a suspected religious hate crime incident. Four people who were in the house escaped injury when a petrol bomb was thrown through the window of the house at around 1am on 17 November. Margaret...
The Glasgow Evening Times reports that a cultural centre in the city that is used by Muslims has been the target of an arson attack. The Bishopbriggs Cultural Centre, also known as Al Sarouk, was set alight in the early hours on 17 November. Fire crews were called to the location at around...
STV News, The Courier and Fife Today all report an alleged violent assault on a Muslim couple outside their takeaway shop in Fife following the massacre in Paris last Friday. Mohammed Khalid, 53, and his wife, who run the Caspian Fast Food shop in Methil, Fife, were attacked by a group of around 15...
The Telegraph and Argus and ITV News both report on the English Defence League demonstration in Bradford on Saturday 14 November and the eight arrests made by West Yorkshire Police on the day. Around 80-100 EDL protestors gathered in Bradford, two years after their last protest in the city. The...
