** 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 Big News Network relates a suspected hate incident in Swadlincote, South Derbyshire where a Muslim woman was allegedly abused in a Morrisons supermarket on Saturday morning, 14 November. The news site reports that the woman posted details of the incident on Facebook. She posted a message...
The Evening Standard reports that a woman has been arrested after posting a message on the Facebook page of her Beauty Salon in Bicester, Oxfordshire, stating she would no longer accept Muslim customers. Thames Valley Police have arrested a 43 year old woman after an alleged “racially abusive”...
The news site News North Wales reports that a former soldier jailed in 2013 for a revenge attack on Rhyl Islamic Centre has been cleared of claims that he threatened to blow up the mosque. John Parkin, 29, was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment and was served an indefinite criminal anti-social...
The Evening Standard reports that a woman who launched a tirade of Islamophobic abuse on a London bus last month has walked free from court after receiving a suspended sentence. Simone Joseph was filmed by an onlooker abusing two Muslim women travelling with a young child on a bus in north west...
BBC News and Wales Online report on the first in a series of public hearings to be held by the Citizens UK Commission on Islam and Participation in Public Life which seeks to investigate how the Muslim community can engage better in British public life amid reports of increasing levels of...
The Lancashire Telegraph reports on the sentencing of two men for racially aggravated public order offences after one of them subjected a Muslim woman who wears a face veil to verbal abuse in the aisles of a Tesco supermarket in Burnley. The local paper carries an interview with the Muslim victim,...
The Daily Mail and Evening Standard report on a shocking incident on London Underground. Film footage shot at Piccadilly Circus Station appears to show an elderly man throw an hijab-wearing Muslim female into the path of an incoming train. The film footage shot on the Bakerloo line platform at the...
BBC News reports on the arrest of three people in connection with a suspected racially aggravated arson attack on the Islamic Cultural Centre in Rhyl, Wales. The news report notes that North Wales police have arrested two men, aged 34 and 46, and an 18 year old woman in connection with the incident...
The Huddersfield Daily Examiner reports on the sharp increase in Islamophobic and anti-Muslim hate crime across West Yorkshire. Since 2010, Islamophobic hate crimes have more than doubled in the region and some of the worst affected areas have been Huddersfield, Holmfirth, Dewsbury and Batley. The...
BBC News, the Irish Independent and news website Get West London report on the release of CCTV images by the Metropolitan Police Service after a mother travelling on a bus with her two daughters was verbally abused and punched in a suspected racially aggravated attack. The Met have launched a...
