** 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 Northern Echo and the Gazette Live report on a march that took place over the weekend by a number of far-right groups in East Cleveland in their bid to close down a halal abattoir in the town and “reclaim the village”. Approximately 100 members from various far-right groups including the...
The Guardian, UTV and Belfast Telegraph report that two severed pigs’ heads bearing anti-Islam slogans were left on the doorsteps of a church in north Belfast amid unsubstantiated rumours circulating on social media that the disused church was to be turned into a mosque. Rumours on...
Some of the weekend papers (Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, Daily Express) covered the second reading of Baroness Caroline Cox’s Arbitration and Mediation Bill in the House of Lords last Friday headlining with the peer’s incendiary remark that ” in some [Muslim] communities with high...
The Herald Scotland reports on new research published by academics from the universities of Newcastle, St Andrew’s and Edinburgh which shows that a “majority” of Muslim pupils in Scottish schools have experienced Islamophobia. The research, conducted by Prof Peter Hopkins of Newcastle...
The Mirror reports on the court appearance of a man who was arrested and charged on suspicion of racially aggravated public order offence following an Islamophobic rant on a London bus last week. The Metropolitan Police reports that Kashif Samuels, 25, pleaded guilty to the charge in court...
The Burton Mail reports on five arrests made by police at the Britain First demonstration against a “mega mosque” in Burton last weekend. Britain First announced plans to protest against the “mega mosque” on its website in September. The protest on Saturday 17 October saw around 210 far...
The London Evening Standard, Guardian and The Independent all report on the arrest of a 25 year old man in connection with an alleged incident of anti-Muslim abuse on a London bus last week. Kashif Samuels was arrested and charged on suspicion of a racially aggravated public order offence after he...
The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, last week launched an app to make it easier for victims of hate crime to report incidents to the police. The app, called Self Evident, was launched during National Hate Crime Awareness Week and is the product of social enterprise, Just Evidence. The app can be...
The Guardian reports on the court appearance yesterday of a woman charged with causing racially or religiously aggravated behaviour intended to cause harassment, alarm or distress after she threatened and abused two Muslim women on a bus in north west London last week. Simone Joseph, 36, pleaded...
There is considerable coverage across the press today about the Government’s new Counter Extremism Strategy which was published yesterday. Vikram Dodd and Alan Travis in the Guardian report the views of Sir Peter Fahy, chief constable of Greater Manchester Police and the police service’s lead...
