** 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 Government’s Counter Extremism strategy was published today following reports in the weekend papers about £5 million in funding being put aside to fund groups “to build a national coalition against extremism – in communities and online” and mention of the strategy including measures to...
The Independent reports on another video of Islamophobic abuse on public transport with footage showing a father with a pram verbally abusing an elderly Turkish man. The incident which is said to have taken place in north London, shows the man tell his elderly victim “go back to Turkey”. He...
The Mail on Sunday yesterday published a remarkable expose on the lobbying influence of the United Arab Emirates over UK domestic policy and public discourse relating to the Muslim Brotherhood. The paper revealed a cache of leaked documents which show how the Gulf Arab state paid a London based...
The London Evening Standard, Mirror, The Guardian and BBC News all report on the arrest of a woman who was filmed abusing two Muslim women on a London bus calling them “F***ing sandbags” and “F***ing Isis bitches”. The woman, who threatened one of her Muslim victims who was...
The Shields Gazette and the Chronicle Live report on a number of police forces in the UK that have launched initiatives this week to raise more awareness about hate crimes during National Hate Crime Awareness week. Two days ago the Home Office published its annual report on hate crime in...
The Daily Mail reports on a woman who launched a sickening anti-Muslim rant against two Muslim women on a London bus on Tuesday. The woman taunted two Muslim women, one of whom was pregnant, on the bus calling them “Isis b****es”. Approximately five minutes of the incident was filmed by a...
The Home Office published its annual report on hate crime in England and Wales on Tuesday drawing on data derived from police recorded crime (for the period April 2014 – March 2015) and the Crime Survey for England and Wales (using combined surveys for the period covering 2012/13 to 2014/15)....
The Huffington Post, Daily Mail and the Independent all report on the former leader of the English Defence League, Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, who was seen last week in the Netherlands calling out to a rally organised by the Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the Occident (Pegida) to...
The Daily Mail and Mirror report on another incident of a Muslim primary school pupil being referred under the Government’s controversial Channel programme for expressing views during a school residential trip which were noted as a cause for concern. Hazel Pulley, headteacher of Parkfield...
There is considerable coverage in the newspapers today (Daily Mail, The Guardian, Mirror, BBC News, ITV News, Sky News and Politics Home) about the Government’s announcement that police forces in England and Wales will begin recording Islamophobia as a separate category of crime. The...
