** 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 Express and Star reports that a UKIP candidate who claimed on Facebook that Islam was an “evil cult” and that European integration was a form of “genocide” has been banned from standing for the party in the Black Country. Steve Latham stood for Parliament in West Bromwich East in the...
Peter Oborne in the Middle East Eye argues that the Conservative Party were wrong to cancel an event organised by Muslim charities at their party conference this year after the Sunday Telegraph published an article accusing some of the charities involved of having links to terrorist...
The Burton Mail reports that far right group Britain First could be greeted with tea and cakes at Burton Railway Station as they head to a protest on Saturday 17 October against plans for a new mosque in the city. The idea of serving the protestors refreshments is intended to reduce tensions and...
There has been some coverage across news and broadcasting of figures obtained by the Press Association on the number of referrals to the Channel programme between June and August this year. Referrals to Channel are part of the Government’s multi-agency approach for “protecting...
The Guardian publishes findings from a new report by Demos, Rising to the Top, which highlights some of the barriers faced by Muslims in aspiring to a Russell Group university education and to senior management roles in the labour market. The report notes that British Muslims show the lowest level...
The Press Association picks up a new report by the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) which argues that the Government’s use of “emotive” language has been “counter-productive” to its outreach work with British Muslims. In a report published by the RUSI on tackling...
As the conference season gets underway, Andrew Gilligan in the Sunday Telegraph provides another demonstration of his obsession with undermining British Muslims who legitimately engage in politics and public life. The Prime Minister in his ‘Munich 2’ speech singled out those who...
The Times Higher Education Supplement (THES) contains an interesting on the parallels between the Government’s recent announcement about ‘extremist’ speakers on university campuses and a poorly researched study by neo-con think tank, the Henry Jackson Society. THES reports...
The Daily Mail reports on the uploading of video footage showing a man racially abusing a taxi driver in south west London in a row over fare. The male passenger was picked up by a black cab driver in Camberwell New Road and driven towards Fulham when he started becoming abusive towards the driver....
