** 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,...
With the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties coming to an end, many are anticipating how business, government and civil society will move forward with their work from the summit. COP26, which began on 31st October in Glasgow, Scotland, saw two weeks of discussions and...
Tory MP, Jonathan Gullis, has said during a fringe meeting at the party’s conference last month that anyone using the term ‘white privilege’ should be reported to the UK Government’s controversial counterterror programme, PREVENT. He then added that teachers who criticise the...
According to press reports, an internal investigation has revealed that Azeem Rafiq, former Yorkshire and England under 19 cricket captain, was the “victim of racial harassment and bullying”, having been subjected to institutional racist and Islamophobic abuse so severe that it...
Sir David Amess MP was brutally murdered on Friday 15th October 2021 by a 25-year-old British man who happens to come from a Somali Muslim background. This has generated expectations of a spike in racially and religiously motivated hate crimes targeting British Muslims in retaliation to the...
The UK Government has recently appointed two individuals considered to be right-wing to important cultural institutions. These appointments are another element of the Government’s concerning pursuit of a hard-right agenda. One of the foremost criticisms of these recent appointments is that there...
A recent study by researchers at Stanford University found that GPT-3 – an Artificial Intelligence (AI) system produced by Elon Musk’s OpenAI company – has been shown to generate prejudiced results against Muslims. The AI completes phrases based on what most commonly follows an initial prompt...
Earlier this month, England’s World Cup qualifier victory over Hungary was tarnished by the racist abuse directed towards black English players by some Hungarian fans throughout the game. In the aftermath of such appalling scenes, criticism was levelled at FIFA, the governing body of...
In response to allegations of racial abuse and bullying made by former Yorkshire Cricket County Club (YCCC) player Azeem Rafiq, the club issued a statement as part of their investigation into Rafiq’s claims, admitting that Rafiq was indeed subjected to racial harassment and bullying...
The Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, better known as the Culture Secretary, is an important Cabinet position. The holder of the role is responsible for overseeing a range of cultural institutions, such as libraries, sports, and museums, but also particularly importantly for...
After a 20-year occupation in Afghanistan, the last US military flight left Kabul airport on 31 August 2021. The withdrawal marks the end of the contentious ‘mission’ of the global War on Terror that began in Afghanistan in the aftermath of 11 September 2001. The overt focus on Muslims...
