** 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 Daily Post reports on a “completely unprovoked” racist attack on an Asian teenager in broad daylight by a gang of youths in North Wales which has left the victim with facial injuries. The 17 year old victim was walking up Richmond Hill in Holyhead on Tuesday 1 September 2015 at 11.50am when...
The Guardian reports on figures obtained from the Football Association (FA) and anti-racism campaign group Kick It Out which show that racist abuse in football is on the rise. Reports of alleged racist abuse and other discriminatory abuse made to the FA last season rose sharply to 887 incidents at...
The Evening Standard reports that tens of thousands of Londoners could disappear from the electoral roll and lose their right to vote in next year’s mayoral and London Assembly elections as a result of changes brought forward on voter registration rules. Conservative ministers have been...
The Teesside Gazette reports on a Gurdwara which has been vandalised with the words “White power”, “death to Allah” and “Die Muslims, die” sprayed onto the walls of the Sikh temple in Thornaby. The Shri Guru Nanak Gurdwara and Sikh Community Centre on Allensway...
The Guardian reports on calls by the National Union of Students (NUS) to boycott the government’s “chilling” counter-radicalisation strategy saying it curtails freedom of expression and could increase Islamophobia on campuses. The national students’ body has launched the...
The London Evening Standard reports on the apology advanced by Labour Mayoral candidate, Dame Tessa Jowell, to fellow contender Sadiq Khan MP, after a volunteer in her campaign told a party supporter not to back Khan in the Mayoral contest because his Muslim background made him “a liability”....
The Lancashire Telegraph reports on the sentencing of a Polish man who stormed a charity event in Blackburn, Lancashire, in July and launched a tirade of verbal abuse at Muslims. Marcin Bakun, 31, turned up to the Feed the Needy charity event in Blackburn Town Centre and started shouting...
The Edinburgh Evening News reports on a Muslim shopkeeper who suffered a campaign of hate during the summer of 2013 causing him to suffer a minor heart attack. Faryad Hussain, 40, caught a young man, 25, stealing from his shop in Dalry, Edinburgh while under the influence of drugs. Hussain decided...
The Irish News reports on an investigation launched by the Police Service of Northern Ireland into an alleged anti-Muslim hate crime after far right activists were pictured outside an Islamic prayer centre in Newtownards, Northern Ireland. A member of the public contacted PSNI after viewing...
The Independent reports on the Institute for Public Policy Research latest publication detailing why British democracy must be reformed in a bid to combat political inequalities that are prevalent in the British political system. The report, which evaluates the impact of marginal constituencies on...
