** 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 Ilford Recorder reports on an alleged anti-Muslim hate crime in Woodford, east London. The Woodford Muslim Cultural Centre had a brick thrown through its window on Monday night in a suspected hate crime incident. The Woodford Muslim Cultural Centre has been the target of several hate crime...
The Express and Star reports that plans to turn a community hall in Wolverhampton into an Islamic learning centre were withdrawn after almost 1,500 people signed two petitions objecting to the proposal. Local residents became convinced that the site would become a permanent mosque, despite the city...
The Caerphilly Observer reports on UKIP’s suspension of its candidate in the Bedwas, Trethomas and Machen council seat by-election on 3 September after he was found to have posted racist and Islamophobic comments online. Bobby Douglas was removed as the party’s candidate following an...
The Daily Post reports on a North Wales fire service employee who quit his job amid an investigation into anti-Islamic posts that he allegedly made during work hours to a far-right website. Articles that were allegedly written by the fire service employee highlighted mainstream UK media stories...
The Guardian reports on the growing frustration of Prime Minister David Cameron into the delayed publication of the Chilcot report. David Cameron added further pressure on the chairman of the Iraq inquiry, Sir John Chilcot, to set a timetable for the publication of the long delayed report into the...
The Daily Mirror and Daily Mail report on the death of the elderly Muslim man, Muhsin Ahmed, who was brutally assaulted in the early hours of Monday morning, 10 August, as he made his way to the local mosque for the dawn prayers. Muhsin Ahmed, 81, was found by officers and was said to have...
Local news site GetBucks reports on a Thames Valley police notice about an arrest relating to a religiously/racially aggravated public order offence committed at The Big Fish chip shop in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire last week. Simon Edwards, 49, is due to appear at Aylesbury Magistrates’ Court on...
The Daily Mail reports on the presence of a Lord Kitchener style poster at The Moon on the Square pub in Feltham which tells Muslims to “get the f*** out of our countries”. The poster, on display on a noticeboard at a JD Wetherspoon establishment in Feltham, Middlesex, was noticed by a...
Kent Online reports on an arson attack on a mosque in Folkestone that was not judged to be a hate crime because the perpetrator was drunk and showed no prior membership of hate groups. Phillip Donovan, 29, tried to put burning tissue paper through the letter box of a mosque on Foord Road South,...
In 2013, Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) published a report focusing on the way in which stop and search legislation is being used by police forces in England and Wales. The report found that 27% of stop and search conducted by police forces were “unlawful” and were too...
