** 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,...
British Transport Police this week released a statistical bulletin on offences committed on Britain’s rail network between 1 April 2014 to 31 March 2015. The BTP compiles crime statistics for England, Wales and Scotland, with the data broken down into geographical regions, or sub-divisions....
The Lancashire Telegraph reports on injuries inflicted on two Muslims who were hit by suspected air rifle pellets as they left a mosque in Nelson. The first incident occurred on Sunday evening around 9.30pm when a 58 year old man reported being hit in the back of the head with what are believed to...
The Huddersfield Examiner reports on the sentencing of a man who made racist comments about “giv[ing] the P**** what they deserve” while brandishing a meat cleaver in Dewsbury. Jonathan O’Brian, 33, was swigging from a bottle of cider and walking along a footpath on 16 July with a meat...
The Times’ Andrew Norfolk continues his crusade against the Muslim Brotherhood with several articles (see here, here and here) in Monday’s edition of the paper. In three articles about Amnesty International and its director of faith and human rights, Yasmin Hussein, Norfolk attempts to portray...
The Office for National Statistics earlier this week released data on the most popular baby names in England and Wales in 2014. The data revealed that on the national list Muhammad was the 14th most popular boys’ name in England and Wales (3,588) and the top boys’ name in London (830). But...
After being let off the hook by the press regulator, Ipso, for a headline earlier this year which was patently false, The Times’ sub-editors prove how lenient regulation can entrench the problem of anti-Muslim bias in the British press. The Times yesterday headlined an article “Koran encourages...
The Evening Express, Evening Times, and BBC News all report on a new campaign launched by Police Scotland to tackle hate crimes by urging victims of hate crime to report incidents to the police. In a month long initiative called “Scotland – No Place for Prejudice”, Police Scotland aims to...
The Bristol Post reports on hate crime figures in the city noting a dramatic increase in race hate crime in the last year. The paper reports on the fall in race hate crime between 2010 and 2013 but a sharp increase in the last year, 2013 – 2014 almost to the level recorded in 2010. […]
The Kent Messenger and The Independent report on the suspended sentence given to a woman who punched and tasered a Muslim shopkeeper at his store in Herne Bay, Kent. Koren McCairn, 52, went to Azad Mukhuris’ Herne Bay Food Store in May to challenge him about an alleged relationship with a...
Manchester Evening News reports on a Muslim nurse who was viciously beaten by a gang whilst shopping in Stockport late last week. Qaiser Ahmed was shopping in Stockport town centre with his wife, Farah, last Friday when he stepped out of a shop to use his mobile phone. As he did so, a young woman...
