** 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 Times (£) today follows up its indulgence of Ayaan Hirsi Ali with a second guest column praising David Cameron’s “principled leadership” and his counter extremism strategy. A previous column by Ali was published in the paper days before the general election with the author throwing her...
Leading up to the 2015 General Election Andrew Gilligan wrote a number of articles in The Telegraph which made reference to mend and some of its staff. mend believes his articles were politically motivated containing a series of factually incorrect statements and totally misleading insinuations...
Lord Falconer, the Shadow Lord Chancellor and the shadow secretary of the state for justice, has warned in a comment piece in the Huffington Post UK that “the future of our country is being decided by an increasingly narrow section of society” due to changes to electoral registration and...
A cross-party review of the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act was announced by the Government last week, 15 years after Labour first introduced it. The Guardian reports that it is likely to be seen as an attempt to restrict the public from accessing government documents noting that the decision came...
An Independent councillor representing Fareham West ward on Fareham Borough Council has shared Facebook posts from the far-right group Britain First, Portsmouth News reports. Nick Gregory shared two of Britain First’s posts from its Facebook page, one calling for the reintroduction of the...
PM Cameron goes two for two today following up Ramadan greetings last month with a speech in Bratislava accusing British Muslims of “quietly condoning” extremism, and Eid greetings issued last Friday followed up with a wide ranging speech in Birmingham that demurs little from the ideas...
The Star reports on 10 arrests that were made at the English Defence League protest in Rotherham on Saturday. More than 150 members of 20 far-right groups protested against Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council’s attempts to ban far-right marches in the city and impose restrictions on their...
The Stoke Sentinel reports on the English Defence League cancelling a demonstration against a women’s only event at Water World. Members of the far-right group had planned a protest at the event in response to a ‘sister’s only’ event at the venue. However, following a meeting between the...
Online news site, This is Wiltshire, reports on an incident of racist graffiti at an underpass in the Gorse Hill area in Swindon, Wiltshire. Residents reported seeing two swastikas and a message reading “Swindon is not for u Muslims” daubed in red paint on the pavement and walls of the...
The Times yesterday reported on the glowing results by Ofsted on four Muslim schools in Blackburn which were investigated last year amid allegations of “hard-line views or extremism” following the fallout of the so called ‘Trojan horse’ affair in Birmingham. Last July,...
