** 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,...
BBC News reports that the far-right party, Britain First, who want to “slam shut the door to any further immigration,” received the most funding of any small party according to the Electoral Commission’s table of donations for smaller parties. Britain First’s total income was £159,516...
The Epsom Guardian reports an update on the incident it covered earlier in the week in which two Muslims were hit by eggs by assailants who sped off in a car. The local paper notes that police have confirmed that three eggs were thrown at a couple in Stoneleigh as they left a mosque shortly...
The website, Police Oracle, reports that following the demonstration by Britain First in Luton at the weekend, Police and Crime Commissioner for Bedfordshire, Olly Martins, has written to the Home Secretary to state the cost of policing far right protests is “untenable” and that the Government...
The Portadown Times reports that a 40 year old woman has been arrested in connection with the incident at the weekend in which a Muslim woman was verbally abused and attacked by a passenger in a passing vehicle as she walked along a road in Portadown, Northern Ireland. The local paper reports that...
The Star reports that a Muslim student who claimed a National Express coach driver racially abused her and her friends last month is “unhappy” with the way the company have concluded their investigation into the alleged incident. Leeds university student Yusra Ahmed and three friends claimed...
BBC News reports that a food company based in Newry, Northern Ireland, has been ordered to pay over £70,000 in costs for falsely marking meats as ‘halal’ and selling beef products that do not meet the European Commission’s food standards. Freeza Meats Ltd, which is no longer trading, were...
The Epsom Guardian reports on a suspected hate crime in Stoneleigh after two Muslims had eggs thrown at them by assailants who drove off in a Black VW Polo. The local paper reports a post added to the Epsom and Ewell Safer Neighbourhood Team Facebook page which stated: “Two local Muslim...
BBC News, the Lancashire Telegraph and the Buxton Advertiser all report on a suspected hate crime incident at the High Wood Cemetery in Bulwell, Nottinghamshire where a number of plots were desecrated at the weekend. Around 10 plots in the cemetery were desecrated with incidents largely focused on...
The National Audit Office (NAO) has warned that Whitehall need to invest more time and effort into improving diversity in the civil service as progress has “plateaued more recently,” BBC News reports. The public spending regulator released a report last week detailing the figures...
Melanie Phillips in her column in The Times today argues “It’s pure myth that Islam is ‘a religion of peace” because, she asserts, “Islam has a history of violent conquest.” Phillips criticises the PM, David Cameron, saying he “regrettably regressed to claiming once again that this...
