** 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 Belfast Live reports on an alleged incident of racial abuse and assault on a Muslim woman as she walked along a road in Portadown, Northern Ireland on Saturday afternoon. The 40 year old victim was walking along the road when approached by a motorist in a white car. A female passenger...
Rod Liddle on the Spectator’s Coffee House blogs bites the ‘Muslim fury’ bait trailed in the Daily Express and Daily Mail last week with this observation about the “gaffes” witnessed by Muslim shoppers in certain branches of Tesco and Morrisons: “It’s enough to arouse fury, even if...
A West London branch of Morrisons is the second supermarket to make news after “a blunder” in which it advertised frozen pork products to customers beside promotional stickers for Ramadan, the London Evening Standard reports. This incident comes days after a Tesco store in Liverpool Street came...
Local paper, Dudley News, reports on the proceedings of a public meeting attended by police chiefs, local councillors, anti-racism campaigners and members of the local community to discuss the impact of repeat protests by the far right on the town’s residents and businesses. Chief Inspector Phil...
Bradford’s Telegraph and Argus reports on an investigation launched by South Yorkshire police after staff a member at Laisterdyke Business and Enterprise College allegedly shared a “tasteless and offensive” post from the far right group, Britain First, on her Facebook page. The post, which...
Douglas Murray has a comment piece published in the Daily Express yesterday adding righteous indignation to that already seen in the Daily Mail about the PM’s speech last week about British Muslims blaming anyone and everyone for radicalisation but themselves. Murray introduces the issue of the...
A Guardian analysis of government figures released in April this year has revealed an alarming increase in the proportion of young offenders from black and minority ethnic (BME) backgrounds. The figures, issued by the Youth Justice Board (YJB), show that from 2014-15, 40% of prisoners aged under...
The Guardian reports that the BBC diversity adviser, Lady Grey-Thompson, has said that BBC may have to spend as much as £100m on improving diversity in the corporation and that those executives who do not help to deliver change should be fired. Grey-Thomson is a former Paralympian and a member of...
Bradford’s Telegraph and Argus reports that a 14 year old boy has been arrested on suspicion of religiously aggravated criminal damage after the words “Shia Kafir” were found painted onto the wall of the Hussaini Islamic Mission in Little Horton at the weekend. The vandalism of the religious...
Kent Online reports that members of the far-right party, Britain First, have been accused of targeting restaurant owners in Dartford over the use of halal meat. Britain First leader, Paul Golding, was filmed in Dartford’s town centre last Friday saying that the organisation has started a...
