** 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,...
Nuneaton News and the Coventry Telegraph report on a second suspected “racially/religiously aggravated assault” being investigated by police after a man was racially abused and had an egg thrown at him as he returned from attending the mosque for prayers. The 41 year old victim was returning...
BBC News and The Times report on a reprisal attack on a dentist in January 2015 in retaliation for the murder of Fusilier Lee Rigby. Dr Sarandev Bhambra was attacked with a “hammer and 12in machete” in a “brutal and unprovoked attack” by Zack Davies, 26, in a Tesco store in Mold,...
The Daily Telegraph reports on the comments by Director of the Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism, Charles Farr, which openly contradict the remarks of the PM last week about British Muslims “quietly condoning” extremism. Farr was speaking at an event organised by Jewish News featuring...
The Coventry Telegraph reports on the violent assault and racial abuse suffered by a Muslim teenager as he left a Coventry mosque on Sunday following the late evening prayers. The police have launched an investigation after the 18-year-old, who wishes to remain anonymous, was attacked between...
BuzzFeed News reports on a Facebook post describing an alleged incident of racial abuse suffered by a group of young British Muslim women which has gone viral. Yusra Ahmed, a student at the University of Leeds, described how she and a group of friends were left “humiliated and...
BBC News carries a feature on black and minority-ethnic (BME) representation in Parliament and how ministers and MPs from ethnic monitories have made their mark at Westminster. Last November, PM David Cameron said in a speech at the GG2 Leadership Awards ceremony, which shortlists the most...
The Argus reports on a Muslim law graduate and member of Sussex Police and Crime Commissioner’s Youth Commission, Mageed Gharib, who says he has witnessed or personally experienced hate crime on a daily basis in Brighton. Gharib, 22, says he has been regularly confronted with prejudice dating...
Bradford’s Telegraph and Argus report on an anti-Muslim incident involving graffiti daubed on to the walls of a Shia mosque in the city. The words “Shia Kafir” were sprayed on to the Hussainia Islamic Mission in Little Horton on Sunday afternoon. The graffiti has since been removed and the...
The Birmingham Mail reports on the release of CCTV images by West Midlands Police of a man wanted in connection with a spate of vandalism in the King’s Heath area of the city. Islamophobic slogans have been scrawled on bus shelters on several occasions. A report in the local paper earlier this...
The Metro, Evening Standard and The Daily Telegraph all report on the arrest of a man in a burqa following a bomb scare in Watford town centre. A specialist Explosive Ordnance Disposal team from Hertfordshire Constabulary was called to Market Street in Watford at approximately 11am yesterday...
