** 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,...
A BBC investigation has found that new far-right groups are recruiting children and teenagers “encouraging [them] to hate” and be “radicalised online”. BBC News reports that the decline of large far-right groups, such as the English Defence League and the British National Party, has meant...
The Belfast Telegraph reports on an interview with Northern Irish Pastor James McConnell in which he defends his choice of words describing Islam as “heathen”, “satanic” and a “doctrine spawned in hell”. McConnell who is facing a possible six month jail sentence after being charged with...
Just as his address to the Australian parliament last November heralded the introduction of legislation further curtailing Muslim civil liberties and reinforcing the official narrative that “ideology” is the cause of extremism and radicalisation, so today’s address by the Prime Minister to...
Local paper East London Lines reports on an investigation launched by the Metropolitan police after photographs emerged of officers allegedly laughing at a Muslim woman who was assaulted by a group of young women who punched her and pulled off her headscarf. The victim, who was on her way to...
The Guardian reports on a warning by Baroness Warsi that radicalisation of British Muslims represents a “generational challenge” that the government is failing to tackle because of its policy of non-engagement with mainstream Muslim organisations. Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme...
Scottish TV station STV News reports on the sentencing of a man who racially abused Humza Yousaf, Member of the Scottish parliament and Minister for Europe and International Development, last February when the MSP was taking part in a charity event. Yousaf, who was selling copies of the Big Issue...
The Times follows the Daily Express in publishing an article about religious slaughter and animal welfare focusing solely on halal slaughter. The newspaper, which has already displayed a strong bias in favour of animal welfare groups in their push for the removal of exemptions in law for religious...
The Guardian reports that a disciplinary panel investigating the death of Habib Ullah, who died shortly after being stopped and searched by officers from Thames Valley police in July 2008, has cleared the five officers of misconduct. A three-person panel at Shaw House, Newbury heard that five...
The Independent on Sunday yesterday claimed that the Chilcot Inquiry report was “unlikely to be published for another year at least” adding to renewed dismay at the continued delays to publication. The inquiry, which has cost £10 million to date and which stopped taking evidence in 2011, has...
The Liverpool Echo reports on the release of statistics by Merseyside Police under a Freedom of Information request which shows anti-Muslim hate crimes rising from 2014 – 2015. The paper notes that Merseyside Police, who are stepping up their campaign to tackle under-reporting of hate crime,...
