** 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 Independent and Asian Image newspapers cover the results of a poll commissioned by Islamic Relief and conducted by YouGov on public perceptions of Islam, Muslims and charity. The poll, which comes as Muslims gear up for the month of Ramadan, shows that negative perceptions of Muslims persist...
The Birmingham Mail reports on the efforts of a local community activist and Birmingham city councillor to stamp out anti-Muslim graffiti which has been appearing regularly on phone boxes and bus stops in the King’s Heath part of the city. Luke Holland and Labour Cllr Claire Spencer have been...
The Daily Mirror, Daily Mail and the Manchester Evening News all report on an anti-Muslim hate crime on a tram in Manchester this past weekend which has resulted in the arrest of four teenagers. The incident occurred last Friday and was recorded by one of the victims who uploaded video footage of...
Local paper Get Reading and online news site, MK Web, report on the establishment of a new third party reporting centre in the Thames Valley constabulary area supported by the region’s Police and Crime Commissioner, Anthony Stansfield. Third party reporting centres were introduced in the...
The research team at Spinwatch have followed up their seminal report on the Cold War on British Muslims, investigating the role of and money behind the Centre for Social Cohesion and Policy Exchange, with a new report on another centre-right think tank whose output and activities have contributed...
The Daily Express, Daily Mail and London Evening Standard all report on news that an education academy in east London, which runs four primary schools in the boroughs of Waltham Forest and Haringey, has written to parents of pupils at the schools to advise that the schools are to implement a policy...
The Birmingham Mail reports on the court appearance of a man charged with a racially aggravated public order offence following the discovery of a bag containing pig’s heads outside Solihull Community Hub last April. Rumours that the building was being used as an ‘unauthorised’ mosque were in...
The website London 24 reports on a story involving a Muslim teacher who claims that he was only able to secure a job interview at Langdon Academy, a school in east London after he pretended to be a “white British applicant”. Hamid Mahmood claims that after being unsuccessful with an application...
Far-right group, the English Defence League (EDL) are planning to protest outside the UK’s largest water park, Waterworld, for allegedly hosting “Muslim-only days”. Waterworld in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire was to be hired out for two hours on Sunday 9 August for a women-only event,...
South Wales Argus reports that a Torfaen politician who used the derogatory term “Muzzy” in an outburst about Muslims on Facebook will not face any disciplinary action by the council regulator despite the comment being deemed “offensive” in its official ruling. The Independent councillor,...
