** 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 reports on four MPs who have protested against the failure of US President Barack Obama to release the last UK resident of Guantanamo Bay, Shaker Aamer, despite his being imprisoned for 13 years without charge. Conservatives MPs Andrew Mitchell and David Davis, and Labour’s Jeremy...
BBC News reported last week on a comment by the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, that there is “some justification” to allegations that the force is “institutionally racist” because disproportionate stops against BME people persist without explanation. At...
The polling agency YouGov published poll findings last week about intolerance in western Europe and the minority groups most affected by prejudice, though from media coverage you would not likely be aware of it. The poll has received scant coverage in the mainstream press despite being published...
Manchester Evening News and ITV News report on the launch of police investigation after three fires were set off in the early hours of yesterday morning (Sunday). Including one behind a mosque. The fires started off with an outbuilding on Derwent Road in Rochdale which spread to an adjacent garden....
The Daily Mirror and Guardian pick up on a story published in the Manchester Evening News concerning a police officer with Greater Manchester Police who has been sacked for posting “racist and offensive” comments about Muslims on Facebook. The MEN reports on the public hearing of a panel...
After running a public poll last month asking whether Britain should follow the Netherlands and ban the burqa in government buildings, schools, hospitals and on public transport, the Daily Express is back with another poll singling out Muslims this time on the subject of halal meat. Following the...
Chris Doyle, Director of CAABU (Council for the Advancement of Arab British Understanding) pens a guest column for Al Arabiya in which he questions the credentials of former PM, Tony Blair, and Moshe Kantor, the President of the European Jewish Council to undertake a joint venture tackling hate and...
The Evening Standard and Independent on Sunday report on the attack on a Muslim woman as she went to collect her children from the Al-Khair primary school in Croydon, south London. The woman, whose name is not disclosed in the media reports, was making her way to the school around 3pm on Thursday...
LBC radio and the Barnet and Potters Bar Times report on the £5,000 reward offered by the Metropolitan Police Service for information assisting inquiries into the arson attack two years ago which partially burnt to the ground the Islamic Bravanese Welfare Association in Muswell Hill. The Somali...
The Independent reports on the application to the High Court by human rights advocacy group, CAGE, for a judicial review into the actions of the Charity Commission claiming its “unlawful exercise of powers” has had a “chilling effect” on the charity sector. CAGE, is not a...
