** 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,...
BBC News and the Daily Mail report from the British Council Going Global conference in London where vice-chancellor of Oxford University and terrorism and counter-terrorism expert, Professor Louise Richardson, spoke about education being the most effective antidote to violent extremism....
The Guardian reports on a “a huge surge in political donations” in this election year with over £100m recorded offerings made to political parties making the 2015 general election the most expensive in UK history. Looking at the Electoral Commission’s figures, the £100m...
The Daily Mail reports on a 16-year-old boy who has appeared before Chelmsford Crown Court charged with two murders; that of a Muslim PhD student, Nahid Almanea and a father-of-five, James Attfield, in Colchester last year. Ms Almanea, who wore a hijab, was brutally stabbed to death 16 times...
The Guardian and the Huffington Post report on an Islamophobic incident that took place last week on a Universal Airlines flight to the United States. Tahera Ahmed, a Director of Interfaith Engagement and Associate Chaplain at Northwestern University in Illinois, says a Universal Airlines flight...
The Independent yesterday covered the report by the Electoral Reform Society revealing that the general election results this year was “the most disproportionate result in British electoral history.” The Electoral Reform Society (ERS) released a report on the results of last...
The Guardian and the Daily Telegraph report on an uproar and the first split in the Cabinet over controversial aspects of the Conservative manifesto, some of which were announced in the Queen’s speech last week. It would seem plans to pull the UK out of the European Convention on Human Rights...
Local paper, the Herts Advertiser, reports on a hate crime trial at St Albans Magistrates Court last week at which a 65 year old woman was given a community order sentence for verbally abusing two Muslim men. Linda Jones was convicted of a religiously-aggravated Section 4A public order...
The Daily Telegraph and Guardian reported last week on a local council in East London which has been accused of racism and Islamophobia after year 5 and 6 primary school children in five schools in Waltham Forest were asked to fill out a ‘counter extremism’ questionnaire. The...
ITV News, Yahoo News and the Local Government Chronicle report on the government’s legislative plans for the coming year that were announced in the Queen’s Speech to Parliament on Wednesday. Despite the Prime Minister promising a “clear programme for working people, social justice...
The Daily Telegraph reports on the statement issued by the Muslim Council of Britain in response to the comments by Metropolitan Police Commander Mak Chishty about increased religiosity among Muslims and the boycotting Marks & Spencer’s being identifiable signs of radicalisation. The MCB...
