** 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 Guardian publishes findings from a research project by Show Racism the Red Card investigating attitudes among young people towards Muslims, immigrants and asylum seekers. The research, overseen by Dr Paul Jackson of Northampton University, solicited responses to survey questions from 6000...
Giles Fraser in the Guardian on Saturday returned to the subject of “undue spiritual influence” and electioneering by exploring the contradictory reaction by the establishment to the endorsement by the Hindu Forum of Britain of David Cameron in the general election and a letter sent by 101...
The Metro, Independent and Mail on Sunday report on a food labelling issue which has forced supermarket chain Aldi to issue an apology to Muslim customers after a food item was wrongly labelled as ‘halal’ certified while the ingredients list included things like ‘pork blood’, ‘pork...
The Lincolnite reports on plans by the Lincoln Division of the English Defence League to hold an anti-Islam demonstration in the city during the summer. The news was first publicised on the EDL Lincolnshire Division Facebook page where a post refer to a protest to be organised on the afternoon of...
The Guardian reports on an interview in a Danish publication with the Manchester United Football Club scout who was sacked by the club after Islamophobic and xenophobic Facebook posts on his personal page were uncovered by the Guardian. In January of this year, the Guardian published details of a...
The Independent and Guardian report on the criticism by Baroness Sayeeda Warsi of the policy announcement by the PM earlier this week on proposing new legislation, such as ‘extremism disruption orders’ and ‘closure orders’ on places of worship suspected of being used for radicalisation, in...
The Daily Mail reports on the action taken by the National College of Teaching and Learning against a headteacher in Essex who was found guilty of unacceptable professional conduct by a disciplinary panel. Anupe Hanch, who was headteacher at Gearies Junior School in Essex, was accused of racially...
It was only likely to be a matter of time before the Conservative Party pushed ahead with an agenda it felt was unfairly frustrated by its former coalition partner, the Liberal Democrats, and sure enough, yesterday the Prime Minister affirmed plans to introduce counter-extremism measures outlined...
The Evening Standard and local paper, the Waltham Forest Guardian report on the English Defence League protest in Walthamstow at the weekend. The EDL were protesting against what they called “Islamist Bandit Country” in Walthamstow, east London and the “continuing assault from Islamification...
The Mail on Sunday reported on the teaching ban to be imposed on a BNP affiliated teacher following the outcome of the disciplinary hearing conducted by the National College of Teaching and Learning last week. The NCTL opened an investigation after allegations of anti-Muslim comments made by a...
