** 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 West London online news site, Get West London, reports on a hate crime survey being run by police officers in Hounslow to help improve incident reporting and police handling of hate crime in the borough. The site reports that hate crimes in the area rose by almost 10% on the previous year with...
The Muslim News this week carries an interview with Labour party leader, Ed Miliband, in which he elaborates on the party’s plans to tackle Islamophobia if they form the next Government on 7 May. Miliband referred to the party’s manifesto pledge to introduce recording of Islamophobia as a...
The Runnymede Trust have published a report on race, ethnicity and equality in elections, with several academic contributors offering perspectives on issues such as thechanging party allegiances of different ethnic groups, political mobilisation of religious communities, the far right in the UK and...
The Independent yesterday reported on the controversial Sun columnist Katie Hopkins who has again been referred to the police for inciting racial hatred after the Society of Black Lawyers wrote to the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, to protest about her depiction of...
The Daily Express reported on UKIP’s efforts to distance the party from the English Defence League after it emerged that “I’m with UKIP” badges were brandished by supporters of the far right movement during a protest in Solihull at the weekend The Daily Express reports a UKIP spokesperson...
A number of newspapers, the Daily Mirror, Daily Mail, Daily Express, Independent, Metro, and BBC News covered the appearance of stickers in the Grangetown area of Cardiff urging British Muslims not to vote in the upcoming general and local elections. Posters bearing a hazard sign and stating...
The Daily Express on Saturday returned to a topic that has regularly appeared on the front page of the newspaper, the niqab (face veil). Covering the speech by the president of the Supreme Court, Lord Neuberger, to the Criminal Justice Alliance on 10 April, the Daily Express, along with The...
Only Richard Littlejohn could pour scorn on the two British Muslims who prayed at Anfield during half time and whose prayer break was caught by another fan who tweeted the incident calling it a #DISGRACE. Littlejohn adds his own prejudice to the mix asking why, if the Muslims knew the football...
Ingrid Storm, a researcher at Manchester University’s Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity, contributes a comment piece to Democratic Audit on why, when racial prejudice is generally in decline, is prejudice against Muslims bucking the trend? Storm looks at data from the British Social Attitudes...
Carey Lodge in Christian Today reports on the release of crime statistics by the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) which reveals the rate of increase in Islamophobic offences in the capital from April 2014 to March 2015. The MPS figures show that racial or religious hate crimes increased by 25.7...
