** 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,...
Another day, another UKIP scandal it would seem. Graham Whitehead, the party’s candidate for the ward of Failsworth in the Oldham Council local elections next month is being investigated by the party after Islamophobic and racist posts put on his social media page were revealed. Whitehead is...
The Independent today features further research by Dr Nabil Khattab of Bristol University on the high incidence of Muslim unemployment in the UK and the possible causes. Dr Khattab’s latest research, presented at the British Sociological Association’s annual conference in Glasgow, investigates...
The Daily Mirror and Express and Star have the latest on UKIP candidates behaving badly. In the week that the Jewish Chronicle publishes an interview with UKIP party leader, Nigel Farage, in which he makes a number of prejudicial comments against Muslims, his party colleagues are found spouting...
The Daily Mail and Evening Standard report on the latest developments concerning the case involving a Liverpool FC fan who posted a picture of Muslims praying in the stands at Anfield on twitter and labelled it a “disgrace”. Stephen Dodd posted the photo of Asif Bodi and Abubakar Bula whilst...
The Independent covers the release of statistics on the number of racial or religiously aggravated hate crimes reported to British Transport Police following an FOI submitted by the Press Association. According to the data, BTP recorded 1,468 hate crimes in 2014, up from 1,364 in 2013 and 1,351 in...
Local paper, the Swindon Advertiser, publishes a letter from a reader on the “tsunami of Islamophobic nonsense in our media” which “is making Britain increasingly insecure where attacks on Muslims are carried out in a way reminiscent of the McCarthy era in the USA.” Peter Smith, who...
The Jewish Chronicle this week features an interview with UKIP party leader, Nigel Farage, following on from last week’s interview with the new party candidate for Hendon, Dr Raymond Shamash. Shamash replaced the former candidate for Hendon, Jeremy Zeid, who was forced to step down after tweeting...
The York Press reports on the set up of a 24 hour hate crime hotline in North Yorkshire providing support to victims in the hope of improving hate crime reporting. Hate crimes in the North Yorkshire region rose by 21% on the previous year with 387 hate crime offences recorded in 2013/2014 across...
The Dorset Echo reports on the progress of a criminal investigation into a suspected hate crime after a window was smashed at the Weymouth Islamic Centre last month. The incident happened between 12.30 and 1.15 on the afternoon of Sunday 22 March. Dorset Police released a CCTV image of a man wanted...
BBC News, ITV News, the Guardian, Daily Mirror and Birmingham Mail all cover an Islamophobic hate crime in Solihull after four severed pigs heads were left at the door of a community centre rumoured to be in use as an unauthorised mosque. The papers report that West Midlands Police were alerted to...
