** 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 Oxford Mail report on the charging of two men with public order offences following an English Defence League demonstration in Oxford city centre on Saturday 4 April. Police stepped up policing for the event with officers drafted in from five neighbouring forces to handle the EDL...
The Independent today uncovers details of the businessmen who signed an open letter endorsing the Conservative party and its economic and business policies discovering that a number of them had either been awarded honours by the Prime Minister or had donated large sums to the Conservative party....
In an interview with The Muslim News, Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, has suggested that he will undertake an early review of the Prevent strand of the UK’s counter-terrorism strategy after learning of the extent of Muslim opposition to it from having spoken directly to Muslim communities. The...
Continuing a spate of Freedom of Information requests on the number of racist incidents reported in British schools, the Felixstowe Star reports that there were three incidents a day reported in schools in Sussex in the last year. The local paper reports, “According to the figures, released under...
The Islington Gazette reports on the sentencing of Michael O’Leary, who was on trial for an attack on a Muslim shopkeeper in north London last year. O’Leary, who attacked Samsul Islam at his convenience store on Holloway Road, was cleared of attempted murder at Blackfriars Crown Court last...
The news site Haberler reports on journalist Mike Power’s findings as he follows Freddy Vachha, the UKIP candidate for Chingford, as he canvasses people in his constituency. Vachha who was born in India, is observed soliciting support for UKIP by playing on the concerns expressed by voters over...
The Independent exposes more evidence of UKIP members making Islamophobic or controversial comments with Keith Fraser, the UKIP candidate for Hackney North & Stoke Newington, stating that radicalised young Muslims should be put on free flights to Syria and Iraq. Describing ISIS sympathisers as...
The academic director of polling agency YouGov, Joel Faulkner Rogers, presents some interesting data from the company’s polling of public attitudes on Islam’s compatibility with British values. Reflecting on the Home Secretary’s recent speech detailing the new approach the Conservatives will...
The Guardian and Independent both report on the latest scandal involving Katie Hopkins as she wades into yet another accusation of inciting racial hatred. In a twitter exchange with the Labour MP for Rochdale, Simon Danczuk, who marked Pakistan National Day by raising the Pakistani flag in his...
The voluntary sector publications Third Sector and Civil Society, return to the subject of the Charity Commissionand its approach to regulating British Muslim charities. Third Sector covers the defence offered by William Shawcross, the Charity Commission chairman, of its actions over the charities...
