** 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 reports on the outcome of the trial of Christian preacher, Michael Overd, who was facing two charges of using threatening and abusive words, and a third of causing racially or religiously aggravated harassment, alarm or distress. BBC News reports that Overd was convicted of one charge of...
The Islington Gazette reports on the criminal trial of a man who attacked a Muslim shopkeeper at his store in Holloway Road, north London, with two knives telling him “I’d love to kill a Muslim”. Drug addict, Michael O’Leary, 35, attempted to rob a different store in Camden earlier in the...
The Glasgow Evening Times reports on a hate crime incident in the Muslim section of a cemetery in East Renfrewshire, Scotland. A sign leading to the Muslim section of Cathcart cemetery in East Renfrewshire was plastered with far right symbols. The words ‘Britain First’, ‘NF’ and ‘BNP’...
