** 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 Cambridge News reports on a hate crime incident at one of the city’s parks on a Saturday afternoon in which a Muslim mother and her young daughter were subjected to vile racist abuse by a gang of white youngsters. Samrah Sehar was playing with her one year old daughter at a park on Mill...
Local papers, Sheffield Telegraph and The Star, report on provisional plans announced by the English Defence League to hold a demonstration in the city in July. The plans have been sparked by the alleged failure of the South Yorkshire Police to deal with child sexual exploitation cases between 2007...
The Penarth Times and BBC News draw attention to allegations against UKIP in relation to the distribution of leaflets accusing other political parties of supporting state benefits for extremists. The leaflet, which refers to “Jihadi John”, was mailed to voters in the Cardiff South and...
BBC News, The Daily Mail, The Daily Mirror and The Sun all report on the resignation of a prospective UKIP candidate over the lack of action taken by the party against MEP David Coburn for his remark comparing the Scottish National Party’s MSP and Minister for Europe and International...
The Jewish News reports on the comments by Labour incumbent for the marginal seat of Bury South, Ivan Lewis MP, on strains of Islamophobia present among British Jewish communities. Speaking at the We Believe in Israel conference, organised by BICOM, the former minister for the Middle East, said:...
The Daily Express last week reported on new prison population figures which show the percentage of Muslim prisoners held in category A prisons, such as HMP Belmarsh has risen by 108 per cent since March 2010. There were 127 Muslim prisoners held in high security prisons in March 2010 with the...
The Home Secretary today announced the Government’s new counter-extremism strategy after the weekend papers reported on disagreements between the Coalition parties about how far restrictions on free speech should go. The new strategy presents a number of important questions about the...
A number of Scottish newspapers cover the ‘demonstration’ by the far right Pegida movement in Edinburgh at the weekend – Herald Scotland, Daily Record, Edinburgh Evening News and The Courier. The demonstration turned out to be a damp squib after the far right group’s supporters failed to...
The Glasgow Evening Times draws attention to the National Front’s stunt of exploiting the tragic murder of Kriss Donald for political gain and to promote racial dissension in Glasgow. The paper reports that the National Front signed bouquets of flowers and laid them at the Clydeside memorial for...
The Times reports on yet another scandal involving UKIP candidates after the party’s head of candidates, David Soutter, was reportedly captured on tape recorder saying that the party had failed to apply its membership rules to three senior figures who were formerly members of the National Front....
