** 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 Birmingham Mail reports on another incident of racist and Islamophobic graffiti at a Birmingham University building. It is the third occurrence this year of graffiti appearing on the university campus. In the latest attack, the words ‘Kill Islam before it kills you’ were sprayed on a...
Simon Kuper in the Financial Times brilliantly dissects the hypocrisies and ironies of the “war on terror” and the media’s insatiable demand to cover the next big terrorist scoop giving terrorists the PR they desperately crave and creating for ordinary Muslims living conditions...
There are confused reports in the newspapers this weekend about the imminent introduction of the new rules on the Prevent duty subsequent to the Counter Terrorism and Security Act which put the duty on a statutory footing on a range of “specified authorities” including schools, prisons...
Local paper, the Eastwood Advertiser, reports on hate crime statistics in the Nottingham region as analysed by the local chapter of Citizens UK, Nottingham Citizens. According to a report by Nottingham Citizens, the vast majority of hate crimes are motivated by race and religion indicators with 80...
The newspapers this weekend (ITV News, The Guardian, Independent on Sunday, Mail on Sunday, BBC News, STV News and The Scotsman) covered a new scandal engulfing UKIP after its Scottish leader and MEP for the region likened the Scottish National Party’s MSP and Minister for Europe and...
The papers this weekend have reported on comments by former Labour deputy prime minister, Lord John Prescott, on the likely impact of Blair’s wars on the radicalisation of young Muslims (Sunday Express and Star on Sunday). The Daily Telegraph on Saturday reported on the comments made by Lord...
BBC News reports on a Christian street preacher who is standing trial on two charges of using threatening and abusive words, and a third of causing racially or religiously aggravated harassment, alarm or distress after members of the public complained about the content of his public sermons on...
Simon Hooper of Al Jazeera contributes a feature article on the potential of the Muslim vote in the coming election and the launch of our election manifesto in Parliament on March 4. Looking at the distribution of the Muslim population across parliamentary constituencies including marginal seats,...
The Guardian and Independent front pages yesterday reported on comments Nigel Farage is said to have made in a documentary fronted by former chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, Trevor Phillips, and due to air on Channel 4 next week about scrapping race discrimination legislation in...
The Daily Mail reports on the trial of a man who raged about “f****** foreigners” before launching a violent assault on a Turkish shopkeeper in Paddington, west London last October. Hilmi Uludag was manning the till at the shop when Andrew Jefferson, 52, walked in, browsed around the aisles and...
