** 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 Liverpool Echo and Daily Mirror report on the challenge by supporters of Liverpool Football Club to a fan who posted a picture of two Muslims praying at Anfield during half time with the hashtag #disgrace. Stephen Dodd posted the picture taken at Liverpool’s match against Blackburn Rovers on...
The Guardian front page today covers the Labour Party’s forthcoming Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) Manifesto amid figures released by the Office for National Statistics and analysed by the House of Commons Library which show that long term unemployment among young people of ethnic...
The website, New North Wales, reports on an alleged incident of racially aggravated criminal damage after a fire broke out at a former takeaway shop in Connah’s Quay, Flintshire. A former tandoori takeaway shop, MAA Tandoori Takeaway, was set alight and the letters ‘E’ ‘D’ ‘L’ were...
The South Wales Argus reports on another incident involving alleged support by a UKIP prospective parliamentary candidate for the far right English Defence League. The paper reports that the PPC for Monmouth, Gareth Dunn, allegedly linked to a video of the ex-leader and co-founder of the EDL,...
The Kent Messenger reports on the charging of a man with attempted arson with intent to endanger life after lit tissue paper was found in the letterbox of a mosque in Folkestone while the imam was inside. Philip Donovan, 28, has been charged with the offence, which carries a possible life sentence,...
The voluntary sector publications, Third Sector, and Civil Society Media draw attention to the publication of the report by the Humanitarian Policy Group of the Overseas Development Institute (ODI). Although the paper, UK Humanitarian Aid in the Age of Counter-Terrorism: Perceptions and Reality,...
Letters to the Editor, The Sunday Telegraph, 111 Buckingham Palace Road, London SW1W 0DT. Dear Sir, It is not often that a British Muslim organisation has cause to give thanks to Andrew Gilligan but on this occasion, I am obliged to acknowledge his identifying a minor error in our recently...
The Government has reiterated its position on religious slaughter in a response to a question put to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs by Frank Field MP. Field tabled the question days after a parliamentary debate on the subject was initiated following a petition...
The Scotsman and Glasgow Evening Times both report on the planned protest by Pegida-Scotland in Edinburgh on March 21 and the prospect of a protest by the group in Glasgow later in the year. Pegida-UK held its first protest against the “Islamification of Europe” in Newcastle on 28 February...
Manchester Evening News and BBC News cover the protest by the English Defence League in Manchester at the weekend at which ‘hundreds’ of far right supporters gathered and were met by counter protestors mobilised by anti-racism group Unite Against Fascism. Days before the far right protest,...
