** 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 Pew Research Center released its annual report on trends in religious restrictions and hostilities last week. The report is based on two different indices. The Government Restrictions Index which measures government laws, policies and actions that restrict religious beliefs and practices, and...
The Blackpool Gazette reports on the court appearance of a woman found guilty on charges of racially aggravated threatening behaviour in January for her role in harassing and abusing a Muslim family on holiday in Blackpool. Nicole Lloyd, 23, denied three offences of racially aggravated...
The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, appears to have got himself into a bit of a pickle with his column in the Daily Telegraph yesterday. Johnson wrote yesterday about how the Muslim Council of Britain had pounced on him for suggesting jihadists were ‘w******’ in an interview in late January....
The Bolton News relays information on race hate crime in the Greater Manchester area following a Freedom of Information request to the local police force requesting figures for 2014 broken down by area divisions. According to the figures “There were 310 hate crimes relating to race in 2014 in...
Over the past few days there has been plentiful coverage in the media of the press conference last week by civil rights campaign group CAGE at which they disclosed their communications with the killer nicknamed ‘Jihadi John,’ who US media have named as Mohammed Emwazi, a Londoner of Kuwaiti...
A new report by the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee has questioned the future of the BBC Trust and the “anachronistic” way in which TV licence fee payment is enforced. The committee’s report argues the BBC Trust is not impartial and calls for greater inspection of the public service...
The Leicester Mercury, Daily Mail and the Independent last week covered yet another allegation of misconduct levelled at a UKIP party official after Facebook posts on the page of Richard Crouch, branch secretary of the Bosworth and South Leicestershire branch were uncovered. Posts found on the...
The Jewish Chronicle front page on Friday covered the paper’s campaign to seek support from politicians for the public funding of synagogue security. The newspaper launched its campaign last week and reports that in the past week it wrote to all 650 MPs to encourage their backing for the...
As UKIP’s Spring conference in Margate concluded yesterday, the Mail on Sunday today reports on an investigation launched by the party into six candidates who have allegedly shared or posted offensive material from far right organisations like the British National Party on social media pages....
