** 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,...
There has been considerable coverage in the weekend papers on the protest by the UK branch of the German far right movement, Pegida, and a counter protest by the anti-racism alliance Newcastle Unites, on Saturday 28 February. The Daily Mirror on Saturday published an interview with Newcastle United...
The Manchester Evening News and Daily Mail report on a man who has been charged with causing racially or religiously aggravated criminal damage after he allegedly posted stickers on food produce and equipment which state “Beware halal is barbaric and funds terrorism” at a Sainsbury’s...
The Waltham Forest Guardian reports on an appeal by police for witnesses to a hate crime incident in which a Muslim woman wearing a burqa was racially abused by a passenger aboard a bus in east London. The Muslim woman and her young child were waiting at the bus stop outside Walthamstow Central...
The Independent and the Daily Telegraph follow the poll commissioned by the BBC Radio 4’s Today programme and conducted by ComRes on the opinions of British Muslims on topics as far ranging as loyalty to the UK and the effectiveness of the Muslim Council of Britain on representing Muslims’...
Parliament debated the issue of religious slaughter again yesterday as the threshold passed by the petition supporting a ban on non-stunned slaughter reached over 100,000 signatures thereby securing a Westminster Hall debate. A number of MPs spoke in the debate introduced by the MP for Kettering,...
A number of local publications in the north of England, the Halifax Courier, Yorkshire Post, Telegraph and Argus, as well as the Daily Express and Sunday Times, cover the report by the Henry Jackson Society on Community Policing and Preventing Extremism: Lessons from Bradford. The report, drawing...
The Hartlepool Mail reports on the commitment expressed by the Police and Crime Commissioner for Cleveland, Barry Coppinger, to tackle hate crime in the region after a study compiled by Hartlepool Borough Council found a high incidence rate of hate crime in the area and a low level of police...
Local paper, the Newcastle Chronicle reports on the impending march by the far right group, Pegida-UK next weekend. The march has already been denounced by the local MP, Chi Onwurah, who has called on the Home Secretary to ban prospective participants from overseas from attending the protest on...
The Bolton News reports on the conviction of a man for a racially aggravated public order offence after he was heard shouting racist abuse at a group of Asian men from the top of a bus last August. Shaun Jones, 34, attended a protest by the far right group, North West Infidels, against the Astley...
BBC News and the London Evening Standard cover details of the Labour leader, Ed Miliband’s People’s Question Time event in Lincoln yesterday in which he spoke of the “real fears among Jewish families, among Muslim families” about “rising intolerance” in the UK and Europe. Miliband, who...
