** 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 Daily Mail and Financial Times cover the statement issued by the UK Independence Party yesterday supporting a ban on unstunned slaughter. The statement, available on the party’s website, states: “We see no reason why religious groups should not take into account the concerns of animal...
BBC News reports on the evidence session held on Tuesday by the Foreign Affairs select committee with the chair of the Chilcot Inquiry, Sir John Chilcot, as part of its hearings into the Progress of the Iraq Inquiry. The committee held a “one-off” session with Sir John to discuss “the...
There has been a stark growth in UK public interest on religious slaughter and food labelling, driven to some extent by pervasive and often prejudicial media coverage of halal slaughter methods and political campaigns, by far right parties principally, on the welfare of animals – that is how...
The European Union Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) has undertaken extensive research into the situation of Muslims in the European Union (EU) including the experience of anti-Muslim hate crimes under its remit for investigating the exercise of fundamental rights in the EU and rights awareness among...
Local paper, the Wharfedale Observer, relates news of an incident of anti-Muslim and anti-Semitic graffiti sprayed onto council flats in the town of Otley in Yorkshire. The graffiti is said to have appeared at the weekend, on Saturday 30 January, with a slogan “directing violence” towards...
BBC News, ITV News and the South Wales Argus all report on the resignation of Donald Grewar, UKIP’s candidate for the Newport East parliamentary seat. Grewar was challenged by the UKIP party chairman for Newport East for posts uploaded onto his Facebook page which expressed support for the...
The Independent front page today covers shocking footage from an abattoir in Yorkshire where slaughterers were filmed on secret cameras subjecting animals to unnecessary cruelty. One member of staff has since been dismissed for gross misconduct and a further three are facing internal investigation...
We welcomed manifesto commitments by the Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties that “security measures must be proportional and consistent with liberal democratic values and the rule of law”, and that “the best way to combat terrorism is to prosecute terrorists, not give away...
The Guardian, Independent and Daily Telegraph report on further criticism levelled at the Home Secretary over the plans to introduce a statutory duty on universities compelling them to abide by Guidance on the Prevent strategy. The plans were criticised last week by former Director of Public...
There is some coverage in the papers and on ITV News of the Muslim Council of Britain’s ‘visit my mosque’ initiative. The Daily Mirror reports that the initiative comes as British Muslims seek to dispel “tensions around terrorism”. The paper, along with others, relates the unfortunate...
