** 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 Guardian and BBC News cover today’s report published by the Electoral Commission on countering voter fraud in Pakistani and Bangladeshi communities. Last year in a report on Electoral Fraud in the UK, the Commission stated this a problem “in areas which are largely or predominately...
Former Director of Public Prosecutions and Liberal Democrat peer, Lord Ken MacDonald of River Glaven QC, has a guest column in The Times today criticising the Government’s insistence, in the Counter-terrorism and Security Bill, on requiring higher education institutions “to play a formal...
Manchester Evening News reports on the suspension of a council worker from his post at Manchester City Council after a member of the public alerted the newspaper to an anti-Muslim message posted by the worker on his Facebook page. Dave Balderstone, 46, responded to a message on the BNP’s page...
Baroness Sayeeda Warsi pens a guest column for the Observer this week in which she lambasts the Coalition’s record onengaging with British Muslims since coming to power in 2010. Reflecting on the consequences of the Communities Secretary writing a letter to British imams urging them to...
The Independent on Saturday featured a front page story on the rise in Islamophobic incidents in schools following the murders at the Charlie Hebdo office in Paris. The paper reports that a number of incidents have been logged in which Muslim pupils have been verbally or physically abused as...
The Guardian and Independent front pages today cover the announcement that the report of the Chilcot Inquiry, into Britain’s ill-fated invasion of Iraq in 2003, will not be published until after the general election. Also covered in The Daily Telegraph, The Sun (£), Daily Mirror and the...
Glasgow’s local paper, Evening Times, reports on the increase in the number of racist incidents in the city’s schools. Figures released to the local paper under a Freedom of Information request to Glasgow City Council shows that the number of racially aggravated assaults increased by 155%...
The Belfast Telegraph and Irish Sunday Independent report on anti-Muslim hate crime incidents that have occurred in Northern Ireland and the Irish mainland in the wake of the murders of cartoonists at the Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris. Brothers Asim and Adil Sardar who share the house in...
