** 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 website Civil Society, which covers news relating to the third sector, reports that two British Muslim which recently had their funding withdrawn by the Government are to challenge allegations that they have not complied with Government guidelines. The Sunday Telegraph a week ago ran a...
The Independent today reports on the latest effort by the far right organisation Britain First to stoke tensions in east London with their ‘Christian patrols’. The far right group which has been behind a number of provocations, including ‘mosque invasions’ in towns and cities across the...
The Daily Telegraph front page today covers the letter issued by the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, MP Eric Pickles, and the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State in CLG, Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon, calling on mosque leaders to “demonstrate the true nature of British...
The Birmingham Mail and ITV News report on anti-Muslim graffiti which has appeared on the walls of the University of Birmingham in Edgbaston and the Jahalabad mosque in Selly Oak. The two incidents are linked according to West Midlands Police who are investigating the hate crimes. A slogan painted...
The Daily Mirror and Gazette Live report on the sentencing of two women who accosted a Muslim family on holiday in Blackpool with rants about ‘banning the burqa’. Imtiaz Hussain, his wife Barbara and their three daughters were on a week long holiday in Blackpool when the incident occurred on...
Manchester Evening News discloses racial and religious hate crime statistics for the Manchester region on the back of FOI requests submitted to Greater Manchester Police by the local paper. The paper reports that racially-motivated crimes in north Manchester rose by 43% last year, an increase more...
The Guardian reports on the suspension of a football scout for Manchester United, Torben Aakjaer, following an investigation into anti-Muslim and racist Facebook posts found on his social media page. The Guardian reveals that the offensive posts includes “a photograph of six pigs with a caption:...
The Independent today reveals that UKIP MEP for the London region, Gerard Batten, has repeated his call for Muslims to sign the “Proposed Charter of Muslim Understanding” explicitly disavowing violence committed in the name of Islam. Batten wrote the foreword to the Charter which was initially...
There is some sensible commentary in the press that is deserving of a wider readership to counter-balance the hyperbole and bias promoted elsewhere in the press. Associate Professor Anne Aly in a comment piece available on the Guardian’s Comment is Free draws on her research into terrorism to...
