** 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,...
Fox News is in the news again this week and not for silly remarks about Birmingham being “totally Muslim” by a guest, Steven Emerson, dubbed a “complete idiot” by the Prime Minister. This time the US based news channel makes headlines for comments by UKIP leader, Nigel Farage, about...
A bizarre story that is in the papers today relates to a discussion on the BBC’s flagship programme, Today on Radio 4, in which presenter Jim Naughtie revealed during a discussion about free speech, that publisher Oxford University Press had advised authors that things which ought to be avoided...
The cold blooded murder of the editor, cartoonists and staff at Charlie Hebdo’s offices in Paris last week and the siege at a kosher supermarket in the city in which four French Jews were killed, has predictably unleashed a barrage of polemical commentary reinforcing the ‘clash of...
The Halifax Courier reports on the focus on faith based hate crime through the month of January by West Yorkshire Police and West Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner, Mark Burns-Williamson. Since November 2014, the police force and PCC’s office have been focusing on the different...
The local paper, Cambridge News, reports on the trial of a former marine and ex-UKIP candidate in the South Cambridgeshire District Council elections last May, who is on trial for sending “grossly offensive” communications to a mosque in Cambridge and posting anti-Muslim slurs on his Facebook...
The Sunday Telegraph reports on moves by a group of MPs to push for the publication of the much-delayed and eagerly awaited Chilcot Inquiry report into the UK’s involvement in the US-led war in Iraq in a “matter of weeks”. The report, which last week was the subject of a Lords...
The Sunday Telegraph reports on the loss of public funding by the Muslim Charities Forum claiming allegations uncovered by the paper about its “links to a group alleged to fund Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood political movement” had led to a “crackdown on Islamist...
BBC News reports on a public protest to be held in Bedfordshire in support of an autistic victim of an alleged racist hate crime after two police officers were cleared of misconduct. Faruk Ali, who was helping binmen with garbage bins outside his home last August was allegedly assaulted by...
There is, justifiably, considerable coverage and commentary in the newspapers of the brutal murder of 12 people at the office of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris yesterday. The Muslim identity of the three men who shot dead cartoonists at the publication and its editor has...
The Guardian, The Independent, Daily Mail, BBC News and ITV News all report on Ofcom’s announcement that the Green Party may not qualify as a “major party” in the general election but the UK Independence Party (UKIP) may achieve this status. The regulator is undertaking a consultation...
