** 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, Independent and The Sunday Times all report on the concerns raised over Britain’s possible involvement in the CIA’s rendition and torture programmes following the release last week of the Senate Committee’s report on “enhanced interrogation methods” used by the US spy...
This is Local London reports on alleged incidents of racially aggravated assault in Walthamstow. Rumours of a group of Polish men hanging around outside mosques and attacking Muslim females were circulating on social media last week. Police have since issued an appeal for information after two...
The Independent on Sunday draws attention to the stubborn persistence of the falsehood generated one year by the Daily Express when it proclaimed ‘Christmas is banned: it offends Muslims’. In a feature article this week, Cole Moreton looks at the decision by Stoke City Council to...
When is the mention of a person’s religious identity ‘genuinely relevant’ to a story? That is the question that arises in relation to the jailing of pensioner, Mohammed Rafiq, 80, after he was found guilty of orchestrating an acid attack on an ex-girlfriend, Vikki Horsman, 19....
BBC News, The Guardian and the third sector news site, Civil Society, cover the audit report commissioned by the British Muslim charity, Islamic Relief Worldwide, after it was accused by the Israeli Defence Minister, Moshe Ya’alon, of funnelling funds to ‘Hamas-controlled organisations’,...
The Daily Mirror front page today revisits the issue of the delayed publication of the Chilcot Inquiry report into Britain’s involvement in the US-led invasion of Iraq calling it the “worst cover-up of our time”. The paper’s columnist, Paul Routledge, referring to the publication this week...
The newspapers this week (Daily Telegraph, Guardian, Independent, The Times and Daily Mail) have all given prominence to the publication of a US Senate report into the use of torture, ‘or “enhanced interrogation techniques” by American operatives in the CIA as part of the ‘war on terror’....
BBC News reports on the sentencing of a man arrested after he shouted abuse and assaulted a Muslim woman in Bristol city centre covering her face and headscarf in saliva. The incident occurred last July as Hasina Khan was making her way to work one morning. Jack Hughes, 26, raged at her about...
A newly-wed couple who ended up spending their honeymoon night in a jail cell appeared in court for sentencing this week after pleading guilty to public order and racially aggravated offences. The couple, Kirsty and Nick Bigland, started an altercation with security staff at the Manchester Hilton...
The local paper, Portsmouth News, relays the harrowing story of a Muslim convert in the city who has suffered ‘horrendous abuse’ over the years. Yvonne Rogers, a 61 year old convert and taxi driver, spoke to the paper about the level and nature of abuse she has experienced since converting to...
