** 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, Daily Telegraph, The Guardian and BBC News all report on the Department of Education’s publication of non-statutory guidance notes for schools, maintained and independent, academies and free schools, in respect of new “requirements to actively promote fundamental British values...
The Evening Standard and The Independent report on the publication of a report by the Mayor of London’s Office for Policing and Crime’s documenting the rise in hate crime in London and outlining its hate crime reduction strategy. The report reveals that since October 2011, the number of...
Peter Oborne and Alex Delmar-Morgan have two articles up on the Daily Telegraph’s website looking at further developments impacting on British Muslim charities. In an article exploring the vagaries of Interpal’s demonisation over the years, from libellous accusations of its funding terrorist...
There has been significant coverage on the sentencing of British soldier, Ryan McGee, for building a nail bomb and possessing a copy of the Anarchist Cookbook (see BBC News, Channel 4 News, The Daily Express, The Independent, The Guardian, The Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, The Telegraph, The...
The Independent on Sunday ran a story on the level of employment discrimination faced by Muslims in the UK labour market from a study conducted by researchers at Bristol University. Using information from the Labour Force Survey, researchers were able to deduce the comparable rate of unemployment...
There has been considerable coverage last week of the Home Secretary’s speech at RUSI on Tuesday outlining the Government’s new Counter-terrorism and Security Bill and the Bill itself which was published yesterday. In her speech, Theresa May talked about the institutional response to...
The Daily Mirror covers revelations of Facebook posts by Arthur Thackeray, chief of staff to UKIP MEP David Coburn, in which he expressed support for the English and Scottish Defence Leagues and talked about joining the SDL on a protest in Glasgow in 2012. In Facebook posts uploaded by Thackeray...
The Daily Mail and Daily Telegraph report on the Law Society’s retraction of the legal guidance that was issued earlier this year to help the legal profession meet the needs of Muslim clients who wished for wills to be drawn up on a shari’ah compliant basis. The guidance, which has attracted...
Rotherham’s local paper, The Star, reports on frustrations expressed by the local MP over the Government’s response to local petitions for the banning of far right demonstrations in the city. After a series of local protests which have cost the city considerable amounts in the form of policing...
The Guardian covers the latest outburst by Lord Pearson of Rannoch, former leader of UKIP. In a debate in the House of Lords this week over the findings of the Intelligence and Security Committee report on the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby, Lord Pearson said: “My Lords, are the Government aware...
