** 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,...
BBC News and the Daily Mail both cover reaction to the news that the former leader of the English Defence League, Stephen Lennon, has been invited to address the Oxford Union. Lennon went by the name Tommy Robinson when leader of the EDL. Lennon, who has recently served a prison sentence for...
The local paper, Hertfordshire Mercury, reports on the trial outcome of a man charged with racially aggravated threatening words and obstructing police after an incident in Loughton last September. Scott Aaron Vale, 23, admitted the offences which occurred on the night of his brother’s birthday....
The International Business Times covers the story of UKIP party member, Malcolm Jackson, whose membership has been revoked by the party after he attended a ‘mega-mosque’ demonstration in Rochester organised by the far right, anti-Muslim group, Britain First. Jackson said that he was not...
BBC News reports on the reaction of some Muslim parents in Lancashire to a nasal spray administered to young children as a preventative measure against flu which contains pork gelatine. The nasal spray, which was earlier piloted in Glasgow and Leicestershire faced negative reaction from Muslim...
The Daily Mail, Daily Star, Daily Mirror, and Blackpool Gazette all report on the sentencing of four men who admitted to causing religiously aggravated intentional harassment, alarm or distress in relation to a hate crime incident last year. Thomas Ashton, 21, Andrew Warner, 30, Travis...
Press Release: mend / Unite Against Fascism For Attention: News-desk 19 November 2014 Diane Abbott MP, Muslim community groups and NGO’s come together to tackle Islamophobia Tackling Islamophobia: Roundtable panel discussion in Parliament 3-5pm Thursday 20 November 2014 Committee...
Manchester Evening News reports on concerns expressed by Muslims in Rochdale over the rise in ‘unprecedented and unacceptable’ prejudice suffered by the local community since news of the child sex grooming scandals broke. An upsurge in anti-Muslim abuse, in the form of hate mail and offensive...
The Daily Record and Herald Scotland report on Glasgow City Council’s banning of the Scottish Defence League’s planned parade in the city in fear of a “clear risk to the public and to the peaceful life of the community”. The SDL planned to hold the march to publicise claims of child sexual...
The local paper, Portsmouth News, reports on yet another hate incident at the city’s Jami mosque. Vandals scrawled a ‘vulgar word’ in purple letters on the walls of the mosque which have only recently been re-painted, according to the local news report. The mosque has been the scene of a...
The Blackpool Gazette front page at the weekend reported on the trial of four men charged with religiously aggravated intentional harassment, alarm or distress for their roles in a hate crime incident last year. Thomas Ashton, 21, Andrew Warner, 30, Travis Crabtree, 25, and Steven White, 28, all...
