** 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,...
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The Herald Scotland draws attention to a Conservative candidate in Scotland who shared a social media link from the far right group Britain First’s Facebook page. Alastair Redman, who is standing for the Conservative party in the Argyll and Bute seat in the Westminster parliament, shared a post...
The Times front page yesterday did a great job of misrepresenting a new report, ‘Muslim charities: A suspect sector’, with the headline ‘Charities suspected of Muslim extremist links’. The object of the news story is a report that investigates the “validity and the breadth of the...
The Bolton News and Asian Image draw attention to the arrests of three men who have been charged with racially aggravated malicious communications for posting offensive messages on the ‘Stop The Astley Bridge Mosque’ Facebook page. Leon Richmond, 18, and Darren Hubble, 23, are expected to...
The Daily Telegraph and The Times newspapers on Friday put proposals outlined in the PM’s speech to the Australian parliament, to temporarily confiscate passports of Britons returning from fighting in conflicts overseas, on the front page (see also Independent, Guardian, BBC News and Sky News)...
Bradford’s local paper, The Telegraph & Argus, reports on the exploitation of a war veteran’s robbery by the British National Party for political gain. A former infantryman, George Gill, was robbed of his war medals while walking to a Remembrance Day ceremony in Keighley by individuals...
BBC News reports on details about political party funding after the Electoral Commission published figures for the last quarter. Figures from the quarterly update published today reveal that the Conservative party topped the list with donations and public funds received in the period July –...
The Independent reports on latest developments in relation to an investigation into the use of crown copyright by far right group Britain First. The group had previously been investigated by the Advertising Standards Agency for merchandise featuring an image of the Royal Crown and products which...
The Daily Mail reports on a shocking incident of alleged racist abuse at a McDonalds store in south east London. Yasin Farah and two friends who visited a McDonalds outlet on Sunday 2 November early in the morning to order some breakfast say they were taken aback by the rudeness of the manager of...
The Daily Mail and Manchester Evening News report on an incident of racially aggravated assault at Manchester Deansgate’s Hilton hotel. Newly-wed couple Kirsty and Nick Bigland appeared at Manchester magistrates’ court to face charges after being arrested for racially abusing and attacking the...
