** 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 Sunday Telegraph yesterday disclosed that the Charities Commission is ‘scrutinising 86 British charities which it believes are at risk of extremism’ noting that 37 of these are ‘working to help victims of the Syria crisis.’ The Sunday Telegraph adds the story to its front cover,...
The Daily Star carries news of a London bus driver who has been suspended from his job after his far right racist sympathies were uncovered by anti-racism campaigners. Wes Lay, who works for transport company Abellio and drove a bus route in North West London has been “suspended pending a formal...
Scottish daily paper, the Daily Record, carries an interview with Shirin Akhter, the Muslim woman who had her face veil ripped from her face in an attack last year by a man who told her “Why are you wearing this? This is not the Qur’an and is not allowed in this country.” Emiliano Sanchez,...
BBC News and STV News report on the sentencing of a man who ripped a niqab off the face of a Muslim woman in Dennistoun, Glasgow last year. Shirin Akhter was shopping at the Lidl store in Dennistoun when Emiliano Sanchez stood in front of her as she exited the store and shouted at her […]
The Kent Messenger and City AM pick up on a story from Political Scrapbook disclosing that Royal Mail have refused to distribute a leaflet by Britain First candidate for the by election seat of Rochester and Strood, Jayda Fransen, because it does not comply with the law. The leaflet, which shows a...
After the scandal of UKIP canvassers posing for a photo with supporters of the far right group Britain First, the Daily Mirror investigates whether there is all that much that separates the two parties. Ahead of the by-election for the parliamentary seat of Rochester and Strood, following the...
The Daily Mirror, Manchester Evening News, and Rochdale Online report on the charges brought against a man who attacked an Asian taxi driver leaving him permanently scarred. Javad Iqbal, 48, was assaulted after dropping off a fare in Rochdale in the early hours of Sunday last week. He was stabbed...
The Guardian today reports on the latest development in the rendition case of Abdel Hakim Belhadj against the British Government and former public servants, Jack Straw MP and Sir Mark Allen, former foreign secretary and former head of counter-intelligence at MI6 respectively. Belhadj, who has been...
The Daily Mirror and BBC News report on the ‘hope’ expressed by the Leader of the House of Commons, William Hague, that the Chilcot Inquiry report into the Iraq war will be published before the 2015 general election. Hague’s comments follow a demand by Conservative MP Keith Simpson to know...
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