** 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 Chester Chronicle reports on the arrest of a man on suspicion of committing a racially aggravated public order offence after a pig’s head was found at the Islamic Cultural Centre in Ellesmere Port. A passerby alerted police to ‘suspicious activity’ outside the centre a little before...
The BBC, The Independent, The Guardian and local paper, Burnham & Highbridge Weekly News, report on the Prime Minister’s announcement to increase the powers of the Charity Commission by awarding the watchdog £8 million over three years to tackle charity abuse including the “menace of...
South Wales Argus, The Telegraph and Argus, The Bolton News, Crawley and Horley Observer, Peterborough Telegraph, Burton Mail, The Argus, Nottingham Post and Hartlepool Mail all report on the efforts of local police forces and elected Police and Crime Commissioners to tackle hate crime during...
BBC News, The Guardian, and Metro all report on the release of hate crime statistics for April 2013 to March 2014 comprising of data supplied to the Home Office by the 43 police forces in England and Wales and the British Transport Police. The report details the number of hate crimes occurring...
The Lancashire Telegraph and The Blackburn, Darwen and Hyndburn Citizen report on the sentencing of a teenager who threw a pot noodle at two Asian boys walking home from a mosque in Darwen. The two boys, aged 8 and 10, were walking home from a mosque dressed in traditional clothing when they...
Local paper The Star reports on an open letter signed by faith leaders in Sheffield raising concerns about the way in which the Rotherham child sex abuse scandal has been used to incite hatred. Signed by leaders including Abdool Gooljar, the President of the South Yorkshire branch of the...
The Guardian reports that the Treasury has finally lifted anti-terrorism financial sanctions imposed upon Moazzam Begg, the outreach director of the civil rights organisation CAGE, two weeks after terror charges against him collapsed and he was released without charge. Begg’s bank accounts...
The Times, The Independent, The Jewish Chronicle, New Statesman and the Huffington Post all report on Sir Alan Duncan’s keynote speech at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) yesterday. Sir Alan, a former Minister for International Development, launched an attack on Israel’s...
Roy Greenslade, professor of journalism at City University, compares the miscarriages of justice fuelled by anti-Irish prejudice in the 70s with the present day experiences of British Muslims in a column in the Guardian. In a column reminiscent of an earlier contribution by fellow columnist Owen...
MPs took the historic decision to recognise Palestine as a state after a backbench debate yesterday evening ended with a vote of 274 to 12, a massive majority of 262. The vote has no bearing on the official UK government position but the widely backed symbolic move evinces a shift in public opinion...
