** 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, ITV News, Channel 4 News, Sky News, The Guardian, The Independent, The Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, The Times, Daily Mirror and the New Statesman all covered the released without charge of Moazzam Begg, the Outreach Director of Cage, a Muslim human rights organisation. Some of the papers,...
Dear Readers, On Monday 13 October the House of Commons will debate an important motion calling on the Government to recognise the state of Palestine. The motion to be debated and, crucially, voted upon, by MPs states: “That this House believes that the Government should recognise the state of...
Local paper the Southend Echo reports on a racist assault on a 12 year old Muslim boy in the town of Laindon last Monday evening. The young boy, Ubaid Khan, was out playing football when the ball rolled away and he ran to retrieve it. He was met by two men who verbally abused him […]
The Daily Mail, The Daily Mirror, The Daily Express, The Daily Star, The Times, The Daily Telegraph, ITV News, and local papers Leicester Mercury and South Wales Evening Post all report that a KFC halal only branch refused to provide wet wipes to a customer because it was against ‘halal’...
BBC News, ITV News, Sky News, The Guardian, The Daily Mail, The Daily Telegraph and The Financial Times have all reported on the Home Secretary’s speech to the Conservative conference this year in which she put flesh on the bones of proposals outlined in the taskforce on Tackling Radicalisation...
BBC News, the London Evening Standard and local paper, Camden New Journal all report on the decision by Camden School for Girls to deny a Muslim girl the right to attend school on account of her wearing niqab. The girl, who studied for five years at the school returned to study for her ‘A’...
BBC News reports on the charges brought against a man who assaulted a Muslim woman in Bristol city centre. Jack Hughes, 26, was arrested in August over the incident, which occurred in July, and will face charges of racially or religiously aggravated common assault when he appears before Bristol...
The Blackpool Gazette reports on the release of CCTV footage by Blackpool Police of a man wanted in connection with a religiously aggravated criminal damage incident at a local mosque. CCTV footage issued by the police shows a group of men entering the mosque grounds through a gate. One of the men...
The Daily Mail and Metro report on a Muslim mother who has decided to protest her dismay at a primary school that has fed her children non-halal meals ‘a good few times’ by sticking ‘halal only’ badges to her childrens’ school uniforms. Henna Khan told the paper, “I really didn’t...
BBC News and Manchester Evening News both report on the arrest of a man in connection with the arson attack on the Newton Heath Islamic Centre a couple of weeks ago. The centre’s CCTV cameras were ripped out of the wall and broken in the attack and its minibus later torched. The minibus had...
