** 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 Yorkshire Post reports on comments found posted on South Yorkshire Police force’s Facebook page which readers have criticised as racist, offensive, and appearing to place the blame for the child sex abuse in Rotherham on Muslims. South Yorkshire Police posted a thank you message on its...
The Centre for Research in Race and Education at the University of Birmingham will be holding a seminar examining the report by Peter Clarke, the former head of the counter-terrorism division at the Metropolitan Police Service, into the so called ‘Trojan horse’ affair. A report by...
BBC Newsbeat’s front page last week featured an interview with a youth worker from Rotherham who claimed there had been an increase in anti-Muslim hate crime in the town following recent events. Muhbeen Hussain, founder of the Rotherham Muslim Youth group, said “I have seen Muslim hate crime...
The Daily Record, the Daily Mirror and the Morning Star report on the fine imposed upon a man who subjected two Asian men to a racist tirade on public transport in Glasgow in March 2013. Footage of the incident showed Stuart McIlreavy, 49, staring threateningly at two men before approaching them...
Sima Kotecha’s interview with a senior Home Office adviser on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme this morning is picked up by several news outlets highlighting the concerns raised over the Government’s handling of far right extremism in the UK. The adviser, who wished to remain anonymous,...
Welsh news website, Wales Online, reports on a burglary at the Rabbaniah Cultural Centre in Cardiff which has resulted in thousands of pounds worth of theft, loss and damage including smashed computers and broken CCTV cameras. The burglary, suspected to have happened between Sunday evening and...
The Guardian, Daily Express, The Star and ITV News all report on the English Defence League march in Rotherham at the weekend. The march, which was organised following the publication of a report by Professor Alexis Jay into sex grooming gangs was designed to ‘focus on the child sexual abuse by...
Edinburgh Evening News reports on a fine imposed upon a man who hurled racist abuse outside a Scottish mosque in the wake of Lee Rigby’s murder last May. Grant Gallagher was heard shouting abuse at Muslims including taunts such as “you terrorists killed him” as he angrily grabbed and rattled...
The Birmingham Mail reports on a claim of ‘privileged treatment’ made by a senior Conservative councillor and education spokesman for Birmingham City Council, James Hutchings, toward a headscarf-clad Muslim Labour councillor. At a watchdog committee discussing the Trojan Horse scandal,...
