** 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 Bolton News reports on a video that has surfaced showing a semi-naked man wearing a homemade ‘burqa’ while doing an ice bucket challenge outside Zakariyya mosque. The challenge has been nicknamed “Ice Mosque Challenge”. The footage, seen by the Bolton News, shows a man wearing only his...
Chichester Observer and the Midhurst and Petworth Observer draw attention to a halal meat controversy at a college in West Sussex prompted by a story published on MailOnline claiming Chicester College was serving “Halal meat without telling students – just because it is cheaper”. The article...
ITV News reports that Birmingham City Council has been awarded £100,000 by the National Trading Standards Board to help combat hajj fraud. The funding award follows Trading Standards investigation conducted by the city council with the City of London Police resulting in two people being arrested...
The Sunday Herald draws attention to a UKIP meeting in Scotland in which a far right Swedish MEP was given a platform. According to a UKIP Scotland circular to party members, Swedish Democrats MEP, Kristina Winberg, addressed a recent meeting in Edinburgh as a “guest speaker”. The Swedish...
In what to many will seem like déjà vu, The Observer this Sunday published a double page feature on marginal Muslim figure and agent provocateur, Anjem Choudary, speaking about ISIS and it being the ‘kind of society [he] would like to live in with [his] family’. Reminiscent of national...
BBC News, The Daily Telegraph and local papers Evening Telegraph, The Yorkshire Post, Hull Daily Mail, Halifax Courier, Northamptonshire Telegraph, The Huddersfield Daily Examiner and Buxton Advertiser all report on the sentencing of two serving prisoners who attempted to post explosive devices...
BBC News, ITV News and Manchester Evening News all report on an arson attack at the Islamic Centre in Newton Heath in Manchester in which the Centre’s minibus was set alight. In a disturbing development prior to the arson attack, two CCTV cameras were ripped from the Centre building last Friday...
The newspaper front pages on Tuesday focused on another purported atrocity committed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant; the beheading of American journalist, Steven Sotloff. “We should be clear about the root cause of this threat: a poisonous ideology of Islamist extremism that believes...
The Guardian yesterday reports on the release of a report by the Media Standards Trust on the coverage of press regulation following the publication of the Leveson Inquiry report into the Culture, Practice and Ethics of the Press. The MST carried out a content analysis study focusing on the volume...
Civil Society Media, Third Sector and the Jewish Chronicle all report on the claim that Islamic Relief Worldwide has had its donation page removed from the Charities Aid Foundation amid accusations made by the Israeli Defence minister that it has channelled funds to ‘Hamas-controlled...
