** 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 voluntary sector publication, Third Sector, and Civil Society Media report on the Charity Commission’s decision to open an inquiry into the Muslim charity Ummah Welfare Foundation (UWF). The UWF is not to be confused with the similar named British Muslim charity, Ummah Welfare Trust. In a...
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The Western Daily Press, Bristol Post, and the independent news site Small World News Service report on a former BBC presenter’s rant on Facebook about ‘P*kis’ in Rotherham. Sam Mason, a former BBC Radio Bristol presenter, launched a racist tirade about the sex abuse scandal in Rotherham on...
This is Cheshire and the Warrington Guardian report on the arrest of a 20 year old man in connection with an attack on a mosque in Warrington town centre two months ago. The arrest follows the release of CCTV images after the mosque was vandalised on 7 July. The image shows a man about to...
The International Business Times (IBT) reports on the planned far right protests following the release of the report on child sexual exploitation in Rotherham last week. The Doncaster and Rotherham branch of the English Defence League (EDL) staged a small protest outside Rotherham police station on...
Allison Pearson in her column for the Daily Telegraph on Thursday covered the report last week by Professor Alexis Jay on the failings of statutory bodies, police forces and politicians that allowed child sex grooming to persist in Rotherham for 16 years affecting 1,400 young girls. And in the vein...
The South Wales Argus draws attention to the use of the term “muzzy” in a Facebook post by a councillor in Torfaen suggesting violence is an endemic feature of Islam. Mike Harris, an Independent councillor elected in 2012 to represent the Pontypool ward on Torfaen Borough council, posted the...
The London Evening Standard and the Times reports that the All Party Parliamentary Group on Beef and Lamb is to trial a new slaughter technique ‘in experiments to satisfy halal meat consumers’. The Times reports that the APPG “want to persuade Muslims that slaughter techniques in British...
Quite a few of the newspapers place the report by Professor Alexis Jay into child sex grooming gangs in Rotherham on the front page. The report, which covers a range of failings by statutory agencies, from child services and local council officials to police officers, is a serious indictment of the...
The Guardian reports on an investigation launched by the Advertising Standards Agency into Britain First’s use of royal symbols following a complaint. The far right group’s website features an online shop where supporters can purchase a range of products including an embroidered baseball cap, a...
