** 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,...
ITV News features a short clip on the impact of world events on hate crime in Wales. Reporter Owain Phillips talks to Sheikh Zane Abdo who tells him about the casual abuse directed at Muslims by drivers and passersby who hurl racial abuse at Muslims. Sheikh Abdo notes that many engaging in such...
Mayor of London, Boris Johnson in his column for the Daily Telegraph on Monday contributed to the reactionary bout of counter-terrorism policy proposals that have been circulating in the aftermath of the beheading of James Foley by a young man suspected to be a British Muslim. The Independent...
Matthew Parris in his column for The Times on Saturday cautioned against the rampant anti- Muslim hostility evident in comments posted to online articles in the mainstream press or reputable blogs. Following the example of Peter Oborne’s ‘It Shouldn’t Happen to a Muslim’ documentary, Parris...
A number of the national newspapers on Friday led with the story of journalist James Foley’s barbaric beheading by an ISIS fighter strongly suspected of being a Briton; see the Daily Express, Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, The Independent, The Times and The Guardian. Many of the papers, including...
Douglas Murray in a guest column for the Daily Express on Thursday attempts to transmute popular outrage at Israel’s disproportionate assault on Gaza, in which nearly 2,000 Palestinian civilians have been murdered, into a rallying cry in support of Israel’s military campaign by arguing that she...
The Daily Mail and The Times both report that a senior Belgian diplomat has been arrested for ripping a face veil off a Qatari princess after she stopped him in the street to ask for directions. The Muslim woman, who has not been named, approached Jean-Marie Pire with two other women to ask for...
The Independent and the Daily Mail report on French MEP and former minister, Nadine Morano, who triggered a storm after posting a picture on her Twitter feed and Facebook page of a Muslim woman wearing a headscarf, a long sleeved tunic and trousers on a French beach resort alongside an image of the...
Civil Society Media and the voluntary sector publication, Third Sector, both report that the chief executive of NCVO, Sir Stuart Etherington, it to organise a meeting with banks following the closure of a number of accounts held by British Muslim charities. Similar to the efforts initiated by Sir...
The Daily Mail on Friday published a column by Taj Hargey in which he decried the ‘silence’ of British Muslims’ in the face of the atrocities committed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS). Hargey opines that “mainstream Muslims here have remained largely silent at what is...
The Manchester Evening News and ITV News both report on the desecration of Muslim gravestones at the Chadderton cemetery in Manchester. A loved one visiting the resting place of a family member raised the alarm on Friday. Police were called to the cemetery to investigate after a number of graves in...
