** 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 Financial Times today reveals that the report following from the Government’s inquiry into the Muslim Brotherhood has been put on hold as officials try to mitigate the effect the findings may have on those Arab states seen widely to have influenced the call for an inquiry in the first place....
The Daily Mail and Metro newspapers reports on the decision by retailer John Lewis to stock hijabs in its school uniform department at stores in London and Liverpool. The retailer, which won contracts to supply school uniforms for pupils attending Islamia Girls School in west London and...
The local paper, Lancashire Telegraph, reports on the incredible sum of £7 million raised by Muslims in Lancashire for charity donation during this past Ramadan. Muslims from across the North West region will be gathering at a special event to mark the huge sum raised by members of the local...
Following Israel’s most recent barbaric campaign against Gaza and as the world reflects on the killing of 1,951 Palestinians, mostly civilians and over 400 of them children according to the UN, and 66 Israelis, all but three of whom were soldiers, we thought we would share with you some of...
This is Local London reports on an incident in Mitcham, Surrey embroiling a nursery school in accusations of discrimination which, in turn, have led to the nursery becoming a victim of malicious communications of a religiously aggravated nature. Kingswood Day Care Nursery has been accused by the...
Ed Husain, former co-director of the government-funded Quilliam Foundation heralds his return to the UK with a characteristic piece of hubris: a guest column in the Evening Standard yesterday in which he admonishes the ‘Marxist-Islamist’ axis spurring young British Muslims’...
The Chester Chronicle and The Mirror report on an anti-Muslim hate crime incident in Chester where a 42 year old man hung bunting bearing KKK slogans and threats to burn down a mosque with Muslims inside it on the grounds of a proposed mosque. Martin Sallis claimed he had hung the bunting up as a...
Local Newcastle paper, The Chronicle, reports on the sentencing of a man who subjected a Muslim family to a tirade of verbal abuse as they attempted to move furniture into their new home. Daniel McStay, 22, was one of a gang of men who approached the family as they drove up to their new home...
The Independent reports on further account closures by HSBC with the bank seemingly targeting Syrian refugees. The bank has been accused of ‘shamelessly profiling’ its customers after a number of customers of Syrian descent were sent letters informing them of their accounts being closed citing...
