** 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 Asian Image reports on the Daily Mail’s article drawing attention to Labour MP Yasmin Qureshi’s concern that representations of Islam and Muslims in the media bear similarity to the demonisation of Jews by the Nazis. Qureshi, MP for Bolton South East, stated in a debate in Westminster Hall...
The Daily Express, and The Times report on the letter from Taj Hargey’s published in The Times newspaper in which he commends the European Court’s ruling on the niqab ban in France and urges the UK to follow suit. Hargey, who has been vitriolic in his condemnation of the burqa and niqab in...
Last week’s Sunday People included a comment by columnist Carol McGiffin on the European Court’s ruling on the niqab. McGiffin, who strenuously defends the right of women to wear what they please writes that the court judges “would not recognise a real human right if it smacked them in the...
The Independent front page today reveals an exclusive report on further allegations of MI5’s complicity to torture, this time involving a British Muslim of Ethiopian descent. The paper covers the claims made against the governments of Ethiopia and Britain by Ali Adorus, who says he was subjected...
Local paper, the Liverpool Echo, and online news site, Warrington Worldwide, report on an attack on a mosque in Warrington on Monday night. The papers report that police have launched an investigation into a suspected case of racially aggravated criminal damage after racist abuse was shouted at...
The Guardian, The Daily Mail, The Daily Telegraph, and BBC News report on Education Secretary Michael Gove’s appearance on BBC1’s Andrew Marr Show on Sunday to discuss ‘Islamist extremism’ in particularly in education. It follows the saga of the so-called “Trojan horse” plot to take...
BBC News, The Guardian and local papers Liverpool Echo and Wirral Globe all report on the decision by Merseyside’s Police Crime Commissioner, Jane Kennedy, to provide body cameras to shop workers in a bid to tackle hate crime affecting Asians in the region. PCC Jane Kennedy, has received...
BBC News reports on a fresh appeal for witnesses by Hull police in the case of an imam who was left blind in one eye after a vicious assault last December. Imam Hafiz Aziz Salik was assaulted while driving home with his wife and young daughter when a man flagged down his car, opened the […]
Sir Stephen Bubb, head of the charity chief executives body ACEVO, has posted a blog drawing attention to the number of Muslim charities that have been placed under inquiry by the Charities Commission lately saying there is a ‘perception of bias’ and that the regulator is seen to be...
The Daily Mail observes The Local’s revelation that Denmark, Norway and Austria are contemplating banning the niqab following the ruling by the European Court of Human Rights earlier this week upholding the niqab ban in France. Bans have already been introduced in Belgium and in some parts of...
