** 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 Daily Mail, ITV News, Express and Star, Southern Daily Echo and Belfast Telegraph all report on the court appearance of a British neo-Nazi who is accused of planning a cyanide attack against non-Aryans in the UK. Mark Colborne, a 36 year old student from Southampton, appeared at Westminster...
The Bolton News covers the disruption at a council meeting earlier in the week to discuss the Astley Bridge mosque proposal. The meeting ended with protestors being escorted from the premises by security and members of the council planning committee made to leave the room as protestors shouted out...
There is a brief article in the Economist this week on the rise of ‘haute’ halal – food joints catering for Britain’s growing affluent Muslim families. After months of alarmist, scaremongering coverage on halal meat and its availability on the UK high street, it’s good to see an article...
The Evening Standard on Tuesday published a quite outrageous comment piece by Ian Morris, a Classics professor at Stanford University, in which he referred to the early Muslims as ‘fanatics’, said the job of a caliph was ‘as much about fighting other Muslims as Christians or Jews’, and that...
Local paper, Kent Messenger, reports on another mosque incident involving Britain First, the group behind mosque ‘invasions’. The group visited two mosques in Gillingham, Kent, and “confronted a solitary man on the doorstep of the Jamia Mosque before going inside and having an altercation...
The Guardian, Daily Mail, BBC News and The Times report on the ruling by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) yesterday rejecting an appeal by a French Muslim woman, who claimed the niqab ban introduced in France in 2010 violated her human rights. The woman, referred to in court proceedings as...
The Darlington and Stockton Times, Evening Gazette, Northern Echo, ITV News and BBC News all report on the English Defence League’s protest in Middlesbrough last Saturday. The EDL march was preceded by a counter-rally early in the afternoon with around 150 anti-racism supporters turning up. The...
After hitting headlines in recent days for the wrong reasons, Muslims in Cardiff are back in the news for acts of charity and altruism. BBC Wales features a video showing how Muslims fasting for Ramadan are doing their bit to help the city’s homeless by distributing food. Watch the video here....
The Daily Record reports on Britain First’s promotion of “sinister ‘fight clubs’” to train its supporters to ‘fight Muslims on the streets’. It follows the revelation last month that the group has been recruiting former English Defence League members and teaching them boxing and...
The Burton Mail and the Derby Telegraph draw attention to a violent assault on an imam in Burton last Thursday. Imam Hafiz Ramzan was on his way home from the local mosque when he was attacked. A Staffordshire Police spokesman confirmed that Imam Ramzan was approached outside his home by a man...
