** 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,...
Richard Norton-Taylor in the Guardian reports that the Chilcot Inquiry report is unlikely to be published this year despite criticism by the Prime Minister that further delays to it were ‘unreasonable’. According to The Guardian, “Whitehall sources suggest the latest delay in the long-awaited...
BBC News covers the re-opening of the first registered mosque in the UK established by English convert Abdullah Quilliam in Toxteth, Liverpool in 1889. The BBC article explores Quilliam’s work at the Liverpool Muslim Institute which he founded and from where he preached Islam converting...
The Daily Mail reports on the court appearance of Theodora Sayn-Wittgenstein, a German princess who spoke of ‘killing Muslims’ during a drunken foray at the annual Oktoberfest party at St Andrews in Scotland in March of this year. Sayn-Wittgenstein was accused of telling Muslim first aider,...
ITV News covers the statement issued by religious leaders, Welsh MPs and members of the Welsh Assembly to ‘reject the words’ and ‘twisted version of Islam’ of militants attempting to recruit British Muslims to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS). The statement,...
The Daily Star yesterday covered the story in Tuesday’s Times with the headline ‘Brits groomed by the ‘music haters’’. The story repeats content published in The Times yesterday, about British Muslims ‘flocking to join Salafi’ (sic), a sect who are ‘on course to control...
The Times front page story yesterday claimed British Muslims are flocking to a ‘jihadists’ hardline sect’ and that ‘half of [British] mosques will be run by Islamists hostile to western values’. The cover story repeats claims made in a recently published book by Innes Bowen about the...
The Independent, The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph and The Daily Mail report on the concerns raised following Education Secretary Michael Gove’s decision to introduce new rules on ‘’British values’ to be taught in schools following the fallout from the alleged ‘Trojan Horse’ plot in...
The Sunday Herald covers news of Glasgow Central Mosque being granted approval by Glasgow City Council to broadcast the adhan, the daily call to prayer, every evening during the Commonwealth Games which this year coincides with the month of Ramadan. The mosque, a short distance away from the...
Owen Jones in his Guardian column yesterday reflected on the death of Gerry Conlon, one of the Guildford Four, and compared the anti-Irish prejudice of the past that made miscarriages of justice possible with present day Islamophobia asking whether the threat posed to Muslim civil liberties by...
STV TV reports on the sentencing of two of the three people involved in a hate crime incident at Edinburgh mosque in January 2013. Chelsea Lambie, 18, and Douglas Cruikshank, 38, denied charges of racially aggravated threatening behaviour after strips of bacon were thrown into the mosque and...
