** 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,...
Peter Oborne in the Sunday Telegraph reviews Arun Kundnani’s ‘The Muslims Are Coming!’ and Innes Bowen’s ‘Medina in Birmingham, Najaf in Brent: Inside British Islam’. You can read the review here.
Channel 4 last week broadcast a news feature on far right social movement and political party, Britain First. The group which fielded candidates in Scotland in the recent European parliamentary elections and carried out mosque ‘invasions’ in the weeks running up to polling day, has been dubbed...
Headlines in the Daily Mail and Daily Telegraph last week claimed that British soldiers were ‘secretly’ being fed halal meat because meat served by the military in the UK and in overseas bases is not labelled. The Ministry of Defence’s response to a Freedom of Information request revealed...
The Guardian, The Independent, The Financial Times, BBC News and political news website Politics.co.uk report on UKIP leader Nigel Farage’s ‘pride’ at forming a political grouping in the European Parliament comprising two MEPs from Swedish Democrats, a party founded by white supremacists, and...
The Daily Mail, The Guardian and the Birmingham Mail all report on the testimony of the Assistant Head of Park View school, Lee Donaghy, to the Home Affairs select committee in which he lambasts the media’s coverage of the ‘Trojan Horse hoax’ and the portrayal of certain schools in Birmingham...
The Times, Financial Times, The Guardian, The Independent, BBC News, Channel 4, and Sky News all report on the release of the British Social Attitudes survey on social attitudes relating to Britishness, national identity and immigration. The survey findings on social attitudes are likely to have...
The Daily Mail continues to provide coverage on the backlash following the Chair of the Iraq Inquiry, Sir John Chilcot’s deal with the Cabinet Secretary, Sir Jeremy Heywood, to publish ‘gists and quotes’ from some of the correspondence between the former Prime Minister, Tony Blair, and George...
Following news reports yesterday of the murder of a female Muslim student in Colchester and the possibility of it being a religiously aggravated murder, MEnD have received statements from the local MP, Sir Bob Russell, and Essex Police and Crime Commissioner, Nick Alston. Both have been in...
BBC News reports on the barring by Slough Borough Council of a group meeting on council premises at which Anjem Choudary was featured to speak. The council intervened, according to the BBC, after it was ‘alerted to the possibility that the group was linked to Al Mahajiroun (sic) or Muslims...
Sky News reports on the sudden death of a Muslim woman who was attacked in broad daylight yesterday morning while walking in Colchester, Essex. The woman, who was in Muslim dress at the time of the attack, was violently beaten by a man and then stabbed by a knife or other bladed instrument...
