** 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,...
BBC News reports on Labour MP Angela Eagle’s announcement pledging to develop “a comprehensive democracy portal” to inform voters about the electoral process if elected in 2015. Angela Eagle, Labour’s Shadow Commons leader, has been involved in a “people’s politics inquiry” through...
Local paper, Pendle Today, draws attention to the Al-Ikhlaas Primary School, an independent Muslim school, which has been ranked as ‘outstanding’ across all areas by the Bridge Schools Inspectorate (BSI). The school, which has 89 pupils aged between 4 and 11, was inspected over four days by...
The Mail on Sunday, The Sunday Express and The Times continue to fuel the halal meat debate with news coverage on the delay to implementing proposed new laws to reduce the suffering of chickens at time of slaughter. In an interview with the Mail on Sunday, a spokesman for the Department for...
BBC News, The Daily Telegraph and The Independent report on the Queen’s speech delivered earlier this week with a notable mention in the Daily Telegraph of a Bill on the Protection of Charities and a proposal for new terrorism offences in the Serious Crime Bill. According to the Queen’s...
The Daily Mirror picks up on the coverage on local news site Get West London of a story on the reduction in the length of the jail sentence imposed on a teenager for his brutal attack on an elderly Muslim man last July. The elderly man, wearing traditional Muslim dress at the time of the...
The Financial Times and the Guardian report on the Islamophobic alliance formed in the European Parliament with the Conservative Party aligned European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) group admitting Danish and Finnish parties whose members bear criminal convictions for inciting ethnic...
The Daily Telegraph, The Times, The Guardian, BBC News and the Belfast Telegraph all report on Northern Ireland First Minister Peter Robinson’s public apology for the offence caused to Muslims by his defence of Pastor James McConnell who denounced Islam as ‘heathen’ and ‘satanic’....
BBC News, The Daily Telegraph, The Times, The Guardian and the Birmingham Mail all report on the latest developments in the alleged ‘Trojan Horse’ plot. A total of 21 schools in Birmingham have been investigated since the Department for Education, Birmingham City Council and Ofsted began...
The Independent, The Guardian, The Daily Mail, and The Times continue to provide coverage on the alleged ‘Trojan’ plot in Birmingham schools as the publication of the findings of Ofsted are awaited. The reports which were expected to be published this week have been deferred by a further week....
The Guardian, BBC News and Belfast Telegraph report on the assault of two Pakistani men at home in north Belfast. Muhammad Asif Khattak, 24, was subjected to a torrent of racist abuse by a group of people outside his home on Sunday afternoon and later assaulted by a man. His assailants also forced...
