** 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 and the Belfast Telegraph continue with coverage on the Northern Irish pastor, who likened Islam to ‘a doctrine spawned in hell’ noting that the First Minister, Peter Robinson, defended the remarks in a newspaper interview saying that he wouldn’t trust Muslims on spiritual...
The delay to the publication of the Chilcot Inquiry report is back in the news today with reports about a deal struck by the cabinet secretary, Sir Jeremy Heywood, with Sir John Chilcot, chair of the Inquiry. Delays which may defer the publication of the long-awaited report until the end of...
Karen Luckhurst in The Guardian reflects on the BSA survey earlier this week, which revealed that 1 in 3 Britons admit to being ‘racially prejudiced’, noting that her own mixed race daughter experienced racial abuse for the first time when someone called her a ‘P***’. Luckhurst points to...
Bradford’s local paper, the Telegraph and Argus covers a debate organised by the Bradford Council of Mosques (BCoM) with local MP Philip Davies on the issue of niqab. With the second reading of the Face Coverings (Prohibition) Bill, proposed by fellow Conservative MP Philip Hollobone, in...
Mehdi Hasan in this week’s New Statesman reflects on the local and European election results which have brought far right parties to power across Europe. Hasan mentions various politicians from the mainstream parties whose anti-Muslim conduct or utterings have given succour to the more...
As predicted in polls in the run up to the elections, UKIP did indeed triumph in the European elections last week having received the largest share of the national vote at 27.5%. UKIP was closely followed by Labour (25.4%) and the Conservatives (24%). The Liberal Democrats lost all but one of...
The Guardian, The Independent, Daily Mirror, Sky News and BBC Radio 4’s Today programme all report on new data from the British Social Attitudes Survey which shows that 1 in 3 people in the UK admit to being ‘very’ or ‘a little’ racially prejudiced. The results vary by region,...
The Times and the Scottish Daily Record both profile the former BNP member and founder of Britain First, Jim Dowson, the ‘religious zealot’ and ‘race hate fanatic’ who is heading Britain First’s ‘Christian crusade’ campaign against mosques. Dowson, who has a criminal record for...
The East London Advertiser reports on the latest antics of the far right group, Britain First. The group, which has already been referred to the police for its ‘invasion’ of mosques in Bradford and Glasgow and its door stopping of local Muslim councillors, engaged in more provocative behaviour...
The Star and West Sussex County Times cover the remarks of South Yorkshire Chief Constable, David Crompton, who in an interview with the Yorkshire Post expressed concerns at the cost to the taxpayer of far right protests and the opportunity cost to police forces of policing static demonstrations at...
