** 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 Belfast Telegraph follows up reports of a police investigation into the remarks of a Northern Irish pastor who described Islam as ‘a doctrine spawned in hell’, with news that a fellow evangelical pastor has expressed support for the views as well as adding disparaging comments of his own....
The Independent reveals fresh allegations of MI5’s complicity in the torture of a young Somali man held in an Egyptian prison in an exclusive report this week. Following previous reports by the same paper which has unearthed a number of cases in recent years, the paper covers claims by Ahmed...
The Guardian and The Times this week covered news of the Education Secretary’s mooted plans to introduce a ‘code of conduct’ for madrassahs to regulate practices and curricula in Islamic supplementary schools across the UK. The Guardian quotes a policy official who said the code “…will...
ITV News and the Birmingham Mail report on a suspected racially motivated arson attack on a Muslim arts centre in Birmingham. The Ulfah Arts and Media centre which is used by a Muslim women’s group had received anti Muslim hate mail in the weeks preceding the attack, according to the news...
Local papers, The Advertiser and Comet, report on the English Defence League’s plans to protest in Stevenage as announced on the group’s Facebook page. The paper notes the group’s plan “to protest at grooming incidents” though any explicable link to criminal cases in...
The Guardian revisits the issue of press regulation post Leveson Inquiry, with publication of comments aired by a senior civil servant and former managing editor of The Sun praising the industry’s proposed regulator, Ipso. Richard Caseby, a director of communications for the Department of...
The East London Mosque is the latest to report an ‘invasion’ by Britain First, the far right group which is contesting seats in the European Parliament elections this week. The far right party has already been reported to the police for its unsolicited visits to mosques in Bradford and...
Since the election last November of Police and Crime Commissioners in England and Wales, we have been busy working with elected PCCs toward the implementation of four key pledges contained in our PCC election manifesto. Key among our priorities is the recording of Islamophobia as a separate...
Reyhana Patel in the Independent today draws attention to the motion passed by the National Union of Students condemning the antics of Student Rights, the body behind much of the sensationalist reporting on ‘gender segregation’ and campaigns to prevent the exercise of free speech on university...
The Guardian draws attention to yet another cause of embarrassment for UKIP after a further candidate was found to have expressed Islamophobic remarks on social media. John Kearney, the party’s candidate for the local elections for Basingstoke and Dean Borough council this year, wrote the...
