** 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,...
London 24 reports on a report in local paper, Brent & Kilburn Times, which uncovers yet another case of a UKIP candidate making anti-Muslim remarks. Heino Vockrodt, who is standing for the Dudden Hill seat on Brent Council in next week’s London Borough wide elections, described Muslims as...
The Daily Mail reports on the Home Office minister Norman Baker’s ‘deep concern’ over the length of time it is taking to publish the official Chilcot Inquiry report into the Iraq war. Baker’s comments follow those of International Security Minister, Andrew Murrison, who last...
The Independent, Daily Star, Guardian, ITV News, Bradford Telegraph and Argus, Yorkshire Post and Herald Scotland, all report on the far right group, Britain First’s distribution of anti-Muslim grooming gang leaflets and British Army Bibles to...
The Pew Research Center has released its report ahead of the elections next month, “A Fragile Rebound for EU Image on Eve of European Parliament Elections”. The report explores sentiments among populations in seven European countries towards the EU, economic recovery and minority communities....
The Guardian G2 yesterday ran a feature on the scope and spread of anti-Muslim output in the print media from scare stories about ‘Islamification’ to insidious bias in the news coverage of criminal cases, foregrounding the religious identity of Muslims as a way of essentialising Islam and...
The Daily Telegraph on Saturday published another story on the legal guidance by the Law Society for training purposes on preparing shari’ah complaint wills. The newspaper reports the comments of Justice Secretary, Chris Grayling, who repeats the oft-mentioned caveats about the primacy of English...
With growing fear of the increase in representation of far right parties in the European Parliament following next week’s elections, the likelihood of their forging a coherent political grouping in the assembly is expected to be low. The EU Observer notes a blog by Simon Usherwood on the future...
The Charity Commission has disclosed details on the opening of another inquiry into a Muslim charity. The charity regulator has opened a statutory inquiry into the Islamic Education and Research Academy, iERA noting concerns over “a number of regulatory issues connected to the charity’s...
Ava Vidal in Telegraph Blogs shares some of the Islamophobic responses she received to her article last week on the rising number of attacks on Muslim women in the UK. Vidal, whose original article explored the experiences of Muslim women who had been victims of Islamophobic hate crimes, expresses...
