** 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,...
Newspapers this week (Independent, Daily Telegraph and Guardian) have revisited the subject of the ongoing delay to the publication of the Chilcot Inquiry report into the lead up to the Iraq War with the Mail on Sunday squarely placing blame for the deferral to possibly after the next general...
Further embarrassment for UKIP as more candidates espousing hateful views on minorities are discovered. Jackie Garnett, who is representing the party in local council elections in Oldham posted a series of anti-Muslim comments on her Facebook page under the pen name “Aunty Jack Aguero”,...
Scottish newspapers, the Herald Scotland and Edinburgh Evening News continue with reports on the case of Chelsea Lambie, 18, and Douglas Cruikshank, 38, who were on trial on charges of racially aggravated threatening behaviour in connection with a hate crime incident at Edinburgh Central mosque...
The Mirror and BBC News report on the resignation of Conservative candidate, David Bishop, who was standing in the London Borough local elections for Brentwood South in Essex, after anti-Muslim tweets he posted and retweeted were brought to light. Bishop tweeted the message, “It’s good...
BBC News and local news site, MK News, report on the sentencing of a man for arson after he started a fire at a mosque in Bletchley, Milton Keynes, in March this year. Richard Bevington, 30, “admitted arson with intent to danger life and a racially and religiously-aggravated public order offence...
BBC News reports on another investigation launched into a British Muslim charity, Children in Deen, weeks after the inquiry established into Al Fatiha Global. The inquiry into Children in Deen was launched after it was found to have organised travel arrangements for Abdul Waheed Majeed, the first...
The Daily Mail reports on the trial of two women on charges of religiously aggravated public order offences after one of them tore pages from a Qur’an at a Middlesbrough match last December and passed them around for fellow fans to throw in the air ‘like confetti’. The court heard how...
There was some coverage in the news on Friday, Wirral Globe, The Guardian, Manchester Evening News, Daily Mail and BBC News, on the sentencing of a Nazi sympathiser, Ian Forman, who plotted to blow up two mosques in Merseyside. Forman, who was arrested last year and charged with engaging in conduct...
Local papers The Bristol Post, Gloucestershire Echo, Plymouth Herald, Lincolnshire Echo, Stoke Sentinel, and the Burton Mail all provide coverage on The Daily Mail’s report that of the approximate 1,500 Subway outlets across the UK and Ireland, 185 stores now sell halal-only meat. A...
