** 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 Daily Mail, The Times, The Guardian, The Independent and local papers, The Argus and Hampstead and Highgate Express, provide further coverage of UKIP candidates’ anti-Muslim taunts on social media sites. Hours after Mo Farah became a double Olympic champion at the 2012 London Games, UKIP...
Islamophobia Watch reports on the latest outburst by Baroness Caroline Cox, author of the Arbitration and Mediation Services (Equality) Bill, under which “Islamic courts would be forced to acknowledge the primacy of English law”. Cox, who has previously espoused apocalyptic views about the...
Local paper, the Express and Star, reports on the trial of five teenagers in court for offences committed during an ‘eight-day racially-motivated crime spree’ in Cradley Heath last year. The teenagers, all aged between 15 and 16, are accused of “using threatening, abusive or insulting words...
The Mirror reports on the charges brought against a man who daubed the word ‘Islam’ on the RAF Bomber Command War Memorial and the Animals in War Memorial last May, days after the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby. Andrew Patterson, 31, committed 94 offences over a six week period last year including...
Edinburgh Evening News reports on the trial of Chelsea Lambie, 28, and Douglas Cruikshank, 38, who are accused of racially aggravated threatening behaviour in connection with an incident at Edinburgh Central mosque last January. The mosque was defaced with strips of bacon placed on its windows and...
The Daily Mail reports on Vice News’ release of a documentary last week on ‘London’s Holy Turf War’. The reporter, Alex Miller, follows two quasi-vigilante organisations as they enforce their ideology on the streets of East London during the night: the Christian patrol, set up by Britain...
The Independent reports on the BBC’s discovery of more than a hundred instances of vandalism on Wikipedia, of inappropriate and insulting edits and deletions, allegedly made from Government computers. It has emerged that the insults include a change made to the entry for “veil” in October...
BBC News, Sky News, The Daily Mail, The Independent, The Daily Mirror and local paper, Express and Star, all report on the resignation of UKIP candidate for Enfield William Henwood, following his racist comments on Twitter about Lenny Henry. Henwood was also discovered to having posted remarks...
BBC News, The Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, Western Daily Press and Asian Image all report on the arrest of Paul Weston, chairman of Liberty GB and candidate in the European Parliament elections in the South East region, on suspicion of religious/racial hatred after he publicly cited incendiary...
The Gazette & Herald, Daily Telegraph, Guardian, Independent and Daily Mail all report on the Electoral Commission’s apology to the family of Drummer Lee Rigby for allowing the far right political party, Britain First, to exploit the death of Lee Rigby in its voting slips for the European...
