** 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,...
West Country paper, Western Morning News, reports on £10,000 worth of damage done to a newly refurbished Islamic education centre in Plymouth in a suspected arson attack. The local paper reports that Muslims arriving at the Plymouth Islamic Education Trust centre (Piety) on April 19 discovered...
Hot on the heels of news reports last week of a UKIP member posting racist and anti-Muslim comments on his Twitter account comes further reports of other UKIP candidates and members accused of doing much the same. The Guardian on Saturday reported on the remarks posted by a UKIP candidate for the...
The Daily Mail reports on further developments in the delay to the publication of the Chilcot Inquiry report into the lead up to war in Iraq. According to the paper, the report is unlikely to be published until after the next election, in May 2015, to avoid any blowback to Labour in an election...
The Daily Mail offers further evidence of the UK Independence Party’s failure to identify members known to hold reprehensible views despite a promise to introduce stricter vetting procedures by party leader, Nigel Farage. Farage, who claimed he had introduced ‘stricter vetting...
Bradford’s local paper, the Telegraph and Argus, reports on police efforts to trace a victim of an alleged racial assault as well as a man wanted to assist with inquiries in relation to the incident. The inquiries relate to an Asian man in his 30’s who was verbally abused before being...
The Guardian this week reported on a lawsuit filed by four American Muslims who claim harassment by the FBI and the operation of a no-fly list used to intimidate Muslims to become informants for the agency. The no-fly list, maintained by the FBI and implemented by the Department of Homeland...
There is much media coverage in The Independent on Sunday, The Daily and Sunday Express, The Daily Telegraph, The Daily Mail, The Guardian, and BBC News on the alleged ‘Trojan Horse plot’ following the Sunday Telegraph’s revelation of leaked reports into the schools in Birmingham. According...
EU Observer reports on the publication of a report by the Council of Europe on the State of Democracy, Human Rights and the Rule of Law in Europe. The report, which documents Member States’ compliance with fundamental rights as enshrined in the European Convention on Human Rights, notes serious...
The Guardian, BBC News, Sky News and ITV News all report on the Sunday Times’ front page story concerning remarks by the new Chairman of the Charities Commission, William Shawcross, on the ‘deadliest threat’ to charities arising from ‘Islamists’ and ‘extremism’. Shawcross in an...
