** 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 Mirror draws attention to the Sunday’s People’s revelation about recent Euromillions lottery winner, Neil Trotter, who has been linked to a string of abhorrent race hate messages online including some supporting the British National Party. The comments were written under the username...
The Asian Image reports on Britain First’s (BF) ongoing campaign against ‘Muslim grooming gangs’ where the far right group’s supporters have been visiting mosques and handing out inflammatory, anti-Muslim literature. On BF’s website, the group has posted a video of its most recent “Day...
The Daily Mail and Daily Telegraph this week both covered a report by the British Humanist Association on schools in receipt of public funding which it claims are cause for concern. Among Muslim schools singled out for criticism by the BHA is the Islamic Shakhsiyah Foundation (ISF). An FOI by the...
BBC News reports on the ongoing trial of Michael Piggin, an Asperger’s Syndrome sufferer, who is accused of planning a terror attack in Loughborough. The jury at the Old Bailey was shown an anti-Muslim video in which Piggin talks about an “invasion of our country”. ITV News, Daily Mail, The...
The Guardian draws attention to allegations regarding Cambridgeshire police’s use of covert tactics to recruit four political campaigners to spy on political groups such as anti-fascists. The activists, who were unwilling to be named, revealed how a covert unit from the police force tried to...
BBC News and local paper, Western Gazette, report on the court hearing of Joshua Bonehill-Paine who wrote an article on his website, the Daily Bale, falsely claiming that a pub in Leicester had banned members of the British armed forces to ease community tensions. While BBC News reports that...
BBC News reports on the Chair of the Muslim Research and Development Foundation (MRDF) Haitham Al-Haddad’s comments that the organisation’s private hire of Legoland for a family fun day was cancelled because of “extreme Islamophobia”. The MRDF had hired Legoland for the fun day on 9 March...
The Daily Telegraph and The Times cover the report published by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Religious Education (APPGRE) following a five month inquiry into the role religious education plays in furthering good community relations. The report concludes that RE classes can help reduce...
