** 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,...
BBC News and ITV News both cover a suspected arson attack on a mosque in Bletchley, Milton Keynes. The mosque, built on the site of a former pub, has been targeted in a series of attacks including a pig’s head being thrown on the premises in July 2011. In the latest incident, a fire was […]
Local Newcastle paper, The Chronicle, reports on the arrest of six men after a firework was thrown at a mosque and Islamic centre in Whitley Bay. The centre had worshippers in it at the time of the attack on the afternoon of Wednesday 5 March. Police have arrested six men on suspicion of criminal...
The Times front page today (see also The Guardian and Daily Mail) features a story on the call by John Blackwell, president-elect of the British Veterinary Association, for the debate on religious slaughter to be “moved forward so that the animals are stunned” prior to throat-slitting by...
The Daily Mail, Metro, Independent, Windsor Express and BBC News all report on Windsor Legoland’s closure over the weekend of 8-9 March following the cancellation of a private group booking prompted by threats received from supporters of the English Defence League and other far right groups. The...
The Daily Mail, The Mirror and Daily Telegraph, Oldham Chronicle, and Manchester Evening News all report on the murder case of a husband accused of killing his wife over her alleged promiscuity. Farkhanda Younis, 30, also known as Jabeen, was found dead at her home of multiple stab wounds by her...
The Daily Telegraph on Monday published the weekly column of London Mayor, Boris Johnson, in which he floated the idea of state intervention in Muslim family life to protect children of ‘radicalised’ parents from what he deems ‘child abuse’. The London Mayor opines that “The law should...
The Daily Mail yesterday covered news of the court appearance of a man charged with a religiously aggravated public order offence after he tore up pages of the Qur’an at a football match and mimicked burning them. Middlesbrough fan, Mark Stephenson, 25, was handed pages torn from a copy of the...
BBC News reports on the sentencing of a man who posted a message on Facebook threatening to blow up Edinburgh mosque in the weeks following Lee Rigby’s murder. Derek Phin, 46, was jailed for 12 months after he admitted posting the message on the social media site last June. Police were alerted to...
A Conservative councillor who was under investigation by the party’s Central Office for posting a comment on Facebook likening a Muslim woman in niqab and her children to ‘black bin bags’, has been expelled from the party for 12 months. The Conservative group at Enfield Borough Council...
The Daily Mail, Daily Express and Mirror all report on Windsor’s Legoland’s cancellation of the private hire of the venue by the Muslim Research and Development Foundation. The MRDF had hired the venue for a Muslim Family Day Out but after an avalanche of threats by the far right English...
