** 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 reports on the court appearance of a man arrested last month after members of the public alerted Police Scotland to racist and offensive tweets made about the missing boy, Mikaeel Kular. Kular was reported missing from his home in Edinburgh last month before police discovered his body a...
BBC News covers the sentencing of a man charged with criminal damage to a mosque and assault of two people in Tonna, South Wales. Steven Davies, 22, was charged with religiously aggravated criminal damage and assault for the attack which took place last September. The court heard how Davies smashed...
There is considerable coverage in the newspapers and by broadcasters on the sentencing yesterday of Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale at the Old Bailey for the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby last May (Daily Mail, Daily Express, Daily Star, The Independent, The Guardian, Daily Telegraph, The...
The Daily Mail and Daily Telegraph today both cover the arrest of Moazzam Begg, Outreach Director of civil liberties advocacy group, Cage, and three other men in dawn raids in Birmingham. The DT headline ‘Former Guantanamo detainee Moazzam Begg arrested following compensation payout’ echoes...
Al Jazeera carries a feature article on the ever draconian tools used to monitor Muslim communities and intimidate innocent individuals under counter-terrorism measures. Author Simon Hooper uses examples of Muslims who have been visited by Special Branch officers, whose homes have been raided,...
With the second reading of Conservative MP Philip Hollobone’s Private Members’ Bill on ‘Face Coverings (Prohibition)’ on Friday 28 February it is likely the debate on niqab will resurface amidst clamouring for it to be banned in public places. Hollobone, whose bill received its first...
Roy Greenslade in his blog for The Guardian on the media draws attention to a letter sent to the editor of the Daily Mail, Paul Dacre, by a group of Muslims urging him to retract Richard Littlejohn’s atrocious comment piece and apologise “not just to British Muslims, but to your readers and the...
The local paper, Windsor Express, returns to the subject of the Muslim Research and Development Foundation’s private hire of Legoland with a story proclaiming that the theme park “has confirmed it has no intention to cancel plans to privately hire the park to a Muslim foundation led by one...
The Leicester Mercury reports on the praise levelled by Leicestershire Police on worshippers at a mosque in Berners Street who apprehended a man as he fled from a shop he had just robbed. Members of the mosque detained the man, who was armed with a knife, until the police arrived on the scene....
Scottish newspaper, The Herald, reports on the court appearance of a man charged with behaving in a threatening and abusive manner after he “unleashed a racist tirade outside a Scottish mosque shortly after soldier Lee Rigby was hacked to death in London”. The paper reports that Grant...
