** 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,...
Local paper, the Cambridge News, reports on the circulation of a petition by an English Defence League supporter against the Mill Road mosque development. The mosque, which was recently subjected to an attempted court injunction against development, is now the target of an online petition,...
Liberal Democrat MP for Burnley, Gordon Birtwistle, has set out his views on the cartoons posted by Maajid Nawaz, prompting calls for his deselection as prospective parliamentary candidate for Hampstead and Kilburn, in a letter to a constituent. Birtwistle, in his response to a constituent, wrote:...
Local paper, the Windsor Express, reports on the abusive messages received by Legoland after details of a private hire by a Muslim foundation were seized upon by the English Defence League. The theme park has been hired by the Muslim Research and Development Foundation (MRDF) on March 9th for a fun...
A man charged with racially aggravated criminal damage for nailing a copy of the Qur’an to a former pub earmarked for conversion into an Islamic education centre admitted his crimes and apologised for his actions in court. Graham French painted the letters ‘EDL’ onto the wall of...
The Daily Mail and Daily Express both cover the Anti-Social Behaviour Orders applied to three men involved in the so-called ‘Muslim patrols’ last January. Jordan Horner, 20, Royal Barnes, 23, and Ricardo MacFarlane, 26, were jailed for a total of two years and ten months for their...
Following the Times interview with UKIP leader, Nigel Farage, last week, in which he claimed the party was introducing stricter vetting procedures to keep ‘Walter Mittys’ at bay, news (The Guardian, The Independent, The Mirror, Daily Mail) emerges that the party’s immigration spokesperson...
This report contains details of incidents of anti-Muslim hate crimes which have been reported in local and national media in the UK and which form part of our regular monitoring of such incidents for submission to the Office for Security and Co-operation in Europe. The incidents detailed here are...
The Bolton News relays the experience of a British Muslim female victim of hate crime as part of coverage of Hate Crime Awareness Week in Greater Manchester. The woman, who works for a housing association, Bolton at Home, relates how a response to a resident’s call about anti-social behaviour...
In a cover story reminiscent of tropes used to malign Jews, Douglas Murray in last week’s Spectator magazine wrote abput the Sunni-Shia schism and its ‘clarification’ of politics and power in the Middle East. Deigning the conflict in Syria and Sunni-Shia tensions in countries like Bahrain,...
