** 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 Jewish Chronicle last week reported on the House of Lords debate on religious slaughter and animal welfare promoted by a question tabled by Lord Trees. Lord Trees posed the question: To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the ethical, legal and religious factors...
Supporters from the English Defence League (EDL) and its faction group the English Volunteer Force (EVF) have threatened to attack an Islamic centre in Purley, according to reports in This is Local London and Croydon Guardian. A Youtube clip shows two far right extremists trying to enter...
The Sunderland Echo reports on the nailing of a copy of the Qur’an to the walls of a former pub which is to be converted into an Islamic education centre in the town of Shotton Colliery. Graham French, a member of the far right English Defence League also painted the letters EDL onto the wall...
Paul Weston, Chairman of Liberty GB, leader of the British Freedom Party and former UKIP member, will be contesting the European Parliament elections in May along with Liberty GB’s Press Officer Enza Ferreri and Outreach Officer Jack Buckby. The three
BBC News, ITV News and regional papers, Birmingham Mail and the Express and Star, all report on the screening of a police appeal on BBC Crimewatch to identify 50 suspects wanted in connection with public order offences committed during an English Defence League demonstration in Birmingham last...
Local paper, the Enfield Independent, reports on the suspension of a local Conservative councillor from the party following an investigation into anti-Muslim comments posted on his Facebook page last year. Cllr Chris Joannides was suspended by the local party association and had the whip...
Islamophobia Watch picks up on a story in yesterday’s Daily Star on the scrapping of a school tour featuring former co-founder and leader of the English Defence League, Stephen Lennon. Lennon was due to visit the Duchess Community High School in Northumberland when the visit was cancelled by...
BBC News, ITV News and local papers, The Bolton News and Manchester Evening News, report on hate crime incidents reported to Greater Manchester Police last year. According to the BBC, Greater Manchester Police recorded over 3000 incidents of hate crime during the period between April and...
The Daily Mail reports on an incident of anti-Muslim abuse at a Lidl supermarket store in Balsall Heath, Birmingham. A video of the incident can be found on the Mail Online website and shows a checkout assistant allegedly asking a customer if he is a Muslim before telling him, “Go on, you...
The Independent, ITV News, the Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail all report on the Chief Inspector of Constabulary’s claims in an interview with The Times (£) newspaper at the weekend that some minority communities “born under other skies” and “from other cultures” taking law into...
