** 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 Telegraph today returns to the subject of sex segregation in universities with an editorial arguing that the practice is “entirely alien to 21st-century British culture” and that “Universities UK needs to review its guidelines, urgently.” The editorial, moreover, cites...
The London Evening Standard reports on the sentencing of a teenager for an attack on a 79 year old Muslim pensioner in Uxbridge in July. Fraser Giles, 17, was sentenced for attacking the man who was on his way to perform late evening prayers at the mosque. Giles hurled racist abuse at the elderly...
There is more in the news today about gender segregation and university campuses with the Daily Mail covering the protest outside Universities UK’s offices in central London and Nick Cohen on the Spectator site blogging about a news item in yesterday’s edition of BBC Radio 4’s Today...
The parliamentary Standards Committee has published a new report on All-Party Parliamentary Groups (APPGs) amid concerns of their abuse for lobbying and a lack of transparency. The Standards Committee has made several recommendations proposing that they take effect at the beginning of the next...
There has been some coverage in the press (see Mail on Sunday, Daily Telegraph and The Guardian) of UKIP leader Nigel Farage’s defence of councillor Victoria Ayling’s comments about immigration in a video recently published by the Mail on Sunday. Despite being “odd” Nigel Farage said that...
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown in her column in the Independent yesterday returns to the topic of gender segregation in universities relaying the protest that is to take place in opposition to guidelines published a couple of weeks ago by Universities UK. The guidelines deal with the subject of external...
A local news site, Mancunian Matters, reports on the results of a Freedom of Information request to Bolton Council which reveals the number of racist incidents in Bolton schools as averaging one a day. The FOI reveals that 2397 cases of racism have been recorded in 121 schools across Bolton during...
I. Assaults or attacks on persons of Muslim Background Mosque leader appeals for calm after attack in Hull. The Guardian, 6 December 2013. Raw bacon thrown in Wigan service station ‘racist’ attack. BBC News, 29 November 2013. Newcastle Nurse Attacked Over Hijab. On Islam, 23 October 2013. White...
There has been some coverage in the newspapers this week of the report by the Taskforce on Tackling Radicalisation established by the Prime Minister in the days following the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby in May. The terms of reference for the taskforce were set out in the PM’s speech...
The Guardian reports on the publication yesterday by Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) of experimental analysis on race disproportionality in the use of stop and search powers at UK borders and examinations under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000 (TACT 2000). Following on from a...
