** 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 Home Secretary, Theresa May, is seeking powers to strip UK terror suspects of British citizenship effectively rendering them stateless, Sky News reports. Following the escape of TPim subject, Mohammed Ahmed Mohamed, by leaving a west London mosque disguised in a burqa, May now wants the right...
An Observer editorial last week covered the longstanding delay to the publication of the Chilcot Inquiry’s report. Noting the obstacles placed before the release of key documents to the Inquiry, the editorial criticises the Government for engaging in “a shabby cover-up at worst, or...
BBC News and the Guardian report on the guilty verdict passed in the case of a Royal Marine accused of subjecting an Afghan prisoner to a ‘battlefield execution’. The marine, known only as Marine A, stood trial in a court martial over allegations arising from video footage recorded by...
The Independent newspaper reports that Ryanair’s chief executive, Michael O’Leary, has called for the burqa to be banned in the UK claiming the country is “leaning over far too much for some of these minority religions”. In an interview with The Times newspaper (£),...
BBC News reports that the Iraq Inquiry cannot proceed to the next phase of its work because key information, including correspondence between Tony Blair and George W Bush, has yet to be released by the Government. The inquiry, which is examining the background to the UK’s involvement in the...
Local newspaper, The Northern Echo, reports that police are “aware” of a planned protest by the English Defence League (EDL) and the North East Infidels (NEI) on Saturday November 9 against plans to establish a Muslim education centre in Shotton Colliery. This will be the second time...
The Daily Mirror reports that an English Defence League rally in Tower Hamlets in September cost the local police force over £2 million after 3,000 extra officers had to be drafted in to control just 600 EDL members. The march through East London in September was countered by a Unite Against...
The Daily Telegraph and ITV News both report on the exchange in the House of Commons on Monday when home secretary, Theresa May, while making a statement on Mohammed Ahmed Mohamed, dismissed calls to ban the burqa. During the debate in parliament, the home secretary was asked by Sir Gerald...
A parents’ group campaigning against plans to build a mosque and community centre on a site next to a school claim many in the Muslim community are also against the scheme, Glasgow’s Evening Times reports. The proposal to build a mosque, community centre, halal butcher and soup kitchen...
Richard Littlejohn in his Daily Mail column yesterday took the opportunity to ridicule, insult and patronise niqab and burqa wearing Muslim women by questioning their patriotism and associating their choice of dress with criminal behaviour. With Armistice Day approaching on Sunday, and the antics...
