** 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 Mail, Guardian, Daily Telegraph and London Evening Standard all report on comments made by the former justice secretary, Ken Clarke, on BBC Radio 4’s The World This Week programme, in which he described the face veil as “a kind of bag” that ought not to be worn in...
The regional newspaper, Yorkshire Post, reports on the fine issued to the only Muslim member of the English Defence League for abusing a group of Asian men whilst attending a rally for the group in Bradford last October. Appearing at Leeds Magistrates Court, Abdul Rafiq, 43, admitted using...
The Maidenhead Advertiser reports on the sentencing of a man in connection with anti-Muslim attacks on a mosque in Holmanleaze. The mosque had its windows smashed in the days following Drummer Lee Rigby’s murder in May. It was later vandalised with the words ‘England till I die’...
Kent Online reports on the outcome of the trial of Andrew Grindlay, who was charged with burglary with intent to commit damage and racially or religiously aggravated criminal damage in connection with an attack on a mosque in Gillingham, Kent. Grindlay denied causing damage to the mosque where a...
BBC News reports that four males arrested over an arson attack on an Islamic centre in Harlow, Essex have been released from bail. In August, the front of the Harlow Islamic Centre was left blackened after an arson attack in which insulation foam was used to seal windows and doors before being set...
Local newspaper, Luton & Dunstable Express, reports that police investigating an attempted arson attack on the Al Hira Educational Centre in Luton have released CCTV footage of a man wanted for questioning. The attempted arson took place in the early hours of Friday 4th October and was...
The BBC’s Inside Out West programme this week investigated anti-Muslim discrimination experienced in employment and housing in Bristol by comparing two men, one Muslim and one non-Muslim, and their relative success in applying for the same jobs and accommodation. As part of the investigation the...
Following the sentencing last Friday of Pavlo Lapshyn for the murder of Birmingham pensioner, Mohammed Saleem, and a mosque bombing campaign in the West Midlands, the Muslim Council of Britain has issued a statement criticising the police for their apparent reluctance to classify the killing as...
The Herald Scotland reports that residents in East Renfrewshire are campaigning to stop a mosque being built “on the grounds of one of the top performing comprehensive schools in the country”. Muslims in East Renfrewshire have been seeking a suitable site to establish a place of worship for the...
Drawing on the recent controversies sparked by Muslim women’s dress and its adoption in marketing campaigns, journalist Elizabeth Day, in a feature article in Observer magazine last weekend, spoke to Muslim women who criticise the ‘”patronising” western attitude that assumes a woman...
