** 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,...
Channel 4 News this week has broadcast a number of programmes on the niqab as part of a public debate on the subject sparked by the ban imposed and later revoked by Birmingham Metropolitan College a few weeks ago. Last night, C4 News aired a debate between three niqab wearing Muslim women, Shalina...
The Independent and BBC News report on the court martial of three Royal Marines accused of murdering an Afghan in Helmand province two years ago. The three marines, who cannot be named, are charged with murdering the unknown man while on duty in 2011. Charges against two further marines were...
French far right leader, Marine Le Pen, has set out her plans to unite the European far right with a common manifesto as they gear up to contest the European Parliament elections next year, the EU Observer reports. At a press conference in the Strasbourg yesterday, Le Pen and Franz Obermayr, of the...
A Muslim nurse has spoken of her shock at being subjected to a religiously-motivated attack in the grounds of a Newcastle hospital, SKY Tyne and Wear reports. Khadija Mohamed, 22, said the incident happened in May 2013, just two days after the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby in Woolwich south London,...
There is widespread coverage in today’s media on the trial of Pavlo Lapshyn, the Ukrainian student charged with the murder of Mohammed Saleem and terrorist offences for bomb attacks in the West Midlands: BBC News, ITV News, Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, Daily Mirror, The Independent, Daily Mail,...
The Daily Express picks up on a video posted online displaying the abuse suffered by Muslim West Ham supporters who were filmed performing prayers just before half time during Saturday’s match against Manchester City. The video, which has been posted on a fan’s Facebook page, shows Muslims...
The Daily Telegraph reports on the Prime Minister’s criticisms of the “ludicrous” rumours and “scaremongering” leaflets delivered to homes in his Chipping Norton constituency against plans to open a mosque in the area. The leaflets, which have been produced by a group called the...
The Guardian today reports on the latest legal challenge by Abdel Hakim Belhadj in his case against the Government on his and his then pregnant wife, Fatima’s rendition to Libya and torture. Belhadj, whose alleged rendition came to light in documents found in Libya after the fall of Gaddafi in...
BBC News, the Independent and the Daily Mirror all report on the arrest of 52-year-old man from Watford who was filmed launching an expletive-ridden racist attack in which he refers to the Japanese as a “vicious bunch of f****** c****” and threatens to knockout a Somali man who filmed...
BBC News reports on an interfaith initiative in Gloucester to build bridges between faith communities after a mosque in the city was targeted in a petrol bomb attack in the weeks following Drummer Lee Rigby’s murder. The Masjid-e-Noor was targeted with a petrol bomb attack in June. Last week,...
