** 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 Independent reports that the Independent Police Complaints Commission is to take the Metropolitan Police to court over claims it acted unlawfully when it failed to fully investigate the detention and harassment of British Muslims at airports under the controversial Schedule 7 anti-terrorism...
The EU Observer website reports that the Front Nationale has topped a poll on how French voters intend to cast their ballot in next year’s European Parliament elections. Of those polled, 24% said they would vote for populist far right party compared to 22% for the centre-right party, UMP,...
An English Defence League supporter who shouted racial abuse outside a Muslim family’s home while brandishing an air rifle has been jailed for two and a half years, the Birmingham Mail reports. Shaun Havelin, 28, after rowing with his mother at his home picked up an EDL emblazoned sweater...
A Muslim family from Hendon were forced to cancel a dream holiday to the United States after their visas were revoked at the last minute, This Is London reports. The family of five had booked tickets and been granted entry visas only to be told when checking in to their flight at Heathrow that the...
Dorset police are investigating an incident of alleged racism after a woman posted a comment on Facebook saying she hoped a few of the Lampedusa dead were Muslims. Nicky Hutt, 35, was branded a racist after posting the comment on Facebook following the tragedy last Thursday in which 232 African...
The BBC Editorial Complaints Unit has partly upheld a complaint lodged by two viewers on the misleading attribution of a studio guest’s affiliation during appearances on news programmes last year. Jonathan Sacerdoti was introduced onto several news programmes discussing Israel and Gaza as the...
The Grimsby Telegraph reports that a man who attacked a Cleethorpes mosque and threatened Muslims following the murder of Lee Rigby has been given a nine-month supervision order. Leon Ramsey, 22, hurled glasses and a bottle at the Bangladesh Cultural Centre in Cleethorpes after spending the day...
Local newspaper, Luton & Dunstable Express, reports that police are investigating an attempted arson attack on the Al Hira Educational Centre in Luton. Bedfordshire Police have confirmed that they received a call from a member of the public on the morning of Friday 4 October reporting the...
A 46 year old woman has been fined for racially abusing and punching a Muslim woman in south-east London, BBC News and Local London report. Tracy Davies, 46, shouted racist abuse before launching an unprovoked assault on the 55-year-old Somali woman who was out shopping with her daughter in...
Peter Oborne, chief political commentator for the Daily Telegraph, has written a blog today about the ENGAGE fringe event at the Conservative Party conference this week. Oborne, who chaired the event, writes of Conservative policy on engaging Muslim voters, or the lack thereof, and notes: “If the...
