** 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 reports on the decision by Bedford Employment Tribunal to uphold a complaint made by two Tesco workers of Muslim background who were locked out of their prayer room and forced to sign in and out by managers at a distribution depot in Crick, Northamptonshire. Abdirisak Aden and...
The Daily Mail, Guardian and Lancashire Telegraph cover the story of two Muslim teenagers who have been placed in ‘isolation’ and banned from lessons after refusing to shave off their beards for religious reasons. The boys, who attend Mount Carmel Roman Catholic High School, in...
Local papers the Yorkshire Post and the Telegraph and Argus report that Bradford MPs George Galloway and Gerry Sutcliffe are calling on the Police and Crime Commissioner for West Yorkshire and Bradford City Council to ban an upcoming rally by the English Defence League. A planned march by the...
The Daily Mail covers a conversation on LBC radio phone-in between London Mayor, Boris Johnson, and a Muslim mother whose daughter wears the niqab. Mayor Johnson spoke on the radio programme in support of a ban on face veils in classrooms. When confronted by a mother who wears the face veil and...
The Independent newspaper today publishes two letters from readers on the niqab debate. One letter alludes to the BBC Radio 4 interview last week in which 14 year old Anisha Patel spoke of her horror when a man attempted to forcibly remove her niqab: Patricia Baxter (Letters, 26 September) puts...
Muslim businessmen in the Somerset town of Weston-Super-Mare speak to local paper, The Weston Mercury, about a spate of racist and anti-Muslim incidents in the area. The latest incident involved an alleged act of arson after a fire was started near the premises of a Turkish run takeaway shop in...
A man who allegedly planned to make homemade bombs packed with nails and ball bearings and detonate them in two Liverpool mosques is to face a terrorism charge, the Daily Mail, BBC News and Wirral Globe report. Ian Forman, 41, of Birkenhead has been charged with engaging in conduct in the...
Police are hunting up to nine white men who racially abused and attacked three Asian men in Glasgow city centre at the weekend, BBC News reports. The three Asian men, aged 30, 33 and 47, were walking along St Vincent Street, near Buchanan Street junction, in the early hours of Sunday morning when...
The Daily Telegraph reports that 186 Muslim prisoners are to sue the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) after pork was discovered in a number of products mistakenly labelled as ‘halal’. The prisoners have launched their legal cases in an attempt to win compensation over the error which occurred...
Matthew Goodwin, author of Angry White Men, comments on the BBC Newsbeat headline from earlier in the week, ‘a quarter of young British people do not trust Muslims’, in The Guardian newspaper today. Goodwin believes the BBC feature article on the commissioned ComRes poll gave the misleading...
