** 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,...
A woman who was filmed telling an Asian man on the Tube to “F*** off back to your own country if your country is so good” has been found not guilty of racial harassment the Daily Mail reports. Accountant Claire Moloney, 40, was filmed screaming at the unidentified Asian man in a hate filled...
BBC Radio 1’s Newsbeat programme covers the results of a BBC commissioned ComRes survey on Young People and Prejudice. The survey, which questioned 1,001 youngsters aged 18-24, looks at attitudes towards people of different ethnic, religious and national backgrounds. It also explores levels...
A 14-year-old British Muslim teenager has spoken of her horror when a man tried to pull off her niqab in the street, in an interview with BBC Radio 4 World at One programme. The teenager describes how a man approached her and tried to rip off her niqab. Although she has been verbally abused...
The UK Independence Party have been holding meetings at mosques and temples in an attempt to woo Asian voters and counter charges of racism, Manchester Wired reports. The BBC Asian Network also found that the party had visited a further 15 Asian places of worship since their first meeting at a...
Local paper, the Plymouth Herald, reports on a headscarf wearing Muslim woman who was racially abused twice in the same week by a ‘racist yob’. The woman, who is white British, was told to get back to her own country twice within the space of a few days by a racist thug. Police said it...
Two far right racists inspired by Anders Breivik and who carried out a ‘campaign of hate’ against Islamic centres in south west England have been jailed, local paper the Plymouth Herald and BBC News report. Inspired by the neo-Fascist ideology of Norwegian mass killer Anders Breivik, Tobias...
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has published a report entitled, “Legislating Fear: Islamophobia and its Impact in the United States”. The report covers the period 2011-2012 and compares results with reports published in previous years. One of the main findings of the report...
The Daily Mail, London Evening Standard and the Daily Telegraph all covered news of two Islamic schools in London that are ‘forcing’ girls as young as 11 to wear full-face veils. The papers focus on two London schools, the Madani Girls School in Whitechapel, and the Ayesha Siddiqa Girls School...
Local paper, West Briton, reports on stickers, posters and graffiti supportive of the English Defence League cropping up on the back of road signs in areas of Cornwall. The paper reports that stickers stating ‘Home Rule’ have been found in Truro, St Agnes, Scorrier, Towan Cross, Carnon Downs...
Political Scrapbook covers the unearthing of the National Front past of UKIP councillor Robert Ray. Ray, who won a seat on Thurrock Council last year with a majority of 47, campaigned for the National Front as an organiser in the 70s in the London Borough of Newham. Ray, when probed about his NF...
