** 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,...
News reaches us that Masjid Al Falah, in Keythorpe Street, Leicester, has received an obscene and offensive DVD in the post. Last month, a number of mosques reported receiving ‘disgusting’ Islamophobic DVDs in the mail. The videos are said to contain obscene footage and feature insults to the...
BBC News and STV News report that a man who threw bacon into Edinburgh Central mosque has been jailed for 10 months. Wayne Stilwell, 25, was caught on security cameras attaching bacon to the handles of the main door of the mosque in January of this year. He then threw bacon inside the building,...
The Sun newspaper today splashes the niqab issue across its front page with a 4 point proposal: ban the niqab, or face veil, in nearly all public buildings, including schools, courts, hospitals ban the niqab in airports, banks and secure areas let employers decide about their appropriateness in the...
A man has appeared in court charged with racially aggravated criminal damage in relation to an attack on a mosque in Neath last Friday, the South Wales Evening Post reports. Steven Davies, 21, who is also charged with assault causing actual bodily harm and a charge of common assault, entered no...
Birmingham Metropolitan College’s decision last week to reverse its ban on the veil was met with outcry and condemnation in many of this weekend’s newspapers with some politicians and columnists taking umbrage at the policy reversal. The Daily Mail, Independent, the Daily Telegraph, the Sun and...
Local paper, South Wales Evening Post, and Wales Online report on a second hate crime incident involving the Tonna mosque in Neath, South Wales. The mosque, which had a number of its windows smashed in an early morning attack last month, has been targeted again with a second attack in the early...
The Guardian, Daily Mail, Independent and Daily Telegraph all report on the difference of opinion expressed by Coalition party leaders, David Cameron and Nick Clegg, on the decision by Birmingham Metropolitan College to ban the wearing of the face veil. Nick Clegg, during his LBC radio phone-in,...
The Pew Research Centre yesterday published its study entitled, Muslim Publics Share Concerns about Extremist Groups, which garners the view of over 8,000 Muslims in 11 Muslim majority countries on extremism, violence and suicide bombing. The study shows that more than two years after the death of...
English Defence League leaders, Stephen Lennon and Kevin Carroll, accused of trying to visit the scene of soldier Lee Rigby’s murder in Woolwich have denied charges of obstructing police officers, BBC News reports. Westminster Magistrates’ Court heard yesterday that on June 29 the pair,...
The Guardian reports that police are to reinvestigate the death of Baha Mousa 10 years after the Iraqi hotel receptionist was tortured to death by British troops in Baghdad. The Iraq Historic Allegations Team (Ihat) has said that it will pursue a number of lines of inquiry that it believes warrant...
