** 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 and Daily Telegraph both report on the decision by Birmingham Metropolitan College to ban the wearing of religious veils on their premises due to security reasons. The college claims to have introduced the measure because of security fears and are asking all students to remove any...
The Guardian, The Independent and BBC News have all covered the release of data from the British Social Attitudes Survey 2012. The survey questions attitudes among the British public on issues ranging from identity, religion, personal relationships, Gender role, welfare, public spending and same...
BBC News reports on a study being undertaken by researchers at the University of Leicester investigating hate crime and its under-reporting. Among cases featured in the BBC News report is that of a Muslim woman who was abused at a public meeting in Leicester discussing the future of Thurnby Lodge,...
BBC News reports that a former UKIP councillor who was under investigation for alleged racist comments on Facebook will face no further action after police dismissed the case. A spokesperson for Lincolnshire police, who conducted the investigation, said: “Police are reliant on there being a...
Various news outlets including, BBC News, The Guardian, The Independent, ITV News, London Evening Standard and the East London Advertiser, all reported on the English Defence League protest in Tower Hamlets which took place on Saturday 7th September. Around 600 supporters from the far right...
BBC News and the local paper, Harlow Star, cover the arrest of three teenagers in connection with the arson attack on the Harlow Islamic Centre last month. Essex police released cctv images of three men they were looking to question in relation with the incident 10 days ago. BBC News reports:...
Security minister James Brokenshire gave a speech last week at the conference of the Far Right Special Interest Group in which he outlined the threat posed by far right extremism in the UK. The minister, who has previously spoken of far right extremism presenting a ‘real threat’ to security,...
Website Politics.co.uk covered the parliamentary debate on the burqa on Friday prompted by the Private Members Bill submitted by burqa critic and Tory MP, Philip Hollobone. The bill is one of a number of radically right-wing private members bills to be debated in the Commons between now and...
The Financial Times (£) today publishes a letter signed by a number of academics and faith leaders criticising the Government’s proposals, expected to be announced later this month, to scrap the national census and replace it with alternative methods of gathering data on the UK population. The...
The Daily Mail reports that the principal of a Birmingham secondary school has issued a statement of apology to all her Muslim pupils after they were inadvertently fed bacon when a box of sandwich spread was wrongly labelled as halal chicken and sweetcorn. Chris Quinn, the executive principal of...
