** 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 Guardian’s G2 today has a feature on the significance of the BME vote in the 2015 general election. Asking ‘Could black voters swing it in [the] UK in 2015?,’ journalist Hugh Muir looks at the size and swing potential of ethnic minority voters. Detailing analysis undertaken on the size of...
The Metro newspaper reports the comments of Labour MP for Corby, Andy Sawford, who has criticized the Government’s anti-immigration vans for fuelling racist attacks on minorities in his constituency. Speaking about an anti-Muslim incident in Corby, where a mosque was sprayed with racist graffiti,...
The Metropolitan Police Service have imposed restrictions to the planned English Defence League protest in east London this weekend, but have not proceeded to support a full ban, the East London Advertiser reports. The far right group had hoped to march through London Borough of Tower Hamlets,...
Witton Albion striker, Shaun Tuck, who was sentenced to 12 weeks in prison in July for a tweet stating “All the mosques in England should be gassed or bombed,” and that Muslim children should be “beheaded”, has written to the club’s supporters apologising for his comments, the Northwich...
The Darlington and Stockton Times reports that a hoax story popular on the internet and featuring an alleged baby beating in Teesside is to be investigated by police after claims that it appears to be racially motivated. Cleveland Police have confirmed that there is no truth in the report – which...
Staffordshire local newspaper, The Sentinel, reports that a Christian with a history of mental health problems was spared jail after his threat to ‘blow-up’ a mosque was deemed by the court a ‘cry for help’. Peter Gill, a regular church-goer, made the threat to bomb the Sheldon...
The South Shields Gazette reports on the arrest of seven people during an English Defence League march in South Shields at the weekend. Around 350 members of far-right groups, including the EDL and the North East Infidels, attending the protest claims they were there to “protect the inalienable...
The mayor of Tower Hamlets, Lutfur Rahman, has asserted his intention to take legal action in a bid to ban the English Defence League from marching through the east London Borough this coming Saturday, 7 September, the East London Advertiser reports. Mayor Rahman, who has campaigned in recent weeks...
The Observer yesterday reported on the security measures British mosques are implementing following a number of serious hate crime incidents around the country since the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby in May. The paper features the Al Falah Centre in Braintree, Essex, which was attacked in the...
Restoration work has begun on a cemetery in Woking built for Muslim soldiers killed in combat during the two world wars and is expected to be completed in time for the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of WWI (4 August 2014), BBC News reports. The Muslim Burial Ground in Horsell, near Woking, once...
