** 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 Runnymede Trust has published a new report entitled The New Muslims. The report notes the Census 2011 results on the number of British Muslims and finds the there has been a decrease in Muslim segregation. An example includes the through the spreading out from the biggest Muslim concentrationsm...
The Harlow Star reports on the release of CCTV images of three men suspected of involvement in the arson attack on Harlow Islamic Centre on Bank Holiday Monday. Essex Police have released the images of hooded men seen walking in front of the Centre, one of them “holding a drill while another can...
BBC News reports on a ruling expected from the European Court of Human Rights after a Muslim woman stopped and questioned under Schedule 7 took her case to the court citing detention “without reasonable suspicion” a breach of her human rights. Sylvie Beghal, a French national living in...
Several news outlets including BBC News, ITV News, the Independent, London Evening Standard and local paper, Harlow Star, all report an arson attack on the Harlow Islamic Centre in the early hours of Bank Holiday Monday (Aug 26). Police suspect insulation foam was used to seal all the windows and...
The Grimsby Telegraph reports on the court appearance of two individuals charged with racially aggravated assault and using racially aggravated threatening words or behaviour after the pair attacked a Brazilian man outside a takeaway for intervening as they racially abused the staff inside....
Rupert Murdoch took to twitter to comment on the outgoing chief rabbis’ interview in The Times newspaper (£) on Monday tweeting “societies have to integrate. Muslims find it hardest.” In his last interview before leaving his post as chief rabbi after 22 years, Sacks told The...
BBC News reports on DVDs containing offensive and Islamophobic content that have been sent to mosques and Islamic centres in London. The Qalb Centre in Walthamstow and An-Noor Mosque in Acton, west London, are two that have admitted receiving the DVDs which were posted around the time of Eid. BBC...
Local paper, Western Morning News, reports on the court appearance of two men who pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to commit criminal damage and conspiracy to send malicious communications after waging a campaign of hate against mosques and Islamic centres last year. Tobias Ruth, 18, and...
The Guardian newspaper publishes an open letter from politicians, community leaders and faith leaders petitioning the home secretary, Theresa May, to ban the EDL from marching through Tower Hamlets on 7 September. The signatories, which include leaders of the Jewish, Hindu, Christian and Islamic ...
Luton and Dunstable Express reports that the English Defence League are planning to march through a Bedfordshire village on Bank Holiday Monday after it emerged that a Muslim charity would be holding a football tournament there. The far-right group, which has a history of violence, is planning to...
