** 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 French teenager was subjected to a violent Islamophobic attack when her veil was torn off her face by two men in a Paris suburb on Monday evening. The Local reports that the girl, aged 16, had been walking home from a friend’s house when she thrown to the ground by two Caucasian men. The...
Four men are being sought by police for an alleged incident of racial abuse and threats of violence the Barking and Dagenham Post reports. Police are scouring CCTV footage in the hope of identifying the men who are said to have shouted racial abuse at five Asian men and threatened them with...
Several newspapers including the Daily Express, Daily Mail and the Birmingham Mail report on the data released by the Office for National Statistics on baby names in 2012. The data shows that the name Muhammad, with its alternative spellings Mohammed and Mohammad, is now the second most popular...
The Huffington Post picks up on a report published by The Muslim News on David Cameron’s visit to the Jamia mosque in Manchester last week and his being challenged over his response to the recent spate of anti-Muslim attacks. The Muslim News reported that David Cameron condemned all forms of...
Police are investigating criminal damage at a mosque in a village near Neath, south Wales, after four windows were smashed in the early hours of Saturday morning, the South Wales Evening Post reports. The incident occurred around 1am on Saturday 10 August and was discovered later that morning. Four...
A man who smashed the window at a mosque in Huntingdon with a chair has been jailed for four weeks, the Hunts Post reports. Gary Abbott, 45, was arrested near Huntingdon Islamic Education and Prayer Centre in Coneygear Road on Thursday, May 30 and charged with racial or religiously aggravated...
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office have replied to our letter concerning the UK’s support for the EU’s lifting of sanctions on Burma despite ongoing allegations of anti-Muslim violence. You can read the reply here.
Richard Dawkins finds himself in the news again for tweeting about the paucity of Muslim Nobel prize winners and criticizing the decision by the police and crime commissioner for Northamptonshire, Adam Simmonds, to appoint a ‘faith director’. The prominent atheist questioned whether religious...
The Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, Eric Pickles, has written to the Muslim Council of Britain addressing concerns raised about the Government’s response to the growing number of Islamophobic attacks in the UK since the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby in May. The MCB...
Tim Stanley on Daily Telegraph blogs picks up on his Twitter spat with English Defence League leader, Stephen Lennon, after drawing attention yesterday to Lennon’s linking to an anti-semitic comment online. Political Scrapbook noted the EDL leader’s link to a tweet complaining about...
