** 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,...
Local paper, the Blackburn Citizen, reports on a motion presented to the county council urging the authority to pre-stun all animals used in the preparation of school meals despite the method being rejected by some Muslims as not complying with ‘halal’ slaughter. Former Lancashire...
Labour MP and Shadow Home Office minister, Chris Bryant, has criticised David Cameron’s response to bomb attacks on three West Midlands mosques and the murder of Mohammed Saleem, in a visit to one of the affected mosques, the Express & Star reports. On a visit to Kanz-ul-Iman Central...
A rally was held in Newport, south Wales in support of the Muslim community after a number of Muslim graves were desecrated at the Christchurch Cemetery last month, the South Wales Argus reports. Unite Against Fascism Wales had called for a rally to bring together people from different groups,...
ITV News has a report on the protest organised by the English Defence League against a halal abattoir in Skegness on Saturday. The abattoir has attracted the attention of a number of far right groups with both the British National Party and the National Front having organised protests there in the...
Regional news site, Wales Online, reports that race hate crimes and incidents in the South Wales region have more than doubled following the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby in Woolwich, south London in May. The site reports “In the two weeks after the 25-year-old soldier died in May, South Wales...
BBC News and Scottish TV channel, STV, both reported on the permission refused by Glasgow City Council to the Scottish Defence League application to stage a protest on Pollockshields. The SDL, whose planned protest drew strong reservations from local councillors and Police Scotland, wanted to hold...
Local paper, the Surrey Comet, reports that Chessington World of Adventures has been inundated with complaints after a far-right group blogged about the booking of the theme park for the Islamic festival of Eid and urged readers to complain. According to the paper, a far-right blog committed to...
West Midlands Police Deputy Chief Constable Dave Thompson attacked what he called the ‘low level of media coverage’ of bomb attacks in the West Midlands, the Birmingham Mail reports. Writing on his blog, DCC Thompson said he believed the press would have dealt with the attacks rather...
Leo McKinstry, columnist for the Daily Express, returns to his pet topic on immigration, Muslims and multiculturalism with a comment piece in today’s paper. McKinstry, in his column opining ‘Mass immigration is destroying the fabric of society‘ writes: “In addition, there...
The Sun and Daily Mail both report on a man who was pictured showing off a tattoo of a mosque with the word ‘boom’ emblazoned across it at last weekend’s English Defence League rally in Birmingham. The photograph was taken at the weekend when the far-right group gathered in...
