** 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, Independent and Daily Mail all report on news that Ofcom has launched an investigation into the decision by BBC, ITV and Channel 4 to give Anjem Choudary airtime in the hours following the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby. Choudary, who has a history of making incendiary remarks and...
On Saturday, national and regional media outlets including the Independent, Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, Guardian, ITV News, BBC News, Daily Express, Daily Star, Daily Mirror and Birmingham Mail reported on the nail bomb that exploded outside the Kanz-ul-Iman Muslim Welfare Association and Central...
The Southend Echo reports on an incident of racist vandalism after the words ‘no mosque here’ were sprayed onto the walls of a Gala bingo hall in Pitsea despite no plans to convert the building into a mosque. Far right groups are believed to be behind the rumours of the disused bingo hall being...
The Independent reports on the renewal of attempts by the Conservative party to tackle Hizb ut-Tahrir following the killing of Drummer Lee Rigby. Proscribing the group has been on the Conservative agenda since the party’s days in opposition. It has thus far failed to apply the law on proscribing...
A golfer from Birmingham has been jailed for seven months after he racially abused and assaulted a Muslim taxi driver while on a golfing holiday, the South Wales Argus reports. Kevin Dunne, 57, attacked Shabir Ahmed after wrongly accusing him of being linked to the killing of Drummer Lee Rigby....
A group of traders in the Welsh resort town of Llandudno are calling for a planned protest by far-right groups next month to be banned amid concerns for security, the Daily Post reports. The protest by the North Wales Alliance Gogledd Cymru (ANWGC) is expected to attract around 1,500 far right...
The local paper, Express & Star, reports that English Defence League supporter Jack Beasley has been given an anti-social behaviour order banning him from attending any EDL demonstrations for three years after he was arrested and charged with using threatening words or behaviour with the intent...
Scottish papers Herald Scotland and Fife Today report on acts of racist vandalism on an Islamic Centre in Kirkcaldy, Fife. The Islamic Centre was sprayed with graffiti reading “Muslims will perish by JC” while “five vehicles belonging to members of the centre” were also...
Today’s Uxbridge Gazette reports that three local men have been charged with grievous bodily harm following an attack on an elderly Muslim man on Saturday night that left him with serious head injuries. The three men, Daniel Giles, 39, Ryan Newman, 19, and a 17 year-old who cannot be named for...
The Daily Mirror today reports that footballer, Shaun Tuck, has been jailed for 12 weeks after posting comments on social media encouraging incitement to violence. Tuck posted the comment: “All the mosques in England should be gassed or bombed, or stormed by 50 lads with machetes, swords the...
