** 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 Herald Scotland reports that the Scottish Defence League is planning a march in Glasgow during Ramadan in one of the city’s most densely populated Asian areas. The march is intended to coincide with the birthday of Kriss Donald, who was killed by an Asian gang nearly ten years ago. Glasgow...
The Guardian posts an article on the ‘perils of perception’ revealed by an Ipsos Mori poll for the Royal Statistical Society and Kings College, London which explores the degree of difference on perceptions held on the make up society and key policy issues. The poll sheds light on the ‘top ten...
The Guardian, BBC and Independent today all report on the publication of a report by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) on stop and search which states that a quarter of all stop and search checks carried out by police officers are ‘unlawful’. The report found that there was...
The Daily Telegraph on Saturday covered news of the fines imposed by Ofcom on satellite channel DM Digital for breaching the regulator’s code by broadcasting material “likely to encourage or incite the commission of crime or to lead to disorder”. DM Digital was fined £85,000 and £20,000 for...
The Manchester based news site, Mancunian Matters, reports on the rising level of racial attacks on Asian Pakistanis in the city following an FOI request to Greater Manchester Police. According to figures released by GMP under the FOI: There was an 18% increase in attacks on Asian Pakistanis from...
Police officers at Hillingdon police station in London have responded to local concerns arising from a suspected Islamophobic hate crime after an elderly man received severe head injuries after being attacked in the street by a group of youths in Uxbridge on Saturday night. Inspector Mark Thorpe on...
The Express and Star newspaper reports that former UKIP councillor, Eric Kitson, is to face no charges for incitement to religious hatred after West Midlands Crown Prosecution Service deemed that the anti-Muslim comments posted on Facebook did not meet the ‘evidential standard’ needed to secure...
BBC Sport highlights the significant effect Muslim footballers playing for Premier League clubs are having on the culture of English football. The programme, ‘The Muslim Premier League’, which aired yesterday noted that at its inception in 1992 the Premier League had one Muslim player,...
The Scotsman newspaper last week reported on a complaint lodged against Police Scotland after a Muslim taxi driver claimed the police failed to take an incident of racial assault and abuse seriously. A Glasgow taxi driver who suffered a vicious racist attack had to wait 41 days for the police to...
The Redditch Standard last week reported news of open days to be hosted at Redditch mosque to ‘tackle misconceptions of Islam’, after swastikas and racist graffiti were daubed on its walls in an act of religiously aggravated criminal damage. The Jinnah Road mosque, which is still under...
