** 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 Croydon Advertiser reports on the call issued by the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) for the Home Secretary, Theresa May, to ban a demonstration by far-right extremists outside the UK Border Agency Croydon headquarters. The English Volunteer Force, an English Defence League offshoot...
Four men who attacked a mosque in Poole, Dorset have each been jailed for four months Bournemouth’s Daily Echo reports. The men had gone to the Dorset Islamic Cultural Centre on May 23, the day after the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby in Woolwich. Michael Manyweathers, 49, Robert Mullins, 35, Trevor...
The Liverpool Echo reports on two controlled explosions carried out by bomb disposal experts after a suspect package was left outside the Al Rahma mosque in Toxteth, Liverpool late last night. The paper reports that a man carrying a metal suitcase walked into the mosque claiming to want to convert...
A local plasterer who smashed the window of a mosque in Huntington with a chair last month has pleaded guilty to the offence the Hunts Post reports. Gary Abbott, 45, was arrested near Huntingdon Islamic Education and Prayer Centre in Coneygear Road on May 30, shortly after the offence. He was...
The Independent and Guardian both reported last week on the Home Secretary, Theresa May’s decision to ban Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer from entering the UK to speak at an EDL rally. The Home Secretary ruled that their presence would “not be conducive to the public good”. A Home Office...
The Guardian and BBC News both report on the arrest of a 75-year-old man “on suspicion of causing an explosion likely to endanger life or damage property” after a home-made bomb exploded near a mosque in Walsall last Friday. The explosion, which happened outside the Aisha Mosque and Islamic...
We received a reply from the Home Office to our request for information on the fifteen civil society groups supported by the government in “exploit[ing] the potential of the internet” to “rebut terrorist and extremist propaganda and offer alternative views”, as noted in the annual...
BBC News reports on an incident of racist abuse at an Asda supermarket store in Worcester and the call by police for two women to come forward. The news report states that an onlooker reported what appeared to be a “vile tirade” of racial abuse directed at two Asian women by “a white woman,...
Local news portal, Rochdale Online, reports on the support by Greater Manchester Police and Crime Commissioner, Tony Lloyd, for an exclusion order against US-based Islamophobes Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer. Geller and Spencer, who have been invited to address a rally organised by the English...
The Redditch Standard reports on another attack on the Jinnah Road mosque in Redditch this time involving swastikas sprayed on the walls and windows of the mosque. The local paper reports “paint [was] taken from builders’ cabins on the site [and] used to target the walls and at least half a...
