** 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 website, EU Observer, reports on the findings of UK-based think tank Counterpoint on the likely outcome of next year’s European elections. Counterpoint, whose report was published yesterday, suggest that the May 2014 European elections will lead to an increase in the number of far-right MEPs...
The Leicester Mercury reports that a 17-year-old boy has been charged with two counts of racially or religiously aggravated criminal damage after graffiti appeared at the Oadby Islamic Centre in Leicestershire. Leicestershire Police issued a statement saying the graffiti “contained the words...
The Sunday Mirror reported at the weekend that the number of prisoners in UK jails declaring themselves Muslim is now at an all time high. According to figures released under a Freedom of Information request by the Sunday People newspaper, Muslims now number 11,278 of the prison population, a...
The Lancashire Telegraph today reports that Burnley Council are to send the bill for policing an anti-Islam march in the town to the organisers, the North West Frontline Firm (NWFF). The NWFF, which comprises “affiliates of various Patriotic groups throughout the North West,” organized the...
The Independent yesterday featured a double page spread on Baroness Warsi’s call for the contribution of “forgotten heroes” of the British Empire to be remembered in next year’s First World War commemoration. In a letter to Culture Secretary, Maria Miller, Warsi points to the 1.2 million...
BBC News, The Sun, Guardian and Independent newspapers cover the discovery of a ‘suspicious package’ outside a Walsall mosque on Saturday evening, later confirmed to be a home-made bomb. Police were called in by committee members of the Aisha mosque in Caldmore, Walsall, after the...
The Daily Telegraph on Friday covered the report, An analysis of the provision for RE in Primary Schools, published by the National Association of Teachers of Religious Education, (NATRE). The report, based on an online survey conducted by NATRE over the spring term, found that primary school...
The Liverpool Echo reports that footballer, Shaun Tuck, has been charged with offence under Section 127 of the Communications Act 2003 after he tweeted comments calling for all mosques in England to be ‘bombed or gassed out’ or ‘stormed by 50 lads machetes, swords the lot’. Tuck is one of...
BBC News reports that chairman of the Home Affairs select committee, Keith Vaz MP, has written to the Home Secretary, Theresa May, seeking an exclusion order against two prominent American Islamophobes, Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer. Geller and Spencer have been invited by the English Defence...
BBC News, Wales Online and the Daily Post report on the sentence passed on an ex-soldier charged with religiously aggravated disorderly behaviour after he threatened to burn down a mosque in Rhyl, three days after the murder of drummer Lee Rigby in Woolwich, south London. Having drunk 15 pints of...
