** 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 Independent reports on the English Defence League’s plans to organise demonstrations across the country on Saturday 1 June, targeting “at least 30 locations” in localized protests following the killing of Drummer Lee Rigby in Woolwich last Wednesday. The EDL have protested in a number of...
Seamus Milne in his column in The Guardian yesterday addressed the issue politicians have been eagerly avoiding in the aftermath of the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby on the streets of Woolwich last Wednesday: foreign policy. Milne, citing the statements of the PM and Mayor Johnson last week, and the...
Trustee of Finsbury Park Mosque, Mohammed Kozbar, in an interview with local paper, Islington Gazette, speaks of a rise in verbal abuse experienced by worshippers at the mosque since the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby last week. Kozbar told the paper: “We have been the subject of attacks. We have...
Local paper, The Lincolnite, reports on a planned protest on 8 June by the East Anglian Patriots at the site of a former dairy that is to be converted into a mosque. Lincoln City Council approved the plans submitted by the Islamic Association of Lincoln in November last year to convert Boultham...
The Guardian reports on the various charges that have been brought by the Metropolitan Police against individuals arrested during the English Defence League demonstration in London on Bank Holiday Monday. The paper notes that “Four men have been charged with offences including possession of a...
The Daily Mirror reports on the police investigation into Northern Premier League player, Shaun Tuck, 26, after the footballer allegedly posted a series of inflammatory tweets following the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby. Tuck is said to have tweeted messages calling for “bomb [ing] and gas[sing]...
There is some coverage in the news today (Daily Mail, Independent) on the court appearance of two men charged with ‘arson with intent to endanger the lives of others’ for allegedly throwing petrol bombs at a mosque in Grimsby on Sunday night. The men are thought to be former soldiers. Local...
Local paper, the Streatham Guardian, reports on charges brought against a 27 year old man for allegedly making threats online “to make a bomb and massacre Muslims”. The local paper reports, “A picture of a man, wearing a balaclava and pointing a gun at the camera, was posted on a Facebook...
BBC News reports on the arrest of two further men in connection with the attack on a mosque in Poole, Dorset on Thursday last week in which several windows were smashed. Police charged two men Robert Mullins, 35, and Trevor Mullins, 38, with racially aggravated criminal damage and both appeared...
The Press Gazette reports on the apology by the Spectator’s Associate Editor, Rod Liddle, for his use of the term ‘black savages’ in a blog written about the alleged murderers of Drummer Lee Rigby, Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale. The Gazette notes Riddle’s original entry...
