** 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 Asian Image newspaper reports on racist slogans that were painted onto “a security door, pavements and commercial bin” in Cobden Street in Burnley. The initials of the far right English Defence League and the British National Party were also painted on the pavement of the side street....
The Voice newspaper reports on a suspected revenge attack on an Islamic centre in Brixton yesterday. The paper reports on the attack, which took place in the early hours of Monday when vandals “threw a stone which smashed a window of religious building and Islamic Cultural Centre, in Gresham...
There has, understandably, been copious commentary published since the horrific event of last Wednesday in which Drummer Lee Rigby was murdered on the streets of Woolwich in broad daylight and in full view of passersby. Video footage from the scene shows the two alleged assailants, Michael...
Local paper, York Press, reports on the successful use of a mosque open day to defuse tensions arising from an English Defence League protest in York at the weekend. EDL members were intent on gathering for a protest in front of York mosque with The Guardian reporting that a St George’s flag was...
Local paper, Express and Star, reports on the arrest of two men on public order offences following a protest involving a group of 20 or so people draped in St George’s flags and ‘believed to be English Defence League members’ in Walsall town centre on Saturday. The local paper notes the...
Local paper, The Argus, reports on the court appearance of Adam Rogers, 28, who was arrested last week for posting ‘inflammatory’ comments on Facebook in the immediate aftermath of the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby in Woolwich. The local paper reports: “The court heard how the day before...
Local paper, South Wales Evening Post, reports on a rally in Swansea at the weekend organized by the National Front. After the savage murder of Drummer Lee Rigby in Woolwich, south London on Wednesday, the far right have organized a number of rallies around the country, including in London,...
Local paper, Bournemouth Echo, reports on an attack on the Bournemouth Islamic Centre and Central Mosque. The words ‘Muslim scum’ were daubed on the walls of the mosque in red ink on Thursday night in what the Centre’s imam claims was a ‘revenge attack’ after the murder of Drummer Lee...
Several news sources (Independent, Daily Mirror, Evening Standard, Daily Express) report on the arrest of two men for arson attacks on a mosque in Grimsby. The mosque was last week the target of a separate hate crime when 11 teens were arrested after windows of the Grimsby mosque were smashed and a...
There are several reports in local and national newspapers on arrests made by police investigating offensive comments posted on social networking sites following the savage murder of Drummer Lee Rigby in Woolwich on Wednesday. Reports of arrests made include the following: “A 23-year-old...
